With so many household uses, vinegar is a super tool for sure. Make sure you keep your pantry stocked up with plenty of White and Apple Cider vinegar and you will always be prepared for just about any of your home’s needs. Here is a list of ways vinegar can be used around your house. How do you use vinegar at home?
- Spray vinegar along doorways to keep ants away
- Treat stained Tupperware stains with vinegar
- Shine porcelain sinks
- Pamper your skin by blotting it on with a cotton ball
- Treat a bee sting by pouring some un-distilled vinegar on it
- Relieve sunburn by lightly rubbing it with vinegar
- Boil better eggs by adding 2 TB vinegar to the water – keeps them from cracking
- Make fluffier pancakes by adding 2 TB of vinegar
- Make all purpose cleaners by pouring with equal parts into a spray bottle
- Clean dirt off your computer and mouse with a little vinegar and a q tip
- Clean your drains with vinegar and baking soda
- Wipe away mildew
- Clean and polish chrome and stainless steel
- Use as a fruit wash-rinses away germs
- Erase ballpoint-pen marks
- Erase crayon marks from clothes
- Remove stickers and price tags
- Disinfect cutting boards
- Unset old stains
- Soak out blood stains
- Keep cut fresh flowers fresh
- Revive your paintbrushes
- Kill weeds in the yard
- Peel off wallpaper
- Clean cloths and sponges
- Keep unwelcome guest out of the garden
- Clean counter tops
- Clean and freshen the smell of the refrigerator
- Clean and disinfect baby toys
- Get rid of stubborn bathtub residue
- Remove carpet stains
- Keep car windows frost free
- Remove candle wax
- Conceal scratches in wood furniture
- Get rid of water lines on furniture
- Freshen your kitchen
- Trap fruit flies by placing some in a small bowl
- Wash out your washing machine and dishwasher with 1/2 cup
- Wash away mildew from your shower curtain
- Put the sparkle back in your china
- Remove mineral deposits from shower heads
- Whiten your grout
- Clean a coffee maker
- Remove stains from pots and pans
- Help bruises heal faster by applying a little vinegar
- Sooth a soar throat by gargling 1 Tb of apple cider vinegar with 1 tsp of salt
- Soften your cuticles
- Clean your toothbrushes
- Erase scorch marks
- Use it as fabric softener
- Clean the shower head
- It’s a great window/mirror cleaner mixed with equal parts water
- Clean mildew off of a wooden fence
- White vinegar is great for sunburns
- Get stubborn blackened burned pots clean
- Use as a rinse agent in the dishwasher
- Wipe down your furniture for a nice polish
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Donna says
June 5, 2014 at 6:27 amMy dog likes to dig on the couch or try to rip up sheets. Spray the area with equal part vinegar and water – and she stops right away!
Missi says
June 9, 2014 at 6:49 amThanks for sharing! Great idea!!
Amanda says
October 5, 2014 at 10:57 amI liked the list of uses but without knowing how to use it for each of those purposes then its not really usable…for example how do you get those black pots clean using vinegar? just wipe on? soak? some more information on how to use it would be good as well as the list of how it can be used is all I am saying..