Outdoor Life Hack for Flies
Outdoor Life Hack for those annoying Flies 🪰!!
Summertime means so many of my favorite things: pool time, cook outs, hanging out at the lake, longer days, pretty flowers, I could go on and on! One of my least favorite things about summertime is flies!
This year has been especially bad with flies. Our porches were covered with them and with everyone going in and out of the house, guess where they ended up?! Yep… in the house!
I thought about just locking everyone out of the house, but figured that wasn’t very nice, and I bet they are smart enough to find a way in! 😂
A co-worker told me about how she used bars of Irish spring soap to get rid of theirs!
Off I ran to our local Dollar General (bc they are literally every where in the south) and bought several bars!
I have heard of using the soap 3 different ways:
- Placing the whole bars in different locations.
- Breaking up the bars and placing the pieces in small bags.
- Using shavings from the bars.
I of course went with the easiest of the 3 and left my bars whole. I hid the bars in various spots such as: behind my welcome sign, behind my old milk jug, in the old wooden tool box with my faux roses, and inside a small pot.
It’s crazy the difference. Now we only have a few here and there, which is much more manageable.
Now to figure out how to get rid of all these dang spiders! If you have an easy spider solutions drop it in the comments! Please & Thank You!!! 🙂
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❤️Danya
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Use a swifter dry mop for webs on ceilings and corners
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What other soap would be similar to Irish spring soap ? I live in Australia and haven’t seen it here.
Red wine vinegar diluted in a spray bottle. Spray in the corners of your home. It works and doesn't stain certain paint. So with that being said. See if it stains in a sopt that no one can see. Spray in corners on the floor etc. Also they now have those things you plug in. They have to face the same way. My neighbor bought 2 for her apartment for the mice. It chases the mice to my place some times and five my cats a night of football fun.. it also worked for insects on her side as well.. we don't get many insects in our apartment. Lots of spiders out side of the building and the hallway. What I want to k ow is how to get rid if the stink bugs? Those are just as creepy as the spiders.
MOSQUITOES!!! How do you get rid of these blood suckers????