I've Never Had a Bug in My House in 40 Years, The Old Trick My Mother Swore By

📖 The whole house walk, room by room — what to look for at each of the four doors and what to do about it, with the charts to tape inside a cupboard door — is in my book, Nothing Goes to Waste: https://missevelynsnotebook.com/ In forty years in my own house I have never once bought a can of bug spray, and it isn't luck. It's four doors. A bug needs water, food, a warm hidden place and a way in, and if you shut all four, there is nothing left for it. This is pest control the way my mother did it, with no truck in the driveway: how to get rid of ants and roaches by taking away what they came for, why the wet sponge in the sink matters more than the crumbs, why a new bag of flour goes in the freezer first, and the test with the edge of a quarter that finds the gap an insect walks through. Then the honest part. The bay leaf in the flour, the cinnamon line on the windowsill, the vinegar spray: I grade each one for what it actually does, because some of them do nothing at all and one of them my own mother swore by. Where the four doors stop and a professional is the right call. And a quiet word about the quarterly contract I paid for six years, and what was never on the invoice. CHAPTERS 0:00 Forty years, no bug spray, and why it isn't luck 0:43 Four doors, not a trick 1:26 Door one: water — the sponge, the drip, the pan under the refrigerator 2:55 Door two: food — pantry moths, the jar shelf, the freezer first 4:40 Door three: warmth and hiding — the boxes, the dark corners, the back of the fridge 5:55 Door four: the way in — the quarter test, the incense, steel wool and caulk, the drain brush 7:49 Four doors shut: nine tenths of the work 8:13 The thresholds, graded: bay leaves, cinnamon, vinegar spray, boric acid, diatomaceous earth 10:27 Where the four doors stop 11:18 Who profits: the truck every three months 12:16 What I'd do this week 12:50 The notebook, and your mother's threshold More from Miss Evelyn's Notebook: ▸ I Lost Two Years of Food in My Own Freezer — 12 Rules Since: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF8k9y5sRJI&list=PLAx8wFt8e9HM ▸ These 3 Powders Do What $100 of Cleaners Can't — for $12 a Year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md706leWpt8&list=PLAx8wFt8e9HM ▸ 25 Kitchen Rules From Grandma's Generation — I Tested Every One: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwDtywyjEEw&list=PLAx8wFt8e9HM ▸ 18 Things You're Storing Wrong And (What It's Costing You): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WD_MZY2RVo&list=PLAx8wFt8e9HM ▸ All my kitchen & household videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAx8wFt8e9HM No miracles. Just what works ❤️