Thank you to P&G and Kroger stores for celebrating “Team Mom’s Everyday Victories”! Please visit the P&G’s event page to play games, win money off your next Kroger trip and more fun!
sometimes, when i lay down at night, i wonder how i keep it all together. being a parent is not an easy job. being a mother is not for the faint of heart. i wear many hats. i perform many duties. i am expected to excel in many areas. i am obligated to perform to the best of my abilities every. single. day. don’t get me wrong, i love being a mother, but it’s an exhausting job. yet, each and every day, i am beyond amazed by how well i’ve managed to keep so many lives, schedules, and responsibilities jiving in what seems like harmonious bliss.
when i’m not scrambling to finish up homework {i’m a full-time graduate student} or shuffling my children to or from an activity, i find myself spending a lot of time working in my home. and, when i say working, i mean cleaning or doing laundry. laundry is the bane of my existence. no matter how well i keep up with the laundry there is always one. more. load. the day we bought our new washer & dryer was the best day of my life {okay, so maybe it wasn’t THE best day, but it ranks in the top ten}. the day i decided to start making my own laundry detergent to save a little bit of money was the day i started looking at laundry in a different way. sure, i still hate the process of washing, folding & putting away, but at least now the never-ending pile of dirty “unnawears” and stained shirts seems a bit less daunting. why? dawn power clean.
i love a product that can multitask. not only do i wash our dishes with this soap {and annihilate gangs of fruit flies, too}, but i can also get out tough, set-in stains…especially those hard to wash out grease stains. slowly but surely, i am learning different tricks of the laundry trade {i mean, who knew rubbing alcohol gets in stains out from clothes…i didn’t until very recently}. but, one thing that always gave me grief were those pesky grease stains. y’all, if you’ve seen me eat or cook, you know that i am a mess. well, i’m not THAT big of a mess, but i have been known to ruin a good shirt or five. clothes are not cheap and when you live on a single-income, you can’t always replace a shirt or a pair of shorts every time there is a stain on them. so, what do i do? i squeeze some dawn power clean onto the stubborn stain {usually butter or oil splatters} and let it soak before running it through the laundry. the end result? a freshly laundered, stain-free shirt.
i may feel like mount st. laundry erupts a little too regularly and that matching socks is pure torture, but doing the laundry is a chore that cannot be ignored. besides, the fact that i can clean stained clothes that i once thought were bound for the trash can AND save money by using a product that multitasks? that, my friends, is an everyday victory.
p.s. hurry in to kroger and kroger banner stores for p&g’s big sale event, june 10-23!
at kroger and its banner stores, more than 30 of your favorite p&g brands are at HOT sale prices through june 23, including tide, charmin, cascade, pampers, crest and olay. look for tags with special prices throughout the household needs and health and beauty aisles, and be on the lookout for even bigger offers – like getting serious dollars off when you buy a bundle of products.
before hitting the store, visit p&g’s event page on kroger.com: http://bit.ly/KG6dw5
you can play games like basketball, track and gymnastics to win money off your next kroger trip, download digital coupons, print a shopping list, and learn more about p&g products!
and as part of this event, consider trying on of these fab products from p&g: vicks nature fusion, charmin basic, downy unstoppables, and swiffer duster extenders!
I was selected for participation in this campaign as a member of Clever Girls Collective.
