Coffee and coffee grounds in everyday life: absorbent, flavoring, pesticide

Coffee has an attractive strong aroma, and it is often used in everyday life: to refresh the atmosphere, interrupt a slight unpleasant odor, etc. The downside is that the fragrance quickly erodes. A much more versatile remedy is dried coffee grounds. Besides the fact that she is able, as they say, to predict the future, she perfectly absorbs odors, cleans dishes no worse than soda, gently polishes and therefore perfectly replaces expensive scrubs. All this is an excellent reason to use coffee from the unpleasant smell in shoes and instead of pesticides for plants.

Sachets in shoes or wardrobe

In spring, the problem of badly smelling shoes and sneakers rises sharper: the sun warms, and your legs sweat harder. Yes, in any, even leather shoes, over time, this unpleasant shade, amber appears. Of course, it is advisable to use talcum powder and deodorant for the legs, but not all and not always do this. Coffee ground will help out.

After brewing coffee and enjoying a drink, dry the thick to a powder. Pour it into fabric bags - you get a sachet. Fill them with the foot of the shoe. Coffee powder perfectly absorbs excess moisture and an unpleasant odor. Allow the boots to rest for several days, and there will be no trace of the problem.

For the same purpose, bags with dried coffee grounds make sense to hang in a closet, especially if there are smokers in the house - coffee absorbs and neutralizes the tobacco stink better than many industrial products.

Interesting fact
Socks with coffee grounds already exist in the world. It is processed and mixed with polyester - a unique canvas is obtained that absorbs moisture from the feet and neutralizes the smell. These are a little less than 1000 rubles. at the modern dollar rate and incredibly popular. Particularly zealous buyers calculated that one pair of coffee socks can be worn for a week, and at the end the smell will be barely noticeable.

Absorbent in the refrigerator

Food and moisture droplets often leave a specific smell in the refrigerator. Even worse, if something went wrong on the shelves. And the spirit of fish is almost indestructible. One option is to thoroughly wash the refrigerator, but this takes a long time, it requires unloading the unit and spending a lot of energy.

A quicker solution that is applicable even on holidays, when all shelves are lined with billets and salads: place in the far corner on each tier a glass filled with coffee grounds powder. The aroma of coffee in the refrigerator does not appear, but the odor eliminates extraneous odors no worse than soda (in some ways even better).

Pesticide

If you are a big fan of brewed coffee and at the same time a gardener (or those among close friends), use the full benefit of your habit. Do not throw away coffee grounds, dry them and put them in a moisture-proof container (for example, in a 3-liter jar). During the year, quite a lot of brown powder will accumulate - and it will be very useful in spring and summer in the garden or vegetable garden.

The pungent odor and oils in the coffee grounds repel pests, especially slugs and snails. In addition, the powder in this case acts as an abrasive, scratches the abdomen, and pests continue to bypass the beds.

Many gardeners note that coffee grounds kill the larvae of some garden pests, but no one has proven this opinion with a series of special experiments.

The most effective pesticide with coffee grounds: mix the powder with orange zest and spread around the plantings.

Tip
Orange and coffee are very unpleasant odors for cats. So if stray or neighboring pets annoy you - lay out coffee and zest around your site.

Fertilizer

In addition to scaring away, coffee grounds will play a second role: nourishes the soil. When decomposed, it helps plants to absorb a number of elements (phosphorus, potassium, copper, magnesium) and at the same time activates biological processes in the soil. And among other things, the product will add nitrogen to the soil (which will appeal to flowering plants).

How to use: just throw dry or washed coffee grounds into the compost pit. The total share of the additive is not more than 18%. When the fertilizer is matured, they process the beds in the usual way.

Fresh thickening increases the acidity of the soil, so it will work as a neutralizer in alkaline earth. The only difficulty is to collect the required amount of raw materials. Perhaps coffee shops near your place of work or home will agree to give you this waste for free.

A warning
Coffee grounds often contain more caffeine than the drink itself. This substance blocks the growth of plants - so the coffee tree gets rid of competitors. Therefore, the thick must be evaporated and dried to a powder so that the caffeine evaporates as much as possible.

Herbicide

As follows from the warning above, fresh, barely cooled coffee grounds are a good killer for plants. And this can be used for good, covering the row spacing and the perimeter of the beds with caffeine mulch. This will protect the plantings from weeds or at least slow down the growth of harmful plants. However, such a blocker is able to increase the acidity of the soil, so that around the cultivated plants should remain bare space at least the width of the crown.

Coffee is the favorite drink of many. If you allow yourself to feast on not a soluble analogue, but a real drink, a bonus, you will get coffee grounds that are extremely useful in everyday life. It absorbs odors, gives a delicate aroma, repels insects, and this is not a complete list of its appointments. For example, dried coffee grounds - a good powder for cleaning dishes, a soft skin scrub, a fresh, freshly cooled mass - a persistent natural dye for skin, hair, fabric, furniture. This is truly a universal remedy.