This money-saving tip comes from frugal friend Julie, who shared on The Frugal Girls Facebook page!
If you’ve been wanting a way to kill those pesky weeds without paying big bucks for harsh chemicals… here’s a great frugal alternative: White Vinegar!
That’s it! Simply fill a spray bottle with white vinegar, and spray generously on all parts of the weed ~ leaves and root area.
The combination of the vinegar and sunshine will make those stinky weeds shrivel up!
Be careful to spray only on the weeds you want to kill, and keep away from your plants that you want to live! 
I put this to the test, and it really works!!
Here is a weed near my driveway…
Here is the weed near my driveway 1 minute after spraying with vinegar… {buh-bye, weed}
Here is the weed near my driveway 1 day after spraying with vinegar…
Wow ~ what a simple and thrifty weed killer!
And, the best part is… even my boys can spray weeds now {which, at least for now, they’re excited about this new duty!}
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I wonder if this will work on mushrooms….I’m going to try it out and report back
Thrifty idea-AND IT WORKS! We just got the Virgin Mobile Mifi2200 Broadband2Go. The device is $149 at Best Buy, WalMart, etc…but we could only find it in stock at Best Buy. You can have your own Wireless HotSpot for $40/mo UNLIMITED everything. No contract. We did the math, and in 3 months, it will have paid for itself (being that it cut our phone/internet bill in HALF!) Also, for about a year now, we have had the Magic Jack. This USB phone jack is $19.95, also found at Best Buy, and just plugs into your computer! Then, the total phone bill is about $1.19 per month. So, now, instead of paying in excess of $100/month for internet and phone service combined, we pay $41.19. And, we just went ahead and paid for 6 years of Magic Jack service
This sounds great to me, question I have is, is installation relatively easy, and do you have to be technology savy to install and get all of this done?
Hi Jessica ~ I’ve honestly never tried this on mushrooms… let us know how it goes!
~ Heidi
I am going to go try this right now! Got any home grown tips for killing slugs and earwigs? The slugs out here in WA are flippen huge..and they’re everywhere! And they are literally destroying my flower bed… any home grown tips for getting rid of them?
I have heard, but don’t have a problem with slugs, that a water and salt mixture will kill them…but you would have to spray each one individually I would think. Not sure if that is helpful or not…but the salt causes them to dry up.
You can put dry salt directly on them. I used to get them at a house I lived at several years ago. I would go out with a handful of table salt and sprinkle it right on them (ok, more like making a frenzied toss…I hate slugs! ew!) and they would shrivel up before my eyes. Gross, but effective!
Put out a flower pot dish with high sides and
fill with beer. Put it where you see the most
slugs and wait. Slugs love the smell of beer
and will fall in and drowned…maybe they get
drunk on the smell, fall in and drowned,
don’t know. A slug will almost literly melt
if sprinkled with salt.
Plant some plants in your garden or flower bed that do not attract slugs. There are lots of flowers and bulbs that do not attract slugs and bugs/
I throw my used coffee grounds in the flowerbed. I cant see them, it helps the plants, and the best part…..slugs hate the grainy feeling! Win Win!
For destroying slugs, pour some beer in a jar lid and leave it overnight where you see evidence of the slugs.The slugs will consume the beer and it stops them in their tracks. It works for me.
I have tried the salt on slugs but it killed my plants
I remember my Grandmother sprinkling salt on slugs…I was little so I’m not sure if it worked.
Yes, salt still works on slugs.
beer will kill slugs and snails.
Just put a shallow dish near the plants, fill it with beer and they go in an drown themselves. It works!
Salt works too but is yuckier
Yup…the slugs will take their last drink in the beer. It totally works.
I know salt works on slugs, but make sure you don’t put too much, I used to live where we had TONS of snails and I just sprinkled salt on them and they kinda foam up and die and it’s cheap too. I’m excited to try this out on my weeds, thanks so much for the tips!
Have been gardening for over 20 years and have never heard of this! Most anxious to try white vinegar out! Thanks for sharing
One of my favorites; cleaning the bathroom Shower/tub:
1/3 Your favorite laundry soap
1/3 Water
1/3 Vinegar
in spray bottle
I use this every few days in the shower before I get out, does a great job on cleaning and keeping the hard water gone!
Be careful. Vinegar will kill any plant. So use it sparingly around other desirable plants and where soil fertility is important (especially if you add salt to the mix).
Thank you, i’m going to try it on poison ivy!
Me too.
Tried it and it works great. Thanks for the tip:
Re: vinegar on weeds. That doesn’t work for Canadian thistle, which thrives where I live. The only thing I’ve found that does any good is Round-up, so if anyone has any other ideas, would love to hear them. Incidently, I’ve heard that Round-up works because it makes the plant grow like crazy, so fast it kills it, and that it’s not really a poison that’s killing the plants.
I have killed weeds with Coca Cola, add a few drops of dishwashin liquid to the cola so it will adhere the pland and spray it liberally
I tried the vinegar on several different kind of weeds in my yard, spraying liberally. I waited several days. It did not kill any of them. I wasted the vinegar. Then got out some old Round Up and sprayed the same weeds, and they were dead the next day.
Thank you…I was going to look up something for whatever is eating my hostas…I will try this.
I’ve used stronger vinegar in these instances – the 10-15% that you buy at the garden store, not the grocery. It isn’t inexpensive, but we didn’t use is to save money. We lived on a lake and the chemical run off into the lake wasn’t something that we wanted to contribute to.
You can intensify cheaper white vinegar through evaporation if you’d desire to plan for it. Cover a tray with screening when filled with vinegar and let the liquid evaporate which concentrates the strength, but be careful about marking the container clearly if you store it.
If you have slugs around your hostis plants you put sand around them and they wont bother them
u just reminded me of a little magic trick i used to show the kids, pour a paperplate with whole milk, add two drops of food coloring to the middle, each a different color, then rightaway, add a drop of dishwashing liquid to the middle also, are you waiting? im not going to spoil it for u just know its awesome to watch and wont hurt anyone
Thanks. I’ve never done that. Sounds like fun for the grandkids.
what kinds of chemicals other than vinegar and salt can i buy and use? what are the compounds in round up and other weed killers, i need to save the $$$ for food,medicine and bills, not to hand it over to some chemical giant/// thank you