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

Coffee has an attractive strong aroma, and this is often used in everyday life: to refresh the atmosphere, eliminate a slight unpleasant odor, etc. The downside is that the scent fades quickly. A much more versatile remedy is dried coffee grounds. In addition to the fact that it is believed to be able to predict the future, it perfectly absorbs odors, cleans dishes as well as soda, gently polishes and therefore is an excellent replacement for expensive scrubs. All this is an excellent reason to use coffee for unpleasant odor in shoes and instead of pesticides for plants.

Sachet for shoes or wardrobe

In spring, the problem of bad-smelling boots and sneakers becomes more acute: the sun gets hotter, and your feet sweat more. Yes, in any shoe, even leather shoes, over time this unpleasant shade, amber, appears. Of course, it is advisable to use talcum powder and deodorant for your feet, but not everyone and does not always do this. Coffee grounds will help.

After brewing the coffee and enjoying the drink, dry the grounds to a powder. Place them in fabric bags to make sachets. Fill the foot of your shoe with them. Coffee powder perfectly absorbs excess moisture and unpleasant odor. Let your boots rest for a few days, and there will be no trace of the problem.

For the same purpose, it makes sense to hang bags of dried coffee grounds in the closet, especially if there are smokers in the house - coffee absorbs and neutralizes the stench of tobacco better than many industrial products.

Interesting fact
There are already socks with coffee grounds in the world. It is processed and mixed with polyester to create a unique fabric that absorbs moisture from feet and neutralizes odor. These cost a little less than 1000 rubles. at the current dollar exchange rate and are incredibly popular. Particularly diligent buyers have 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 droplets of moisture often leave a specific smell in the refrigerator. It’s even worse if something on the shelves has gone bad. And the spirit of the fish is almost indestructible. One option is to thoroughly wash the refrigerator, but this takes a long time, requires unloading the unit and spending a lot of effort.

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

Pesticide

If you are a big fan of boiled coffee and at the same time a gardener (or you have one among your close friends), take full advantage of your habit. Do not throw away the coffee grounds, dry them and place them in a moisture-proof container (for example, a 3-liter jar). Over the course of a year, quite a lot of brown powder will accumulate - and it will be very useful in the spring and summer in the garden.

The pungent odor and oils in coffee grounds are good at repelling pests, primarily slugs and snails. In addition, the powder in this case acts as an abrasive, scratches the bellies, and pests henceforth avoid the beds.

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

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

Advice
Orange and coffee are very unpleasant odors for cats. So if stray or neighbor's pets bother you, spread coffee and zest around your area.

Fertilizer

In addition to repelling, coffee grounds will also play a second role: they will nourish the soil. As it decomposes, it will help plants 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: Simply throw dry or rinsed coffee grounds into the compost pit. The total share of the additive is no more than 18%. When the fertilizer is ripe, the beds are treated with it in the usual way.

Fresh grounds increase the acidity of the soil, so in alkaline soil it will work as a neutralizer. 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.

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

Herbicide

As the warning above suggests, fresh, barely cooled coffee grounds are a good plant killer. And this can be used for good by covering the row spacing and 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 can increase the acidity of the soil, so there should be bare space around the cultivated plants for at least the width of the crown.

Coffee is a favorite drink of many. If you allow yourself to enjoy not an instant analogue, but a real drink, as a bonus you will receive coffee grounds, which are extremely useful in everyday life. It absorbs odors, imparts a subtle aroma, repels insects, and this is not a complete list of its purposes. For example, dried coffee grounds are a good powder for cleaning dishes, a soft scrub for skin, fresh, just cooled mass is a persistent natural dye for leather, hair, fabric, and furniture. This is truly a universal remedy.