10 Awesome Vinegar Life Hacks You Should Know (Watch Video)

Vinegar is one of the best natural cleaners ever, and it can accomplish so many cleaning tasks. Here are 10 awesome vinegar simple life hacks you should know about and implement into your cleaning routine. Going chemical free in your household is a wonderful thing to do. The chemicals in most cleaning products tend to have a harmful effect on humans and pets as well as the environment. This is a big price to pay just for convenience. Vinegar has been used for centuries as a natural food item to have as a dressing on salads and to pickle vegetables to preserve them. Since vinegar has high acidity, it's very good at deep cleaning and disinfecting, as well as deodorizing. So it's like an all in one. This video from Household Hacker's YouTube channel will give you plenty of cleaning tips, and simple life hacks to try out in your own home.

1. We all know how difficult it can be to have a clog in our sink. For this cleaning trick all you'll need is some simple baking soda and some white distilled vinegar. Then all you need to do is sprinkle some baking soda down the drain, and then pour some vinegar down right after. After waiting several minutes, pour some boiling water down to release any clogs. If you have a really tough clog just let the mixture sit in the drain overnight and then pour the boiling water down in the morning.

2. If a sticker or tape leaves a sticky residue on anything, just grab your vinegar and spray it right on the sticky spot letting it sit for a while. After that, it should come off really easily. This would work great for any store labels that have a hard time coming off.

3. When your garbage can stinks to high heaven, combat those nasty odors with, you guessed it, vinegar. Just place a piece of bread that's been saturated in vinegar at the bottom of your trash can overnight, and by morning the smell will have disappeared.

4. Make your own natural cleaners in spray bottles by mixing some vinegar, water and a little bit of dish soap together. You can use this anywhere in your home. You can even recycle by reusing an old cleaning solution bottle from a cleaner you used before. Just be sure to label it as your Vinegar Cleaner.

5. Apple cider vinegar is a great solution for catching fruit flies. Just add some of the vinegar to a glass and cover the top of it with plastic wrap, poking holes in it for the flies to enter in. When the flies go in through the holes, they won't be able to get back out of the container.

6. Help your flower arrangements last longer by adding a bit of vinegar to the water their in. Use apple cider vinegar for this one and your flowers will stay looking beautiful for much longer than they would have otherwise.

For the remaining 4 simple life hacks from the list of 10 you'll have to head over to YouTube and watch the video on Household Hacker's channel. They post videos regularly featuring the latest and greatest in household hacks and cleaning tips. So if you haven't gotten rid of all your other toxic cleaners, you may want to after this video shows you just how many things you can do with a huge, affordable bottle of white vinegar and apple cider vinegar. Apple cider vinegar is also full of great health benefits that help to alkalize our bodies and maintain good health.***