Do Yourself a Favor Friday: Vanilla Extract Room Freshener

Welcome to the first installment of Do Yourself a Favor Friday!  These posts will be short, sweet, and hopefully helpful.  Through my many internet searches, blog readings, and Pinterest; I come across a lot of life hacks or tips where I think, "Huh, that sounds pretty helpful" only to completely forgot about said handy tidbit moments later but NO MORE! 

The first Do Yourself a Favor is the vanilla extract room freshener.  For the most part, despite three pets, my home smells pretty good.  At least, I think it does....oh geez, does my house smell and I've just lived in it too long that I don't even notice?!  For the sake of my sanity, I'm going to say yes, my house smells pleasant.  Or at least it usually lacks a smell oh geez now I can't stop talking about how my house smells.  Stop it, Megan, stop it.

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Occasionally, the house does need some refreshing.  The husband and I are avid home beer brewers (I'll do a post on this when our next batch of ingredients comes in) and it is a smelly business.  In every recipe, there is at least an hour where three gallons of hops and grains are at a rolling boil on the stovetop which, if you've never experienced this, smells awful.  It smells like you've made a campfire out of wheat, wet branches, and multi-grain bread.  In your house.  Yea.  It is also a smell that lingers.  Even with all the windows of the kitchen/living room open, that stence is sticking around for at least two days.   

So when I came across this pin on using vanilla extract to stink up a room real good, I had to try it out. 

Source: sublime-decor.com via Megan on Pinterest

According to the pin, all that needs to be done is pour two cap fulls of vanilla extract in a coffee mug, place it in a 300 degree oven for an hour.  Within twenty minutes, the whole house should smell delicious.

Friends, strangers, future strange friends.  This worked amazingly.  The scent heavens opened and beautiful angels made-out with my olfactory glands.  It smelled like someone had been baking cookies all day instead of like a wet hot beer dough dog creature came inside and shook off in the house smell that is a result of brewing beer.

If your home needs a pick-me-up, definitely try this out.  The only downside is that your house will smell like it's filled with cookies when, in reality, it may not be.  While this Do Yourself a Favor has it's upsides, there is a chance for severe cookie disapointment.

So, all in all, I guess it's kind of a wash.