**Old Tricks Save Money** Survival on a Shoestring Budget PESTS #1

Old Tricks Save Money

Survival on a Shoestring Budget

Ants, Cockroaches, Mice and Rats

$.99 Cents Plus tax

Latter day tips to help you live through whatever ventures lay ahead in our economic down turn are the purpose of these articles.

For those who are use to calling on the pay as you go plumber, pest control, and so on; these articles are to let you know it can be done on your own and save you big bucks.

For those who have lived as I have for many years on a shoestring budge; A Great Big I Feel ya my friends! and I hope you can pick up a few more tips to make your life a little more comfortable.

PESTS

One major problem in the summer months is being run over by pests. I learned a long time ago from a very precious friend who lived through the tough depression how to conserve. Now days we have many more option then they did back then to shop around to get the best deal.

I live at the $. 99 cent store first and then the others. You can get a good size boric acid bottle to help rid your house of roaches and ants. MAKE SURE THAT IS ALL YOU ARE GETTING!

Please click on the link below, which tells you all you need to know about boric acid so you can make an informed choice.

I have been using boric acid safely for many years and I know what is in it. Nothing accept what comes naturally. No mixed toxins.

I usually recycle a lid from a cottage cheese container or the likes; because they are thin and EASILY slid under the stove and refrid. out of the reach of children and pets. If you have locks on your cupboards, place the lids in the corner of the cupboards where they won't be disturbed.

I have always used a mask(3-4 @ the .99 cent store), and out of the flow of any air from a fan/cooler; mixed about half sugar; which is a great lure, and boric acid. Mix it with a fork and kind of crush it together or use a tooth pick and then toss it. Make sure the fork goes into some water ready for washing.

For the big red fire ants; I buy the cheapest white rice and COVER their hole.  They will move it and take it down to their nests.  I think when they finally hit some water they explode.  Or so I have been told.  This is a safe way to keep toxin down.

Below is another way to make your bait.

Boric Acid

Insecticidal

Boric acid was first registered in the US as an insecticide in 1948 for control of cockroaches, termites, fire ants, fleas, silverfish, and many other insects.[6]It acts as a stomach poison affecting the insects' metabolism, and the dry powder is abrasiveto the insects' exoskeleton.

Boric acid is generally considered to be safe to use in household kitchens to control cockroaches and ants. Homemade ant bait can be made by dissolving 1 teaspoon (5 mL) powdered boric acid and 10 teaspoons (50 mL) sugar into 2 cups (500 mL) of water; this mixture can then be absorbed into cotton balls which are left near ant trails. This reportedly will be carried back into the ants' nest, killing any ants that eat it, potentially destroying the entire colony.

Boric acid is also made into a paste or gel form. The paste or gel has attractants in it to attract insects; mostly cockroaches. It is convenient to use because you can simply put a small dab under sinks, counters, refrigerators, and stoves. The boric acid dehydrates the insects. It does it slowly and they don't realize they are in danger. One of the real benefits of using boric acid is that immunity can't be built up since it works through dehydration. The insects take the bait back to the nest and one application can eliminate them for an entire year.

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Ants and cockroaches carry all kinds of diseases. They are NOT something we have to live with right under our noses.

Mice and Rats

Approximatly $2.00 traps $1.00 for peanute butter and white bread

The lest toxic way I know to rid your area of these pests is first defense a cat. If you can't do the dander then from a cat; buy the cheepest peanute butter and white bread. They make a good mix along with a trap.

Take the white bread and ball it up in as small a ball as you can that just fits over the metal part of the trap. Dip it into the peanute butter and shape it onto the metal part. The smell of the peanute butter is a great lure and it works. Sorry for the folks who think this is inhumane, but the diseases these pest cause far out weighs the the pests uncomfortable demise. The poisons in the boxes leave the animal to die in the walls and many other place you don't want to have to search to find, when the stinch gets unbearable.

The toxins the pest people spray while wearing a mask and telling you it is ok now; to take your family and pets back into the dwelling, kinda makes ya wonder how dense we might be. Any toxin has effects. We need to make our own judgement after WE do the research.

When you have deposited the critters in the trash or buried them with a proper burial; take the traps and put them in bleach for the next go around. They will be clean and non-toxic if you don't breath in the vapors from the bleach. Set them out to dry in the sun. Then use the bleach down your toilet which will give you a whiter bowl. DO NOT pour the bleach down into septic tanks you will change the break down of the enzymes.

Hope this has been helpful and saves you money!

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