No More Sorting Thanks to Purex

**I received a product sample in order to complete a review as part of the Purex Insiders program.  Any opinions stated are my own.**

Sorting clothes can be time consuming especially if you have a few people living in your home. We’re a family of 6, my hubby has uniforms, I have uniforms, the kids have sports uniforms, then there’s our every day clothes. Our laundry really adds up. If I were to sort all of it It would probably add an extra hour to my laundry time each laundry day. Purex has a solution for that.

Purex introduces their newest laundry detergent, Purex No Sort for colors. Just a note from Purex, it’s innovative but not a miracle worker. They still recommend you wash strongly colored fabrics separately at least 5 times before mixing with other colors. I think that’s a valid point. I know some of new sweatshirts and things of that nature can really bleed sometimes. The new anti-color transfer technology traps loose dyes in the wash and doesn’t let them settle on your laundry. This detergent is meant to reduce color bleed accidents.

I love the brightly colored bottle . It has a nice fresh scent to it. It really doesn’t look any different from other detergent. I was interested to see how well it was going to work on some of the grime that goes into our washer. I had also purposely picked out a multitude of colors to combine in my washer to see how well that worked too.

Reds, browns, blacks, green, whatever, it all went in there. I even put these bad boys in there

Yea that’s my oldest son’s baseball pants. A combination of mud, red sand, and grass on there. He says “We did sliding drills today” hmm you don’t say. If that’s not a test, I don’t know what is. I threw them right in there with the rest of the colors even though these are a light gray color.

While we’re waiting for my laundry to get done I thought I’d tell you about the sweepstakes Purex has as a tie in to this detergent. It’s called “The Rules Have Changed Sweepstakes” and you could win $1000 and a year of this Purex No Sort detergent! Just enter here: http://insiders.purex.com/TheRulesHaveChangedwithPurexNoSort?id=47

Ok let’s go check on my laundry now and see what those baseball pants look like….

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Hot Deals at Bottom Dollar Food for your Easter Dinner

**I received a BDF gift card to shop the Easter deals at Bottom Dollar Food. Any opinions expressed are my own.**

I’m a big fan of Bottom Dollar Food. Not only do they have awesome sales but I love how their stores are set up. Each one I’ve been in is well lit, clean, and stocked. I’m also a fan of the walk in coolers for their produce. Speaking of sales though, from April 10 – April 15 they have special buys on everything you need for Easter dinner. Wait I have to show you the amazing deals I saw in the store and how I filled my cart up for my big family Easter dinner!

I decided to try out one of the Bottom Dollar Food locations in Butler, PA this time. My friend Penny (I didn’t realized the irony of taking her with me, given her name and the great deals until now lol) she graciously volunteered to accompany on my trip. Both for a girls day out and to check out Bottom Dollar Food for herself.

I was again impressed with the inside and outside of the store. Very clean, well lit, neatly set up, and easy to find the sale items. As soon as we walked in we were by the produce section with the walk in cooler. We found this great deal on strawberries greeting us at the door.

Only $1.88 and they’re nice strawberries. Have any Easter desserts planned that need strawberries? Grab these up! Of course a lot of people have ham for easter. The main dish right? I know that’s what my family is going to have. Bottom Dollar Food has deals on ham right now both spiral cut for $1.47/lb and myessentials shank portion ham for 67 cents a pound! I debated but ended up going for the spiral cut ham and good 10 pounder. That should take care of the brood. I’d be willing to bet at these prices they’re going to go fast!

And of course what’s Easter without eggs? Eggs to dye, for deviled eggs, pickled eggs, whatever it is that you like. They have plenty of eggs, different size on sale from medium to xlarge.

Green Giant canned veggies are on sale for 65 cents a can. Perfect for your green bean casseroles, corn side dishes, or brown sugar carrots. If fresh produce is more your thing they have plenty of great deals on that too. They have broccoli crowns $1.48/lb. Someone at work told me about this awesome broccoli side dish that I think I’m going to try to make for our Easter dinner. It sounded absolutely delicious. You sautee some fresh broccoli in some oil in a frying paint. Add some crushed garlic clove. You keep stirring it until the broccoli glistens with the oil and is the garlic is mixed in. She said you can add pine nuts too if you like. You then mix in about 1/2 c of bread crumbs and shredded cheddar cheese until the that’s well mixed in the broccoli. Then put the broccoli in a casserole dish and sprinkle a little more cheese on top, and put it in the oven for 20 minutes at 350. I haven’t tried it yet but it sounds soooo good!

Some other deals I found worth snapping up at Bottom Dollar Food was myessentials cream cheese for 98 cents a block. They have regular, 1/3 fat, and fat free at this price. They had Kellogg’s pop tarts on sale for $1.88, you know so when you wake up early to hide Easter baskets and start Easter dinner you can eat your breakfast on the go, or is that just me?

Some tips from me when shopping at Bottom Dollar Food:

–Take your reusable shopping bags. If you want bags you can buy them there or you can use the tables in front of the registers to load up your groceries in boxes that I’ve noticed a lot of stores have available

–Be sure to have your Bottom Dollar Food card with you to get the best deals in store

–Visit the Bottom Dollar Food website to check out flyers and plan your trip. You can also load ecoupons to your card!

Well my friend and I found some awesome deals. I loaded my cart..err..overloaded my cart with deals. If anyone goes home hungry from my Easter dinner it’s their own fault! Oh and by the way, my friend Penny did like the shopping trip. We were talking about the deals we saw on the way home.

Be sure to follow Bottom Dollar Food on Facebook: www.facebook.com/BottomDollarFood and on twitter: @SaveatBDF

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Ovenart Bakeware Silicone Muffin Pan

Disclosure: I got this product as part of an advertorial.

