Not sure exactly how much I've saved since I started making my own laundry detergent four years ago, but it's a lot! I make it in one of those big Homer Buckets from Home Depot, which I think are five gallons, so I make about 4.5 gallons at a time, I think. We scoop one old Fiesta coffee cup full into each washer load. It gets out all odors, no matter how nasty -- and my son's teeshirts smell pretty bad when he brings home a big bag of laundry from college, and best of all, it makes your knits last forever. Our cotton knits and sweats never get pilled or faded. We are not generating any plastic waste in the process of making it, because it always goes into the same container. I used to use only "premium" brand detergents and it was not unusual for me to spend $25 or $30 bucks a month on detergent, and that was before Everything Went Up, so we're pretty motivated to keep saving money this way. As soon as it runs out, we whip up a new batch immediately so we don't ever have to run to the store to fill in with the "real" stuff.
