The reason I am starting this blog!

Hi everyone, my name is Joe Turczak, but go by the name of Joe Punker, this is why you will see both names used in my blog! I hail from California, where we have everything!

My reason for starting this blog is mainly cause I need an outlet to share my weird ideas, such as, saving money by making my own cleaning products, getting a lot of the toxins out of my house and replacing them with other more natural items that work better or just the same... usually at some savings!

Ok, so my blog will be a random set of things that I have found on the internet, searching for various products or ideas and then I will try them out and give you an update on what worked, what didn't and well what I find to be bogus. I am not a professional writer or anything like that, in fact I never did like writing in school much! ha ha!

So hopefully I can keep you entertained with my trials and errors, and keep you interested in my blog by saving you money here and there.. my first money saving blog is going to be about making your own detergents and cleaners for various things! I will provide links to sites if needed, but I will try to provide instructions (aka recipes) for all the items that I currently make and have determined to work best for me. I have tried a lot of recipes myself from the internet already, and with everyone of the cleaning products I have had to make some tweaks to make them work better for me.. I will also be giving food recipes for a lot of things that taste great, are easy to make and will save you money! I will provide links when needed, like for the ketchup recipe I use, mainly cause I think it is copyrighted material since it was published in a magazine.... so in cases like that I will provide the link and my take on how it turned out, cost effectiveness (which will just be a guesstimate in most cases because prices vary from store to store), and mainly these will be items that I currently use and will continue to use in my daily life!

I have some food recipes to share, and will probably include pictures and/or links if available....

Mostly I hope to have fun here sharing my experiences.... failures and successes!