Keeping the bugs away on the cheap and safely

Nothing is worse than settling down on the couch and noticing a big, fat, black, slow fly circling your room.  Occasionally alighting on your feet and generally annoying the crap out of you.  I stumbled across this handy dandy tip online and it really works.  This keeps Flies away from your doors and your porch. 

Here's what you'll need. 

What you will need:
A clear plastic sandwich bag
2 1/2 cups of water.
A bottle of lime juice.
2 teaspoons of salt.
Two or three paper clips
And some shiny pennies.

You will also need a bowl and a spoon which is are not in the picture.

I have tried this without the salt and the lime juice, just the pennies and water and it seems to work as well.  However, the original recipe calls for lime and salt





Mix all your ingredients together in the bag and use the paper clips as your hanger.  It really worked for me, kept most of the flies away from our stinky garbage can as well :)

Also with using only the water and the pennies it only cost me around .10 Cents :)