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Thrifty Uses For Vinegar

Home and Garden Uses For Vinegar

Always use apple cider vinegar for personal care. White vinegar is best for cleaning.

  • Get rid of bad household odors by heating white vinegar on the stove for a few minutes. You will smell vinegar for a few minutes, but when the vinegar smell is gone, so is the offending odor.
  • Leave a cup full of vinegar in the toilet bowel over night then scrub with a toilet brush in the morning.
  • Use a half vinegar, half water mixture to clean vinyl floors.
  • Use vinegar for cleaning windows, mirrors, chrome, and tile. Wipe down with newspapers and there will be no lint left behind. Coffee filters can also be used for lint-free drying.
  • Kill grass on walks and driveways by using full strength.
  • Remove labels and decals by brushing a couple coats of vinegar and soaking.
  • Make an Air freshener - use 1 teaspoon baking soda, 1 tablespoon vinegar and 2 cups of water. After it stops foaming, mix well, and use in a (recycled) spray bottle into the air.
  • Deodorize pet stains on carpet by pouring a small amount of vinegar directly on the carpet. Let the vinegar sit and dry to remove the odor.
  • Chewing gum dissolver - saturate the area with vinegar. If the vinegar is heated, it will work faster.



Kitchen Uses For Vinegar

  • Use white vinegar to remove water stains from a stainless steel sink.
  • Clean your refrigerator with a mixture of vinegar and water.
  • Vinegar can be used to remove grease from the stovetop, oven, pots and pans.
  • Clean your microwave by heating a half-cup of vinegar in the microwave on high for three minutes. Let the vinegar sit for fifteen minutes, remove and wipe down the inside of your microwave with a damp sponge.
  • Use full strength vinegar in the rinse aid container of your dishwasher.
  • Pour a cup full of vinegar down the drain once a week to deodorize.
  • Add a tablespoon of vinegar in the water when poaching eggs to help them keep their shape.
  • Also add a small amount of vinegar to the water when cooking hardboiled eggs. If one cracks, it will not boil out of the shell.
  • Vinegar and olive oil make a frugal salad dressing.
  • Use as an inexpensive meat tenderizer.
  • Freshen vegetables by soaking wilted vegetables in 2 cups of water and a tablespoon of vinegar.
  • Eliminate onion odor by rubbing vinegar on your fingers before and after slicing.
  • Unclog a drain by pouring a handful of baking soda down the drain and add 1/2 cup of vinegar. Rinse with hot water.

Vinegar For The Laundry

  • Use one cup of white vinegar and a quarter cup of baking soda (in addition the laundry detergent) in place of a bleaching product to whiten and brighten your clothes.
  • Add a half-cup of white vinegar to the rinse cycle to remove any leftover soap residue from the clothes.
  • For stains caused by grass, coffee, tea, fruits and berries. Soak clothing in full strength vinegar.
  • Keep colors from running by immersing clothes in full strength vinegar before washing the first time.
  • Brighten fabric colors by adding 1/2 cup vinegar to the rinse cycle.

Personal Uses For Vinegar

  • Used as a hair rinse, vinegar neutralizes the alkali left by shampoos.
  • Make a remedy for age spots. Mix equal parts of onion juice and vinegar and use it daily on age spots. This will take a few weeks to work, just like its expensive relative from the store.
  • Put a mixture of half vinegar half water in a spray bottle and spray on sunburn to relieve pain for quite while.
  • To relieve a sort throat, use 1 tablespoon vinegar to an 8 ounce glass of warm water and gargle every hour.
  • Soothe a bee sting by dotting the irritation with vinegar and relieve itching.
  • Clean eyeglass lenses.


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