What's your favorite way to kill cockroaches


Hotshot , Sunday, 1st of August 2010 04:05:39 PM

l used to spray them with whatever aerosol can l found handy; deodorant, 
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spray glue, air freshener, etc. But my favorite was metallic gols spray 
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paint. They were SO pretty!
Typo, sorry! ... my favorite was metallic 
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GOLD spray paint. They were SO pretty!
 
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Babi Bash!! , Monday, 2nd of August 2010 08:39:03 PM

Well when I was younger, I used anything at hand hair products,  
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insect spray, food, etc..  
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When I was 15, I got my very own cat for the first. He was the best bug  
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killer in the world. Because these were not cockroaches, they were  
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waterbugs flying all over the place. I'd go to bed scared out of my mind &  
my cat would kill the bug in the night & there'd be a dead bug lying in  
front of my bed as a present.  
 
Now that I am older, I get someone else to do it for me. Just last night I  
had to go screaming to my best friend to kill a cockroach in her  
refrigerator crawling around. Ewww!!!  
 
 
 
 
 

Minnie , Tuesday, 3rd of August 2010 05:03:43 PM

Just today (and this is no joke) my friend and I were  
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discussing cockroaches because we both have lived overseas (she in Africa  
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and I in Haiti) where they are plentiful and huge. She told me that that  
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her mother in law would pick them up and with her thumbs flick the heads  
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offs! So gross!  
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Me, I used a flyswatter.works well  
 
 
 
 
 

Mo , Wednesday, 4th of August 2010 03:44:44 AM

Stomp ,spray fumigate them. I hate those nasty  
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things..especially when they fly at you. But ya know>> that gold spray  
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paint might make them more tolerable to look at.dead of course.  
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Brat Sass , Thursday, 5th of August 2010 03:17:19 PM

boric acid will kill them off for good. you can mix it with  
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water and spray it on counters and/or line your base board in the  
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kitchen, you can leave it over night and just sweep it up in the morning.  
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you can also put it around your house outside.  
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Picachu , Friday, 6th of August 2010 02:41:30 PM

LMAO! thanks for bringing back memories of a single, childless  
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me at 21 years old spraying at roaches in my apartment with air freshener  
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and hairspray!  
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magical lifE........... , Saturday, 7th of August 2010 02:34:33 PM

I usually entrust that duty to my cat.  
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Crunch, swallow.  
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Such a good kitty!  
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E , Sunday, 8th of August 2010 02:15:32 AM

folow them to a rock solid surface,  
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and then..bang,smash them .  
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Booski , Monday, 9th of August 2010 09:13:35 AM

i haven't seen roaches up here (we live in the mountains) but  
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this is the one area i allow myself to be totally ''girly''. nothing  
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freaks me out but bugs, give me a mouse or a snake any day. so my  
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favorite way to handle any bug is shriek & scream & cry like a 5 year old  
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& jump up & down & point until my husband kills it for me. he he isn't  
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here, i hide & tell his dog ''get the bug'' & she won't stop until she  
finds one. i do not however do this if a spider or bee is involved, if  
that is the case i grab any can that i have that sprays anything & go for  
it myself.  
 
 
 
 
 

MeeMoe , Tuesday, 10th of August 2010 08:57:31 PM

A frying pan always worked for me. Barring that, use a fogger  
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insecticide.  
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Skitterz , Wednesday, 11th of August 2010 04:25:51 PM

buy roach motel they sell it at walmart ot target and also get  
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the gel . the gel its very good you just apply on all corners where ever  
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you see they go more. and in a few days they will be dead on the floor. we  
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had a bunch of them they love to hide on electronics stuff. so becareful.  
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dont use the raid spray it smells bad and dont even work. our roaches are  
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all gone. also try the mouse gel traps they get stuck there and easy fast  
and goooddddddddddddddd!!!!!!!!!!  
 
 
 
 
 

Running Bare , Thursday, 12th of August 2010 12:41:04 AM

boots,..crunch  
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