How, You Say?

I was surfing the internet one day and stumbled upon an interesting website. I am always looking on the web to find out how to do crazy, cool and random stuff. For example, I was watching "17 Kids & Counting" with DaNelle and the episode was on how they save money. Once of the interesting ways was that they made their own laundry soap. I was instantly all over this! They follow this recipe that they got from a friend and it costs about 1¢ a load. Fortunately for me I didn't write down the recipe, DaNelle deleted it and I had just bought a $14.00 bucket of soap.

Here is where the glorious Internet comes into play. You can find virtually anything in the world if you know how to work a search engine. So, I searched "homemade laundry soap" and found this:

1/3 bar Fels Naptha or other type of soap, as listed above
½ cup washing soda
½ cup borax powder
~You will also need a small bucket, about 2 gallon size~

Grate the soap and put it in a sauce pan. Add 6 cups water and heat it until the soap melts. Add the washing soda and the borax and stir until it is dissolved. Remove from heat. Pour 4 cups hot water into the bucket. Now add your soap mixture and stir. Now, add 1 gallon plus 6 cups of water and stir. Let the soap sit for about 24 hours and it will gel. You use ½ cup per load.

Although I have never tried it before, in theory it should work. With only two people to do laundry for, a little soap goes a long way.

This got me thinking. This person was able to share what they know possibly across the US...I could do that! So I found eHow. eHow is a "how to" based website that has hundreds and hundreds of articles on how to do things. Some are so totally random like, "How To Fix a Carburettor on a 1989 Toyota Corolla" and some are more common like, "How To Shop Wisely For Christmas". Believe me, the possibilities are endless!

So I signed up! Better yet, if you are 18 years or older, you can be paid for what you write. Awesome!!!!! Of course, it's not just write and article, get paid $1. You are paid on how popular they are, how informative, how many views, the ratings, and how long they view it.

So I started to write on what I knew and if there was one thing I could do, it was swaddling a newborn. Yes, you read right. I was so surprised to see that many parents didn't know how to swaddle their baby without the help of the nurse or a specified "swaddling blanket". I have swaddled over 200 babies and I have it down to perfection and thus the inspiration for my first article came; How To Swaddle A Newborn.

Slowly, more and more ideas came to me about things I knew how to do just from various experiences. Some are so dumb but hey, there has got to be SOMEONE out there in the exact same position as me, right?

Here are some:

How To Properly Use "They're", "Their" and "There"
How To Know If A Fish Is Pregnant
How To Diagnose the Symptoms of a Cold

When and if you read them, you may be thinking that these are so dumb. However, those "dumb" articles have already made be $3.82. That's 11¢ a day and I do NOTHING! Plus it's a fun way to get out there and just write. So to end this all I need two things.
1. More article ideas
2. For you to read my articles ( my username is "shesaidthat")

Check it out, you may be surprised what you learn.