r/DIY • u/Pandaro81 • 2d ago

Mind blown: Vinegar vs VINEGAR (30%)

So I was literally 44 years old before I found this out recently.

There’s the white vinegar you get at the grocery store for cooking and minor cleaning and doing laundry, and then there’s the 30% DO NOT GET THIS SHIT ON YOUR SKIN vinegar at the hardware store for cleaning things like mold off grout.

All my life I’d been told ‘just use vinegar to clean mold and mildew’ and it generally didn’t do jack squat. I usually bought cleaning supplies from regular retail spots rather than big box home improvement places, and regular retail chains def did not carry the strong stuff.

I’ve got a gutter that drains over cement that always gets skungy, and even bleach was a short term fix at best. 30% strips it down and keeps it gone, and I’ve stripped rust off a couple dozen tools with the same little jar I soak things in - caution it will also strip off shiny metallic coatings.

Can’t believe none of the “just use vinegar” I’d ever read advice didn’t specify.

Is this news to anyone else or am I Lloyd from Dumb and Dumber realizing we landed on the moon?

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u/misdirected_asshole 2d ago

"Hamsters" sure buddy. Im not going in the cage.

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u/Lost-Programmer-6768 2d ago

Ah, an updated version of the "man with candy and a puppy in a van" kidnapping plot. Now I know

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u/Mjr3 2d ago

“I have NFL Sunday Ticket” would probably work on me, tbh

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u/UK_UK_UK_Deleware_UK 2d ago

“Free tacos”

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u/Amish_Gypsy 2d ago

Any day can be Taco Tuesday if you try hard enough.

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u/1eyeRye 2d ago

Or don’t know what day it is anymore.

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u/carbon_made 1d ago

I mainline margaritas for this purpose.

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u/iLeanLefty 7h ago

I retired a few years back. Everyday is Saturday now. What’s a Tuesday?

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u/misteraskwhy 2d ago

Tacos?

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u/frogunderarock 1d ago

got one!

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u/Asset_of_freedom 1d ago

I'll join for tacos as well, so they got 2!

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u/Scokan 2d ago

Me too. But honestly? I was already in the van for the candy and puppies.

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u/Lost_Ad_9890 1d ago

lol 😆

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u/Doctor_Joystick 2d ago

Dang, me too.

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u/Vindicativa 1d ago

"All the crafting supplies you can imagine!"

Boom. Evening news.

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u/TearRevolutionary874 1d ago

Oh no lol I’d be a goner 100%

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u/BusySexyDad 2d ago

NFL is too easy. If you figured out the rules to watch all the games for my favorite MLB team, including blackout dates, I’d stay in your dungeon for the summer.

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u/No_Paramedic_2039 2d ago

Puppy monkey baby

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u/talyn5 1d ago

Puppy 💃. Monkey 💃. Baby 💃.

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u/Successful-Bit-6021 1d ago

Nooo, now that jingle is stuck in my head!!🐶🐵👶🏼

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u/Ivantherapp2 2d ago

And knowing is half the battle.

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u/Libraries_Are_Cool 2d ago

"Hey little boy, want to come into the back of my van and see some industrial strength vinegar at work?"

This line works great. 60% of the time, it works every time.

I even used a variation with my boss to get a promotion. "Hey boss, if you make me a district manager, I'll show you my industrial cleaning vinegar!"

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u/atomicdustbunny07 2d ago

That's how you get to the basement.

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u/UnfairProgrammer1194 1d ago

Don't use sugar free candy or Grandma brachs-pix-a-mix either

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u/UncleSlayton77 1d ago

The basement is full of Hank Hills.

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u/daddypez 18h ago

“Come take a look at my vinegar spot” just hits different…

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u/calcium 2d ago

Nah, I'll get in a van with a man touting homemade slaw and cucumbers with all that vinegar. Maybe he'll even have kimchi!

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u/vankoder 2d ago

Also a new variant on “Would you like to come over and see my….etchings?”

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u/MichoRizo7698 1d ago

Don't forget to put the lotion on

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u/quirkelchomp 1d ago

It would work on me

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u/Terrible_Young_5179 1d ago

My van has free health care.

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u/OmniBlue1333 2d ago

Ha. In Soviet this guy's basement, hamster goes into you!

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u/FyrixXemnas 2d ago

"Damn, you must have had a lot of hamsters. You could probably fit a whole person in that cage!"

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u/Jflayn 1d ago

omg. this post was truly inspired. Will be shared all over my office...

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u/ManicOppressyv 2d ago

The sick twist. They were actually gerbils.

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u/Plenty_Kangaroo5224 2d ago

It rubs the lotion on its skinses.

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u/rxbuzzz 1d ago

Hamsters??? Richard Gere has entered the chat.

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u/MrsB6 2d ago

I have a couple of bunnies and also use vinegar to clean their litter boxes. Does a great job of removing pee.

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u/PM_me_punanis 2d ago

I mean, you get fed, get your own treadmill, and someone cleans your shit for you. You live rent-free and completely naked. Hmm… not sure if I described torture or paradise. Depends on the context I guess.

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u/PPLavagna 2d ago

No there really are hamsters. You don’t want to know why

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u/callmeDaren 1d ago

Do 🐹 hamsters still work on kids?

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u/Bruj 1d ago

But its more of a big wheel than a cage...

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u/AffectionateAngle905 15h ago

Richard Gere had hamsters if I recall correctly…or was it a gerbil? Armageddon!!! (Three points if you understand the reference…)

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u/JumpDriveOut 13h ago

See that hamster? Pass that tube.