First I want to apologize for missing last Friday. I overslept so it was out of bed and on the run the entire day! Today isn't much better. What happened to my free Friday's? Oh yeah, for one thing I took the merchandising job and Friday is one of my work days.
I am continuing with the many uses of vinegar from the 99 Cent Solutions book. Vinegar is one of the most versatile and useful, as well as cheap things on the market.
1. Keep Your Flowers fresh. Keep those blooms a-bloom for as long as possible by adding 2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar and 2 tablespoons of sugar to the vase, then fill it with water from the tap.
2. Shiny scissors. Water might rust those scissors, so instead, dip a cloth in white vinegar and wipe the blades well. Dry with a towel.
3. Keep water bottles fresh. Adding a few drops of apple cider vinegar to your bottled water when you are out hiking and such will keep the flavor bright and the bacteria down.
4. Keep cats out of the sandbox. Drizzle a pint of white vinegar over the sand and stir it in with a spade. It will dry overnight, but cats will avoid the place for weeks. (We need to try this!)
5. Skip chips---on your nails that is. Paint your clean bare nails with white vinegar and let it dry. When you apply the polish, it will stay on without chipping for days longer. (I need to try this!)
6. Clean dirt off the blinds. Nobody likes cleaning the window blinds. Now and then the grime and dust is just too much and you have to give it a go. Use socks and vinegar. Mix half water and half vinegar. Put a clean cotton tube sock on each hand. Dip the socks in the vinegar mixture and pull your hands along each blind. The dirt will slip right off. Dip them in clean water to rinse the dirt off, then back in the vinegar mixture for the next slat.
7. Avoid oven odors. Soak a clean sponge in white vinegar and use it for the final wipe-down after you have finished cleaning the oven. Let the vinegar dry completely before turning the oven on again. This will eliminate the strong chemical smell the next time you use the oven after using a chemical cleaner.
8. Fluff sweaters after washing. Add 1/2 cup of white vinegar to the final rinse water whether hand washing or machine washing. Your wool and acrylic sweaters will not be flat and dull.
9. Clear the air of grease. Put a small dish of white vinegar in the kitchen and grease will miraculously collect on the surface rather than hanging in the air. Try it and see the next time you are frying chicken.
What posts have you done over the past week to include in this week's linky?
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