10 tips for cleaning with white vinegar

1. Garbage disposal: That disposal in the kitchen starting to stink up the place? Here's what to do: Freeze an ice tray full of white distilled vinegar. Don't mix any water or anything else with the vinegar. Once it's frozen, break out 3 or 4 of the vinegar cubes and drop them into the disposal. Then run the disposal while cold tap water is flowing into it. Don't use hot water because it will cause the cubes to melt too soon. This should help with that smell.
2. Bathroom germs: Use a spray bottle, you can find empty ones at most grocery stores, and fill it with undiluted white vinegar. Then just spray the vinegar as you would any bathroom cleaner, on sinks, on toilets, on tile, whatever. Wipe away with a damp cloth. This not only helps to kill germs, but it brings a shine to the sprayed areas and helps with any smell issues.
3. Litter box: White vinegar is fantastic for cleaning the bottom of a litter box for your cats or rabbits. Make sure to empty the litter box first, of course. The vinegar can clean up the worst of stains in the bottom of a litter box, and it helps fight odors. Spray or pour the vinegar in, swish around a little, then dump. If there's a serious stain, repeat. Then wash out with water and dry.
4. Sticky scissors: Been cutting tape with your scissors and now they're sticky? Vinegar comes to the rescue again. Dip a clean cloth into white distilled vinegar, then use the cloth to wipe off the scissors. Those scissors will shine and be in perfect working order once more.
5. Remove wallpaper: Yep, white vinegar is good for this, too. Use equal parts vinegar and water, then spray it on heavily or even use a paint roller. That wallpaper should be rolling off almost on its own in a matter of minutes.
6. Soapy film: Your counter tops showing soapy film or rings from where cups or glasses have been sitting? Mix water and vinegar in equal proportions, wet a rag in the mixture, then squeeze out excess. You've got a great cleaner for getting rid of those filmy marks.
7. Tile cleaner: Mix together 1 cup of distilled white vinegar, a half cup of baking soda, a cup of ammonia and a gallon of warm water. Now you've got a near-perfect tile cleaner. And it's inexpensive, too.
8. Microwave: Place a microwave-safe bowl filled with half a cup of white vinegar and half a cup of water in the center of the microwave. Bring them to a boil in the microwave. This will not only help with any smell, but it should soften any food chunks sticking to the inside of the microwave. Remember to wipe it all clean.
9. Grease splatter: This mess can be especially bad on oven doors. Use full-strength white diluted vinegar to saturate the greasy mess. Really poor it on if you have to. Leave that oven door open and let the vinegar sit for 15 to 20 minutes. Then clean up with a sponge or cloth.
10. Coffee cup stains: Use equal parts baking soda and white vinegar to scrub the coffee cub, then rinse clean and dry.

10 things you might not know you can do with white vinegar

1. Repel ants: Get a spray bottle and fill it with about half white vinegar and half water. Then spray anywhere you think you've got an ant problem. The little suckers should flee and stay away for a good while. This one might be good to try around windows and doors.
2. Remove odors in wool: Especially good for wool sweaters. After you've washed the wool as you normally would, rinse it in a mixture of half white vinegar and half water. This should kill any odors that were sticking to the wool. And if you're worried about any vinegar smell, don't be; white vinegar diluted with water usually leaves behind no smell at all. But if you want to feel safe, wash the wool again.
3. Stop hard-boiled eggs from cracking: Sound nutty? But it works. When hard boiling eggs, add two tablespoons of vinegar per each quart of water being used. Believe it or not, this helps to keep the eggs from cracking.
4. Fight a cold: Mix together one-quarter cup of white vinegar and one-quarter cup of honey. Then take one tablespoon from six to eight times a day to help relieve cold symptoms.
5. Ease sunburns: Adding vinegar directly to a sunburned area will help to soothe the pain. However, this isn't such a good idea if the skin is cracked or blistered, because it could sting quite a bit.
6. Sooth bug bites: Mosquitoes itching you? Get those bug bite itches under control by dabbing on some white vinegar with a cotton ball.
7. Kill meat bacteria: Marinate overnight your meat in vinegar and this should kill any bacteria. Also helps to tenderize the meat. And you don't even have to drain the vinegar off before cooking.
8. Relieve arthritis: I can't personally vouch for this one, but I've had several elderly relatives tell me it works. Drink a glass of water mixed with at least two teaspoons of vinegar before you eat and after a few weeks the pain from arthritis should start to go away.
9. Deodorize any area: Get an empty spray bottle, fill it with white vinegar, then get to spraying just as you would any deodorizer you bought at the store. The white vinegar shouldn't leave behind a strong smell.
10. Clean dentures: Soak your dentures overnight in white vinegar and by morning they should be pearly. That still doesn't mean you shouldn't brush, however.

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