How to kill a fly

This weekend was so much fun! My dad's side of the family is rather large with his two brothers, one sister and their kids. We used to get together for a family reunion each year at the beach but since all the grandkids have gotten older and with conflicting schedules, it's hard for us to all get together like we used to. This weekend was a mini family reunion at mine and Justin's house...which just for the record, I don't think we have ever had 25 people in our house before but it was so great to have everybody together and to have a place for it to happen. The picture below is our whole family who came together this weekend in Birmingham.


Has anybody ever had a pesky fly in their house that they couldn't catch or kill? Well with all the traffic in and out of our house this weekend with all the family (above), needless to say we had a few flies get in from the doors opening and closing. I think at one point we counted 6 flies. So one of the activities of the weekend was how to kill a fly...I wanted to share a few of the options we came up with...


A newspaper or magazine rolled up...most people could probably make that work, but for some reason we were having trouble with this option so we tried...

A shoe...thinking it would help us be quick enough but then again no luck so we moved to, what we all thought was an excellent idea proposed by my mom...

Duct tape with honey on it...we all thought that would work great..of course the flies did not even go near it, just kept bugging us so my husband finally engineered the following...

He cut a manilla folder into the shape of a fly swatter and attached it to a coat hanger bent in the shape of a handle. You might be asking yourself...why not just use a fly swatter...well that would be because we didn't have one. And honestly...who needs one when you have such great success with this homemade contraption. As you can see with the evidence on the floor next to the swatter (small black dot = dead fly) and we were able to kill all those suckers like that :)

So the next time you have a fly problem either create a fly swatter by using the above example or just give us a call...we are thinking about reproducing them in bulk...JOKING :)