Tip Thursday
Fellow AF wife, Magnolia Sun does a Tip Thursday. This week I thought I would join her!
I received this tip in an email from my mom:
We’re troubled by roaches here in the South, and I’ve found an effective, economical, and environmentally safe way to deal with them. I coat the top inch of a glass jar with vegetable oil and pour in three or four ounces of beer. I place this trap in one of those places where roaches love to hide, and I forget about it for two or three days. By this time I’ll have a jarful of roaches; once attracted to the beer bait, they fall in and can’t get back out over the oily barrier. I just put the lid on the jar, throw the whole thing out, and start over with another jar. This method sure beats smelly sprays and poisons.
I haven’t had any roach problems here in Texas, but when we lived in South Carolina- they took over! No matter how clean your house was, if you didn’t have it treated regularly, you would be co- habituating with these bugs!
August 2nd, 2007 at 10:04 am
I wish I would have known about this a couple of years ago. When we were in our old office we had a customer bring a computer in for repair. He set it gently down on my desk and quickly walked out the door. When I moved it, I didn’t set it down quite so gently and roaches started running out of the computer. Hubs grabbed it and almost literally threw it out the door. We had never had a problem with roaches before that but it took months to get rid of them.
August 2nd, 2007 at 10:45 am
great idea, except who wants a jar full of roaches?
August 2nd, 2007 at 4:18 pm
Ewww… roaches!! What a great tip from your mom. We don’t have roach issues up here, but mosquitoes and ticks are major pests for us in the summer. Any tips for those buggers!?
I have also been finding nasty spiders around my house lately. Grosses me out!
Jane, P&B Girls