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Vinegar is a fantastic earth-friendly home cleaner on the cheap. Undiluted it cleans toilets, sinks, washers, dishwashers, and deodorizes drains.
Pour vinegar into a plastic bag, and secure it to your shower-head. I like to use a zip lock bag, making sure there’s enough vinegar in the bag so the shower-head is submerged, leave the bag on overnight; in the morning you’ll awake to a clean shower-head.
Use vinegar instead of fabric softener in the laundry, “It softens clothes and removes the static, at a fraction of the cost of fabric softeners.” Just add a half cup of vinegar to the final rinse. Clean the washer, by using two cups of vinegar instead of detergent. The hot water-vinegar combo removes and prevents bacteria growth. Remember to wipe in and around the rubber seal of a front load washer, using a vinegar soaked rag.
Vinegar mixed with baking soda is a great scrub for shower door hard water stains, the bottom of pots, pans, and baking sheets. It also rescues stained plastic containers, just let the vinegar and baking soda soak in the container, then wash as normal. Pouring a cup of vinegar with half a cup of baking soda into your garbage disposal; helps keep it crud and odorous free.
Skip the toxic chemicals where you store your food in the fridge; wipe up spills with a 50/50 vinegar-water mix. If the spill is sticky, first heat the mixture in the microwave. Then go ahead and clean the fridge spill and microwave with the same heated solution.
A 50/50 mixture of vinegar and water also makes an earth-friendly laminate and hardwood floor cleaner.
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Creative Living Tips & Tricks
By Roxanne Griese
Keep a microwave bacon tray in the microwave always, it catches spills and crumbs.
Putting a 50/50 mixture of vinegar and water in the tray on high for 3 minutes, eases cleaning of the microwave using the steam and non toxic cleaning solution.