GreenDude got home and, honestly, I had forgotten about the two glorious brown cardboard boxes sitting on the kitchen table, awaiting our attention. I was watching a stock investing class (another component of our Multiple Streams of Income Plan) and totally wrapped up in Bear Pull Backs.
My big, yummy man (BYM) walked into the family room and reminded me about the presents, "Hey, do you wanna open these?"
"Ooooh, yes please." I danced into the kitchen, I am totally a kid when it comes to opening presents. "umm... I think I should open the boxes since I've never done it before..."
BYM just laughed, he knows I'm a kid dressed up in an adult's body. "Okay, I'll check off the manifest," he gallantly offered. (It is super-important to check off your package's contents with the order manifest to ensure that you received everything you were supposed to, don't assume that the shipper's are perfect - they are wonderful, but certainly not perfect.)
"Wheee!" And I dove in, tossing cardboard hither and yon while I relatively carefully opened the packages. The first was the box of 11 Business Kits. There was also 11 DW Presentation Booklets - I had no idea what they were but I didn't care. I figured I could look at them later, the fun was in the other box.
As I pulled back the flaps on the second box I knew I was in love - it was filled with neat little piles of product, plus the dispensers and mixing bottles to go with them.
After emptying the box and tossing it towards the recycling bin, I sat at the table with BYM and, honestly, felt a little overwhelmed - THERE WAS SO MUCH TO LOOK AT!
Well, we had to start somewhere, and with the kids coming back on Saturday from their mom's, I figured a good place would be the laundry. I took the pump dispenser and attached it to the Laundry Detergent, the dispensing cap and attached it to the Brightener (colour-safe bleach alternative) and took them downstairs. I popped in a load of darks, pumped the Laundry Detergent several times and then this little puddle of detergent came out.
There was no way that 1 tablespoon of detergent could wash a load properly. No way! But that's what the instructions said - I guess that is the point of it being 6X concentrated. I added the 15 mL of Brightener and just trusted that when they said it was colour-safe they were serious, added my old fabric softener (because I refuse to waste it...) and started it up, setting it on delay so that it would be ready the next morning to switch to the dryer. Modern front-loaders are a beautiful thing.
I went back upstairs and BYM and I distributed most of the product towards their destinations, shower stuff upstairs, dish stuff in the kitchen. Admittedly, we left the cleaning products on the table, we didn't mix them up right away. One of the ways that M saves money and plastic is by sending re-usable spray bottles. You buy the little bottle of concentrate and then add water yourself. Instead of grocery store products where they add all the water for you and waste all the plastic.
Tomorrow the testing begins. Does this stuff really work? Will I notice a difference? We'll see...
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