Get rid of your common household pests!

I have been looking around the web for some tips on how to get rid of your common household pests. These are what I found…

Bed Bugs
- Rubbing alcohol kills them on the spot.
- You can also place items that are infested by bed bugs under the sun for a few days.

Ants
- You can use baby powder or talc powder where they normally crawl on.
- You can squirt vinegar (apple cider vinegar if you have it) and then let it dry.
- You can also use black pepper.

Roaches
- Naphthalene balls in corners of your closet and parts of the house. It’s still the best roach killer.
- Pour regular bleach down the drain. This will kill those hiding in there.

Rats
- Buy a large amount of rosemary. Burn it in a frying pan and put in rats’ crawl places. This will guarantee them not crawling there anymore because rats hate strong odor.
- Use Coke classic. Put the Coke in shallow containers where the rats can sip from. Since rats don’t have the ability to burp, their insides will explode killing them in the process.
- If you are trapping them, use cornmeal and sugar. Pour it all over the trap. Rats will eat every grain of sugar thus trapping them will be easier.
- Use plaster of paris. Just like with Coke, put the plaster of paris on small dishes and put in drops of vanilla, too. They will eat the plaster of paris and it will kill them. Indigestion, you know.
- You can also soak cotton balls with peppermint oil and place the cotton balls in crawl places just like with the rosemary trick.

There you go! I made sure to focus more on rats because it is the most common household pests that are hard to be rid off. I hope moms got something out of the tips I compiled. I will be dishing out more of these tips in my next entries.

Correct timing in drinking water

I didn’t know this until I read from a friend’s buzz…

Correct timing in drinking water will maximize its effectiveness on the human body.

Two (2) glasses of water after waking up: Helps activate internal organs.
One (1) glass of water 30 minutes before any meal: Helps digestion.
One (1) glass of water before taking a bath: Helps lower blood pressure.
One (1) glass of water before going to sleep: Helps to avoid stroke or heart attack.

There’s nothing wrong with following the timing of drinking water as indicated above. Drinking water is good for the body. Timing might save us from harm.

Drink plenty of water to hydrate the body, okay?

Go-to gift idea

Raffy’s go-to gift idea has always been watches. He told me that it’s the safest piece of gift that one can give to a love one or even to a casual friend. So when Raffy is in a hurry and he doesn’t have enough time to shop, he goes to his ever reliable watch store online. The last he bought for an office co-worker? An IWC watch! Very lovely!

I ribbed him about getting me a watch on my birthday, too. I would like one of those watches!

Have a PERF-ect day!

A tip from the Reader’s Digest…

Have a PERF-ect day: Essentially, there are four things you should monitor every day to make sure you are living healthily: the amount of fruit and vegetables you ate that day (fresh Produce); whether you walked and were active (Exercise); whether you got at least 15 minutes of laughter and fun time for yourself (Relaxation); and whether you got enough beans, grains and other high-fiber foods (Fiber). If you can say you did well on all four, your day has been extremely healthy.

Now, of course, do not spend the rest of the day indulging in bad choices: smoking, drinking, or binging on unhealthy food!

Good working relationship

I try to maintain a good working relationship with every one I deal or have dealt with. I always keep in mind that I may encounter them again in the future so I want to be able to give them a good memory of me.

One good example is the office furniture vendor I dealt with several years ago. I was the consultant of a start-up company back then and I helped them get the office furniture for their newly opened office. Now, my cousin is opening a publishing company and he asked me if I know a vendor where he can get his office furniture. I called up the vendor and they remembered me. Since I am a repeat customer of sorts, they gave me a 10% discount on the orders my cousin made through me.

Now that’s a good working relationship with a vendor!

Unsolicited quote

I got an unsolicited life insurance quote from an agent I contacted about a year ago. It was a good quote and I immediately asked around if someone needs life insurance. I found out that one of the big bosses from a client company of mine needed one and I gave her the life insurance quote that I got.

I got a call from the agent thanking me because the big boss I gave the quote to actually got her whole family separate life insurance coverages. The agent met his quota for the rest of the year!

Big hassle

He needs to get the best acne treatment if he wants to win his heart. I heard this from two teenagers talking. I can only imagine the hassle acne is giving the person they were talking about. It’s bad enough to have pimples. It’s worse to have a battalion of it on your face spreading to your neck!

My brother and I were lucky that we didn’t experience acne when we were teenagers. Some of our cousins and friends had it and it’s really bad. Good thing there weren’t bullies back in our high school years as well as in our cousins’ schools.

Can’t look in the mirror

You know you badly need Lipovox already if you can’t even look in the mirror without cringing at what you see. That’s what I told my older cousin Luisa. She is an old maid. She’s happy with her life except that these days when she looks in the mirror, she is seeing a woman enjoying food too much.

She told me that I need to refer her to my fitness instructor. I need to help her lose weight like what I did before. I told her that I am willing to help her and that it will be easy as long as she can fight the temptation to eat a lot.

Little bit vain

I am a typical woman. Whenever I look in the mirror, I worry about seeing wrinkles on my face. I worry about seeing so many blemishes and will start looking like an insecure woman. My friends and I were talking about prototype 37c reviews the last time they had brunch here at home. These are my friends for over twenty years and have been the ones who stuck with me through the bad times. We are all a little bit vain and we’re not ashamed of it. We are always checking what’s new in various women magazines and we try it out on each other.

Such is the life of me and my girls.

Grand chandeliers at home

My mom just loves those grand chandeliers. She had one installed in the living room. She wants another one in their bedroom but my dad isn’t keen on it. So they compromised, my dad always being a pushover when it comes to my mom’s machinations, and they are buying one for the dining room.

I think she got her love for chandeliers from her mom, my grandmother, who also loves it. It’s something she’s always wanted and just able to get it out of my dad. I think he finally gave in after years of being nagged about it.

Funny couple!