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By el_jeffo
@el_jeffo (750)
Philippines
May 22, 2007 1:19am CST
Let's post interesting things that are useful in life. I'll start by posting something I found out in desperation. I really, really hate cockroaches, they are icky and disgusting. I don't even want to swat them because it'll start smelling bad. So usually I pour alcohol on them and watch them squirm for a few minutes until they die. One night, there was a cockroach in my room and I was out of alcohol. Desperate, because it was sort of flying around, I went to the kitchen. I found two liquids in the cupboard: cooking oil, and ketchup. Ketchup was automatically disregarded. So I brought the cooking oil and poured a bit of it over the cockroach. To my surprise, it died instantly. Now I kill cockroaches using cooking oil or baby oil. It's much more effective than Raid and Baygon combined.
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@magicalmerlin (1623)
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24 May 07
I am so glad not only that I was not eating when reading this discussion but that we do not have cockroaches in my house. We have spiders but I hate them. I have to call my husband to get rid of them. If you put a glass over one and them slide a thin piece of card under the glass you can transfer them outside safely without having to harm them.
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@magicalmerlin (1623)
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26 May 07
Oh how awful. I had to check my ceiling just reading your post to see if we had any there. It made me frightened just thinking about them. Yuck!
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@tala91285 (1074)
• Philippines
22 May 07
Do you know how to kill lizards without touching them? I hate lizards.
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