One thing that my kids and I love to do together is baking. On a cold or rainy day we love to get the oven going and make up some cookies, cupcakes, or muffins. Anything that can make clean up easier or save us a few steps when we’re baking together is ok in my book. So when I had the chance to try the OvenArt Silicone Bakeware – Muffin Pan
I said yes!

I had never baked using a silicone muffin pan before. I have used other silicone bakeware in the past some worked great, others, not so much. If you’ve ever used or even handled silicone bakeware before, you know that it’s pretty floppy. Ovenart recommends placing the silicone muffin pan on a baking sheet which worked out well for us. We decided to try to make chocolate chip muffins to test this pan.

You don’t have to grease this muffin pan like you do other types of muffin pans. In fact, you don’t even have to use muffin/cupcake liners if you don’t want to. We didn’t, just to see how the muffins would turn out. After mixing up the batter we filled our muffin pan and they were ready to go in the oven. When we took them out I figured I’d have to let them cool for a while. I quickly realized though that silicone bakeware cools down a lot faster than metal or glass pans. They tell you that to remove your baked good from the pan you can push up from the bottom and pop them out. I’m sure that would work no problem. Honestly I just did this:

Every muffin just fell right out. There was no prying, popping, greasing, or scooping to get them out. There was minimal residue from the muffins left in the pan. I hand wash all my dishes anyway so I just threw this pan in some soapy water. I did have to do a little scrubbing to get some of the residue off but normally I have to soak my muffin pans to get all the gunk out of them. In the end we ended up with these tasty muffins:

You can find the Ovenart Bakeware silicone muffin pan on Amazon:

Ovenart uses only the highest grade 100% highest quality European silicone. No worries about chemicals or non-stick lining sneaking into your food! You can find even more products on their website as well: http://www.ovenartbakeware.com/

I received one or more of the products mentioned above for free using Tomoson.com. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers.

Crave Naturals Detangling Brush

*I received the below mentioned product as part of the Crave Bloggers program. This post also contains Amazon affiliate links.  
Any opinions expressed are my own**

I go through phases when it comes to my hair. Most of the time I like it long then I get tired of it and chop it off. I like it for a while then I want my long hair back. This cycle has gone on for as long as I can remember making decisions about my hair. I like the flexibility of hair styles with long hair but brushing it out in the morning can be a real pain, literally. I had the opportunity to try the Detangling Brush By Crave Naturals

This brush has a unique curvy look to it. It has lots of bristles spaced apart slightly on the brush. The bristles are pretty firm and have just a little give for your hair. The brush is light weight and easy to grip to brush through your hair.

The problem with my hair is that my hair is pretty silky. My hair is also deceiving. It’s actually pretty thick. If I had a dollar for every time someone cut my hair and said, “wow there’s more hair there than I thought” I could have received a few free hair cuts by now. I felt like I had to press down a little more then my normal brush to fell like it was actually combing through the full thickness of my hair. Personally, I would not use this brush for styling. It does a fantastic job to get rid of knots and tangles but I feel like I have more control with styling with my normal brush.

It worked well to break up any knots. That was one thing I did notice. With my normal brush I normally have at least one or two snags in the morning from knots in my hair. This brush just glided right through. This brush works well on wet or dry hair. This brush can also be used on children. You can also use it in the shower to distribute conditioner in your hair.

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Ready You Spring and Summer Wardrobe with SammyDress

**I received the below mentioned product from SammyDress in order to complete a review. 
No other compensation has been received.  Any opinions expressed are my own**

With 4 kids I don’t often get to buy myself new clothes. When I do, I try to find something I like to fit in my budget. Going through my wardrobe I realize that some of my clothes I’ve had for at least 10 years. I also realized that I have clothes I haven’t worn in probably 2 years. If I haven’t worn them in 2 years, why do I continue to hold onto them? During my spring cleaning and posed that very question to myself and started bagging up clothes to donate. I also realized that last summer, I didn’t have much of a summer wardrobe. I love to wear dresses in the summer time. A tshirt dress or a casual summer dress is perfect for me. I decided after getting rid of a bunch of clothes that I would add to my summer wardrobe. I’ve been snagging great deals online. One place I discovered was sammydress.com.

SammyDress has a huge selection of clothes at very reasonable prices. I had the opportunity to choose a piece of clothing to review so of course I picked out a nice dress for the spring and summer. The dress I chose is listed on the site as the Women’s V-Neck High-Waist Open Work Sleeveless Maxi Dress.

A few things about this dress. First off it’s only $10.30 and you can find the dress here: http://www.sammydress.com/product210002.html#free One issue I always have when looking for dress and certain tops is the fact that I don’t have much…um…to fill in the top, we’ll say. This dress didn’t have an option to choose a size on the site which I though was add. The dress is a bit loose on the top. I actually need to pin the bottom part of the chest area closed because it was gaping open for me. For some one with a little more…cleavage it would depend on how comfortable you were with the amount of plummet on this dress.

I love the material of the dress. It’s listed as cotton but feels much more like spandex blend. It has a silky feel and is stretchy. The nice part about this dress is even though you can’t choose a specific size. It would fit a variety. I’m a size 8 normally. The top part was a bit big for me but I felt the dress flowed well and I liked that length for me, being 5′ 4″. The material is light which will make it very comfortable for the spring and summer. I love the vibrant color of the dress.

This dress also comes in a beautiful red color as well. If this dress just isn’t for you though, there are plenty of others to choose from on the site as well as tops, bottoms, and accessories. It took about 2 weeks for my dress to arrive so if you want something for a specific date or event, I’d suggest ordering a few weeks in advance.

You can find Sammy Dress on the following social media channels:

Twitter: @SammyDress

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