In an effort to battle the roaches that have started appearing in our kitchen, the Mr ordered some home roach elimination kit. This kit is not the same as a bug bomb. We had bug bombed our house twice with no results. This elimination kit is also pet-friendly and is supposed to last us a long time.
I do want to mention that we are clean people. We've lived in our house for 3 ½ years and have never had any sort of rodent/bug problem. I have no idea what started this little invasion but I hope we've put a stop to it.
The big plan was to clean out our kitchen cabinets on Saturday and spray down the kitchen, the backyard and even the front of the house. We wanted the fuckers evicted for good!
I have to say, we didn't realize how much crap we had until we had to remove it all from the kitchen. Just to hightlight, we have:
- 6 espresso cups and saucers
- 12 footed dessert dishes
- 5 coffee mugs
- A countless number of tupperware containers
- 25 glasses
- Lots of other random crap.
We're just 2 people in a small rowhome. We rarely have folks over for dinner and even when we do, we only have a dining room table meant for 4! Why the hell do we have so much stuff? It's because we got married. Oh and it's because I have a mother who insists of giving us a ton of crap.
Anywho - after cleaning out the cabinets, the Mr sprayed everything down. I decided to take advantage of the beautiful day and go running around Patterson Park. I'm trying to get serious about this whole training for a 10k and triathlon thing. Patterson Park has a running map that I don't quite understand. I ran the perimeter of both parks (so the solid blue and the solid red) but they don't list the perimeter of the red. So I'm guessing it was roughly 2.5 miles? Yeah - I have a ways to go before I hit 6.4 miles.
Wow - off topic, much? What I want to say is that so far it seems that the elimination kit is working. We've found a number of roaches attempting to crawl to freedom only to drop dead on our kitchen floors and counters. It's kind of gross but I guess it's nice to know that perhaps they're gone for good? Fingers crossed.
4 comments:
Wow... you only have 5 coffee mugs? I counted ours when we moved, and when I counted 19, I got rid of four that I didn't like. Which still leaves 15. CRAZY.
I'm pretty impressed with the 12 footed dessert dishes, though...
We have neighbors that share walls on both sides. The next door neighbor is a renter in his 20's who's kind of... filthy. We ended up having to call in a pest control company to get rid of the bugs, despite being relatively clean people. Sigh.
The best way to get rid of roaches is to kill your neighbors.
I hope that got rid of them!! We used to have a terrible ant problem every summer in the house I lived in before Jon and I got married. They would even get in the dishwasher...it was so gross!!
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