Faux-breeze

I joined Pinterst a few months back and like many have been sucked in hard. I've discovered a ton of really cool and useful ideas, as well as wasted a lot of time. I do have a black belt in shopping and do not believe in paying full price for most things, especially if it's easily avoidable. One of the first neato things I ran across that a lot of folks were re-pinning was a recipe for DIY "Febreze". Everybody knows that Febreeze is a God send of a cleaning product. However at $5.19 a bottle(CVS.com price) it can add up when you have a snug budget already. Now I'm already a frugal chic so I always just opted for the Dollar Tree version since it's more cost effective than the real deal is, even with coupons. However it feels so un-earthy to just toss a bottle every time when I could just refill it. It also is easy to not from just peaking in the bottle that most of it is just water. So one would think it has got to not cost that much to make. So I figured I would give the popular recipe the good ole college try. I know other versions exist but I used Brianna's from Life. Family. Love.'s version: Her recipe calls for: 1/8 Cup of fabric softener 2 tablespoons Baking Soda Hot tap water Spray bottle Prep: Add baking soda and fabric softener to a 27 ounce spray bottle. Fill with hot water and shake it up really well. Fairly simple and it seemed to work. Just a few suggestions I have: - First off 1/8 of a cup and 2 tablespoons are pretty much the same measurement so I'd just use one unless you want to dirty up two different utensils. - If you have an old Febreze bottle laying around, just recycle it for even mor savings. I just bought a Dollar Tree spray bottle - I also bought random bottle of Dollar Tree fabric softener. I didn't want my apartment to smell like my laundry is basically what that boiled down to. And that's all she wrote! My Faux-breez (gotta love a pun) works great and is super cost effective! Everyonce in a while my bottle gets a little clogged up (from the baking soda if I had to guess) but just run the nozzle under warm water and give it a good shake and you're back in the game.