"Jeßus" > wrote in message
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> On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 14:56:06 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
>>"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
>>news
>>> On 6/26/2015 6:56 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hardly. I have to smell the stink each time I open the bin! I have
>>>> had
>>>> problems with fruit flies before but never this.
>>>
>>> Once emptied, wash it out with a hose, then put a little bleach and wash
>>> it again.
>>
>>Is there something else that would work? Bleach gives me severe
>>respiratory
>>problems.
>>>
>>> Let the garbage dry a little before adding it to the bin.
>>
>>That's what I had tried to do. But someone else put it right back in. I
>>can't keep the food in the house now because it is drawing fruit flies and
>>quickly stinking in the heat. But maybe I will have to come up with some
>>sort of other, smaller bin to put outside and dry out. But then that
>>would
>>likely draw ants or something. We are having problems with bugs of all
>>kinds this year.
>
> You've been told how to solve the problem - but you don't want to
> actually do it. You appear to be looking for a magical or supernatural
> solution that requires little to no effort, and not one that will
> actually result in effectively solving the problem.

He told me to use bleach. But I can not do that. Two days worth of chest
pains is not worth it to me.
>
> And despite your protestations, NO reason you couldn't do what I
> suggested. You can't find free newspaper, cardboard or dry leaves?
> Really???

There very much is a reason. I did say that bleach causes me severe
respiratory problems.
>
> Washing the bin out (or whatever it is) is an exercise in futility if
> you don't address the core problem.

My husband?
>
> So WTF is the point of this thread... attention-seeking trolling, as
> per usual.

No. This was something new to me. And my friend who lives in a different
but nearby city said that she too is having this problem for the first time
ever.