It's 6:03 am on Sunday morning and I've been awake since 4. Why is it not like this during the week? I would love to bounce out of bed at 4am every weekday!
So I have to talk about the cleaning hack that you have to know. Maybe you already know about this but I just discovered it and it has changed my life. So a little backstory...my co-worker's roommate had accidentally transferred some Sharpie marker onto his granite countertop. When researching how to get it off the granite he said Google said something about sodium bicarbonate and he didn't know what that was let alone have any on hand. So we took to the Googs and turns out sodium bicarbonate is a fancy name for baking soda. Surprise, he did have it on hand. As most of us do. So that night he went home to make a paste out of baking soda and sure enough, it took the marker out of the granite. Another co-worker decided to make a baking soda paste and use it to clean her oven. So she sprayed water down on her oven, sprinkled baking soda over it, sprayed more water then let it sit for a bit. She said it was the easiest oven cleaning she had ever done. Everything scraped right out.
So...I wondered if this baking soda miracle paste may do the trick on that weird soap scum stuff that accumulates on the shower wall. The stuff nobody really notices but you but you know it's there. I've tried to use magic eraser, every darn shower and tub cleaner imaginable and nothing will get that layer of yuck off the tub. Yesterday I grabbed my box of baking soda and went to town tossing it against the shower wall Jackson Pollack style then sprayed a bit of water on it and let it sit. I grabbed a sponge and sure enough that stuff started coming right off. I still had to put some bicep action into it but it is the ONLY thing that has ever worked for me. Now I will use baking soda paste for anything and everything that needs a good cleaning. I have it down in the bottom of my oven right now. It is also supposed to work great on glass stove tops. What I love most about this is it doesn't involve vinegar like most Pinterest suggestions do. I loathe vinegar.
On to my trash! I used up three lotions. A Mango Temptation per usual. ($5) A Vanilla Bean Noel from Christmas from Bath and Body Works. ($3) The Gold Bond was part of a sample box but I really loved this! It was a very nice cream to use at night. (about 70 cents given the full size is $9.01 on Amazon) Total: $8.70
Vitamins and Supplements: My usual Spark ($38.97) and O2 Gold from Advocare ($31.16). I finished the gummy vitamins just as I got back the mail in rebate for $4.88. Also finished another bottle of the Equate Ibuprofen. ($2) I need to go repurchase this. It's a must to keep by my bed at night. Total: $77.01
Hair Care: I sadly finished the Loreal Sleek It Iron Straight Heatspray. I really, really loved this stuff and haven't been able to find it again on the store shelves. I believe it was about $5 and it lasted me a really long time. I would absolutely buy it again. I finished the Suave Black Raspberry and White Tea shampoo which I had won in a 5k last year but retails pretty inexpensive around $1.99. I don't really love the smell of this stuff, however, it was free so I got over it. I also finished the Dove Daily Moisture Conditioner ($5) which I love how this one smells. I already had another one and am using it now. Total: $11.99
Toothpaste: I don't plan on traveling anytime soon so I went ahead and used up the mini tubes the dentist gave me recently. My mission to declutter has me wanting to get rid of things including the small things taking up space. So I'll call these 2 tubes $1 each. Then the Crest Radiant Mint White toothpaste was something my mom passed on to me...I'm not sure why, if she didn't like it, it just ended up on my counter so sure, I'll use it. I'm not really picky on toothpaste as long as it makes me feel minty and clean, which this one did. I just don't want to spend a lot on toothpaste so I usually pay $1 for mine at the Dollar Store. This one probably costs a bit more. I'll say $3 on the low guess.
Total: $5
Here I have a Stila Stay All Day Liquid Liner ($19) which is an everyday must have. I haven't found anything else I like better for lining my top lashes. Then there is a Secret gel deodorant that was part of a Wal-Mart box (thanks for passing on Erin :) ) and I believe this is probably $4-5ish. I also finished up another Murad Rapid Age Spot and Pigment Lightening Serum. This was valued at $15 and I still didn't see much change from it. I wouldn't buy the full size.
Total: $38
Facial cleansers: I finished a Body Shop Tea Tree Anti-Blemish Facial Cleanser. I use this daily morning and night and I love it. The bottle lasted probably well over a year and costs about $14. I am using a new bottle now. I had the Clinique Liquid Face Soap as a sample so used that in the mornings until it was gone. As you can see I cut it open to get every drop out. I probably got 5 more uses after cutting it open. A full size is $17. This was probably about $7. I used the Bobbi Brown eye makeup remover which was a sample from Sephora. I love samples of eye makeup remover because for some reason I just hate to spend money on this. I'd rather be buying the eye makeup. This is worth a whopping $8.23 which is ridiculous for this 1 oz. size but it was free luckily.
Total: $29.23
Trash total 04/10/16 $169.93
Trash total 3/14/16 $180.62
Trash total 2/7/16 $311.07
Trash total 2/17/16 $251.02
Grand total YTD: $912.64
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