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Because Having Nothing To Do Today Would Be Too Much To Ask

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11 comments to Because Having Nothing To Do Today Would Be Too Much To Ask

  • damn!

    you know, it’s not that i’m afraid of an ant, i’m not. but what i don’t like is SWARMS of anything. there could be a swarm of bunnies and i’d still be creeped the hell out.

    my parents house, no matter what we do, gets ants once a year, although they are much bigger than this. still, i hate it.

    although…nothing tops… A MOTH. thank god it’s not that.

  • nancy

    Love the title. SOOO True.

    Been there done that and the #$@* ants were after the cough syrup in the UPSTAIRS bathroom. Tracked from the kitchen, through the microwave through the wall ….

    Everything went in to Ziploc bags after that. Even the kids’ Tylenol.

  • yuck!

    go to home depot and get the Ortho Home Defense MAX spray pump. it is the ONLY thing that works. This summer we had swarming columns of ants from all directions. I tried traps, gels, everything. Only the Ortho product worked. The ants have been gone since.

  • I try to remind myself that they are very, very clean little creatures. True - they have natural antibiotics on them, so what they walk on is CLEANER than it was before.

    But it doesn’t work. I still get creeped out.

  • we had mice and ants. i finally called professionals after trying all the earth friendly, hippy products, then the commercial products at the hardware stores. it wasn’t as cheap as a bottle of NO-ANT or whatever, but dude, worth it.

  • Gotta love those Grant’s Ant Stakes.

    My head itches now.

  • ick ick ick ick ick. hate ants. try borax- it works surprisingly well!

  • I totally didn’t get what that was the first time I glanced … now I have to say ewwwwww.
    we have moths. bought an extra fridge to house all rice, nuts, cereal, lentils, etc to evade the damn things…. ewwwwwwww.

  • [...] It looked like it rained a little overnight. Not much though. Maybe our stupid, stupid ants will leave us alone if there’s water outside. They’re in our bathroom upstairs now. Why? No obvious attractants other than we’ve made the kitchen less hospitable. Those ants are jerks. It reminds me a bit of when we were fighting mice at our house in San Diego. [...]

  • [...] Sassy keeps yelling that we need this stuff to combat the ants throwing a party in our walls. I must admit that it feels like nothing will work but we will be giving it a try as soon as it stops raining. [...]