Vinegar Not Only In the Kitchen

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I had seen a discussion a while back saying vinegar would kill weeds wanting to get details I googled it and found some great tips and I also found myLot and every posting reagrding the word vinegar...we really are getting a lot of publicity! Here are some great vingegar tips: Vinegar's usefulness doesn't stop inside the house. Kill grass or weeds by pouring hot vinegar on it. This might take a couple of times to work completely. Another reader says: I have used white vinegar straight from the bottle to pour on the weeds and grasses that come up through the pavement. Just pour on and let set a couple of days and the weeds will die back and wont reappear for several months. Have been doing this for several years and always works. Wash your windshield with vinegar in the winter to help keep ice and frost away. If you have a septic tank, use vinegar instead of harsh chemicals to clean the toilet bowl. Let it set overnight if you can; it will keep germs down. Pour vinegar around the sides of your pool to help keep flies away. When you have to leave your car outside in the winter, mix 3 parts vinegar to 1 part water and coat the windows with this solution. This vinegar and water combination will keep windshields ice and frost-free. Drink a couple of spoonfuls a day to keep mosquitoes away from you - your perspiration will be unpleasant. When my kids were small they did not have a good car riding experience (vomiting). We cleaned it out and nothing would get rid of the smell until we placed a bowl of vinegar on the floor of the car, closed it for the night. In the morning, no more smell. I have poured vinegar around my children's sandbox to keep cats from using it as their litter box. About every two months I reapply just to be sure. It has worked so far. To get ride of calcium buildup on brick or on limestone, use a spray bottle with half vineger and half water, then just let it set. The solution will do all the work. This was taught to us when we first moved to the south. (You've never truly experienced ticks 'til you've been to Tennessee) I didn't believe it until I tried it. Take 1 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar a day. (I mix mine with orange juice.) You'll never get a tick. (I walk through tall grass, woods, etc...) Dosen't seem to work for chiggers though. I used vinegar with baby oil on holidays this year, got a great tan and never burned! I use full strength vinegar on a rag to wipe away the lime deposits the sprinklers leave on my car's paint and windows. There are lots of products for BIG DOLLARS that will do the same thing... I WONDER what their "secret ingredient" is???!! If you have a slug problem, drop a few drops (an eye dropper works well) of white vinegar on them and they will dissolve. But be careful not to get the vinegar on plants, it will kill them. Put a tablespoon of vinegar in your dog's drinking water every day and you will no longer have those brown spots in your lawn from the dog's urine. If you rub or spray yourself with vinegar, it will keep ticks and chiggers off. They may get on you, but will not stay... And no, once it dries, you do not smell like vinegar. For the past 5 years or so, I have used vinegar to deter birds from building their mud nest in my carport and on my front porch. When I see they are interested in building where they are not wanted, I drench the area with full strength vinegar. They try to brave the vinegar smell to light anyway, but the smell is too strong. They will try several more times to make a nest. When I see them interested again, once more I again drench the area they are trying to use. They become discouraged after several attempts and go elsewhere. Down the shore there are bitting flys in the bay area. Dousing your skin in the vinegar seems to deter even the boldest flys. If you have moss on your sidewalk/patio/deck, etc., spray white vinegar directly onto it. You might have to repeat this a couple of times but in a few days, it should completely disappear. http://frugalliving.about.com/cs/tips/a/blvinout.htm