Vodka uses...

Subject: VODKA?



And you thought that Bounce was great!!

AND YOU WERE GOING TO GIVE IT UP DID YOU KNOW THIS ABOUT VODKA?

1. To remove a bandage painlessly, saturate the bandage with vodka. The
solvent dissolves adhesive

2. To clean the caulking around bathtubs and showers, fill a
trigger-spray bottle with vodka, spray the caulking, let set five
minutes and wash clean. The alcohol in the vodka kills mold and mildew.

3. To clean your eyeglasses, simply wipe the lenses with a soft, clean
cloth dampened with vodka. The alcohol in the vodka cleans the glass
and kills germs.

4. Prolong the life of razors by filling a cup with vodka and letting
your safety razor blade soak in the alcohol after shaving. The vodka
disinfects the blade and prevents rusting.

5. Spray vodka on vomit stains, scrub with a brush, then blot dry.

6. Using a cotton ball, apply vodka to your face as an astringent to
cleanse the skin and tighten pores.

7. Add a jigger of vodka to a 12-ounce bottle of shampoo. The alcohol
cleanses the scalp, removes toxins from hair, and stimulates the growth
of healthy hair.

8. Fill a sixteen-ounce trigger-spray bottle and spray bees or wasps to
kill them.

9. Pour one-half cup vodka and one-half cup water in a Ziplock freezer
bag and freeze for a slushy, refreshable Ice pack for aches, pain or
black eyes.

10. Fill a clean, used mayonnaise jar with freshly packed lavender
flowers, fill the jar with vodka, seal the lid tightly and set in the
sun for three days. Strain liquid through a coffee filter, then apply
the tincture to aches and pains.

11. To relieve a fever, use a washcloth to rub vodka on your chest and
back as a liniment.

12. To cure foot odor, wash your feet with vodka.

13. Vodka will disinfect and alleviate a jellyfish sting.

14. Pour vodka over an area affected with poison ivy to remove the
urushiol oil from your skin.
15. Swish a shot of vodka over an aching tooth. Allow your gums to absorb

Mercy who would have thought!!!

Thanks for taking the time to post these for us.

Judy

What a waste - only one thing for Vodka - with OJ!

We have tons of poison ivy - wonder if a few good doses of vodka taken internally could be considered a systemic cure. I work outside all day on weekends, and we always have a martini in the the evening. Maybe that's the reason the poison ivy doesn't bother me?

"Swish a shot of vodka over an aching tooth"

I'm sure if enough trickled down your throat the pain would go away even faster! LOL
Pati

i guess would never even tasted it.. but if its cure for something maybe should have in medicine cab..

I've never used vodka for a toothache, but I remember one weekend I had a tooth abcess and it was also during a blizzard. I spent the whole weekend putting whiskey on it. Worked, but only lasted a little while. Plus it burned my mouth like the dickens. DH finally told me it would probably work better if I swallowed it instead of spitting it out. LOL

That is doing those things is Alcohol Abuse

ely

Use good vodka, Stoli.. or Sky and mix 50/50 with Welch's grape juice. As good or better than Mad Dog. (MD 20/20)

Bought 3 pounds of cayenne pepper at the bulk food store. Nice man behind the counter wanted to know what in the world I was going to do with 3 POUNDS of the stuff. Explained that it was to keep the squirrels out of the flowers. His eyes got real big and he said I had better buy them some vodka to go with it! Just what I need-drunk squirrels!

My DH once had a mulberry tree and the berries dropped to the ground and fermented. The squirrels would fill their bellies with them and then try to run across the top of the fence and kept falling off and trying again, over and over.

I prefer it with Cranberry Raspberry juice, lime and lots of ice.

That sounds yummy, pirl! Mm, and refreshing. Plus, cranberry juice will clear up a bladder infection in no time :-)

But apart from that, the toothache and vodka combo really does work. Not that it will cure the ache, but it will soothe the pain until you can get yourself to the dentist.

Vodka w/soda water and lime- who cares about illnesses!

sylvi74....what's that about the cayenne pepper.?????

Hap

So, as I see it, you make one (one after another that is) of the vodka drinks mentioned in this thread... then, after you get good and drunk you can start a fight, get a black eye, maybe crack a tooth, fall down in some poison ivy, and then throw up everywhere. The next morning you have the ice/vodka pack for your black eye, another shot to swish over your tooth, treatment for your new poison ivy rash, and cleaning solution to clean up the vomit! Genius! Vodka: The poison and the remedy. Maybe that can be their new slogan?! :)

Jamie

Wow Jamie, that would be quite the evening! I think I'll stick with lemonade!
The cayenne pepper tastes bad to the squirrels, they don't eat plants that have been sprinkled with it (most of the time).

LOLOLOL to texasgarden!!
Pati

Unfortunately Pati, that is all from personal experience. JUUUUST KIDDING!!!!

Thanks Will it work for iguanas?

lol thanks for posting these!! I am highly allergic to posion ivy and I never would have guessed using vodka for that!

Hold the phone....

I had a wild hair the other day and tried Vodka with Red Bull.
Very dangerous though. You have to mix a very stiff drink before you can taste any alcohol. Then I mixed a couple and took them over to my buddy. Slurrrrrp. What's that? He didn't believe there was Absolute in it. We experimented a couple of more times including a gin test but I mixed that and dumped it in. A tad strong.

