Why yes my pretties, vodka has several uses beyond mixing with soda water as served up by Lance and Brian at Balbs.
1. Removing that musty vintage stank from your latest eBay purchase. According to vintage expert/ Mad Men costume designer Janie Bryant, simply mix one part vodka with two parts water in a spray bottle and mist. Voila!
2. Add a few drops of vodka and a teaspoon of sugar to the water in your flower vase. It should help keep your flowers fresh longer.
3. Splash some on as a natural insect repellent next time you're in the great outdoors! Who knew?
4. For shiny hair, add a shot to your 12 oz bottle of shampoo.
5. Use vodka to clean and sanitize your shades- get those Guccis sparkling!
6. Get rid of mold in your shower, if you're into green cleaning... I prefer to load up on the bleach myself.
7. Dissolve any type of stubborn stickiness, ie band aid fuzz, bumper sticker glue, or gum.
You can also use bourbon to get gum off of your face, I know from personal experience- when I was 6 or so, I was in Tahoe on summer vacay with my extended family. I had just learned to blow a bubble with bubble gum and proceeded to show off to anyone who would pay attention. One day we were at Raley's grocery shopping. My brother was riding in the kid seat of the shopping cart and I was using the cart as a scooter.
Scooting along, I blew a bubble which my brother gleefully smashed. It was that extra- sticky kind of gumball from a machine, so for the next three days I had increasingly linty, gray gum residue on my chin that didn't come off, even with daily swims in the lake. My mom and grandma got sick of looking at my dirty mug, so they improvised a plan with what they had on hand in the house... get the gum off with booze! (Of course there was plenty of that lying around.)
"Noooooo!!" I protested, wailing like the bourbon-soaked cloth was burning me. Mom held on to keep me from running and Gramma scrubbed the gum away.
Ohhh, the trauma. But hey, I survived, and without any aversions to hard liquor in my adult life!
However, I think that was also the summer my uncles tried to teach me to water ski. With the SKIS attached to the boat rather than my arms attached to the tow line. Now THAT was traumatizing. I think I need a vodka cocktail just thinking about it...
