Your Home Will Smell Fresher Than Ever With Just One Affordable Dollar Tree DIY

Not everyone can return to a clean house every day. It is possible, however, to keep your home smelling fresh with a very simple DIY! Bad odors can arise no matter how much you try and avoid them. All it takes is stinky garbage or a pair of smelly sneakers to have you pinch your nose until you have time to address the source. Wouldn't it be nice if you could spread pops of fragrance around the home without emptying your wallet? You absolutely can with just a couple of items from Dollar Tree.

Dollar Tree sells their 6-pack of Organza Drawstring Bags for $1.25. While the bags are advertised as being great for baby shower favors — they're also perfect for creating lovely sachets to sprinkle anywhere that needs freshening. Even better, what goes inside the bags is budget friendly too. Dollar Tree's Fresh Scent Laundry Booster isn't just for making your clothes smell like a dream. Pour a small amount of the beads into a drawstring bag, and you'll have a DIY air freshener.

These little sachets can be placed in various rooms of the house, from the bedroom to the bathroom. Hide one inside your closet for a laundry-day scent, even when it's not. Or, tuck them away in drawers that could use some reviving. Shoe areas can benefit from these sachets, especially if you have an athlete in the family. The beads will smell wonderful while being contained in the bag. Simply change them out if they start losing their power.

Using a laundry booster from Dollar Tree helps keep the DIY easy and inexpensive. However, if you have small children at home, you might want to use safer, natural ingredients instead. A little one could mistake the beads for candy and try eating them — and the product is not to be ingested. As an alternative, you could fill the bags with a mix of one part dry rice and two parts dried lavender. Tie them closed and they'll be ready to go. Lavender is known to have a soothing scent that promotes relaxation. Keep in mind, though — lavender is a plant that's toxic to cats and dogs, so it's probably best for homes without pets.

You could also fill them with other natural items like dried rose petals, lilac blossoms, or mint leaves. Make a blend out of dried herbs, rice, and drops of your favorite essential oil. Although, some essential oils can be harmful to pets as well, so be careful. Create as many bags as you need and set them in cabinets, baskets, or decorative bowls. Interestingly, you can even leave a sachet of coffee grounds in your dresser drawer. Since these bags are pretty charming looking, it's not even necessary to hide them (as long as you don't have curious kids and pets around). Whatever filling you use, it'll be an affordable way to freshen your entire home.