The following E-Mail was recently sent to me by a personal friend and a fan of this blog. It’s not necessarily an Internet Hoax that’s meant to intentionally deceive the general public at large, but it’s also not true. It’s an urban legend. Read on:
Subject: Try This
I can’t wait to try this in the summer!
I was at a deck party awhile back, and the bugs were having a ball biting everyone. A man at the party sprayed the lawn and deck floor with Listerine, and the little demons disappeared. The next year I filled a 4-ounce spray bottle and used it around my seat whenever I saw mosquitoes. And voila! That worked as well. It worked at a picnic where we sprayed the area around the food table, the children’s swing area, and the standing water nearby. During the summer, I don’t leave home without it…..Pass it on.
I tried this on my deck and around all of my doors. It works – in fact, it killed them instantly. I bought my bottle from Target and it cost me $1.89. It really doesn’t take much, and it is a big bottle too; so it is not as expensive to use as the can of spray you buy that doesn’t last 30 minutes. So, try this, please. It will last a couple of days. Don’t spray directly on a wood door (like your front door), but spray around the frame. Spray around the window frames, and even inside the dog house.
Mosquitoes adore water and blood. If you wish to remove mosquitoes from your general vicinity then remove the water and the blood. Standing water attracts the biting bugs. If you’ve got blood laying around all over your yard then perhaps mosquitoes may not be your biggest problem ! 😉
