green clean?

For several years now

we've used a spray bottle filled with

 mostly water, some vinegar, and a drop of Fabuloso

as our all purpose cleaning spray.

We used an old Simple Green bottle that we'd previously used for years

with

amazingly enough

diluted Simple Green.

The bottle broke maybe two years ago

and ever since

I've replaced it with multiple dollar store spray bottles

that just don't last.

So I upgraded to a Walmart dollar bottle.

Which was also a piece of junk

that only lasted a few months.

Brandon suggested it might be smart to buy a bottle of quality cleaning spray

since our original Simple Green spray bottle

lasted so long.

He said even if we dumped out the spray in it,

it'd be a better option than continuing to buy the junk we'd been buying.

I thought he was brilliant, as usual

so I carefully choose a bottle of Seventh Generation spray cleaner

the next time I was at Walmart.

The sprayer looked good

and as a bonus

the stuff 'kills germs botanically'

so I could feel good about using the spray

 and didn't need to dump toxic contents.

I figured a bottle from Seventh Generation

ought to last us a good long time.

The stuff stinks!

It smells like we've doused our house in Listerine

every time we wipe off a surface

thanks to the botanical cleansing power of thyme.

More than once I've said, 

"I just don't know how much more I can stand this;

I may just have to dump the rest of this spray!"

But you know that went against my thrifty nature,

so I've been toughing it out.

Sunday, after examining the bottle a bit,

Brandon asked, "So how do you refill this?"

So I proceeded to show him how you just unscrew....

Except I couldn't figure out how to unscrew the top.

(Why I thought I could, when he couldn't, I don't know)

So

I looked on the bottle for refill directions,

feeling quite stupid.

What I found was 

Really??

From a company the is supposed to be environmentally friendly?

Poorly played, Seventh Generation. Poorly played.

I can't even dump the stuff out.