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Save Time on Laundry with Suavitel Fast Dry Liquid Fabric Softener #FastDrySaveTime

October 20, 2014 by 4 Comments

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With a little one in the house there are times when I feel like all I do is laundry. The washing and drying and folding load after load takes so much time. I’m always dreaming of a way to make my laundry work take less time. When I heard about Suavitel’s Fast Dry Fabric Softener and it’s claim to dry clothes 30% faster I was excited to find it and give it a try.

We do a great deal of our shopping at Walmart and on a recent trip I ran through the laundry needs isle to see if they had the new Suavitel Fast Dry and sure enough it was on the shelf! They had 2 scents to choose from. The Magical Morning Sun (which I purchased) and Fabulous Field Flowers. The Fast Dry product comes in 2 sizes, 135 fl oz and a smaller size. I purchased the 135 fl oz bottle for around $7.

I’ve used the product several times on different types of laundry – clothes, towels, and sheets. It’s simple to use by just adding the right amount to your machine at the final rinse cycle. The cap is clearly marked to show how much to add based on the size load I’m doing.

While I noticed that the everyday laundry does seem to dry faster, I recently had an experience that made me grateful for faster drying laundry. I had a sick little one and like so often happens when kids are sick, I found myself needing to change pajamas and bedding several times in a short period of time. I needed the clean dry sheets and pajamas from the dryer and needed them fast. Usually a full load of laundry in our older machine would take 45 minutes to an hour to dry completely. I checked the sheets after 30 minutes and I was thrilled to find the sheets and jammies were already dry! This meant I could get my guy back to bed and resting quickly. This was the moment I realized Suavitel Fast Dry really does dry clothes faster.

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This boy, though. I big puffy heart him! ❤️

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I was able to spend extra time snuggling my little one instead of waiting on laundry and that makes me so happy!

As I said, I have used the fabric conditioner on everyday clothes and towels as well. I love the sent of the Magical Morning Sun. In addition to the laundry drying faster, it smells great! It also leaves my laundry softer and things like towels seem fluffier.

I love that faster drying laundry means I have more time to do other things like snuggle my child, have a cup of coffee and visit with a friend, or work on one of my many projects for the upcoming holidays. #FastDrySaveTime I also love that the faster dry time means my dryer isn’t running as long. That means a savings on my electric bill too!

Now that my laundry is done, I’m going to relax with a hot cup of coffee and a good book!

What would you do with all the free time that you save with Suavitel Fast Dry?

Experience the #SwifferEffect with the #BigGreenBox

August 30, 2014 by 15 Comments

If you’re like me, you LOVE the commercials where people are surprised with the #BigGreenBox at the doorstep and it’s filled with Swiffer products that make their lives easier. The elderly couple always cracks me up! It’s my favorite. Swiffer offers consumers easy-to-use sweeping, mopping and dusting tools for virtually every household surface. So, needless to say, I was totally excited to experience the #SwifferEffect myself AND get to share it with someone else.

Check out this quick (and funny) video presented by Swiffer and featuring Eric Stonestreet. See how Eric keeps it clean when his mom comes to visit!

My big green box showed up and I immediately ripped that sucker open to a sea of green and the clean fresh scent of the Swiffer Sweeper wet cloths. It was delightful! With 2 dogs and 3 cats plus a tween, a teen and a husband…plus my kids’ friends…in and out of the house…my floors never get a break. I didn’t even hesitate to snap my Swiffer Sweeper together. It’s a simple tool that can be used to sweep and mop virtually all hard surfaces using both dry and wet cloths. It wen’t together, literally, with a snap (or 3). I put on a dry cloth and went to sweeping. I was pretty amazed at the amount of hair and dirt it picked up. I didn’t even try to give it a fair shake by vacuuming first! Then I put on a wet cloth and was pleasantly surprised again. It picked up a LOT of dirt and left my floor shining.

Next up was the Swiffer Duster. This thing uses thousands of fluffy fibers that change shape to fit anywhere to trap and lock dust without spreading it around the home. I have quite a few knick knacks around and the kids have their video game consoles and games that I try to keep as dust free as possible. My daughter LOVES to dust and the Swiffer Duster is her most favorite tool. No sprays, no cloths and no pushing dust around from place to place. She can dust, and make things clean without a ton of effort. Plus the Swiffer Duster can fit in some pretty tight places! She went to work immediately and dusted off the shelves and tables in the living room. Needless to say, she was pretty proud as she discovered just how much dust those fluffy fibers trapped and then she could just throw it away. Swiffer makes it easy for anyone in the household to pitch in to make cleaning a little bit happier and life just a little bit better.

In a matter of a few minutes, the living room was transformed. Even my leather couch and loveseat were dust and pet hair free! It was amazing. Funny how quick everybody is to help me clean when we get cool products to try! I’ll take all the help I can get!! Oh and let me not forget to mention how fresh everything smells thanks to the added scents of Gain and Febreeze!!

Now, for the best part. I was sent a 2nd #BigGreenBox so that I could share the #SwifferEffect with someone. It was not an easy choice, at first. I contacted a couple of friends but they declined. They weren’t keen about having their pictures on the internet. I was set to surprise another friend, who recently bought a home. Then, she had to leave town on short notice. So, I went with the easy choice…my momma! She’s 73 and though she’s in great health, I knew she’d appreciate getting a few products to make cleaning easier.

