Do you make your own bug spray? Do you buy a cheap, but natural brand?
By writersedge
@writersedge (22563)
United States
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@cobrateacher (8432)
• United States
5 Jul 08
A friend tells me he's never had a mosquito bite because he eats lots and lots of garlic. I tried, and it didn't work for me, but he said that's because my idea of a lot and his are not the same!
Any ideas for getting rid of Palmetto bugs? I don't know if other parts of the US eveb have them, but during the rainy sesason in the subtrops, they're a real plague! I'd rather make my own concoction than pay an exterminator!
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@writersedge (22563)
• United States
6 Jul 08
That should be cover, not over, sorry for the confusion.
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@writersedge (22563)
• United States
6 Jul 08
Oh yeah, try a snowmobile suit next time you're up here, you don't have to wear quite so many layers outdoors.
Interesting name, I had a Naturopathic healer give me cobra venom medicine for a little while, interesting stuff. It was cut over 100xs and only about 100th of a drop in a tiny pellet I dissolved in my mouth. Was supposed to lower my blood pressure, didn't. Was also supposed to make me able to really get after some one who got after me first, now, that, it did. They were calline me the mouse that roared.
So how do you come by your name, I think it's an interesting one.
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@cobrateacher (8432)
• United States
6 Jul 08
Do you think garlic pills work? Thanks for the advice about Googling it.
Now, about that weather, how do you function? It must make getting anywhere difficult. I went to New York once, and I had to wear so many layers of clothes I could barely move! The snow was really beautiful when it was new, but it got dirty and ugly and sloppy very quickly. I admire your ability to survive! Here we just need to find reief from the heat, and that's fairly easy.
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@Grandmaof2 (7578)
• Canada
5 Jul 08
Everybody says the regular listerine works wonderful and it actually kills mosquitoes. I plan to try it this weekend cause I'm going camping. Worth a try.
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
6 Jul 08
Listerine, really? I've never heard that. Everyone says that where you live? Interesting. Must be it really does then. Camping, if in the woods, is a really true test, like where I live is a swamp, that's also a really true test. Have fun camping and let me know how it works out and thanks!
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@writersedge (22563)
• United States
11 Aug 08
Tried listerine, bugs were after me in a few minutes, as soon as I started to swet.
@piasabird (1737)
• United States
5 Jul 08
Well, I just read this tip the other day. I haven't tried it yet so I can't attest to the fact that it will work. I read that if you put a dryer sheet in your pocket it will keep mosquitoes away.
If you try this please let me know if it worked for you. OK? I'm still using a can of OFF that I have but when that runs out I would like to just use a fabric softner dryer sheet and that would be a lot cheaper, too.
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@writersedge (22563)
• United States
5 Jul 08
I would if I could find dryer sheets I'm not allergic to. They've got to have some chemical in them or some perfume that messes with my head.
If I can find one that is hypoallegetic, then I will try. Thanks for the idea, never heard that one. Take care
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