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It took me the whole day last week to clean out the shelves and bleach everything. Now the only thing in the cupboard are cans and canning jars. No bags of any food for him to bite into.
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I used these caps for canning jars instead of the 2 part lids.
The one piece caps are easier to work with on a daily basis, rather than the disk and ring combo that you would use for canning food.
Aren't they cute?
and these yummy new chocolate chips are safe from the mouse. However, this jar was full before I took this picture, so I don't think it's safe from the 6' 3" mouse that I'm married to!!
Hope you don't have a mouse in your house!! I want to know why he's not outside enjoying the summer. Well, now that I think about it, why not stay inside...it's air conditioned and we serve chocolate!!
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Take care,
~Karen~
You can put a big glob of peanut butter onto a glue trap and it'll get the mouse. We had a field mouse once in our kitchen and someone told me to do that. The mouse was caught within 5 minutes of doing it. They love peanut butter I guess. lol
ReplyDeleteHI Karen,
ReplyDeleteLast summer we had a mouse in our garage in the cupboard where we keep left over paint...so I got one of those little spring traps, put cheese as the bait and within 30 minutes we caught the little devil!! Those little spring traps work!! ;o)
Take care!! And good luck catching him!
Paulette
Kitty cats work pretty well, too. LOL!
ReplyDeleteGrrr.....how frustrating!!!! I use those lids and love them.
ReplyDeleteNo but I have gecko's, spiders, ants....and my cubbards need to be cleaned, can you come over?
ReplyDeleteGreat idea, but I think every time I looked in my closet and saw that jar of chocolate chips I would be seeing less and less in that jar. I have no willpower and seeing it would simply make it dissappear!
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jajajaja maybe he's on vacation at your home and he's enjoing the summer that way. jajaja
ReplyDeleteHola Karen, me parece que el ratón prefiere estar dentro de casa por la temperatura y la comida!!!!
ReplyDeleteTe invito a que visites mi rincón, mi blog es muy nuevo pero lo estoy haciendo con mucha ilusión. Un beso
Love the jar lids and hopefully the silly mouse won't take a liking to them. They tend to be very crafty at anything that holds back the favorites. As are humans.
ReplyDeleteBe always in stitches.
I use those lids all the time. They are the best.
ReplyDeleteI have 2 cats and a dog who love to catch wild critters.
I bet that fat little mouse was hyper!!
ReplyDeleteCute post. I remember my grandpa telling a story about him standing in the barn and a mouse ran up his pantleg. When he realized what it was he grabbed the fabric around the mouse and squeezed it. I don't even want to know how he got the mouse out of there. LOL! At least your mouse was only in the cupboard!
ReplyDeleteGood Morning, Karen,
ReplyDeleteI will have to look for those lids...I have problems with the other ones rusting.
I recently brought all the rest of my mom's canning jars home to our place...I'm thinking about filling them with sewing and crafting supplies.
I'm glad you caught your critter and I hope he didn't have a large family living nearby!!
Have a thoughtful Thursday. ~Natalie
I haven´t had any mouse in the house so far. I would probably move out for a few days and let my husband deal with that. I am terrified of mice!!!!!! If a set a tramp then I don´t know what I would do with that dead thing!!! There is no way that I would touch it!!!!!! I like the idea of the peanut butter tramp!!!!! But I would not touch it either.
ReplyDeleteKaren, It sounds like you need a Mickey the second or a Disney Jr. to patrol your house and keep those little varmints away! The lids are cute on your jars. I haven't seen them in the stores, but I haven't been looking. I will have to check them out. I love Ball jars don't you?
ReplyDeleteI get mice about one a year since I live on a farm. I have the old fashioned metal cabinets in my kitchen but they still get into them! Weird! I was sitting on the couch one night and saw a little bugger run across the living room, behind the tv, along the wall and straight up my pant leg!!! He was so cute but I think we were both a little shocked when he stopped to realize where he was!
ReplyDeletewow - what a coincidence!
ReplyDeletemy daughter had a mouse in her room and woke us at 1am - she thought it was a big bug - she slept upstairs - poor thing -
what exactly are my 2 cats doing anyway?
with 3 dogs and a cat, no mice..but I SURE wish they would take a class on catching scorpions! THAT I would like! YUCK
ReplyDeleteI love your jar lids. I have never seen these before, so I will have to keep an eye out for them. They look much better then the metal ones for storage.