We were planning to visit anyway. So, I told her I was bringing her something that we got for review. She’s always tickled with freebies. We arrived with the box in hand and plopped it down on the coffee table. When she opened it, she grinned ear to ear. I knew she would love it. She used to be a housekeeper and these kinds of things never displease her. Plus, anything that makes her life easier is always welcomed. She swept her floor with a dry cloth and said she would mop later this weekend. She didn’t want to waste our time there with cleaning. It was enough for me just to see her smile and to know that some of her household chores won’t be quite as taxing thanks to Swiffer!

I was selected for this opportunity as a member of Clever Girls Collective and the content and opinions expressed here are all my own.

How to Dry Flowers For Crafts, Potpourri or Other Home Decor

February 26, 2014 by Jenni 34 Comments

How to Dry Flowers

I love flowers, when they’re nice and fresh…and pretty……..and alive. When they start slumping over, it makes me want to slump over too. It’s soooooooooo depressing when they start dying. Most of the time I just dump them straight in the trash to avoid a complete depression but sometimes I’ll just dry them out to make potpourri.

Did I just spell that right? Potporrie…potpourrie? I know it has a T in it.

The first time I ever dried a flower, I was as sappy then as I am now. Imagine a 12 year old, hormonal, cry at the drop of a hat – pre-teen girl. That was me. My grandma had passed and I wanted to keep a rose from the service. My mom showed me how to dry flowers, and now that same dried flower from Grandma’s service is in a box with some other keepsakes upstairs….20 some odd years later.

Okayyyyy….25 years later. Sheesh. Excuse me while I lather some wrinkle cream all over my face.

It’s so easy to do. I’ve got a dozen roses that my sweet feller bought me for Valentine’s Day. The day that they slumped (they were as dead as a door nail), I instantly yanked them out of their pretty vase and hung them to dry. I’m planning to make potpourri with them and they’re now hanging in my closet.

Oh yeah – I googled ‘potpourri’ and I did spell it right! Booyah!

Other people like to craft with dried flowers, some like to decorate with them. But me, I like potpourri. Now that I know I spelled it right, I can’t quit saying it. Po-purr-eeeeee!

Here’s what you’ll need:

Your dead-as-a-door-nail-flowers
Paper Towels
Scissors (or knife)
String
Plastic Clothes Hangers

Here’s How to Dry Flowers:

Take flowers out of the vase and dry stems really well with paper towels.
Cut off any thorns with scissors or knife. {I’m acting like your mother here….PLEASE don’t cut yourself!}
Remove dead leaves from the stems.
Cut one string for each flower. Cut the strings to about 7-10 inches in length.
Tie string to stem (upside down), then tie the flower to the bottom of a clothes hanger. You can hang several flowers from one hanger, you just don’t want them touching. Make sure they’re hanging upside down.
Place hanger(s) in a dim and dry spot. Closets are great. Somewhere with no humidity.
It may take 2-6 weeks before they’re completely dry.

The lighting is bad, but I just snapped this photo of these roses hanging from a hanger in my closet. I pulled it out of the closet and hung it on the closet door so there’d be enough light just for the photo, then I put them right back in the dark.

TIP: If you hang them in a closet, just make sure they’re not touching clothes or anything else. There are a couple of reasons for that. First – you don’t want the color of the flowers bleeding onto any clothes. Secondly, you may want to retain the shape of the flower. If it’s bumped up against something, it can flatten or mishape the flower.

TIP: Whatever you use them for, make sure that they’re placed away from humid spaces (even after they’re dry) because they can hold moisture and mold. You don’t want that…yuck!

TIP: Keep away from sunlight (even around windows) because the sun can and will fade the color of the flowers.

What’s your favorite way to use dried flowers? Do you craft with them, make potpourri, decorate with them? Let us know!!! We’d love to hear about it.

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Tips on Closet Organization Including Closet Storage Ideas and Solutions

January 14, 2014 by Jenni 41 Comments

Closet Organization – Storage and Ideas (on a budget)

Hey! I’m Soooo Happy You’re Here!!

Let me guess.

Your closet is a complete disaster, right?

So was mine until I decided to tackle it head on, like a football player!

Here’s what happened.

I figured out that having a full and messy closet keeps the laundry fairy away. YES. She won’t come, if she can’t fit clean clothes in your closet.

Laundry fairy….please, come back!

Do you want that amazing feeling that comes with a clean, functioning, and organized closet?

You’ll love feeling

a sense of accomplishment
less anxiety
like you’re in control of your closet instead of your closet being in control of YOU.

I literally felt like I could breathe once my closet was organized and cleaned out. It had never looked better!

Once you get it organized with a system that works for YOU, you’ll never struggle with a messy closet again! I promise – and I’ll show you JUST how to do it!

My before:

This is the top half of my really messy closet before I started.

This is the bottom half of my messy closet.

I finally found my groove with some simple closet organization tips that everyone can do. No matter how big or how small your closet is and no matter what your budget is!

Click NEXT button below NOW to get started on your NEW and Improved Closet! You’re Gonna LOVE it!

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