The How to Get Rid of Things Blog

I’ve recently discovered the joys of the Yahoo! Answers program, and I think there’s some potential here to keep How to Get Rid of Things advice in the public eye. I signed up a couple of weeks ago, and not too long ago I was picked as a best answer for the service they offer in the U.K. Here is the question and my answer. Apparently spiders are a problem in the United Kingdom as well. I offered her a link to a book I’d bought about spiders in Minnesota (the north woods), not thinking that she would actually appreciate a book detailing spiders only found in the most northern parts of North America. I also linked here to the wikipedia article about spiders, and back to How to Get Rid of Things–which brings me to my point.

If you happen to be all about answering questions and getting pseudo-rewards for them, I strongly recommend that you  check out the Yahoo! Answers program. It’s easy to sign up for, and it’s actually a bit of fun. Not only that, but you can brush up on your rhetoric skills by seeing just how many times you can lull a couple of readers into thinking you really do have the best answer to their problem.

Oh, and if you find the occasion to link back to getridofthings.com at the bottom of your Yahoo Answer page, please do.

Lately we’ve been working on developing content within the content of our pages. Like wikipedia, we’d like to have a more comprehensive answer to each problem, and in the spirit of this endeavor we’ve decided to add encyclopedic links within each article. Examples of these links so far include tea tree oil as a treatment for athlete foot (foot fungus) and acne.

As a natural medication, tea tree oil is an amazing fungicide and germicide, and is known more commonly as an organic antiseptic. Some say tea tree oil can even be used to treat gonorrhea, but I would recommend antibiotics for something as serious as an STD.

Genital Warts bad. I’ll update this ASAP.

Yeah, scabies sounds pretty gross now, doesn’t it? Well, here’s an article about how to get rid of scabies. Getting rid of a scabies infestation is a lot like getting rid of head lice and pubic lice, except the scabies “bug” is a mite that burrows through your skin, laying its eggs rather than staying on the surface like lice. The same chemical (Permethrin) is used to treat scabies as is used to treat most lice problems; the only real difference being that the Permethrin is put into a cream that is then rubbed into the skin, left on for up to 8 hours, and then rinsed off with warm water. As with any mite infestation, you should probably do your laundry in hot water and dry it with a hot dryer to make sure you don’t have any straggling scabies mites running around on your linens. The topical treatment is usually done for about 3 days and then once more after about a week or so, to ensure a scabies free skin. It should be important to note that the rashes and irritation caused by the mites can last up to 3 weeks after the mites have been killed via treatment. So, be patient.

There are natural solutions to scabies infestations if you’re not up for the whole chemical-insecticides-on-your-body bit. Things like tea tree oil, creams that contain sulfur, and products like Lice R Gone are available at your local drugstore, health foods store, and are sold by a number of online vendors. To read the full article on getting rid of scabies, go here.