Dishwasher Detergent

I recently joined Pinterest (another addicting site, but it's more useful than facebook :) and came across this Dishwasher Detergent recipe. I got all the ingredients at Walmart today, although now that I'm home I realized I bought the wrong kind of Lemonade. After reading the comments I'm going to try to find the citric acid that is either near the canning stuff or in the pharmacy section. Once I have that I can try out this homemade detergent. Sounds like it works well. The tips I read are to sprinkle in the Lemi Shine in the bottom of your dishwasher and add the detergent to your dispenser but leave the lid open so it can rinse several times. This site also has a laundry detergent recipe. When my current detergent gets low I may give it a try. This will save our family some money since it will be so much cheaper. Oh and Walmart had some nice sized containers with lids that I picked up for around $4 each.
UPDATE: I don't like this dishwasher detergent. My dishes come out gritty, glasses are filmy and the silverware isn't always clean. So I ended up rewashing my dishes. I dumped the recipe and went back to my store bought brand. Hate it when things like this don't work out like I would have hoped.

Yard Sale..

Sold some stuff in our subdivision yard sale yesterday. Super excited because I only had a $1.00 to my name in the morning and made $88.00 from all the stuff I sold and spent $9.00 on some clothes for Seth that I got for a $1.00 each. I'm not always sure if all the time and effort is worth it when putting together the stuff to sell, but this time I think it definitely was. The only things that I was disappointed in not selling were some bookshelves. But I already got some people that can put them to good use: our pastor's office might need one and a friend in need might need the other two. So if I can't sell them at least I can donate them to a good cause. Oh and this isn't a disappointment, more of an annoyance...I also got bit by fire ants. I must have stood on a mound without knowing it and they were all of a sudden all over my shoe and up my one leg. I have about 7 bites and they hurt and itch like crazy. I put some Benadryl cream on them, but they are still super itchy. They are nasty little things. Joe said he looked them up because he had an incident with them while mowing the lawn. I guess they bite onto your leg and then inject their hind end into you where they then proceed to inject their venom into you. No wonder they hurt so bad. I at first didn't know what was biting me and it was hard to get the ones out that were up my jeans. I kept thinking I had gotten them all and then there would be one more and then one more after that. People looking at me probably thought I was a little nuts with my hand up my pants leg. :)

Saturday was a busy day. Yard sale, then off to church where I vacuumed and mopped the floors and then ran a few errands. So I proceeded to spend the rest of my garage sale money on gas, groceries and pizza for dinner. Amazing how quickly money disappears. I did find out that Papa Johns has a rewards program. For every time you order online, every $5 is a point and with 25 points you get a free pizza. We will definitely be ordering online from now on.

Hope the rest of you had a good weekend as well.