- Harold Wilson
Do you walk into your kitchen and think, "What the hell! Why did I bring all these lovely stainless steel utensils to Mexico? Am I doomed to a life of plastic this and plastic that? I hate this fake plastic fish life! UGHHHH!"
Believe it or not, we don't have to replace anything with plastic waste. I've rediscovered the Holy Grail of household cleaners. Environmentally friendly, biodegradable, low cost, cleans any surface, kills weeds and mold, and it makes your hair shine and your clothes look bright! What could it be? What could it be?
Holy Smack I love vinegar! A few months back Sailor Girl Lola and her crew mate, DeeDee McGhee, hit my beach shack in the little fishing village. While we were watching the morning tide, enjoying a Bloody Mary of course, I get to yammering about the rust marks on my silverware. Lola interrupts my fascinating discourse with one simple word, "Vinegar". Well, my son didn't give me a t-shirt that says, "Actually, I Am A Rocket Scientist" just to be cute. My mind races back to the times my MaMere would make vinegar hair rinse when we vacationed at the family fishing camp in Waveland, Mississippi. Gulf shore, in the States or Mexico, is still the Gulf shore, so Lola's simple pronouncement got me thinking about vinegar and beach life.
Believe it or not, we don't have to replace anything with plastic waste. I've rediscovered the Holy Grail of household cleaners. Environmentally friendly, biodegradable, low cost, cleans any surface, kills weeds and mold, and it makes your hair shine and your clothes look bright! What could it be? What could it be?
Holy Smack I love vinegar! A few months back Sailor Girl Lola and her crew mate, DeeDee McGhee, hit my beach shack in the little fishing village. While we were watching the morning tide, enjoying a Bloody Mary of course, I get to yammering about the rust marks on my silverware. Lola interrupts my fascinating discourse with one simple word, "Vinegar". Well, my son didn't give me a t-shirt that says, "Actually, I Am A Rocket Scientist" just to be cute. My mind races back to the times my MaMere would make vinegar hair rinse when we vacationed at the family fishing camp in Waveland, Mississippi. Gulf shore, in the States or Mexico, is still the Gulf shore, so Lola's simple pronouncement got me thinking about vinegar and beach life.
Living in Austin taught me quickly that every chemical used has the
potential of determining the fate of one of the largest aquifers on the
planet. The ground water of the Yucatan Peninsula is perhaps in more
danger as we don't have reliable systems for filtering toxic waste
before it hits the water below our limestone surface. I want to protect the beauty of the natural environment of my new home, and as vinegar is biodegradable, it is on the top of my cleaning supply list and quickly becoming my only cleaner.
As soon as the Sailor Broads left, I wiped down ALL my utensils with vinegar. Talk about a return from the dead! Vinegar has literally saved my hair, my clothes and my utensils from the ravages of water mineral build-up. And, it doesn't just work on those items, but really on anything we clean with water. It's bothered me for an entire year that muriatic acid was my only choice for cleaning out my shower head. Vinegar is an acid, so today I tried it on the inside of my shower head. Yeppers, I had a perfect rain shower without destroying the environment! I'm so excited I want to try it on something else!
Now, if I could just find it in a glass bottle...
The Broad
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9 comments:
I use vinegar for cleaning my coffee maker.... put through a cycle with water and vinegar, than a cycle of just water... it makes windows sparkle.... it even can take the ouch out of sunburn. It truly is a miracle liquid!
A teaspoon of apple cider vinegar helped me when I had whooping cough a few years ago. Guess it cleans US too!
Use it for a myriad of things........
I'm going to use your suggestion on my water vaporizer system. Seems if it is doing its' job, the minerals are probably clogging up the lines. Thanks!
Babs, how often were you ingesting a teaspoon of apple cider vinegar? Were you using it as a cough suppressant or an expectorant?
I saw a recipe yesterday I want to try: fill a jar with orange peels, add vinegar, and steep, to get scented vinegar for cleaning. I've been adding vinegar to my laundry and it seems to get cleaner, too.
JM
Discovered vinegar because of Burning Man. You have to vinegar wash everything because the playa dust is so alkaline that soap has no effect (soap is also base.) So first you have to wash the trailer and truck with vinegar before soap. Then the trailer grey water tank started to smell. Vinegar! Stoppage in sink. Vinegar! And affordable.
That's a lot of work Calamity and makes me wonder if the guy who washes my car perhaps uses vinegar!
A teaspoon of apple cider vinegar helped me when I had whooping cough a few years ago. Guess it cleans US too! Use it for a myriad of things........
That's pretty impressive Deborah! I've been finding more and more uses since this post. Maybe it's time to make a medicinal addendum!
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