Remember a little over a year ago... on
It was truly one of the most wonderful days of my life!
I hugged my boy, kissed his face, cried tears of joy, took it all in... ahhh.
Then I said to him,
"you smell....... bad."
He replied-
"thanks mom."
But the fact is - he stunk-
I eventually narrowed it down to a mixture of smoky & mold.
Yucky. Eww. Gross. What is that smell?
We decided the smell was the smell of his mission. You see in the part of Chile he served in- it's very moist & rainy. The people there don't have clothes driers- or indoor heating in their homes. Everything is dried/warmed or heated by the fireplace or propane stove. His ties & suits would grow fungus if he didn't rotate his meager wardrobe.
This is all completely foreign to me- living in the dessert of Utah.
I did grow up in Seattle- but with a clothes & hair drier & indoor heat - PLUS a fire place.
Anyhow....
after the missionary got home-
I started cleaning (and throwing away) his clothes.
Some of them shrunk in the drier- sorry- some of them were just holey & warn out.
Others (like his monogrammed towel I sent him with) came through it after a couple of washes.
One of his favorite things he brought home was his Mission Jacket. The whole mission had matching rain jackets with the mission name embroidered on the front.
The mission jacket- it's special.
Unfortunately... the mission jacket- got hung up in the coat closet (just off the garage & just behind the kitchen) without being washed. A month or two after the big homecoming event I noticed little moths in that area of the house...? Where on earth were these months coming from? They were tiny- not like any moth I had ever seen? really small, maybe 1/4 the size of your usual moth.... hmm weird?
Then one day I saw it... took it out... smelled it-
OH NO- the mission jacket was never washed!
Ever since- we have had moths.
I thought for a bit we had gotten rid of them.
I bought moth killer at target- the kind you hang in the closet.
They were gone for a bit.
But now they are back!
There are little squished moth carcasses all over the back pantry.They're back & it's disgusting.
Any hints out there on how to get rid of Chilean moths?
Please don't tell the food & drug administration.
If we brought on a moth killing food frenzy-
I'm so sorry.
It's wasn't on purpose.
7 comments:
ewww!
haha oh gross! I have no idea how you will get rid of those!
1. i keep forgetting to comment on your now private blog! i'm sorry! it's not because i don't love you. :)
2. eeew to the moths. eeew to moth carcasses. how nice of brian to bring those home with him. :) it's like a piece of chile for him to never forget how lucky we are to have dryers and indoor heat.
3. i love the photos of jack from the last post. i must be hormonal or something because they made me choke up a little bit. he's not even MY kid?! but ya, i love him and his red hair and i am so excited for his journey right now.
maybe you'll get lucky and he'll bring home some kind of larve in his clothes that will hatch into something that will eat the moths. maybe that wouldn't really be lucky. :)
I'm an expert! We had a moth problem this summer. Every night for about a week I would set out sticky traps (the big ones for mice, they are less the $2 at Walmart) with a flashlight shining on them. The ones near the windows worked best. I caught up to 30 per night. I'm not kidding. Sick!
Jimmy told me I should patent my invention so don't tell :)
Ew! It looks like Amie has the perfect solution for you.
Wow I have no clue about moths. Congrats of the hubbys new job!
oh dear, oh dear! They look like pantry moths. I've had infestations of those - twice. So uncool. I had to throw away tons of food in my pantry. They sell pantry moth traps, and I always have a couple around, just in case. But Amie is ingenious!
So is there any way the beloved mission jacket can be saved?
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