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We all love coffee for its aroma, flavour and definitely its pick me up. If you love to make your coffee at home either with a coffee roaster or coffee machine and always find yourself filling your dustbin with coffee grounds, why not recycle them?

There are numerous ways to use both fresh and used coffee grounds and here are five unusual ways to use coffee in the house:

1) Eliminate odours

Hate the smell of your hands after chopping garlic and onions? Add some coffee grounds to a bowl and add in a small amount of Castile soap. Scoop out a small amount of this mixture and rub your hands with it. You can also deodorise your fridge naturally by placing a small plate with coffee grounds.

Leave this jar in the fridge for a few days to get rid of all odours. Use your flavoured coffee grounds in a shallow container anywhere in a room to impart a fun smell.

2) Pin cushion filler

Dried and used coffee grounds make the perfect filler for DIY pin cushions. Just wrap up the coffee grounds in a scrap cloth, tie the end off with a rubber band and place it in a small container or egg cup. The grounds keep the pins from rusting too.

3) Clean dishes

Coffee generally has a rough texture; whether organic coffee or not. For this reason, coffee works great as an abrasive, meaning that you can use it to clean any tough to clean dishes. Place some grounds onto the cleaning rag and twist both ends with a band to secure them into place. This makes an excellent DIY cleaning coffee sponge.

4) Clean surfaces

Mildly acidic and abrasive coffee grounds are a great way for scrubbing surfaces like cooking ranges, counter tops and refrigerators. You can use them alone or add a little dish soap. If your furniture has scratches, mix two to three teaspoons of instant coffee and a little water to make a paste. Use this mixture to wipe the furniture and concentrate especially on the scratches. You can add a little olive oil or a spoon of vinegar to add shine to your wood.

5) Insect repellent

Coffee has a strong odour, which many animals and insects do not like. Ants, slugs, maggots and mosquitoes all dislike coffee’s acidity and will keep away from areas with coffee. Rub some used and damp coffee grounds through your pet’s fur to repel fleas after cleaning. It also improves the post-bath, wet-animal smell that gets all over the furniture.

So the next time you brew the perfect plunger coffee, be sure to enjoy both the benefits of caffeine and also try these unusual coffee uses.

Do you have any other uses for coffee? Please SHARE in the comments below.

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  • I make a scrub with coffee, coconut oil and honey. Your skin feels and smells so nice after

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  • Wow, some great tips here. I usually just throw them to the chooks or throw them into the compost. I’ve never tried it with ants, but I’m going to. Thanks.


    • Do chickens like them? I haven’t tried that.

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  • Great tips ! I use in in the garden as well. I have a spot in my garden where I add the dung of my chickens and the ground of brewed coffee to the soil. I mix it and leave it a bit before I use it in my garden. Makes beautiful compost. I also throw a royal amount of ground of the brewed coffee on-, in- and around the ant-nests in the garden.


    • ok well that is a great tip about these in the compost. that is handy to know

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  • Thanks for the great tips very useful

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  • Interesting tips especially as an insect repellent! Thanks!

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  • Who ever knew, fantastic. I am now going to trial some of these 🙂

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  • I like the tips for cleaning – at least you know that no chemicals have been used to clean off those stubborn stains.

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  • Coffee the dog. Hmm. Might try it after her bath but she ain’t coming back inside.

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  • I had no idea coffee was so useful!

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  • These all sound so simple and easy, and best thing is chemical free!
    What a shame I am not a coffee drinker!

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  • tip number 1 and 5 are really amazing! who knew that these would be a great deoderizer.

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  • Great tips! I use to put it around plants that need a more acidic soil. It’s great as a fertilizer too, mixed with water.

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  • Lke hg

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  • Wow a few uses I didn’t know of. Thank you.
    I put coffee grounds around our plants in the vegoe garden to keep slugs and snails away

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