put some vodka on it!

disclaimer: this post is NOT dedicated to a certain vodka-tonic-loving friend of mine who blogs for this website. though it may prove beneficial to her just the same.

besides beauty blogs, i like reading home improvement/DIY blogs. my ultimate favorite in this category is definitely Karen's The Art of Doing Stuff (Canada). she does crazy stuff i can relate to (like cementing her own backyard) because you (and i mean, i) just can't expect a non-OC person to do a job right.

i started taking interest in home stuff because i am currently stuck staying at my own little studio apartment, which i (try to) keep fanatically clean on account of my allergies. not too long after i moved in, i discovered that my place is perennially damp: it gets no sunshine, can't be aired because there are no window screens, and has actually been flooded four times in the 8 months i've had it. thankfully, none of my things have been affected by the flooding. BUT! i have an even bigger problem: molds! <insert freaked out smiley here>

think they look pretty? guess again

for weeks, i was puzzled by the funky smell i came home to every evening, and i tried to remedy the problem by spraying lemon-scented lysol. it kinda worked but had to be reapplied by the next evening. i decided to do a more thorough cleanup, and discovered some white fuzzy things growing on some of my bags. <insert 3 horrified smileys here> 

i put lysol on it but the molds returned after a while. it soon spread to my shoes (including the new black satin slingbacks i'd just gotten), and "perfumed" my clothes with their month-old bread smell. :( obviously, i needed to find a permanent solution, short of moving to a different apartment (which i'm planning to do soon).

enter: the internet and the 12 best household uses for vodka.

vodka: not just for mixing martinis.

i got a spritzer and a bottle of cheap vodka from the grocery, and sprayed away. my apartment smells clean, the molds are gone, and weeks later, they still haven't come back. :D but please, use CHEAP vodka.

this is too pretty to use as a mold killer. save this one for the bar.

apparently, vodka is also good for making hair shiny and soothing toothaches. most importantly, it saved me from a recent ant invasion.

when i got home after learning that i'd won khymm's giveaway, i found some ants had made their home in my makeup box! they'd brought in their eggs in an effort, i suppose, to find shelter from the rain. naturally i wasn't thrilled to have my collection infiltrated by bugs but i didn't want to use bug spray on my makeup! so i took my vodka spritzer and let loose.

it worked. :) well, i still had to throw out some compacts (good bye, lauder lip palette!) but i didn't feel as bad, knowing that i'd soon receive a goody package from cebu. but i'd better buy another bottle of vodka soon.

considering how awesome a cleaning agent vodka is, ever wonder what it does to your body when you drink it?