I Often Use White Vinegar For Cleaning

My wife and I are pretty big on keeping our house clean and spotless. It is not to the point where people are not comfortable coming over, but we don't like for it to get messy or grimy. We have gone through an assortment of cleaners over the years, and while I use certain products for certain jobs, I use white vinegar for cleaning on a regular basis. It is something that has consistently done the job for me over the years and I have no intention of ever going away from it.

The best part about using white vinegar for cleaning is that it can clean and deodorize almost anything. It was one of the first things that my grandmother ever taught me about cleaning. She said that there were all kinds of products on the market to clean with, and many of them were good, but she said to always make sure that I had a bottle of white vinegar and a box of baking soda, as those had been used to clean for years and had always worked like a charm for her.

The first project I decided to use white vinegar for cleaning on was my kitchen sinks. They had a tendency to get a really foul smell after a couple of months, and even though I would do everything I could to prevent food from going down the train and water from sitting in the sink, it did not seem to matter. I decided to do something I had read in a magazine, which was to pour a cup of white vinegar down each drain and not to run the water in the sink for an hour. I did that, and it took care of the problem immediately. Now, I make it a point to to that each month.

Another project I decided to use white vinegar for cleaning on was two rust stains I had on my front porch. These had developed because I rather stupidly decided to water two of my Boston ferns out on the front porch one day, only to find that they had left two big rust stains on the porch. I had some rust remover, but it was designed to remove rust from metal, and I did not know how it would effect the cement of the porch. My mother suggested using the white vinegar, and that did the trick. The rust was gone after just a few applications.

Using white vinegar for cleaning is something I have done for years now, and will likely continue to do for the rest of my life. It has worked well for me over the years and I have no plans to stop using it any time soon.