Homemade Dishwasher Detergent

 Here are the ingredients you need (well you need coarse salt and I didn't have any but this ended up doing the trick anyway!)

 Mix together 1 cup borax, 1 cup baking soda, 1/2 cup salt and 10 packets of lemonade kool-aid

You only need 2 tbs of it for each load - only thing I had to go out and buy was the kool-aid everything else I had on hand for making laundry detergent!  Cheap, easy and works really well!

Natural drain unclogger

I'm embarassed to show you what my shower looked like from the standing water that has made it take almost 30 minutes to drain.  But this is what it looked like before

 Then you add 1:1 parts of baking soda and vinegar.  My drain was so clogged it would only hold 1/4 cup of baking soda.  Once you get all the baking soda into the drain - you pour the vinegar on and close the drain up. 

 It will bubble and fiz - leave the drain closed for about 30 minutes and let the fizzies do the work.  This helped break up the nastiest in my drain and I was able to pull out the hair from the drain with a cheapy paintbrush (what I had on hand that was long and thin)  now my drain is free flowing!

Now i can show you a sparkly clean tub that is something to be proud of!