Healthy Home

I’ve decided since my last two blog post were pretty depressing I would do a little more upbeat post.
I’m going to introduce you to the craziness of my housekeeping routine and tips and tricks.
As most of you housewives know keeping up with everything is a never ending job. And inevitably the moment you get the floor mopped one of the kids spills something sticky all over it. I do my best, considering my OCD tendencies, to not freak out at the slightest mess.
I’ve gotten myself down to a routine. Every day I get up and clean up our bedroom and bathroom. Move to the kitchen and unload the dishwasher and load whatever late night dishes were used. Spray down the countertops and any spills down the cabinet doors with my homemade all purpose cleaner.

32 oz. spray bottle
10 drops essential oil
3 cups water
1 cup distiller vinegar

Then I start a load of laundry (yes every day) with my homemade laundry detergent. We usually only have one load since I do it every day. But if I skip it for some reason it seems like there are 4 loads…lol

1 Box borax
1 Box washing soda
1 bar soap
10 drops essential oil

Grate bar soap, mix together in air tight container. 1 tablespoon per load. 2 for large loads.
Then straighten up the living room, vacuum floors using my home made carpet fresh.

2 cups borax
2cups baking soda
20 drops essential oil

Mix ingredients in a shaker jar. I change up the essential oils I use in different products just to add some new variety of clean to the house.

All this time the kids are eating breakfast then playing in their rooms. When the baby sleeps late I can get all this done before time to start lunch. Hubby usually makes breakfast or we do cereal so I don’t have to worry about that while cleaning.
Then it’s time to figure out lunch, get the kids fed, then nap times for them while I relax and spend some bonding time with the baby. The rest of the day is pretty much go with the flow, but since I got my things done in the morning I don’t mind doing whatever the kids want. I know a lot of people with OCD can’t go to bed with things dirty or out of place but that doesn’t bother me as long as I know I did them at some point during the day. So after I clean up the living room if toys get strewn out everywhere again I don’t mind, and we usually get the kids to clean up all their toys and blankets any anything else they got out in the living room, or their rooms before we go to bed.
In the evening It’s supper, bathtime, cleanup, stories, hugs, kisses, sleep. I start the dishwasher I’ve been slowly loading all day and start it with my homemade dishwasher detergent, and get the clothes out of the dryer, fold, hung, and put up.

15 packets lemon koolaide
1 cup washing soda
1 cup borax
1/2 cup kosher salt

Use 1 tablespoon per load. Vinegar as rinse agent.

That’s pretty much my daily routine to keep up. I do a more thorough cleaning every so often on different rooms but it doesn’t take that long either thanks to my daily routine.

So it might be a little crazy but it works for me and my family. I will have more green cleaning recipies on a future post.

 This is my cleaning closet and all my supplies to make my cleaners. 

Update: We've gone back to cascade gel packs for the dishwasher because since we are in an apartment the dishwasher is highly used before we moved in and it has some issues. In order to have those issues fixed the part net is making us use regular dishwasher detergent to determine the problem. Seems to be a rusty water coming from the rinse agent compartment. All other green cleaners are still in use in the home and I've added a few more that I'll post about in the future.