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Quick Tip To Share - Ant Repellent AND IT'S GREEN!

By Leesa Finley

Real Estate Broker/Owner with RED Properties NC #129285

July 14, 2009 11:24 PM

I keep running across these tips for everyday household remedies so I thought I would share them! My first was by necessity - Quick Tip To Share - Garbage Disposal Cleaner AND IT'S GREEN! and then Nevin Williams with First Priority Financial shared one that I thought was pretty cool - Quick Tip! His was all about getting dried on foods in microwaves "un stuck". Nevin - if you read this you should make that a Public post!

So this one that I came across is for ants! Summertime brings then out in droves! If you have a problem with ants in the house try this one out!

EQUAL ARTIFICIAL SWEETNER!

If the Equal is dusted along a cabinet (or where the problem is persistent) it will end the ant problem quickly! For some reason the Equal seems to repel the ants! Now, this will most likely not work on the heavy duty MEAN ants but for your run of the mill household ants it should do the trick!

I hope you find this helpful!

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Leesa L. Finley, Broker, Realtor®
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Rick Cordisco

Pocono Mountain Lakes Realty - Lake Harmony, PA

Pocono Real Estate Professional

Hey Leesa, now i am going to have to try this.

Jul 14, 2009 11:27 PM

Carol Smith

Casmi Photography - Mebane, NC

Makes sense. I mean ... Equal repels me! so it would make sense it would work on ants. LOL

For the record ... if you have trouble with ants or roaches in cupboards ... you can use the peel of a cucumber laid along the back of the cupboard and they will NOT enter. Not sure what property is in the cuke, but it works. When the peel is dried ... pitch it outside for the birds. No toxic stuff, no smell.

Jul 14, 2009 11:30 PM

Chip Jefferson

Gibbs Realty and Auction Company - Columbia, SC

Cool Green tip. I wonder what it is in equal that makes ants not like it. That is another topic all together that would be interesting to find out.

Jul 14, 2009 11:33 PM

Paddy (Patricia) Pizappi

Better Homes and Gardens Rand Realty - Pine Bush, NY

Real Estate Associate Broker Hudson Valley NY

LOL MEAN ANTS! This is a great idea to share these tips with the public Leesa. Great use for Equal since I won't use artificial sweetners. We all know I am sweet enough right??? Just kidding.

Jul 14, 2009 11:41 PM

Leesa Finley

RED Properties - Wake Forest, NC

RED Properties - Raleigh NC Real Estate

Pocono Realty - Why not, right???

Carol - Equal repels you - way too funny! I hate the stuff too! Can I add your Cucumber idea on a future post? (with props of course!)

Laura - I would love to know as well!

Paddy - You are just as sweet as can be!!! :)

Jul 14, 2009 11:49 PM

Dick and Dixie Sells

Sells Real Estate, LLC - Trinity, FL

Realtors, Tampa Bay Florida Homes For Sale

Leesa
Great tip, and appreciate your sharing with all of us. We will definitely try the Equal out. Hope we don't have any MEAN ants, only NICE ants! lol

Thanks again and have a great day!
Dick and Dixie Sells

Jul 14, 2009 11:50 PM

Toula Rosebrock

Diane Turton, Realtors, Forked River, NJ - Lacey Township, NJ

Broker/Sales Associate, Realtor, Lacey Township,

ToulaRosebrock,com

Hi Leesa:

Isn't that something!

We can always use this types of tips to use natural substances and avoid chemicals.

Jul 15, 2009 12:02 AM

Mike Saunders

Retired - Athens, GA

Leesa - interesting tip, and my wife will see this as another reason that aspartame is harmful. But so far I have been doing an ok job of keeping ants, mean or not, out of the house. Now, if I can just find something to keep them darn spiders out......

Jul 15, 2009 12:43 AM

Patricia Kennedy

RLAH@properties - Washington, DC

Home in the Capital

Leesa, I have bundhes of the little buggers in my kitchen! The fancyt un-green ant traps I have down are doing nothing at all to help the situation. I'll run out and get some of this stuff! Thnaks!

Jul 15, 2009 12:46 AM

Leesa Finley

RED Properties - Wake Forest, NC

RED Properties - Raleigh NC Real Estate

Dick and Dixie - you mean to tell me you have never encountered MEAN ants? They have a nasty reputation! ;)

Toula - I know, right? Who would have thought?

Jul 15, 2009 03:08 AM

Team Honeycutt

Allen Tate - Concord, NC

Great post! Thanks for sharing. I hope you have a wonderful rest of the week!

Jul 15, 2009 03:30 AM

Craig Rutman

Helping people in transition - Cary, NC

Raleigh, Cary, Apex area Realtor

I love the "Green Household Tips" series Leesa!

Keep 'em coming!

Heavy duty MEAN ants?!!!! Run of the mill household ants?!!!!

Too funny!

Jul 15, 2009 07:18 AM

Leesa Finley

RED Properties - Wake Forest, NC

RED Properties - Raleigh NC Real Estate

Mike - If you find something for the spiders LET ME KNOW! Thank goodness I am not afraid of them. Still though - I want them out of my house!

Pat - I have NEVER had luck with ant traps! Good luck with the Equal!

Jul 15, 2009 09:58 AM

Robert Vegas Bob Swetz

Las Vegas, NV

Leesa - If Equal repels ants I can just imagine what it does to our systems, very interesting post!

Vegas Bob

Jul 15, 2009 11:21 AM

Leesa Finley

RED Properties - Wake Forest, NC

RED Properties - Raleigh NC Real Estate

Craig - come on, you know the difference! The run of the mill household ants want world peace! The MEAN ants - well, they just can't be trusted! The wear gang colors and little bullet proof jackets!

Jul 15, 2009 11:33 AM

Leesa Finley

RED Properties - Wake Forest, NC

RED Properties - Raleigh NC Real Estate

Bob - well, it did say that it didn't kill them -- that's good, right?

Jul 15, 2009 12:19 PM

Grace Keng

Keller Williams Realty Cupertino - Cupertino, CA

CRS, CDPE (408) 799-8887

Thanks! I will use equal to repel the ants.

Grace Keng, Silicon Valley Northern California realtor, www.gracekeng.com

Jul 17, 2009 08:46 AM

Leesa Finley

RED Properties - Wake Forest, NC

RED Properties - Raleigh NC Real Estate

Grace - Give it a shot! It couldn't hurt, right?

Jul 17, 2009 08:51 AM

Laura Sampson

Happy Home Stager, LLC - Clermont, FL

Principal Stylist, CEP Trainer

Leesa,

I'd love to know more about the history of this tip. My research on Equal is that it is made via Methyl Ether (a process combining fatty acids and methanol and methanol is considered to be a toxic chemical) therefore Equal wouldn't be considered a green product.

Here's the line from wikipedia:

Methanol, also known as methyl alcohol, carbinol, wood alcohol, wood naphtha or wood spirits, is a toxic chemical

I'm very open to hearing opposing views.

All the best -

Jul 17, 2009 02:49 PM

Leesa Finley

RED Properties - Wake Forest, NC

RED Properties - Raleigh NC Real Estate

Laura - thanks for the information from your research! Good to know that it is being touted as "Green" as apparently you have found otherwise.

Jul 17, 2009 11:35 PM