We went on a lovely trip to the countryside at the weekend. We took a picnic and decided to try and find my mother in law’s old house. We found it, although it is in a worse state than she is (only joking by the way).
The walls are crumbling, the roof has fallen in and her prized geraniums have disappeared under a huge pile of rubble, weeds and rubbish. Still, it was a great day and the picnic was tasty. The only problem was when we got home and no one could get to sleep for itching. It seems that the old place has a serious flea problem and now my house has too, so I came on here to look for some ideas.
I immediately saw some details about gnats in the house. I am not very well earned on the insect worlld, would they be from the flea family? I did some research and it seems that they are not. All those pictures of creepy things made me feel a bit queasy as well.
I then thought about getting an outdoor fire pit and throwing all of the infected clothes into it and setting fire to them. It might seem like a drastic step but I am getting fed up washing everything only to find that the little blighters are still hanging around.
Could I maybe sell them at outdoor flea markets? It’s an old joke but it’s still up there with the cat that swallowed a ball of wool and gave birth to mittens. That mitten joke actually defeated me in a local joke telling competition when I was about 10 and I am still bitter about it. If I had won that competition I could be a world famous comedian by now.
I know from bathing my dog that fleas don’t like water so maybe we could all submerge ourselves in water tanks for a few hours. We have a pretty big water tank in the attic but I am not sure that it would be very comfortable for spending a lot of time in.
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