Why Japanese Homes Almost Never Have Bugs — The Habits That Keep Them Out
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Published Sep 28, 2026, 4:00 PM · 2w ago
Maya Sato
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Description
The secrets to managing your home like the Japanese 👉🏻 https://mayasato.org/
Japanese bug-free home habits — no sprays, no traps, no poison.
Japanese homes stay free of ants, moths, flies, mice and spiders without a single spray. Maya Sato shows the 20 old habits that keep bugs out: bay leaves in the flour, lavender in the wardrobe, peppermint for mice, vinegar on the ant trail, and sealing the one gap every house has. It is natural, cheap and done for good.
Exact doses — 18:45
Bay leaves: 3 per cupboard and drawer · 1 per 1 kg bag of flour · 1 in the rice · 1 in the oats · 1 per dry-goods shelf · change every 3 months
Lavender (sill bag): 2 level tbsp (about 5 g) in a small cotton bag
Lavender (wardrobe/drawer bag): 2 heaping tbsp (about 6 g) · 2 bags in the wardrobe, 1 per knitwear drawer
Peppermint: 5 drops of pure oil on a walnut-sized cotton-wool ball · refresh every 7 days
Ant trail: 2 tbsp white vinegar, undiluted, on a folded cloth
Cloves: about 30 whole cloves (1 level tbsp) pushed into an orange or lemon
Bin wash: 1 cup (250 ml) white vinegar + half a bucket (about 5 L) hot water, 1:20, every Sunday
Back door: 1 cup (about 100 g) used coffee grounds, in a line 2 fingers wide
Chalk line as thick as a pencil, or 1 level tbsp baking soda per metre
Yield: 50 g dried lavender fills about 10 sill bags
The 20 habits
0:00 Why Japanese homes stay bug-free
2:20 20. Ring the house with the smells they hate
3:20 19. A bay leaf in the flour
4:15 18. Lavender in the wardrobe
5:00 17. Peppermint for the mice
5:45 16. Vinegar on the ants' road
6:35 15. Cloves for the flies
7:15 14. Keep it spotless
8:05 13. Never leave food sitting out
8:45 12. Close their way in (the gap under the sink)
10:05 11. Mind the bin
10:50 10. Take away the water
11:55 9. Herbs on the window sill
12:30 8. The net curtain and the light
13:10 7. Coffee grounds and citrus at the door
13:55 6. Store your woollens clean
14:30 5. Get into the corners
15:05 4. A line of chalk
15:50 3. Horse chestnuts on the sill
16:55 2. Deny them everything
17:35 1. A clean, dry, sealed house needs no poison
18:45 Exact doses, all in one place
Maya Library — 2 volumes + 8 cards:
Which surfaces vinegar, soda and oils must never touch, method by method
The nine mixes that make toxic gas · what each product destroys · why it gets dirty again · 8 cards to hang where you work.
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Details
- Published
- Sep 28, 2026, 4:00 PM
- Length
- 21:52 (1,312 s)
- Format
- Long-form
- Category
- People & Blogs
- Audio language
- EN
- Quality
- HD
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- Made for kids
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- Licensed content
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- Video ID
- NVYg5hrBGmc
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