How to get rid of ants in your home ‘once and for all’ with key ingredient
Getting rid of ants in your home takes a specific spice you likely have sitting in your pantry.
Ants are drawn to any sort of food source, so if your kitchen tops are not clean with crumbs and spills on your counter, they will find their way into your home. Trying to get rid of ants once and for all, a user on the Quora platform asked how they could get ants out of their home. Quora users gave some of their go-to suggestions.
Luckily, there are tons of ways to resolve the issue. Funny enough, one of them involves an ingredient that goes on food.
The Quora user that suggested the solution pegged it as weird, but they said it works surprisingly well. It involves a spice you may have lying around in your kitchen pantry – cinnamon.
The Quora user explained their previous ant problem and just exactly how cinnamon worked to combat it.
They said: “I had a problem with ants in my bathroom for a long time. One of my cats even used to like to go into the bathroom and lick the ants off the floor.
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“I put a very thin layer of ground cinnamon all around the baseboards, bathtub and sink.
“Just to be on the safe side, I put it all around the kitchen too. I haven’t seen ants in my house for years now so I guess it worked.”
They expressed that they have also had the cinnamon trick work outside too.
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They said they used to have a problem every year with ants colonizing in their container gardens and flower planters in their patio and balcony.
They explained: “I started sprinkling a little bit of ground cinnamon into the bottom of the planters/containers when I planted the flowers in the spring and sprinkle just a tiny bit of cinnamon at different levels throughout the potting soil.
“I have not had a problem with ants getting in my flower planters since.”