Top Tip Thursday!

My buddy Jenny from Zack's Gang, has decided to have a fun and useful blog carnival called Top Tip Thursday.

You see, Mrs. Jenny is a Mama, but not only a Mama, but a Mama of SEVEN kids.

SEVEN.

AND, the unbelievable part....her house is ALWAYS beautifully neat and clean.

She makes me feel SO inferior...lol!

But seriously, in the few months that I have "known" Jenny, I have just been AMAZED at how organized (and huge and gorgeous) her household is. I guess with 9 people living under one roof, things have to be organized.

Jenny could really make some money by organizing homes.....I've been begging her to come organize my life, but no such luck.

Bummer.

Jenny is always looking for new ideas to help simplify her life, so she decided to start Top Tip Thursday to see what neat and clever ideas others may have.

Well MY Top Tip for this Thursday really isn't a TIP, it's a product.....

A product that my household is NEVER, EVER without.....

Shout Color Catchers

These little suckers are miracles in a box.

Well, not really miracles, but man they have definitely saved many, many, many of my clothes!

What Color Catchers do is absorb all of the dye from your clothes that floats around in the water in your washing machine. By doing this, all that extra dye does not redeposit on your other clothes.

When your favorite college team is Alabama (ROLL TIDE) and their colors are crimson and white, your High School Team (GO LIONS) colors are red, white, and gray, and your family just looks so darn good in red....you really have to be careful while trying to wash all those clothes. The whites turn pink and the reds look splotchy. It's enough to make you want to hand-wash each and every item of clothes in cold water.

Who has time for THAT? Not this Slacker Mama, that's for sure!

With Shout Color catchers, you just load your machine....

Here is what they look like out of the box. It's almost like a really thick fabric softener sheet.

Throw it on top of the clothes.

And then wash as usual!

This is what it looks like after washing...

And this was on a load of clothes that had been washed MANY times. Imagine what it would look like if you threw one in while washing something brand new!

I do recommend using two sheets if you are washing something brand new with other clothes, OR if you are washing several red things that have white trim on them. I also don't recommend throwing your brand new red sweater in your load of white towels.

I'm not THAT brave.

Since I've been using them, I've not had ONE thing fade on another. They are fantastic!

(Oh, and in the spirit of the "Blog with Integrity" pledge, I did NOT receive anything from Shout to promote their product. In fact, I am pretty sure that the people of Shout have no idea that I exist. This is just a product that I use and I believe in.)

So, now that I've shown you MY favorite Top Tip, head on over to Zach's Gang and see what great tips everyone else has come up with!

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And speaking of Jenny....she left a comment on the last post saying something about somebody having a birthday yesterday and wondering why that somebody didn't blog about it yesterday....

Well, yeah, now I...errrr...somebody has blogged about it....

Now somebody wants to forget all about it.

Ha Ha!