Cheap Vodka (Uses and Recipes)

Obviously you won’t want to use any of these with expensive Gray Goose or Smirnoff, but a cheap bottle has its uses.

Stinky feet: Soak a washcloth in vodka to kill odor-causing fungus and bacteria.

Fresh flowers: Adding a few drops of vodka to the water stunts ethylene production and will extend the life of the bouquet.

Insect repellant: Put in a spray bottle. Much better then using poisonous deet.

Stings: Douse area in vodka. It will alleviate the swelling.

Laundry stains: I haven’t tried this, but it seems feasible!

Hair: A vodka rinse will bring back the shine.

Tinctures: Mix lavender or rose petals with vodka in a dark bottle and let steep for a few weeks. Natural perfume!

Weed killer: Mix in a spray bottle with a couple of drops of dish soap. Works great on dandelions!

Glass cleaner: Works every bit as good as Windex.

Get off sticky stuff: Use to remove price tags.

Freshen laundry: Spritz on clothes to freshen them up a bit. (I prefer not to smell like a drunk thank you very much!)

Ease poison ivy: Helps soothe the itch.

Mold and mildew killer: Spray on, let sit 20 minutes and scrub off with an old toothbrush.

Jewelry cleaner: Soak in vodka and rinse.

Remove a bandage: No more painful removal, gets rid of the “sticky” stuff.

Remove hairspray from your mirrors: Just use as glass cleaner.

Astringent: Cleanses skin and tightens pores.

Here is a recipe list from (yahoo answers) if you prefer to drink your vodka!

1. Jell-O Shooters
1 cup Vodka
1 cup boiling water
1 Jell-O package (any flavor you’d like)
Mix everything together and put them in little plastic shooter cups.. Then you chill them in the fridge. You can find these little cups in any grocery store or perhaps dollar store, and if not, sometimes department stores like Wal-Mart will have them.
2. Cape Codder:
In a tall glass (approx. 14 oz) with ice:
1 shot Vodka
Fill with Cranberry Juice
3. Greyhound (same as screwdriver, except you use grapefruit juice instead of OJ)
In a rocks (short) glass with ice:
1 shot Vodka
Fill with Grapefruit Juice
4. Bay Breeze
In a tall glass (around 14 oz) with ice:
1 shot Vodka
1/2 glass of Pineapple Juice
1/2 glass of Cranberry Juice
Aside: To make a “Sea” Breeze, substitute the Pineapple Juice with Grapefruit Juice
5. Bloody Caesars:
In a tall glass with ice:
1 shot Vodka
Dash Worcestershire sauce
Dash Tabasco sauce
Dash salt and pepper
Fill with Clamato Juice
Aside: For Bloody Marys, use tomato juice instead of Clamato.
6. Vodka Sour
In a sugar-rimmed rocks glass with ice:
1 oz Vodka
Fill with Bar Lime (aka Sweet & Sour Mix, Limeade)
Shake and pour back into the glass.
7. Madras
Build, in a tall glass with ice:
1 oz Vodka
Fill 1/2 glass with OJ
Fill 1/2 glass with Cranberry
8. Lemon Drop
Sugar rim a shot glass, then in a shaker tin with ice:
1 oz Vodka
Juice of a lemon wedge
Shake and strain back into the glass.

I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade… And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.

Ron White