Frugal Friday!

A friend of mine posted on Facebook today that she wants to start saving money at all costs.  It put this little idea in my head to make Fridays "Frugal Friday".  So I immediately went to my Pinterest page which you can find here, and opened my Financial Organizing board and my Cleaning, Organizing and Decluttering board.  There's all kinds of tips that I've collected over the last year of doing one of my favorite things ever...PINNING!  I love finding and pinning all kinds of things that have to do with saving money, but that doesn't mean that I've implemented these tips in my life...YET!  I've only made one batch of laundry soap, but I've got plans to make this other stuff too.  I'll provide all the links to the original websites so the folks that worked so hard to make these things, get all the credit!

Homemade Laundry Detergent, there's all kinds.  I made the No-Grate recipe - you can find that recipe here.  One Good Thing by Jillee is an amazing blog!  She's got all kinds of tips on homemade cleaning supplies, tons of them actually!

Anyone that is a mom knows how important it is to keep everything germ free, but Clorox Anywhere Spray is soooo expensive!  Guess what I found?  A link to make homemade Clorox Anywhere Spray!  You can find that here.

I also think one of the best ways to help save is to make the things that you would use everyday, like body wash, shaving gel, shampoo, conditioner, and deodorant.  I found a bunch of recipes on Pinterest for all of that stuff too!  Wow!  It's amazing what you can find on there!  

Body Wash - this is the greatest thing ever!  You literally turn a $1 bar of soap into 48 ounces of body wash. You can't get much better than that!  This link comes to you from Discount Queens.  

Shaving Gel - seriously, I haven't used shaving gel since I had kids, but I'm so tired of wasting my hair conditioner to shave my legs.  So I set out to find a recipe for that too!  This one is from Ashley's Homemade Adventures.  I'm sure you could use any type of ingredients, even cheap stuff from the dollar store.

Shampoo and conditioner - Everything that I found was called "No-Poo".  It has no soap, so it doesn't bubble up, but apparently it really cleans your hair and scalp to make for extremely healthy hair!  Here is what found from Kale to the Queen.  

Deodorant - now I'm not real sure if this is something that i would actually try or not, but I've thought about it.  Frugal G33k made some very valid points as to why you should use homemade deodorant, the store bought stuff is riddled with aluminum, which is so not good for you!  You can find the link to her recipe here.  

In the process of writing this post, I decided to move over some pins to a new board called "Frugal Friday Blog Post Pins".  If y'all have any pins that you want to share, let me know and I can add you to the board and we can all just share away!  I would also love your feedback on this post too!  Any other tips, things you have tried or if you have recipes of your own - leave them in the comments!  This post was so fun! We'll have to do this every Friday!