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How to Keep Bugs Out of Your Home

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By ninman3
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Do you keep getting bugs in your home and just can't seem to get rid of them? This article should help you out with that problem.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy
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  1. Step 1

    Ants-baking soda- to repel ants from your home use baking soda in cracks, corners, and crevices. Baking soda is poison to ants.

  2. Step 2

    This is a funny, but good tip. Try using chalk. Draw a thick line of chalk around windows and doors outside your home. Then draw a maze outside on your patio floor to keep the ants out for hours. They will not cross the chalk lines.

  3. Step 3

    Pour some dishwashing soap into a bottle and fill the rest with water, shake it up and spray the solution on the ants. They die instantly.

  4. Step 4

    Also you can try formula 409, spray the ants and this too should kill them instantly. Wipe the ants up with a sponge. If the ants are on your walls, you would be killing them and cleaning your walls at the same time.

  5. Step 5

    You can also kill the ants with shaving cream. The condensed soap in the shaving cream kills them.

  6. Step 6

    Flour. Fill the cracks and make a line of four wherever the ants are coming in. The ants will not cross the flour.

  7. Step 7

    White Vinegar- spray the ants with vinegar and it kills them, it can also be used for cleaning, plus it's real cheap.

  8. Step 8

    McCormick Cream of Tartar- when ants eat the cream of tartar, they will die because they are unable to digest it.

  9. Step 9

    Ground Cinnamon- another thing you can use is cinnamon. It too repels ants and leaves your house smelling nice.

  10. Step 10

    Packaging tape- you can wrap the tape around your hand and pick up an army of ants heading towards your home.

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