ReplyDeleteWe had mice a short time ago and got a cat to take care of it because we live in an old drafty house that we are finding holes and cracks all the time that they can get into, but when my friend found out we had mice she said that they had mice and they set out traps all over the attic and where they had seen evidence of them. They put peanut butter on the traps and held a lighter to the peanut butter for a few seconds to warm it up (that's supposed to make the smell a lot stronger). She said that within 10 minutes they could hear the traps snapping all over the place.
ReplyDeleteThat sneaky little mouse! I feel so violated when any little creature gets into MY stuff. Love your humor around the little guy. I think the plastic jar lids are wonderful. Can't always find them in the store but just last night I was surfing canning supplies because I am getting ready to make refrigerator strawberry jam (http://www.kraftrecipes.com/recipes/surejell-for-less-no-50994.aspx,) and I found a lot of canning suppliers that have them (http://www.canningpantry.com/bareplstca.html) if a person doesn't mind paying a little shipping. Love your blog.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the info on the jar lids. I hadn't seen them. Only thing worse than a mouse in the cupboard is more than one mouse in the cupboard....
ReplyDeletemuy phobia....I to have jars of all kinds in my cupboard..hehehe! glad he is gone now.
ReplyDeleteI hadn't seen these lids thou..thanks for this tip
hahahaha! Been there, done that with mealy bugs. Now everything is in plastic - cereals, pastas, rices, oatmeal, nuts, baking chocolate (even the squares and anything else that goes into the cupboard. Before filling 2 grocery carts with storage thingies I should have bought stock in Rubbermaid.
ReplyDeleteChris - who happens to live in Mickey's backyard in Florida :-)
Karen you kinda made it hard on the
ReplyDeletelittle fella. What kind of mouse
motel are you running? Love those
storage jars and maybe he won't
learn to open them.":O)
Hate to tell you...but often where there is one, there are more! Don't lose your traps, you might need them. We live in the country, and one fall our kitty just couldn't keep up! Both the spring traps and the glue traps work well if placed where they run. Good luck! I hate cleaning up after them!
ReplyDeleteThe field mice I had in my house were taking the birdseed in the garage and stashing it all over the house. I was gone for over a month, so that's whiy I didn't discover this stashing.
ReplyDeleteThose mice got past the peanut butter and the cheese. I caught them with supergluing the cheese onto the trap. They still only got caught and not killed. They were able to move with the trap to other rooms!
Liz
I was laughing why I reading your post! But it isn't funny that you had a mouse! Great job on using the mason jars! My grandmother swears by them!
ReplyDeleteI discovered those lids a few weeks ago and love them!! I keep my Cascade dishwasher "cubes" in a large mason jar (the bag just would not stay closed) and they have stayed dry. And have you tried your chocolate chips straight from the freezer? YUM!!
ReplyDeleteI hope you catch the mouse soon. Once we had a mouse and it was so frastrating!
ReplyDeleteI am going to the grocery store today and buy Ball plastic lids---thanks for the tip. No mice here but occasionally other little creepy crawlers. BettyLou
ReplyDeleteDoesn't that just give you the willies? Ewwww! I love the new lid, but just to let you know - mice can chew through plastic. We kept our dog food in the garage in plastic bins and when I went to feed the dogs, there was a mouse IN the container! In the house it might not be a big deal. Maybe he won't be that tenacious! Good luck!
ReplyDeleteI use plastic lids on jars, too,buy I recycle them from mayo or salad dressing. I didn't know you could buy them. Years ago I had something stored in Tupperware, and a mouse chewed on the lid, and also on the plastic lid on a peanut butter jar. We just caught 3 last week using the traps like a spring clothespin and peanut butter. Good luck with yours. My chocolate chips are stored in a jar in the back of a bottom drawer. I have to make an effort to get to them [and I do].
ReplyDeleteOne day my dog jumped up from his nap and took off after something which went into my clothes closet! Eeek! It was a mouse! The dog pawed it and then caught it, so I directed him to take it outside to the backyard. By then the mouse was dead and I was afraid the dog would eat it, but he didn't. Whew!
ReplyDeleteLate seeing this post, but we found mouse poop on our cabinet last winter and in a kitchen drawer. Hubby pulled out the drawer and our Miss Kitty snuck in sniffed around for a bit. After that I never saw another dropping again. We did have her deliver a mouse to the bottom of our stairs a few nights ago..thankfully she had killed it prior and hubby killed a rat outside last summer. Oh the joys of country living!
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