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Every home has smells, from the children, from cooking, from the pets and some are just there. You can get rid and neutralize odor using vinegar. Your home can smell fresh and clean everyday! Read on for some great ideas in regards to vinegar use in the home. While you may find that vinegar can cure the ‘smell’ of many odors in your home, this is a short listing to give you an idea of how to start using vinegar.

Pet odors
Do your carpets smell like a cat or dog? Use one-cup water to one-cup vinegar in a spray bottle and mist over the carpet. 

Smell absorber
Using a pan or bowl, fill with vinegar and place in the room that has a smell. No matter what the smell, after twenty-four hours the smell will be absorbed into the vinegar and your room will be fresh once again! This works great for a burnt smell of food.

Smoke
If you have a smell of fire in your home pour vinegar on white bread and place around the house on plates. This bread and vinegar mixture will absorb the odor of fire and smoke. This method even works to get out smells of fresh paint!

Odor trick
To remove an unpleasant odor while releasing a fresh scent, using a bowl of vinegar placed in the coolest side of the room, put a oil warmer or scented candle in the other warmer end of the room and the fresh scent will be pulled into the room while the unpleasant odor is pulled out.

Smoke on clothes
To remove smoky odors from clothes; hang them in the shower with vinegar in the bottom of the tub. The rising steam from the vinegar and water will pull the smoke right out. Another way to remove the smell of smoke in clothes; add two cups of vinegar to the wash cycle of your laundry.

Smelly drains
If your kitchen drains or your bathroom drains smell, pour a cup of vinegar down the drain once a week, and don’t run water through for about an hour. 

Onion odor
If your hands smell like onions, rub vinegar over them like you are washing your hands.

Jars
To get the smell out of old jars so you can reuse them, rinse well with vinegar, and then wash with soap and water.

Kitty litter
To keep the kitty litter box smelling fresh rinse with vinegar every time you change the litter in the box.

Cabbage
When cooking with cabbage, add a cup of vinegar to the water to eliminate the smell of cabbage in the house.

Skunk odor
If your pet has had a run in with a skunk rub vinegar over your pets fur to absorb the odor.