Frugal Intuition

I am a huge fan of anything that saves me time in cleaning the bathroom.  The bathroom is that chore that my husband and I both hate and tend to put off (which, let’s face it, is just gross).  But I couldn’t bring myself to pay $2-5 for a daily shower spray that wasn’t going to last more than a couple of weeks in our house.  So I set out on a search to make my own.  If you google “shower spray recipe” you’re going to find all kinds of combinations of stuff.  Common ingredients are alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, vinegar water, tea tree oil, and a number of other things.  I wanted something simple, made of stuff I generally keep around the house.  Somewhere (and I no longer remember where and can’t find it, but let it be known that this is not my recipe) I stumbled across this recipe:

• 1 cup rubbing alcohol
• 1 cup hydrogen peroxide
• 1 capful of Jetdry
• about 6 drops of grease-cutting dish soap like Dawn
• enough water to fill the remainder of a 32 oz. spray bottle

You can get good sturdy spray bottles in the garden department at Walmart.  They aren’t exactly pretty, but this lives in the shower behind the curtain, so nobody’s going to see.

I’ve had marvelous results with this concoction.  A bottle lasts our family a little over 2 weeks (longer if everyone showers back to back and only the last person out sprays it) and it’s so cheap to make.  We have all the ingredients as staples in our house.   I cleaned the shower thoroughly before I started using it, and other than an occasional wipe down with a Clorox wipe about once a month, I haven’t had to clean my shower in three or four months.  No more creepy pink mildew on the caulk.  No more soap scum.  No more having to buy a new shower liner ever two months because of mildew or mold.  This stuff is awesome.  And I love the fact that it’s green.  There are no creepy chemicals with unpronouncable names.  Just spray on the walls and shower curtain before you hop out of the shower and be sure to close the curtain so that it can dry more easily when you’re out.

Now if only someone could come up with an easy way to tame dog hair…

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