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Vinegar Your Floors

Here is another great use for vinegar! You can use vinegar as a safe and effective floor cleaner for wonderfully clean floors. I love this method, because not only is it frugal, but it doesn’t leave any of that film that regular floor cleaners leave behind. It doesn’t even need to be rinsed. To make your own vinegar floor cleaner, simply add one cup of white vinegar to one gallon of hot water. Remember when using vinegar for cleaning, that it always needs to be white vinegar and not cider vinegar. White vinegar can be purchased by the gallon at … Continue reading →

Five Quick Cleaning Tips

To me, there are few things better than good cleaning tips to help get chores completed in a quicker and easier way. I’d much rather be do something else -anything else- than cleaning. With that in mind, I’m always on the lookout for tips to share. Filter the Dirt Did you know that a clean, paper coffee filter makes a great cleaning cloth? It’s nealy lint free so it works great on mirrors, windows, other glass surfaces, and even shiny chrome or stainless steal. Try it. Add some Salt When you’re in a pinch, try a pinch of salt. Just … Continue reading →

Four Tips for Enhanced Cleaning

1. We do need to flip our mattresses from time to time but there’s no sense in struggling with a heavy mattress to clean your bed skirt or dust ruffle if you don’t have to. Look for styles that have elastic around the edges instead of those that cover the box spring and get covered up by the mattress. You can slip it off easily without heavy lifting, wash, dry, press if necessary, and put it back in place without breaking a sweat. If you can’t find a bed skirt that you like in that style, make one or add … Continue reading →

Vinegar in The Garden

Vinegar has many uses for the garden. It is very frugal, and unlike those chemicals you can buy, very safe for the environment. I was first exposed to the idea of using vinegar for a garden when I lived in a small house on a lake in Connecticut. My neighbor grew the most beautiful roses. Every day he went out to care for them. One day, I noticed that he was spraying something on the rose bushes. I was very curious, since our houses relied on well water, and liquid chemicals of any sort for gardening were definitely prohibited. He … Continue reading →

Absolutely The Best Frugal Uses For Vinegar

Still trying to find uses for all that stockpiled Vinegar? Even if you don’t have it stockpiled, it’s an inexpensive product that can be used all over the house. Vinegar is truly our frugal friend! There have been several other articles written on using Vinegar around your home for different things. Vinegar and Water: The Perfect Frugal Combination is an article showing how to use the two to clean around the house. Top Six Uses For Vinegar That Will Save You Money is an article filled with six amazing tips for using Vinegar around your home for the not so … Continue reading →

More Amazing Uses for Vinegar

Got Vinegar? Perhaps you stockpiled some, perhaps there was just a good deal, or perhaps you cleaned out your pantry and were rather surprised to find so much of it running around in there. Vinegar is a very inexpensive product that has so many incredible uses, you’ll be shocked! A total frugal find! There have been a few other articles written on using Vinegar around your home for different things. Vinegar and Water: The Perfect Frugal Combination is an article showing how to use the two to clean around the house. Top Six Uses For Vinegar That Will Save You … Continue reading →

Some Quick Cleaning Tips

For most of us, cleaning is a chore we could all live without. Like most unpleasant things in life, however, it must be done. Here are some ideas to move you along and make the experience if not better at least bit quicker. 1. Use a lint roller to dust lampshades. It’s easier than the vacuum. Slip on an old sock and dust as you go. (In my house, socks are hard to find as I have a cat that steals them and hides them!) 2. For windows and mirrors, try vinegar instead of a store bought cleaner. It’s cheap … Continue reading →

More Frugal Uses for Vinegar

There are still loads of ways you can use vinegar around your house. I’ve already given you a bunch. I’m often asked, what’s the best type of vinegar to use. Well, I always use a white distilled vinegar. I’ve never tried anything else, so I have no idea what the other kinds would do. But I do know that a white distilled vinegar works wonders! Here are a few more of my favorite uses: Brass Polish Dissolve 1 teaspoon of salt in 1 cup of vinegar and stir in flour until it becomes a paste. Apply the paste to the … Continue reading →

Vinegar and Water – The Perfect Frugal Combination

Have you ever noticed that everyday there seems to be a new household cleaner of some kind made available? And that half the time the product doesn’t work the way it’s supposed to or not as well as it should? With the cost of all these new cleaners, one would think they would be the miracle cures. Aside from the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser which I seriously should buy stock in because I buy so many of them, there aren’t many other products out there that I have found multiple uses for, that work. However, going back to old fashioned … Continue reading →

Top 6 Uses for Vinegar that will Save You Money

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Vinegar is amazingly inexpensive and can help all around the house. Not only is it inexpensive and handy, but it is the safest chemical you could ever use around the house! 1. Use vinegar to remove tough berry and wine stains from clothes. I have a son who loves eating fresh berries, but he generally leaves evidence all over his shirts. Just rinse the stain with cold water and then soak it in white vinegar overnight. Wash normally the next day. This trick will save you money on stain treatments. 2. Save your spray bottles and use a 50/50 vinegar … Continue reading →