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. :)

I'm back...

Life is crazy weird. So I'm going back to basics. I've been doing a little writing (and by that I mean very little), but I'm getting back into fiction again, which feels good. I missed it a lot. I should start submitting again over the next couple of weeks. That'll be a nice heartbreaking addition to my daily tasks. Checking emails, waiting for responses, getting all those pesky rejections. Oh Joy!

I'm growing a garden this year, too. Biggest one I've ever had, which isn't saying much considering the biggest one I had before this was a 2x3' box. Now I have four 4x8' raised beds, complete with a strung bean trellis. Why, yes, I built it all myself. I'll post some pics once things get growing out there. I just put the carrots and greens in the ground yesterday, have another month before I can move my tomato plants and all the other goodies outside. Mmmm, warm tomatoes fresh from the garden. Is there anything better?

I'm going to start posting Frugal Fridays, just notes and links and whatnot that I've discovered on my path here back to basics. 'Basics' does include internet service, right? Well, it does for me. I can do without a lot of things, but Google is not one of them. Other than the Friday posts, the rest will be bonus material, like on DVD's.