Frugal Living Tip – 10 Cool Uses for Vinegar
I’m sure you have heard of a million uses for vinegar, but here are a few more to try:
- Put on a pair of cheap $1.00 store cotton gloves. Soak fingertips of glove in a bowl of white vinegar and warm tap water {equal parts}. Run your hands across the bottom and top of blinds.
- Clean paintbrushes accidentally left in paint by placing them in a simmering pot of white vinegar. {For dried on paint, let the brushes soak in vinegar for an hour or so prior to adding heat.}
- Have some fun with the kids: soak pennies in a bowl of undiluted vinegar overnight. When they wake up, they will have a bowl of shiny pennies.
- To prevent glassware from becoming ruined with hard water mineral deposits, spray with undiluted vinegar, rinse them with hot water and dry them.
- Clean your coffee maker with 1 cup undiluted vinegar. Run through a brewing cycle. Rinse with water, and run it 1-2 more times with plain water. {Check owner’s manual first}
- Fix stained plastic or smelly food containers {can you say left-over spaghetti?} by wiping with a cloth dipped in white vinegar.
- To clean brass, copper, or pewter mix a paste with equal parts table salt and white vinegar.
- Mix 1/2 cup white vinegar to 1/2 cup water in a microwave safe bowl. Bring it to a boil in the microwave. Stinky microwave, gone. And food splatters should wipe off easily. {Drop your kitchen sponge into the water while it boils, and you’ve clean and sanitized it at the same time}
- Remove water rings from wood by using a solution of equal parts white vinegar and mineral oil.
- Fix stinky garbage disposals by pouring 1/2 cup baking soda and 1/2 cup hot white vinegar down the drain. Let sit for about five minutes and then flush with hot water.
I use vinegar for canning, as a natural weed barrier, to get rid of fruit flies, to make buttermilk, and the list goes on. Want to learn more? Check out this nifty little reference book: Vinegar: Over 400 Various, Versatile, and Very Good Uses You’ve Probably Never Thought Of.
How about YOU? What do you use vinegar for?
