Friday Favorites
This week, I have deeply appreciated…
#1: My Homemade Fruit-fly Trap:
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I waited one day too long to exterminate the few pesky fruit-flies that were bouncing around our counter-tops. They propagated. Like bunnies. No, like fruit-flies. Which is even worse. So, I whipped out my all-natural concoction to ruthlessly kill approximately 20 of them. (Shivers.)
The recipe: In a bowl, mix a swig of apple cider vinegar, red wine vinegar, and a squirt of dish soap. Let the stinky mixture sit on the counter-top overnight. In the morning, you’ll be disgusted (and happy) to dispose of your pests.
#2: Micro-fiber cloths!
Get a streak-free mirror without chemicals! Just spritz a little water on the mirror, wipe the surface with your micro-fiber cloth and you’ll be sparklingly proud of your environmentally friendly investment. Find yours in the cleaning isle of Wal Mart, Target, or other micro-fiber selling locations. AMAZING! (This is the cleaning secret that the chemical companies can’t talk about!)
#3: My “Ruble for Your Thoughts” toe-nails! I know it’s a bit unconventional to post photos of one’s toes online, but I just got a manicure and pedicure and love the sparkly autumn color on my toes. My newest statement of conviction is that I simply *must* get a pedicure every October to slough off my summer feet and ease into the cold weather (which came with vigor today!).
October 12th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
And those toes will look great in Disney!
October 17th, 2007 at 7:51 am
I can’t believe you just posted a recipe for a fruit fly trap! I never imagined that there existed one. I had a friend just ask if I had a natural recipe for this (which I didn’t) and right after that I managed to acquire a slew of them myself. I’m going to put this to use right away (and send it to my friend). THANK YOU! Would you mind if I posted a link to this in my blog?
October 20th, 2007 at 7:50 pm
Well then you REALLY won’t believe that on our way home from Disney World, I sat next to an Orkin executive who was returning from a pest-control conference (she was really pumped up about the whole thing; must have been pretty motivating!). She said that another great trap is to put some vinegar, banana and yeast into a thin-necked bottle; leave it out until it has trapped your fruit flies. She said that the flies live in the throats of our sink pipes. Even if we clean well on the outside of the sink, it’s the inside that really counts. SO, she said to get an enzyme cleaner for your pipes and be sure to scrub them out every once in a while.
I don’t mind if you post to this post. Spread the good word… the fruit flies sure don’t have a problem doing so!
October 23rd, 2007 at 9:06 pm
Thanks for the extra info! I’m going to have to get that enzyme cleaner I think. I have lots of dead buggies in the bowl but they keep multiplying. Yuck I want them gone!!