Frugal Friday: Homemade Daily Shower Cleaner

I am a lousy housekeeper.

I hate doing it, would rather puncture my own eardrums with bamboo skewers than perform 'housekeeping duties' most days. But I love having a clean house, so I employ all shortcuts possible to reconcile my slovenly side with my House Beautiful side. One of those shortcuts is religious use of daily shower cleaners, and now through the Wisdom of Google, along with my own trial and error, I present to you a very effective Daily Shower Cleaner for about $0.35 a bottle:

This recipe makes two bottles.

4 cups of water
1 cup of Hydrogen Peroxide
1 cup of 70% Isopropyl Alcohol
4 tsp. Dishwasher rinse agent (like JetDry; I use Cascade brand)
1/2 tsp. dishwashing liquid (like Dawn. I use store brands)

Mix it all together in a large pitcher and pour into spray bottles. I refilled my store-bought Daily Shower Cleaner bottles, but you can buy new spray bottles for about a dollar.

I spray not only the shower (and the glass doors in my bath, the curtain liner in the kids' bathroom), but also the sink and toilet bowls. I figure, why not? Sure beats scrubbin' them!

If you wanted to, you could add a drop of essential oil to the mixture to add fragrance. I prefer the simple scent of Not Moldy. If you start with a clean shower and then use this stuff daily, you can cut your shower scrubbing days down to about four per year. SRSLY. :)