Any idea what I can do with 8 boxes of table salt?
About a month ago, we were afraid we had a flea problem. Chloe (Mamaw’s dog) had come to visit and started to show signs of fleas a few days later. We also caught a jumping bug in the basement and one in the second floor. Plus, I had bites on my ankles, which we thought were Prurigo of Pregnancy at first.
Being 6 1/2 months pregnant at the time, we knew we could not use a bug bomb and smoke the fleas out. And we were not completely sure we even had fleas. I had bites, but no one else did. The doctor said they looked like chigger bites and we did have a patch of long grass in our backyard, perfect for chiggers. We saw 2 jumping bugs, but they did not look like what we saw on the internet. We did not know what to do.
We did some internet research and decided to start with low-tech methods of handling the situation. We washed all the bedding in hot water. BAGD vacuumed the house almost daily. Then we read that sprinkling regular table salt on your carpets could desiccate any flea eggs in the fibers. We decided to give it a try. We sprinkled 6 or 7 boxes of salt all over the house and vacuumed it up a a day and a half later. According to the article, we should do this again in a week or so.
Well….as with many things around here, we sort of got distracted and forgot. I bought 8 more boxes of salt, but we saw no more jumping bugs, my bites went away and Chole seemed cured. So, we never re-salted.
Over a month has passed, so either we never had fleas or the vacuuming and first salting did the trick. But now I have 8 boxes of table salt sitting around. Any ideas on how I can use it up?
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mamaw said,
September 12, 2007 @ 2:06 pm
You could put it in like a wash basin container and let the kids use it like inside sand to run their cars through. You could dye it and put it in jars. You could give it to a charity. You could give it to everyone when they leave your house as a parting gift. You could take a salt bath ( probably not the right kind of salt though). You could take it outside and through it all over your shoulders for lots of good luck. (fun stuff for kids) Pookie and Geeetle could have a salt stand instead of a lemonade stand. Or if all else fails you could just through it away, but that would be very wasteful. I’m sure you will come up with a great idea.
Aunt Shel said,
September 12, 2007 @ 7:32 pm
I think mamaw has been on bedrest for too long! LOL!
What about keeping it for making playdough?
Shay said,
September 12, 2007 @ 8:36 pm
Well if you ever go to a house warming take a box along with some bread and a candle. Just say: “A candle so that you may never live in darkness, bread so your home will never know hunger, and salt so that life in you new home will be full of flavor.”
7 more house warmings and you set.
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