If you're like most of us, throwing out coffee grounds is a drone act that you do over and over until you've reached your caffeine threshold, and then you move on. Once you take a look at what you can do with those used coffee grounds, though, you might actually give it a second thought.
Used coffee grounds can be beneficial to you all over the house, inside and outside. It is safe and natural, so instead of putting house-hold gold into the landfills, consider this small list of what you can do instead:
1. Fertilize - mix your used grounds in with your garden soil, especially for acidic plants like Azaleas, hydrangeas, roses and some fruit. Mix with lyme for non-acidic plants.
2. Burn it in your fireplace - used coffee grounds can be transformed into low-emission fire logs. You can get them from Pine Mountain Fire Logs but if you're feeling really industrious, you could even make them yourself.
3. Stain your furniture - mix the grounds with water and use it to stain small scratches in your furniture.
4. Deodorize - wrap your used coffee grounds in cheesecloth or old stockings and use to deoderize everything from closets and drawers to athletic bags and shoes.
5. Exfoliate your skin - freshly used coffee grounds are a great skin exfolient. You can use it by itself on your face, or mix it with sea salts and a light oil on your body.
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