Blake Schwendiman's Blog and Blook

Here's a tidbit that has some day to day practical use: Never run out of aerosol hairspray.

That may be obvious if you happen to actually style your hair, but there is another reason to keep this advice: a good, quick drying hairspray is a great defense against one of the world's greatest evils, the cockroach.

I have to say that living in Arizona is a wonderful thing most of the time. We don't really get many flying insects because it's just too hot and dry all of the time. There aren't any snow-related problems, and we don't have hurricanes, tornadoes or earthquakes. However, if you happen to be completely creeped out by crawling things, this may not be the best place to live.

I, actually don't mind lizards, geckos and other similar crawlies, but bugs ... ug. So I've had to develop a defense strategy against cockroaches. Because we get a lot of them. My first approach was to scream like a girl and lock myself into a panic room while yelling at my wife to kill the beastie.

Thanks to Dan, though, I now have a real defense system: hair spray. Yep, a good fast-drying aerosol hairspray will do the trick. You may have to unload a can of hairspray at once, but eventually the hairspray will stop the roach and you never have to touch it.

You're welcome, again.