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Also: Sprinkle it on your carpet and then vacuum up to remove funky odors. (This may need to be unused grounds though.. oh well.)

Rinse your PETS? With COFFEE grinds? Really?!

use as fertilizer for acid loving plants, such as azaleas or calla lillies.

I think my white rabbit would be quite offended if he were to be rinsed in coffee grinds. Sensitive wee things they are. But the flies love them...

The starbucks down the street gives their coffee grounds away free. Bags and bags and bags of coffee grounds. Once a week I pull my red wagon uptown and collect the grounds for the yard. The squirrels hate digging in the grounds so cover my garlic bed with coffee grounds, spread it around the base of shrubs, and cover the tulip bulb bed. This keeps the squirrels from planting their nuts in the bulbs. The cats hate digging in the grounds to poop so a thick layer in their toilet area (flower beds) puts an end to their fun. I bury all my compost in the garden and cover the top with a thick layer of coffee grounds to mask the smell of decomposing vegetable matter from the raccoons and possums. If I don't cover the top, the compost will be dug up by the rascals. I even spread coffee grounds under the raspberry rows to keep down the weeds and where ever I don't want weeds growing. Thank you starbucks for the unlimited supply of grounds.

I've got a real problem with rinsing pets with coffee grounds. Coffee, chocolate and quite a few other things are very very poisonous to pets especially dogs and cats. Please check this out.

This reads like an April fool's posting... wipe it all over your counters? put it in your hair? what the....?

coffee ground mixed with soil good for plants.

Coffe in your dog (as in, fed to your dog) is bad. Coffee on your dog is harmless, trust me. My dog likes to hang around underfoot and make me spill coffee all the time. After which, he proceeds to step in it and track puppy prints across the hardwoods.

As for coffee grounds on your counter, it seems to me they would make a good abrasive. Before there were scrubby pads and steel wool, there was coffee...

If I rinse it in my hair am I also going to get the dyeing properties? Will my hair be clean or colored?

Sprinkle just outside your doors to keeps slugs out of your house. We keep a thin line in front of the small step up into our house and never have slugs come in anymore. I was told to replace it every few weeks, but I only do it when it's been blown away or washed off by rain. It works for months. And I even put my outside doormat over it and it still works.

I'm going to try this with the ants that inevitably find their way into my house every spring and stay until the cold weather drives them away. I've tried vinegar and it just isn't doing it. Hopefully this will.

I have a silly question: if I put it in a nylon and knot it, isn't it possible for the coffee grounds to get mold or 'go bad'?

They are also great for acid loving plants, especially rosebushes.

I already use weird things to wash & condition my hair (baking soda and apple cider vinegar) so I didn't think using coffee grounds was that big of a leap. I tried using it as both a facial scrub and a hair rinse....boy, what a *mess*! As a facial scrub, it didn't work as well as just baking soda and water, and it was messy to rinse off. The grinds just get everywhere. As a hair rinse, it seemed to work okay -- I didn't leave it in very long and it didn't seem to color at all, but again -- a PAIN to rinse out and made a huge mess in the shower. (My standard ACV & essential oil is much easier to use as a conditioning rinse!)