I'm inundated with those stupid moths too. Usually, every time I bring ANYTHING grain related home, I immediately put it in the freezer for 24 hrs to make sure any and all critters eggs are dead. (used to be just weevils, now it's those stupid moths) Most of those critters come in the food from the manufacturer. I too was on the austerity program and had to purchase food from the food bank. Usually, if I DO see any critters in a bag, I put it in the freezer before putting it in the trash. I went to open a box/inner bag of cereal and it was loaded with those nasty moths. I just threw the bag in the trash and I have regretted not putting it in the freezer ever since. They are an infestation now. I took everything out of my pantry and put it in the freezer THEN I threw them out. I put borax,which does kill them, all around my pantry left it closed for a few days then vacuumed the dead moths out & now the pantry is free of moths. I thought AWESOME!!! the fight is over or so I thought. Then I went into my coat closet and just happened to look up & there were about 20 of the cocoons in there. I took my broom and squashed & swept them all away. (BTW: I have one of those broom & dustpan kits where the broom fits into the dustpan & clips onto the handle. I put borax in the dustpan, so if the moths or cocoons are still alive after sweeping & squishing them, it will kill them, which it does). I was seeing baby moths flying all over. Since I saw the cocoons in the 1 closet, I decided to look in the ceiling of the rest of my closets. There were some in the linen closet. Then I went into the spare bedroom, to check the closet in there (which we keep the a/c vent partially closed and the lights off.) I almost had a heart attack. There must have been 100 of those cocoons hanging all around the edges of the ceiling and in the closet. There was no way I was going to be able to get all of them without dragging the ladder in & sweeping/squishing all of them. Well, I said all this to say: Is there anything I can just spray up there & kill all the moth cocoons before they hatch? I was thinking about using wasp spray, the stuff that shoots 20 feet. It says on the can that it also kills caterpillars. Which turn into butterflies. Moths are the devils version of butterflies. Butterflies are harmless and beautiful. Moths are ugly and very harmful. "Don't store up treasures here on earth where MOTHS and rust corrupts... Any comments?

I hear ya, KD. The garage and basement was a huge job. One of my nieces I suggested that I call the Hoarders TV show to see if they would help. It wasn't THAT bad! But her comment spurred me on. We played Hoarders TV show - Donate, Keep, Toss. The majority of the basement was filled with boxes of stuff I moved down there when I remodeled my first and second floors. When you replace 90% of your flooring everything needs to move out of the rooms. I never moved some stuff back up to the living spaces because I didn't need it or use it. Plus I had too much Christmas decorations I didn't use anymore. So much stuff was donated and recycled. I probably could have had a heck of a garage sale but I didn't want to deal with that. The garage just needed alot of organizing and boxes that needed to be broke down so they could be recycled. And left over building supplies that needed to be removed. It was so much work but I love walking through the garage now. I will never let it get that bad again! So, go sleep for three days and get your rest. Then tackle it!

I'm going to paint IKEA cabinets. Plan to have them lacquer sprayed at a cabinet shop. I haven't gotten it done yet, so I don't have first hand experience. But, I got the idea of how to from a blog by Carol Reed that someone posted here. She is an interior designer that does lots of kitchens with IKEA and has them custom-painted. She went into detail about it on this blog post, including the kind of paint you should buy to use onsite for anything that you can't take to the shop. I found it most informative, plus if you read through the comments, folks asks questions and she explains more. Good luck! Here is a link that might be useful: How to custom paint Ikea cabinets

Sue VA, that must have been the most rewarding experience of your life. Your response gave me the biggest goosebumps. I was thinking about it and I would love to teach at a center for underpriveleged folks how to get a job. Teach them to bring their own pen (I have watched SO many people fill out job aps and have to ask for a pen or pencil), to dress in a suit whether they were going for the president of McDonalds or a fry cook at McDonalds, and how to shake hands and look people in the eye. Giving people pride in themselves is where I want to take the people I teach. In high school I was involved in a program called Eco-Act and we went in small groups weekly to grade schools and taught 4-5th graders ecology. It was really great, I met a lot of the kids later in life and they told me they still remember a lot of the activities and many are very active composters. It is cool to know you made a difference in someone's life.