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A Hyper-Ad is brief, complete and succinct description of a product (or class of products), that quickly provides you with all you need to know about the product, including official manufacturer / company product descriptions, informative articles with additional details, and links for several sources where you can purchase the product.

More than an advertisement, more than a description, the Hyper-Ad gives you the fast low-down on a given product, why it is worth buying, what advantages the product gives you and any important caveats (warnings) to its use or purchase. Hyper-Ads take seconds to read and digest, allow thorough research on a product if the user desires, and are refreshingly free of marketing jargon, hype and exaggeration.

All the product descriptions here are in the form of Hyper-Ads. Happy shopping!

Featured Product List

Featured Product List:
     These are items you will buy repeatedly. We make a few pennies per sale, and provide these products primarily as a convenience to our customers. NB: We can wholeheartedly endorse these products because we use them ourselves.

Bar Mops
Raid Fumigators
The Works Toilet Bowl Cleaner
Wet Wipes

Great Solution for Household Insects

About every 18 months or so (when I start seeing roaches or other household pests), I invest about $50-60 for RAID fumigators. They are different from "bombs" or foggers, much less messy.

They come 3 to a box, each one is a little can with a plastic beaker. Open all the drawers, closets and cabinets. You place one fumigator in each room (one in the attic, too, and one under the house if pier-and-beam).

I get ready for work for the day, put anything I need to take by the front door, then set the fumigators up, ready to go. Fill the beakers with about 1/4" water. Starting at the far end of the house from the front door, drop each can (right side up!) in the beaker, go to the next room and repeat.

Listen for bubbling sound, then a plume of dry smoke comes out bearing insecticide (permethrin). Leave the house for the day, closed up for at least 6 hours. Go to work. Don't stay in the house!

The smoke permeates the house, carpet, everything, leaving a very thin, dry, even residue of permethrin on all surfaces. Goodbye fleas, roaches, flies. 

You will have to air out the house as soon as you come back, collect all the cans/beakers and throw them away, maybe wash your dishes. The fumigators are economical, effective and (so far, 15 + years) safe and non-harmful.

Not pet or aquarium friendly, so you have to remove those of you have them.

Buy Raid Fumigators at:

Target

Amazon

Walmart

Sam's Club

Bar Mops

Bar Mops are roughly 14" x 18" (36 cm x 46 cm) terry-towel cloths, used by bars and restaurants, usually white, usually bleach-able. They are reusable, and better and cheaper than paper towels.

We found that buying a pack of bar mops drastically reduced our use of paper towels and the volume of trash. The bar mops are convenient, durable, inexpensive (about 50 cents each), and washable. 

We even use them in the kitchen as pot-holders and temporary clean spaces for vegetables and the like, and to clean bathrooms and toilets. Use them, throw them in the laundry, wash in hot water, with or without bleach, re-use until they fall apart, then use them as throw-away rags. 

They paid for themselves in about a month. The savings in paper towels alone over a year was nearly $100. Add to that the (unknown) savings in pay-as-you-throw solid waste costs, and you've got a sweet deal.

Buy bar mops at: 

Target

Amazon

Walmart

Sam's Club