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VINEGAR!!!
February 27, 2008, 6:16 pm
Filed under: Cleaning, Obsessions | Tags: , , ,

Ask any of my friends. I love to use distilled white vinegar to clean.

My girlfriend likes to HIDE the vinegar if she knows I’m going to head out on a cleaning frenzy. Vicki knows how much I love vinegar. Why? I just recently cleaned her kitchen. She watched. What? I ate her food, so I cleaned up everyone’s mess!

Anyway, vinegar has a million and one uses. My favorite? Cleaning. Floors. Hot as hell water + one or two sploshes of vinegar + a squirt of dish detergent (if it’s really yucky)= cheap, easy and REALLY effective cleaning solvent. Don’t be afraid to get on your hands and knees with a sponge, this stuff can’t hurt you.

Also, use a shallow dish or bowl of vinegar as an ashtray to get rid of cigarette smoke smells.

I’ve used it to get basic stains out of fabric, disgusting gunk off of dishes, disgusting gunk off of shoes, sticker goo off of most surfaces, clean eye glasses, and pretty much everything else. I’m just saying, we use H2SO4 in labs, and using acetic acid at home is pretty much the same idea.

My other favorite cleaning solution additive? Ammonia.


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I’ve heard this about vinegar. I should try it. I bought a few non-toxic floor cleaners recently that made me feel good for buying them, but they suck. Maybe I just need the delicious cleaning power of vinegar.

Comment by Tammy

I’ve always used a cap full of vinegar in “Ow do I still have fingerprints” hot water to clean the floor. The funny thing is, I learned it from my mom who spent her time cleaning up after me and my messy kid grossness.

And if vinegar doesn’t work? A cap of ammonia. (I do this to my plastic tupperware and greasy baking pans, let ‘em soak for an hour, MAGIC!)

The multitasking happiness of vinegar makes me tingle. In the good way.

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