Put a Sponge Under Your Trash Can Lid — The Old Appalachian Trick No Company Can Patent

🌿 Save $3,000–$5,000 a Year with My Complete Appalachian Home Methods I teach at: https://eulahatfield.com/ You paid twelve dollars for the lemon-scented bags. Eight more for the little disc you stick inside the can. And then one hot afternoon you lift the lid anyway, and the smell comes up at you like it has been waiting all day. Chicken bones, sour milk, three flies lifting off the rim. My grandmother Martha kept her slop pail by the kitchen door smelling better than the barn, using nothing but a rag, a vinegar crock, and a sprig of creek mint. She told me the smell does not live in the bucket. It lives under the lid. Today I show you exactly how to fix it. What is in this video: 🌿 The Sour Sponge: one half cup of white vinegar to one quarter cup of water, soaked into a plain cellulose sponge and clipped under the lid. It catches the meat and fish smell instead of covering it. I also tell you the vinegar mistake I made for years that drew fruit flies straight to my can. 🌿 The Soda Sponge: three tablespoons of baking soda pressed into a damp sponge, for the sour smell of spoiled milk, old grease, and coffee grounds. There is also a simple trick for the bottom of the can that catches the leaks. 🌿 The Mint Pair: both sponges on the same lid with creek mint tea worked into each one. It is the method on my own back porch, and the one mistake almost everyone would make with it kills both sponges in seconds. ⚠️ Honest limits on all three: this will not fix a dirty can, get rid of maggots, or keep out raccoons and bears. It covers the rotten-egg sulfur smell but does not catch it. There is also a clear warning about bleach, peppermint oil around cats and small children, and the one look-alike plant you must never use. The honest word, not skipped. 💰 Where to find everything and what it costs: around thirty dollars a year with wild mint, compared with the roughly $150 a year many households spend on scented bags, deodorizers, and sprays that only stand a pretty smell next to an ugly one. There is no company that can patent a wild plant that grows free on the hillside. That is the whole story. Tell me in the comments: in two words, how did your trash can smell the first night, and how did it smell a week later? And what do you think is the worst offender that goes into your trash? I read every single one. Subscribe so you do not miss it #NaturalRemedies #HomeRemedies #RuralLiving #FrugalLiving #Homesteading #SelfSufficiency #AppalachianLiving #OldWaysBetterWays