Maybe you’re like me. Maybe you’ve been slowly killing your houseplants with your dirty sinful sink water, but are too lazy to go buy fancy “distilled” water. Maybe the deaths surrounding you are easily ignored with a few glasses of wine and now you have empty wine bottles overflowing your counter.

Well, plant pals, have I got a hack for you!

Step 1: Clean those bottles out withStep warm water and soap. I suggest Dawn because you can use it to clean fish tanks and baby ducks.

Tip: While cleaning the bottles, you can get a little arm workout with your makeshift Shake Weight!

Step 2: Once they’re clean, refill your bottles with sinful chlorine faucet water. Be sure to leave them uncorked so the chemicals can fly away.

Step 3: Set them in a safe spot for the next 24 hours, or whenever you remember this. I suggest the top of the fridge or on an exercise bike (because let’s be honest, it’s a coat rack now).

For real though, I did this Monday – set my bottles right beside the sink – and completely forgot about them until Friday night. Oopsie!

Step 4: Now the water is safe for your plants! For storage, I suggest re-corking the bottles to prevent spills. But any stopper will work. (I just have a mason jar full of wine corks that I can finally justify keeping.)

Extra:

You can whip out your modge-podge and decorate your bottles! Or have your kids do it as a craft project/free labor. I image tissue paper or dried flower pedals would look amazing. Just remember, without a funnel or hose faucet, these bottles will get soaked whenever you refill them.

Here are some cool decorating ideas I found on homesthetics.net: