http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/ How to Get Rid of Things: Forum Tag: vinegar - Recent Topics en Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:17:10 +0000 http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/topic/gnat-advice-effective#post-347 Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:12:56 +0000 endobiont 347@http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/ <p>HI!<br /> I stumbled across your website on what I thought was another waste of 8 hours' time, vortexing on the internet with no luck... But I was wrong. You ROCK!!! Your advice about the vinegar and dish soap... Nothing short of brilliance. Since I didn't have the cheap stuff, I used an $8 bottle of Mrs. Bragg's Apple Cider Vinegar that I was going to use for salad dressing and plain old Dawn dishsoap and combined in a very deep, fishbowl-type glass bowl. Within seconds, I saw 3 of those pesky things hovering (that's all they do, it seems, until they get tired, then I slap 'em with my palm and smear them all over my cabinets, counters, mirrors, etc) all over it. Amazing. Truly amazing.</p> <p>I want to add additional points to your sage advice:</p> <p>1) Don't spill wine, juice or vinegar (!!). If you do, clean it up IMMEDIATELY.<br /> 2) Only dispose of trash in covered containers within your home. Take it out EVERY morning.<br /> 3) If you feed your pets wet food, give them 10 minutes to eat what they want, then dispose (I use disposable paper bowls I buy in bulk) or pack away in the fridge.<br /> 4) Buy fly-paper and hang them where a) you feed pets b) your trash is c) anywhere else you see them around. Try to find the source.<br /> 5) If you eat fruit routinely and have to cut it, wash and store all utensils in the dishwasher. They can smell sugar on even "clean" knives/cutting boards sitting in a drainer.<br /> 5) If you live above a busy bar (like I do) whose employees dump old beer bottles, wine bottles, etc every 10 minutes into a dumpster near where your patio door is, MOVE. </p> <p>Thanks again, and more pointers are welcome!<br /> endobiont </p> http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/topic/getting-rid-of-asian-beetleslady-bugs#post-164 Sun, 04 May 2008 00:05:00 +0000 ccfj 164@http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/ <p>I think I found it!! At least since I've used it there haven't been any little visitors.<br /> Cider Vinegar!! Perhaps any vinegar will work. I wiped it around the windows where the bugs congregated - had had 3 dozen on Tuesday before I used the vinegar, 4 on Wednesday and one on Thursday and none since!!!!</p> <p>I got the idea from a visit, years ago, to the California coast when we had lunch at an outdoor restaurant. There were bowls of vinegar on the tables to keep the bees away. </p>