In these economic times, you have to save wherever you can... Here's one tip [View All]

[FlyingSquirrel]

If you buy liquid laundry detergent.

I know for many this will probably be a "Well, duh!" but this is something I just realized today. My wife usually does the laundry and there is of course always a little bit of liquid left in the bottle when she's done. I've tried leaving the bottle upside down to drain it into a jar, but it often falls over and it's just a pain in the neck. Plus I don't really spend much time around there, so the empty containers just pile up and I don't usually have the inclination to drain them. It's also a pain to rinse them out so the container can be recycled.

So the answer is a "Well, duh!" but for some reason it just never occurred to me before. You turn on the washer, and rinse the bottle out into the machine with the water that's filling it up. There's certainly at least a load of detergent still in it, so you're killing two birds with one stone - getting an extra load out of the container and rinsing it so you can recycle it.