Fox10TV.com (Mobile, AL and Pensacola/Ft. Walton Beach, FL) offers tips from Angie’s List to keep your house dry as suggested by “highly rated plumbing companies.” (Angie’s List is the nation’s leading provider of consumer reviews). One tip focuses on sump pumps and suggests periodically pouring white vinegar through the unit to eliminate any build up.
In the Home and Garden section of The New York Times(online), the author gives tips to get a jump on spring cleaning. He suggests using vinegar as an ingredient in a “home-brewed” window cleanerand an all-purpose cleaning solution. The tips are noted below: “Rubbing alcohol and vinegar are also useful. For a home-brewed window cleaner, […]
Detroitnews.com (Michigan) offers readers tips to keep their cars smelling fresh, including the use of vinegar. The tip is as follows: “To remove bad odors, experts say, saturate a cloth with vinegar and leave it in the car (in a plastic tub) overnight; it’ll absorb ugly smells.” Click here to read the article.
Lifehacker (Australia) also shares a tip with their readers from Cook’s Illustrated to keep mold off of berries. The article notes that a vinegar and water solution destroys bacteria and mold spores, which allows the berries to last longer. Click here to learn more.
Lifehacker (Australia) suggests using vinegar to clean iron from cast iron.The directions given are as follows: “Mix the water and [white] vinegar 50/50, and let the pan soak in the mixture for an hour or up to six depending on how bad the rust is. Then gently scrub the rust away from the cast iron […]
LifeHacker (Australia) offers its readers tips to eliminate the odor of cigarettes, including the use of vinegar. While Yahoo! Contributor Network suggests using vinegar to take the odor out of sports jerseys and uniforms.
The Christian Science Monitor featured a story on its website related to using vinegar to clean. The article focused on vinegar’s environmental benefits, as well as cost, as compared to other cleaning products.
Lifehacker.com (Australia) offers readers the following tip using vinegar to remove stickers: Use a paintbrush or paper towel to paint the area lightly (very lightly, in the case of a laptop or something sensitive) with vinegar until it soaks through the sticker or gets in around the sides. Let the vinegar set for a five […]
The Huffington Post.com notes that vinegar is the best remedy for a jellyfish sting, noting that lifeguard stations at Australian beaches all have vinegar in case of jellyfish stings. The article also notes that vinegar, alcohol and seawater are the top three things to help relieve jellyfish stings because these products contain acidic chemicals that […]
PC World.com offers readers tips on cleaning the screen of their smart phones. PC World says the main tool to clean a smart phone is a microfiber cloth and uses a vinegar solution as one option. To read the tip in its entirety, click here.
KOTA News (ABC affiliate in Wyoming) offers readers a tip on their website for using vinegar if someone has poison ivy. The tip is noted below: Mix a small amount of vinegar with enough baking soda to make a paste the consistency of peanut butter. Stand in the shower to get wet all over. Turn […]
The Mirror (Kansas) offers readers the following vinegar suggestion in an article “Aunt Norie’s Sewing Room” to put creases in slacks or take creases out: Pour some white vinegar in a saucer, dip a pad of folded cloth in as a sponge and wipe it along that line. Press with your steam iron. Usually just […]
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