This week started normal enough with a trip to go see a friend after surgery but after Monday the week quickly slipped away! Clayton came home sick, Tuesday I took the boys to have a check up with the doctor for their skin (another post to come in the future) and found out Ethan had a sinus infection, Wednesday came the call from daycare DeMarco had followed suit and was not feeling well and running a 103 fever, YIKES! I decided to join the party and it was just a family fun week of just not feeling well. This turn of events obviously led to a crabby Daddy, Papa, and boys! Luckily we all pulled through and the boys were bouncing with joy by Thursday afternoon, wish I could say the same for myself!!!
After a full week of germs being in the house it lead to me on a search to "clear the air" in a manner of speaking. So I turned to my handy book Who Knew? 10,001 Easy Solutions to Everyday Problems in a desperate search to clear out the sickly smell!!! The answer... Vinegar.
What exactly is vinegar? Yes, we all use vinegar in our kitchens and up to a year or two a go a bottle of vinegar would last 6 months in our house. Now, I cannot keep the bottle full and buy it by the gallons, I sense other blogs coming in the future about vinegar! Vinegar is comprised mostly of acetic acid and water (Wikipedia). The process of creating the acetic acid is done through a fermentation process of ethanol by acetic acid bacteria. What I learned in creating this blog is that not all vinegars are created the same. Your cheaper vinegars are created in a process that can take twenty hours to a couple of days while your more expensive vinegars take days if not months to produce. The difference in the fermentation process is the cheaper vinegars use a bacterial culture instead of letting it grow naturally. While this might not make a difference in your home it might in mine since I use it for more than just cooking. Once I try this out I will let you know!
So what did I do to clean up the air in my home? I boiled 2 cups of vinegar in 4 cups of water for 30 minutes. After the 30 minutes I could smell the vinegar in the air but it quickly disappeared ridding the air in the house of the germy smell that was there before. If you have ever had a house full of people that are all sick at once you know what smell I am talking about. This method works great and now I can get my home back to the smells that we love to have! When reading my book this method was recommended for getting strong odors out of your home after removing the source. The biggest culprit they mentioned was burnt food!!!
May all your homes have clean air!!!! Next week I will be blogging about carpets. Many of those that know Clayton and I also know that we HATE carpet because of our allergies and well because our pets, namely Kasey, can't seem to let us know when they need to go out. This leads to the other two following behind him to mark their spot in the house as well! Oh what a cycle!!!! I also discovered the boys love for chapstick, or lips as it is known in our house, on the carpet and of course it is red cherry flavored! I hope the method recommended in my reading works so it can help you too!
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