Today we have a guest post! I'll let Patricia get right to it with her gel air freshener DIY: ------------------------------- For the past few years, air fresheners have been real pop stars in our homes. We use them to kick away bad and pungent smells from our living spaces, shoes and beds. But have you ever wondered what goes into these products and how a bottle of air-freshener can smell like honey and lemons when it doesn't even contain honey and lemons at all? source The

One facet of Home Economics is to save money around the house. With my husband being a full-time graduate student, this is especially important for us since we are on a very fixed income at the moment. I've been trying to come up with ways to save money, and I figured a good place to start would be to make our own cleaning supplies. This is how I feel when my kitchen sparkles, too. (Photo Credit) Making soap really intimidates me, so I wanted to start with something very simp

Dr. David Knapp said something many years ago that I think still holds true and also applies to healthy living: "The time is now at hand to direct past traditions of problem-solving toward a new focus. The basic mission of [Home Economics] is to improve the quality of life." I think that really paying attention to if we are living healthy lives (or paying attention to our quality of life) is often overlooked. Sure, most of us think that we are living a healthy life because we