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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Gunslinger on May 02, 2006, 05:53:32 PM
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What do/would you pay for home pest control. I'm not around too much anymore and we have a spider infestation somwhere. Terminex wanted $128 for a one year contract that costs $98 every three months. This seemed a bit outrageous to me.
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The silverfish keep the spiders in line. Yesterday they re-enacted the Battle of the Bulge.
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how often do they come out for that price? I think I have someone come by every other month which works for my area...and is like $60 or so a visit..so about $360 a year.
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get some geckkos but if they begin to speak with a british accent squash them
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Shop around... and when you talk to them, let them know that you're shopping around. See if you can get the startup fee waived.
I would expect the cost to be $30-40 per month after that.
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An exterminator? Guns, the Air Force is making a wimp out of you. Be a Marine! Go down to the feed store, buy a gallon of pyrethrin and a sprayer and go Saddam on the place.
Or you could call this guy:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v492/haplo1998/kohdale.jpg)
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Originally posted by rpm
An exterminator? Guns, the Air Force is making a wimp out of you. Be a Marine! Go down to the feed store, buy a gallon of pyrethrin and a sprayer and go Saddam on the place.
That is one of the funniest things Ive ever read.
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That's just it, I'm working twice the hours I did before and soon I will be working even more than that. Won't have time for home pest control.
Thw quote was for unlimited visits
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If you kill off all the house spiders, you're more likely to get other pests that might be more hazardous. I killed off all my spiders, and the next week the ants came in. Killed the ants, and found a scorpion. If you start killing them off, you'll be stuck killing them forever.
That said, $400ish per year to not have to worry about stepping on a scorpion (wife almost did that) or kid finding a black widow or brown recluse might be worth it.
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Originally posted by eagl
If you kill off all the house spiders, you're more likely to get other pests that might be more hazardous. I killed off all my spiders, and the next week the ants came in. Killed the ants, and found a scorpion. If you start killing them off, you'll be stuck killing them forever.
That said, $400ish per year to not have to worry about stepping on a scorpion (wife almost did that) or kid finding a black widow or brown recluse might be worth it.
Black widows and ants are the only reason I have an exterminator.
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(http://www.mytscstore.com/images/productImages/prod_200_by_200/Permethrin-10-qt.jpg)$5.88 at Tractor Supply. You ain't got an hour one day? What are them kids doing? Put 'em to work! I was mixing and applying stuff stronger than this when I was 7.
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Originally posted by Gunslinger
That's just it, I'm working twice the hours I did before and soon I will be working even more than that. Won't have time for home pest control.
Thw quote was for unlimited visits
so pay somone to to this and support local contractors
i have to start worship you, working double hours and make so many post on this BB - you are tha man:aok
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Originally posted by rpm
(http://www.mytscstore.com/images/productImages/prod_200_by_200/Permethrin-10-qt.jpg)$5.88 at Tractor Supply. You ain't got an hour one day? What are them kids doing? Put 'em to work! I was mixing and applying stuff stronger than this when I was 7.
pfffffffffffffffft.
why mess around? illegal... err... undocumented... err... umm.. in order to discourage bugs from immigrating, using a combination of DDT and agent orange for 200 miles.. err; 'yards' outside yer border.. ummm 'property' line. Then set traps.. ah; 'bug zappers' at the fence.
Piece of cake. ;)
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we live on the eastern fringe of the everglades. insects and other critters are a part of living here, they definitely add to the charm. we have been able to control their numbers by utilizing their natural predators to work in our favor. there are very healthy populations of mockingbirds, ibis, mallards, parrots, herons, fox, felines and pelletgun armed roving bands of maturing residents (I'm amongst the youngest). hell, we look forward to the rats and mice breeding. I shot one eating inside of an aviary in my neighbor's yard yesterday. the shot was a beauty because the aviary was constructed of 1/2" squared hardware cloth and the shot was about 15 yards away with iron sights. I nailed the field mouse through the left eye with four pumps and a pointy pellet. quite possibly my finest shot ever. the two neighbors present credited it to luck, I prefer the term "zen". :D I ended up being bragged on quite a bit. one guy across the street came on over seeing the group went home and brough a 1.5L carafe of chianti the guy whose house we were shooting at fired up the grill and we had flank steak and chianti/beer in an impromptu party. quite drunk I logged on to the AvA ran up 13 spit kills with 2 deaths in an 190A5. yesterday was one of those majic days. today I'm severly hung over. :D
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Originally posted by BlueJ1
The silverfish keep the spiders in line. Yesterday they re-enacted the Battle of the Bulge.
:rofl :aok :lol
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Whoops, sorry, thought this was a thread involving how to eliminate liberals. :D
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Originally posted by ramzey
so pay somone to to this and support local contractors
i have to start worship you, working double hours and make so many post on this BB - you are tha man:aok
FWIW,
I stop in here and do drive by posts as I'm checking my email and then later taking breaks from studying.
Here's my schedule for tomorrow.
0500-0630 PT Upper body and sprints
0730-1130 Teach Guidon Bearer procedures (note: we just learned this today and tomorrow I'm expected to teach it)
1130-1230 Lunch (best part of the day
1230-1330 Learn Parade
1330-1430 Teach Parade
1430-1530 Learn retreat
1530-1630 teach retreat
1630-1730 Peform retreat
keep in mind I'm working these 12 hour days but still expected to have a cleaned/pressed uniform and spit shined boots the next day AND study for the next day's materials. Somehow I find time to listen to my wife rant, eat, play with my kids and do at least one task that helps out around the house.
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Yah ever wonder what duty is like for yer former compadres that're doing 24/7's in Iraq?
Suck it up, Marine.
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Originally posted by Hangtime
Yah ever wonder what duty is like for yer former compadres that're doing 24/7's in Iraq?
Suck it up, Marine.
aside from getting shot at and rpged and worrying about RPGs their tours are usually only a year.....mine's five. Either way I requested this so i'm not complaining. I get my hat in july.
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I feel for ya there Guns. By July, you will need that hat in SA.
Hey, here's a thought... boot field trip. Today's instruction is in NBC warfare, concentrating on the C.
I'd tell em it's the General's house so they won't take out any ill feelings that may have secretly developed toward their Drill Sargent.
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Heh guns I feel for ya. It's the same all along the entire instructor corps, forcewide.
We drive our UPT students pretty hard, typically kicking them out the door exactly 12 hours before they have to be back in the morning, but of course the instructor pilots have to be in before the studs and usually leave after the studs are gone. We try to split the jobs so we can make our 12 hour crew rest and duty day rules, but if a guy isn't flying the next day then he's usually the poor slob who sticks around late fixing the schedule, prepping for exams, reviewing/inspecting gradebooks, etc.
Being an instructor is rewarding and there are no deployments except for occasional away weekends and field exercises, but I haven't ever met a military instructor in any career field who says it's easy.
At least I only have to really worry about students trying to kill ME... UPT studs are usually too focused on training to get into much trouble on their own so having to bail them out of jail is pretty rare. Big difference from the guys across the base who have to ride herd on the tech school kids. Sometimes it seems like their real job is to get drunk, go to jail, have sex in the dorms, spend their entire salary on a car they can't afford, and get married/pregnant before they even get to their first assignment. The tech school part is just a distraction for some of these guys.
I'm sure you'll show them the true path when you get your hat... Lots of those kids have never seen anything they can really respect so you've got your work cut out for you.