Somehow from there we ended up talking to rather reclusive and subdued gardener. Larry convinced this guy he should have a bed (about 50') along side his house and next thing you know I had my Deep Spader, we both broke out our tillers and flipped his new bed and tilled like mad men. Of course then we took a test drive on the guy's trampoline which wasn't real smart. Larry may have a broken nose from exiting stage right and planting his beak in the grass. I don't know if it was the Red Bull or the alcohol.

So did Larry think he could fly like they do in the commericals or what?! I'd say the Red Bull trumped the vodka for you guys... generally getting drunk does NOT provoke one to do intense manual labor. And this was some guy y'all didn't even know?! I bet he was afraid to tell you "no." Ha!

LOL to 8ftbed Great word picture!!!
Pati

too make things more interesting... that trampoline wasn't level either!!
Once rotational forces took control, it was boink, boink, hello terra-firma. He got right up and came set down like nothing happened. :) Me on the other hand.. I tried twice but each time took one bounce and stopped. I knew where I was headed.

some "kook" I know says using vodka as an ingredient to kill bugs (spider mites on plants for one) is acceptable in a local home improvement garden center that is not supposed to use insecticides PERIOD on plants for sale to the public. This is being done without customer knowledge as she mixes this on her own (with Dawn dishwater detergent as well) and sprays it directly on infected areas of the plants. Any comments or feedback on this "live nursery specialist" person's habits would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

What a great thread! I can't wait for the next postings! It's like a cross between a soap opera and Saturday Night Live. You guys are great!

this is my favorite thread! Sea Breeze anyone?

I've noticed a small bottle of Windex lasts a lot longer than a big bottle of vodka around my house. It might be a different story if I try a jigger of Windex in my ruby red grapefruit glass next time.

Red Bull & vodka? A bartender friend of mine used to say giving a drunk coffee creates a wide-awake drunk. Evidently Red Bull createas a wide-awake and energetic drunk. I'll have to put that on my To Do List. LOL

LOL I'm not sure the Windex will go down the same as the Vodka does, hhnmmmmm

This is a great thread, I love it! Ya'll are a blast!

I'm wondering what Tequila will do LOL I've also heard the Dawn dish soap thing too; I've never tried it but I've heard it works, it seems I read it in one of those old self remedies books some time ago or something. Sea Breeze might work too LOL!

A hyper drunk! Now that might be fun!

Tonight it was chocolate martinis. Mmmm .. yummy! My GF came over to review my work in the garden today....I passed. Or is that passed out??!!

OM I LOVE chocolate martini's. Haven't had one in a long, long time. LOL

Come on down, Missy!

I'm on my way! LOL

Cayenne pepper also works to prevent (some) cats from eating house plants.

drunken tilling and trampolining - I love it!

cranraspberry vodka is a lady's best friend.

susan: you can put rubbing alcohol on a q-tip and apply it to mites and other pests to kill them. i guess she decided to take the more expensive route with that idea. i don't know why she'd bother to put the dish soap in there too as the alcohol is enough to kill them, but i've heard of using dish soap in homemade pesticides as well. not sure if the dish soap qualifies as organic, though.

Depends on if it's organic (natural) dish soap

amazing this went from 2005 to 2008 glad its interesting for you all. i do not drink and i just read again i have poison ivy all over i may have to get some try it. lol..

Oh the brilliant things we do when we mix alcohol and creative minds.

From the won't try that again files:

I've had a water balloon sling shot for years, but it had been sitting in a cabinet for quite some time. During a day of yard clean up, kept hydrated by frosty mugs, my ex-next door neighbor, aka 35 year old frat boy, and his BIL, aka current frat boy, come over with beers in hand to watch me work.

Chatting it up a bit, they decide to help me clean up by picking up the fallen sour oranges and hurling them as far as they can. This turns into a game of accuracy and skill as we decide on a target much to far away, to see if we can hit it.

Not thrilled with our distance, I remember the dusty old water balloon sling shot. We live on an acre, and the neighbor behind us has several. The goal? Launch an orange to the far edge of his property. Dave's cool. Dave won't care. So we launch orange after orange, always falling about 30 yards short despite who's holding and who's laying back with the launch handle. Several oranges/beers later, the brilliant idea!!!!!

Golf Ball

No one could imagine that little round, aerodynamically created ball, when launched from a tool that could toss a heavy water filled balloon 300 or more yards, would leave the earths atmosphere to come down who knows where. I remember it leaving the launcher, and start climbing. As it approached the fence that had been our nemesis for every orange, it looked down and laughed, as it continued its non-stop ascent. As it approached the neighborhood of McMansions, the first thought of "Maybe this wasn't such a good idea", entered my head.

I remember laying there on the ground, from the launch position, playing out the area's landscape in my mind. Neighborhoods, roads, and a school. Thankfully it was a Sunday, so the school was out. LOTS of houses though. As we realized the error in our calculations, we scrambled to put away the launcher and strode with the cat ate the mouse look into the neighbors house where we were grilled by his wife about the guilty looks on our faces.

Thankfully, after scanning the newspaper for a few days, I could safely say that no one was killed, and no major damage reported.

Chris

Chris,
I love it! May you always have a playful heart!

Playful and stupid share a common border. I try to stay on the playful side, but always carry my passport and bail money just to be safe.

:-)

Chris