#budget diva

[ghettogardener]

Oh snap! I just planted the first seeds of 2025! Its indoor seed sowing time over here!

I know it's a bit early, but gardening makes me so happy, and after the last few gut-wrenching days, I just needed to play in the dirt right now.

I dusted off the old aerogarden, used some generic soil cones, and stuffed them with dollar store seeds left over from last year.

I planted beefsteak toms, cherry toms, and jalapeno in the aerogarden.

After that, I planted green onions in a ceramic bread pan that I never baked in because it was too pretty. I filled it with the last of '24's garden soil.

Here's to the hope that spring will be swift and sweet.

[ghettogardener]

Ok, so on my simple living-back to basics- budget saving journey, I stumbled across a recipe to make a years worth of laundry detergant for cheap. I looked into the ingredients, and they are cleaner too.

So I went to it!

The baking soda was a 13 lb bag from costco for $16. The baking soda booster was $5 a bix, so $10. The bar soap is Dr. Bronner's for $5. So, it's $36 for the whole lot.

I used this as a guide for measurements, but I doubled it because I had such a large amount of ingredients (i still have a TON of the ingredients left for future batches).

I put the ingredients into a spare tupperware dish and grabbed an old mismatched 1/4 tablespoon as a scoop.

I'm not gonna lie, grating the bar of soap was a LOT, but I got through it.

I am washing my first load of laundry with the homemade detergent right now! I hope it works out because I have a shitload of ingredients left.

If I am successful, I will have a year's supply (estimated for a family of 3) of laundry detergant for $36.

This is one tiny way that I am giving the finger to the corporations that peddle expensive, toxic stuff to us every day. I'm checking out of all of it.

Love you, be safe out there.

[ghettogardener]

Made this amazing chia seed sandwhich loaf today. So tasty. I haven't bought bread since xmas and it feels nice.

I'd like to try baking focaccia bread next week. It looks like it tastes amazing, and some of those gorgeous designs that people put on them look unreal. Trying it out could scratch a new creative itch for sure!

Be safe out there, folks.