Tuesday Tip: Baking Soda

I have never used baking soda to clean with, but I have tons of it in my food storage and I don't think I will ever use it up before it expires so I started looking for other uses for it. Here are a few ideas that I found and they seem interesting. I think I will try a few.

Sprinkle some on the bottom of your kitchen garbage can. It will effectively remove any odors there.

Got a slow running drain? Pour half a cup of baking soda followed by a cup of vinegar, wait 15 minutes for the fizzing to subside, flush with hot water. The clog is gone. It’s like magic!

Cleaning your bathroom and kitchen fixtures to a blinding brilliance with a paste of baking soda and liquid dish soap.

Appliance manufacturers will tell you never to use any kind of chemicals when cleaning the inside of the refrigerator or microwave. Use baking soda and water only.

For a sour sponge, wet it and sprinkle a goodly amount of baking soda on it. Work it in and let is set up overnight. Works every time.

A grease fire in your kitchen or barbecue can be put out quickly by smothering it with baking soda.

Use a baking soda and water paste to remove scuff marks on vinyl floors, crayon from the walls.

Add a cup to bathwater to soften your skin.

Apply it on rashes, insect bites, and poison ivy irritations.

Keep cut flowers fresh longer by adding a teaspoon to the water in the vase.

Put an open container of baking soda in the fridge to absorb the odors.

Wipe your windshield with it to repel rain.

Improve the smell of dishrags by soaking them in baking soda and water.

Suck it in with your vacuum cleaner to remove the odor

Put it under sinks and along basement windows to repel cockroaches and ants.

Sweeten your tomatoes by sprinkling baking soda on the soil around your tomato plants.

Scatter it on your greasy garage floor, scrub the floor, and rinse.