Amazingly easy laundry tip!

This post isn't going to have a picture.  :(  I know its incredibly sad.  It's also not about cooking or baking or alcohol.  It's about laundry.  I know not really something I've talked much about.  But everyone does it.

Anyway, I was at the store earlier this week and met a woman who told me the best way to get your clothes clean and keep the colors bright was to use ammonia and vinegar when you wash them.  I'd always heard adding vinegar to your laundry worked like a natural fabric softener, but never a thing about ammonia.

I figured I'd give it a whirl as I had both ammonia and vinegar in the house.  This is easy peasy to do.  When you add your detergent to the washer, add a cup of ammonia and run a regular wash cycle.  Add your vinegar to the rinse cycle like you would a fabric softener.  When you take the clothes out of the washer they will smell slightly like vinegar, but it will be gone after you dry your clothes.

I added a dryer sheet to the dryer, force of habit, but I'm not quite sure that I'd have needed it.

You'll be amazed at how great your clothes feel.  :)  Using this leaves no lingering smells in the laundry.  Which I absolutely love.

Quick Tip: Spray your berries with vinegar

So I've got a quick tip for everyone.  I've seen in several magazines lately that spraying your berries (raspberries, blueberries, strawberries) with vinegar will extend their shelf life.  Since strawberries are my one of my fave foods I had to give this a try.  I can say it does work!!  We bought some strawberries okay a lot of strawberries at Valli last week and I still have a lone package left in the fridge that are still fresh!!  They taste delicious and like they just came from the store.  This is a great thing for me to have discovered as I love berries and always worry that they will end up molding before they get eaten.

As long as you rinse the berries there is no vinegar taste either.  I just spritz mine with a spray bottle filled with vinegar and put them in the fridge till I'm ready to use them.

Enjoy!!