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Halve the Cost of Washing-Up - June 2018

This tip is, super-simple and an oh-so easy and obvious way of splitting the cost of washing--up, using a dish-washer, in half, literally, by simply splitting your dishwasher tablet in half and using half a tablet per wash. I use an eco-brand called Earths Choice, and I'd noticed that while the dishes were coming out of the dishwasher squeaky clean, they often had a sudsy residue. By simply splitting the dishwashing tablet in half, my dishes are still sparkling clean BUT with no sudsy residue AND I've halved the cost (+ any environmental impacts ), of using this product! NOW I wonder why I didn't think of it sooner!!! 
Contributed by Therese Krix

Editor's note: The lazy homemaker in me loves my dishwasher and would love to be able to use dishwasher tablets, but both our old dishwasher (which was very old)  and our new one (about 2  years old) hated the dishwasher tablets. I even forked out for the expensive Finish and Fairy brands to try! These days I buy the 1 kilo box of Coles dishwasher powder, use two teaspoons per load (level teaspoons please) and have clean dishes and a happy dishwasher. I buy six boxes of dishwasher powder a year, for a cost of around $13. If your dishwasher doesn’t like the tablets, try the Coles dishwasher powder - just remember this is a case of less is more. Cath