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kuno@gssm.otsuka.tsukuba.ac.jp (Yasushi Kuno) writes:

>davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane) writes:
>> Yes, I'd like to know about that. My tatami are very old (at least
>> 8 years) and while there is some kind of powdered poison underneath
>> maybe it's not working.

>    Dave, you should pull out your tatamis and dry them on the sun.
>While I was a child, everyone has been doing that.  I strongly
>reccomend you do twice a year, if possible at all.  But in these days,
>we Japanese do not have the garden to do that!  At least in Tokyo...
>It's a pity...

That's not so simple as it sounds :-) You see I have 3 desks and
four pas-o-con-raku standing on top of them! I've only taken them
out to dry once since I got there (8 years ago) and that was when
I totally cleaned my house by moving everything around. It took
about a week....

>> The only visible problem I had was with ants (no gokuburi!) and for
>> that I found a magic green box which you put down, fill with the
>> contents of an envelope and within 1 hour it is covered with ants
>> busily taking the stuff home. They don't come back....

>    Hm, but perhaps sugars or some kind of sweets should be the cause
>for the ants, I supporse.  I prefer cleaning and drying on the sun
>better than magic box or poison powders, but I admit it's up to your
>policy.

One might have thought so, but whatever they were after was *inside*
my PCs!

While I also would like to only use cleaning and drying, it's not
such a practical option for me.

Dave

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