philr
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Since I live up north, we don't have to deal with as many insects as in the south.
I have never seen a roach here! Apparently there are, usually in older houses with people who don't clean much! My mother was raised in an old house in a poor neighborhood of my hometown and they had a convenience store in a part of their home. My grandmther took care of the store until her death (at age 36) in 1960, but after her death, the older kids were running the store and they started to have problems!
People would bring back empty Coke bottles with roaches in them so they eventually had some too! My grandfather wasn't the kind of guy who would call the exterminator just for a few roaches but he couldn't get rid of them with his Raid cans so when he noticed that the situation was a bit out of control, he did! Apparently, he didn't have to call many times to get rid of roaches! One time was enough! That's one of the few advantages of our cold weather!
Still, my mother and my aunts were traumatised with insects, they all remember roaches running to hide when they turned on the big fluorescent light over the table in the kitchen/dining room and others getting out of the toaster when they used it so they turned it on before putting bread slices in! They even saw some in their pull-out dishwasher!
Apparently, a family living nearby had so many roaches that they didn't bother to hide anymore in their house when they turned the lights on (or there was no space left for them to hide!) and they even had to get them out of their plates while eating! They were the ones suspected to have brought roaches in Coke bottles at my grandfather's place!
So my mother learned me to rinse thoroughly refundable bottles and cans and even the dirty dishes before letting them in the dishwasher unless it's ready to be started immediately after leaving the plates in! I even rinse packages that are going in the trash bin!
I have never seen a roach here! Apparently there are, usually in older houses with people who don't clean much! My mother was raised in an old house in a poor neighborhood of my hometown and they had a convenience store in a part of their home. My grandmther took care of the store until her death (at age 36) in 1960, but after her death, the older kids were running the store and they started to have problems!
People would bring back empty Coke bottles with roaches in them so they eventually had some too! My grandfather wasn't the kind of guy who would call the exterminator just for a few roaches but he couldn't get rid of them with his Raid cans so when he noticed that the situation was a bit out of control, he did! Apparently, he didn't have to call many times to get rid of roaches! One time was enough! That's one of the few advantages of our cold weather!
Still, my mother and my aunts were traumatised with insects, they all remember roaches running to hide when they turned on the big fluorescent light over the table in the kitchen/dining room and others getting out of the toaster when they used it so they turned it on before putting bread slices in! They even saw some in their pull-out dishwasher!
Apparently, a family living nearby had so many roaches that they didn't bother to hide anymore in their house when they turned the lights on (or there was no space left for them to hide!) and they even had to get them out of their plates while eating! They were the ones suspected to have brought roaches in Coke bottles at my grandfather's place!
So my mother learned me to rinse thoroughly refundable bottles and cans and even the dirty dishes before letting them in the dishwasher unless it's ready to be started immediately after leaving the plates in! I even rinse packages that are going in the trash bin!
