Unusual Uses for Vinegar

Vinegar can have some unusual uses that can be used in your home for spring cleaning or just regular cleaning in your home.

Step 1: Air Refresher

Take a glass bowl and fill it with vinegar and set it in the room you want refreshed.  This works for odors even as harsh as tabaco.

Comments

[gaprilday]

If I have the beginning of a sore throat, with mildly swollen glands, I take a small 'shot' of APPLE cider vinegar. I don't sip or drink, just down the hatch fast. It has a 'burn' like a shot of whiskey, but within the hour - the sore throat is nearly gone. I know if this doesn't do the trick (maybe one more shot 4-6 hours later) it is time for the doc! This is just MY experience, not giving medical advice at all. JUST my experience.

Also - if your battery terminals are hairy with corrosion, sprinkle them liberally with baking soda, then 'drizzle' white vinegar on them - the foamy combination disolves the corrosion like majic. You can use a small paintbrush to mush it around - then just use a bit more vinegar to clean it all off. I once went to the grocery store and came out to find my car would not start. I went back into the store, bought the two ingredients, applied them like this and the engine roared to life.

[luvasu]

Another use for vinegar. A small cup with vinegar in a corner inside your fridge will clean odours and mixing savours.

[Alphonsus]

Another one thats not very known is an old Newfoundland remedy: If and when you get sunburned, lightly coat the sunburn with some vinegar!

The vinegar helps reduce the stinging and tenderness of the burn!

[kfish2]

i keep it in a spray (mist) bottle for when we get sunburned. the 1st time or 2, my kids had a fit about the smell, which only lasts about 5 minutes. then, they got where they would ask for it!!!! and would even tell their friends about it and bragged on how good it worked. this was when they were only about 6-7 yrs old.

[Sonnet]

That's a good one too!

[Ysabeau]

Personally I use vinegar + bleach to clean the toilet brush. I put a solution of the two liquids in the jar and where is the brush and the work is made.

Vinegar + salt is very useful for cooper objects. With the "cream" you made, you can clean them and very well. I must say that I use this "cream" to clean the tap, better than only vinegar in some cases.

[atombomb1945]

Vinegar is also good as a weed killer that wont poison your pets.

[SHIFT!]

Wow, I did not know there were so many uses for Vinegar. I usually just use it for chip flavoring and for removing smoke smells but I didn't know it could be used for stain remover.

However, I think this would be more effective if you could actually take pictures of how the vinegar is used, pics of how much is needed, etc. It's a little hard to gauge from the current ones.