I use a mosquito repellent to kill ants.

What other products do you use for what purposes?

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      Being the most financially successful product *could* mean they excel at ripping people off the most. See HP and their printers.

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    Borax as insect repellant/ murderer.

    Every apartment block has roaches, I’m not naive. But to get rid of the ones in mine I put a teaspoon of borax near the dishwasher kick plate and blew it under with compressed air. Sprinkled some around the perimeter of the cabinet beneath the kitchen sink.

    Have not seen a roach in 10 months.

    Edit: don’t try to bait food with borax, they won’t eat it, just get it on the walking paths. You want them tracking it into the hive where they all clean it up like cats and die because to an insect it’s like eating knives.

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    My chromosomes. The X and Y work together in semi-functional unison to make me the man I am today.

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    I use chapstick to heal acne scars, since all it actually does for lips is make them worse at retaining moisture

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      My mate used daily contacts for weeks until one ripped in half when he tried to take it out and got stuck in his eye and he couldn’t see so he asked me to help take it out but I couldn’t.

      Luckily, my partner could.

      Be careful!

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        I have been doing it for like… 13 years already? First because I was broke then it has become a habit

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          Oh yah it only happened once to him in like a decade.

          …it didn’t stop him from doing that, and it never happened again! I was just scary.