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Make Your Thanksgiving Day More Enjoyable With These 2 Laundry Tips

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I know you love doing laundry. In fact I saw the results of a survey recently in which it was determined that Moms prefer doing laundry over vacuming. While I can’t find the survey now and I wouldn’t go so far as to agree with that, I do get a great deal of satisfaction out of taking clean, delicious smelling clothes out of the dryer.

Even if you don’t enjoy doing laundry, I highly recommend that you stay on top of laundry before and during Thanksgiving week.

One way I motivate myself to stay on top of laundry is by using a liquid laundry detergent that smells really good.


Holiday napkins are not used for cleaning!
Holiday napkins are not used for cleaning!

Scenario #1: Holiday Napkin Disaster

The kids don’t understand that holiday napkins are for use on special occassions like Thanksgiving & Christmas only. The kids use your holiday napkins to clean the bathroom or wipe the juice spill off the dining room floor, resulting in sticky, dirty napkins.

Tip:

Be ready to restock the holiday napkins with a spare set (yes, buy two sets of holiday napkins, at least) and while you’re using those, was the others with a detergent that is sure to make your house guests think that you just baked a delicious pie, Gain’s Apple Mango Tango liquid laundry detergent.


Scenario #2: Blanket Disaster At Aunt Betty’s

You visit Aunt Betty’s house for Thanksgiving dinner. The kids drag their favorite snuggle blankies all over Aunt Betty’s floor knowing that Aunt Betty has 19 dogs and 3 cats. Eeewww! Naturally, you find lint balls, dog hair, cat hair and who knows what else stuck to the kids blankets. But shoot! You didn’t bring laundry detergent to Aunt Betty’s house.

Sad blanket girl
This is how your child may feel when she can't snuggle with her dirty blanket on the way home from Aunt Betty's house!

Tip:

You never know what kind of laundry detergent a friend or family member uses, so I am a firm believer in BYOLD (bring your own laundry detergent)!

Just as importantly, you don’t want the kids to be snuggling with dirty blankies during the long drive home from Aunt Betty’s house, do you? All the more reason to take detergent with you and wash their blankets before driving home.

Aunt Betty would probably even appreciate it if you threw in a few napkins and hand towels with the kids blankies! 🙂

Gain Apple Mango Tango Liquid Laundry Detergent

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Softsoap Ensembles handsoap

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Soft Soap EnsemblesMoms are always looking for ways to save money.  One way we can save money is by not buying a new soap bottle every time we run out of hand soap.    With the kids out of school for the summer you are probably noticing a quicker than average consumption of soap which is good.. that means your kids are washing their hands! But, that also means that you are buying new bottles of soap often which is not so good for your wallet or the planet.  We can change that buy purchasing Softsoap Ensembles.  First you buy a Softsoap Ensembles pump and base system together. When you run out of soap, keep the pump and choose a new base, a quick and easy way to switch things up in your bathroom or kitchen.

The pump is silver gray color, a nice look for any bathroom or kitchen. The Softsoap Ensemble collection of bases is made up of four modern, elegant designs as well as a neutral “Creamy Cotton” design.

Keep a Softsoap Ensemble system in your all of your bathrooms and in your kitchen so your kids have easy access to hand soap.  The easier it is for your kids to get to the hand soap, the more they will use it!

You can purchase Softsoap Ensembles hand soap at most drugstores, grocery stores, and online. For more information about Softsoap Ensembles, visit the website here.

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Soapylove soapsicles

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My kids LOVE soapsicles. 

The kids used soapsicles for the first time while we were on vacation in Florida last week and watching them wash & play with these super fragrant and toddler friendly soaps was great!

When Madelyn (2 years old) first saw soapsicles, her reaction was to put them in her mouth and she had to try (lick) all three of them before she was convinced that they are for the bath tub and not to eat.   Disclaimer: I don’t recommend allowing your children to lick soap, although Soaplylove soapsicles are SLS free and all fragrance oils are phthalate free.

Soaplove’s true to size soapsicles are available in several mouth watering fragrances including lemonade and orange.   My favorite, the ‘bath blaster‘ reminds me of the Popsicle I would run to the ice cream truck for.. about 25 years ago.

I didn’t expect the soapsicles to product bubbles, but the bubbles you see in the photograph are from two soapsicles!   I expected to see bare popsicle sticks in the bathtub after the water was drained, but they looked almost new!  Soaplove’s soapsicle sticks are wooden, just like real Popsicle sticks so Madelyn is able to get a good grip on her soapsicle.

Click the photograph below to see an enlarged view of the Bath Blaster soapsicle.

WEBSITE:  Soapylove

SquidSoap

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"Awww… you made me ink!"  That is one of my favorite lines from Finding Nemo.  Did you know that your kids can have fun with ink?  No, not the kind in a pen but the SquidSoap kind which is actually vegetable dye.

          SquidSoap by Airborne® is designed to teach and
train proper hand-washing technique to children. It’s the only
liquid-soap dispenser with a specially designed pump that stamps a
child’s hand with vegetable dye. It takes about 20 seconds of thorough
hand washing to remove the ink mark, leaving the child with clean
hands. So it literally takes the guesswork out of whether or not your
kids have washed their hands thoroughly. It’s easy, fun and effective.

I have to admit that Sebastian, 8 years old, was a little bummed that he had to put ‘ink’ on his hands at first.  However, after using SquidSoap a couple of times he thought it was cool. Eight year old boys just don’t have the time to stand around washing their hands.. silly me.   Now I simply require that the kids wash their hands in the kitchen where I can see them use vegetable dye on the top of the SquidSoap dispenser and then check to see that the dye is gone when they have finished washing their hands.

This is a great product. One that every parent should have in their home.

WEBSITE: SquidSoap