Caring for My Chaos

I am a big fan of using natural cleaners. I love baking soda! It has so many uses other than cooking. Over on Premeditated Leftovers there is a list of 20 uses for baking soda! Some I had never thought of. Like using it in a recipe for an oven cleaner! Go check out the list and stock up on this versatile cleaner!

Have you ever read Scary Mommy ? If you don't, you should. Anyone who has at least one child should. She puts everything motherhood in terms all of us can understand and even says things that it's not "politically correct" to say about motherhood. But you have to read this post that she has about how she has come to accept and even love her body image after having children. It puts things into perspective. Go here to Scary Mommy and read. It is so true.

This is for Doodle, my middle daughter. She is in love with anything this man writes. I couldn't even tell you how many times she's seen the Notebook. I don't share her love, but she gobbles up anything he writes. I found this collection on Amazon for 16.87, which is a pretty good price for 3 of his novels. Go here to  Amazon  to order it for your Nicholas Sparks lover!

I just found this new site that pays you for taking surveys. It looks pretty easy and you cash out when you reach 1000 points which is equal to 10$. You get 200 points just for signing up. Go here MintVine and sign up! You then can earn points for each survey you take to complete your profile. And those are quick and painless too! So far what I've seen looks pretty good!

This is such a cool idea! Making a hamper from an old TV tray! You could do them in any colors to match your bathroom or bedroom and they fold up! I love love love this idea! I found this tutorial here at   www.hausofgerz.com and now I want to go out to Goodwill and buy some TV trays to make it! Simple straight line sewing and I was thinking you could use Velcro on the hanging parts to make it removable so you could wash this also. I just think this is adorable!

I love using my crockpot, especially during the summer months. But I just found this blog, Crockpot365 where this lady used her crockpot every day for a year and NEVER repeated a recipe. And on this page, she lists every recipe she used. AMAZING! Go check it out and let me know which ones you use!

This one is for the felines! Go here Friskies and sign up to get a coupon good for free cat food. I don't know what size the coupon will be for, it doesn't specify on the sign up page. But I know my smooshie, (yes I call her smooshie) loves Friskies, no matter what the flavor. Go now!

Go here Walmart sample and sign up to get a k cup sampler of Gevalia coffee! I don't have a Keurig but my sis in law does and it makes great coffee! So fill up your mailbox!

This is for Costco members. If you follow this link http://www.costco.com/ you can sign up for a free sample kit for cleaning wipes, baby wipes and facial wipes. You need a Costco membership number to sign up though!

Great site to review products http:// I have been a member of Influenster for about 2 years now. The idea behind Influenster is to get reviews about different products from all different people. When you join, you fill out your profile and based on your demographic, you can receive "VoxBoxes" which are boxes of products in the mail and in return, you return to Influenster.com and do different tasks depending on the product. I have received full size products and sample sizes in the voxboxes I have received and they are always fun to get because you never know what is in them! And it's all free! Very cool site and you need to join them!