Okay, I have tons of toilet paper and I want to store them in the attic, but how can I store them so as not to attract mice that will want to bed in it? I thought of perhaps storing them in groups of ten in a big garbage bag with peppermint oil inside, but I don’t know really what to do. I don’t want to find all my hard earned toilet paper in a dainty nest of mice one day! Please preppers, what do you recommend?
I think it’s Duct Tape brand that makes a tape that stays sruck in heat or cold or high humidity….you could put in plastic tubs and seal…..less likely to get into it that way, but mice CAN chew plastic if they think there’s a reason to.
sruck=stuck
put out some glue traps, they sell them at all hardware stores. They last forever and work great to keep all kinds of critters away “or permanently attached” to where you dont want them. I take them and cut them flat I seem to find the rodents are more apt to run over them flat than go through the tunnel thing your supposed to make out of them. As a bonus they are non toxic just dont get them stuck to your shoes or you will be sorry :)
Mice will chew through plastic bags that don’t even have food in them…
(glue traps seem a bit cruel)
if you aren’t feeling well, will you and yours be able to access the attic?
Well, my post was eaten by the wiki … let’s try it again.
Heat will degrade paper products as will the extra humidity in an attic area.
Here are three options that we are going to use once we can stock that much:
1. Under beds in the house. It is unusued space that is easy to pack.
2. In the very tops of closets. That is usually dead or unusued space and can be a signficant addition to your prep space. With paper products being light weight, you don’t have to worry about them falling on anyone either. Depending on the height of the closet interior, that can actually be a rather significant amount of space.
3. Removing one panel off of the box springs, filling with paper products and then restapling the panel in place … or replacing the panel with a cotton sheet so that it is heavier duty. A twin size box springs can hold a lot of toilet paper … imagine how much a full, queen, or king size box springs can hold. And if you have more than one bed to use for this purpose that is even more.
Well maybe its cruel, but I would rather be mean to the vermin in my house then wipe my naughty bits with the phone book.
Is there nothing that damned vermin can’t get into? Geez louise, now I have to go pack up the t.p. in the garage.
Kathy in Fl-I checked my closets. There is a boatload of space there! Thanks.