Homemade Cleaners – what can’t vinegar do?

I park my car out on the street and to save myself from the Augusta heat I park it under a tree. While this keeps my car cool it makes keeping it clean a losing effort. I especially hate dirty windows and for the past two weeks I’ve been accumulating a sticky tree sap-like substance on my car.

So rather than buy some expensive bottle of windex or some automotive window cleaner I decided to use a homemade alternative. I mixed equal parts white vinegar and water in a spray bottle and went to work. The vinegar easily dissolved the sticky gunk on my windows and then buffed out nicely with crumpled up newspaper (an old detailer’s trick, no streaks and no lint). The only downside is that my windows and hands smelt like vinegar afterwards. That’s not a smell that comes out easily.

Vinegar has a hand in almost every homemade cleaning solution. Get a bottle of vinegar and a box of baking soda and there should be very little that remains dirty in your home. So far I’ve only tried the vinegar/water solution on my car windows and bathroom mirrors but I’ll be trying some new solutions in the future. Don’t worry, I’ll keep you my faithful readers updated on all the different things I try.

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  • mark

    cool, sounds like a pretty good solution (haha pun intended)

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