by Texas Homesteader ~
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I’m sharing two simple homemade dog shampoo recipes. There’s a dry-skin formula that contains oats, water and baking soda to help protect dry skin. The regular dog shampoo recipe contains just baby shampoo, water & vinegar.
Our needs for dog shampoo are slight. We only have one small dog. But she’s a cutie, let me tell ya!
Meet Bailey, our beloved mini-Schnauzer.
by Texas Homesteader~
I was thrilled to find a soapberry tree growing in our NE Texas property. I found it far back in a remote pasture. The berries on the tree had already turned yellow in those cool autumn days.
As a matter of fact, it was the yellow orbs that attracted my attention to the three. So I took photos of the tree, leaves, bark and the berries and sent them to my extension agent for proper identification.
She reported back that the tree was a Western Soapberry Tree (or Sapindus saponaria ssp. drummondii)
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Is stuck-on food frustrating you while cleaning your cast-iron skillet? I’ve found an EASY way to get it clean. Check out my lazy-cook’s method!
by Texas Homesteader ~
I easily make my own natural air freshener using only baking soda, essential oil, a repurposed canning jar & some pretty leftover lace. It’s simple to refresh when needed and it’s an inexpensive zero-waste answer to a deodorizing problem.
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Don’t you hate to have a narrow-neck jar that you just can’t reach with a bottle brush to clean? I’ve often wondered how you could effectively clean those wonderful but odd-shaped bottles & jars.
Check out this Homestead Hack, y’all!
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Jeans will just slide around on a regular clothes hanger, bunch on the end and cause the hangers to tangle. That sure makes for a mess in the closet. But come see how I use a child-sized hanger to keep my closet nice & tidy!
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Is your kitchen utensil drawer packed full? Is it difficult to find the utensil you’re looking for? Mine was too.
But decluttering the kitchen utensil drawer is the easiest and quickest decluttering task you can imagine! This simple step has improved the efficiency in my kitchen megafold. Come see what I do.
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Cleaning – we’ve all gotta do it #amiright??!! My favorite cleaner is much simplified from my younger days.
Back then I’d prance down the highly-scented cleaning aisle picking up whichever cleaner spray had the most eye-catching label.
But I recently wrote about how cleaning has become complicated. So my cleaner of choice these days is a repurposed spray bottle with soap & water.
But sometimes when I’m using that cleaning spray and I’m closer to the bottom of the mixture I have a hard time getting it to spray.
I mean, when you tilt that bottle and the spray nozzle attachment doesn’t reach all the way into the cleaner, whaddya do?
Oh I’m so glad you asked. Check out this homestead hack, y’all.