{"id":13187,"date":"2018-11-09T20:48:33","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T02:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=13187"},"modified":"2018-11-09T20:48:33","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T02:48:33","slug":"ecoegg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=13187","title":{"rendered":"EcoEgg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying out a new product.\u00a0 \u00a0No, I&#8217;m not getting paid to test this product.\u00a0 \u00a0I&#8217;ve looked into this before, but chickened out&#8230; but then I had some more girlfriends express their interest (and hesitation) in it, so I decided to just bite the bullet and try it.\u00a0 \u00a0I&#8217;ll be the guinea pig for you all.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s called EcoEgg.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?attachment_id=13189\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13189\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13189\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ego-egg-R.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ego-egg-R.jpg 768w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ego-egg-R-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what the box says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wash Clever: Simply place the EcoEgg Laundry Egg on top of your laundry in the drum of the washing machine, and wash as normal &#8211; no washing powder or liquid needed.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the clever way to wash.\u00a0 The Laundry Egg is packed with our unique powerful cleaning pellets which activate in the water and are proven to gently lift away dirt and grime without using any harsh chemicals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Intriguing, right?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still working through my feelings of unbelief that it will actually DO anything.\u00a0 I&#8217;m skeptical.\u00a0 But time will tell.\u00a0 The one I purchased is good for 720 washes. Yup.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a lot of washes.\u00a0 I love the idea of the kids being able to start a load of laundry without having to reach or measure the liquid detergent, and I&#8217;m also excited about the prospect of not having to remember to buy any laundry detergent for almost 3 years.<\/p>\n<p>Now, there are some pellets inside the egg.\u00a0 Some you never replace and then there are a few that you do restock after 3 months or so.\u00a0 Those pellets are the ones that have a very mild scent (I chose Clean Linen) and activate the other pellets.\u00a0 Those wear down over time.\u00a0 But all of the replacement packets that I need are already included in the box, so I&#8217;m good to go!<\/p>\n<p>So, the question of the hour: Does it work?<\/p>\n<p>I will be smelling my laundry a lot in the months to come to make sure that we are not the stinky family&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?attachment_id=13190\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13190\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13190\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/smelling-laundry-R.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/smelling-laundry-R.jpg 768w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/smelling-laundry-R-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But I can tell you I am pleasantly surprised that the first 4 loads I have done smell good.\u00a0 They smell&#8230;.clean.\u00a0 No flowery scent, just a very subtle linen smell, and mostly just, clean.\u00a0 Crazy, right?!\u00a0 I have 4 kids, so the laundry will keep piling up giving me ample opportunities to test the EcoEgg again, and again, and again&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll try and remember to post my follow up in a few weeks and months.<\/p>\n<p>As of today, I&#8217;m happy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying out a new product.\u00a0 \u00a0No, I&#8217;m not getting paid to test this product.\u00a0 \u00a0I&#8217;ve looked into this before, but chickened out&#8230; but then I had some more girlfriends express their interest (and hesitation) in it, so I decided to just bite the bullet and try it.\u00a0 \u00a0I&#8217;ll be the guinea pig for you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13187"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13192,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13187\/revisions\/13192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}