Grizabella
Hey Marina---you were asking what to do with those decks you don't like-----send them to Le Fanu for silverfish bait!
But this is the whole point; my decks are in very dry places. I would never put my decks in dark, forgotten cupboards! I don't understand why I don't have any of the ideal conditions for them and yet I keep seeing them scuttling and if I see 3, it means there are thirty . Surely tarot card material is not attractive for them? I'd be happy to have them nibble through my books if they would only leave my tarot decks alone! A lot of decks are in wooden chests which are not easy for these creatures to get into, but many are in their cardboard boxes on bookshelves. I keep thinking that the outer box for the 1JJ Swiss is more like old fashioned cardboard; what they make tarot card boxes out of now is a completely different type of cardboard. But god they have really gnawed my 1JJ Swiss outer box! Admittedly, the box was on the floor up against the skirting board/wainscot, but they can climb because there was a big juicy one on the ceiling last night which I had to spray at with insect spray. The outer box to my Alchemical is also looking a bit dodgy but it might have been like that when I received it, I can't be sure...Marina said:Store your decks in dry places, never inside dark forgotten cupboards.
Annabelle said:Argh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mostly all I ever see here is ants in the kitchen and roaches . . . well, wherever they want to go. The entire area/region is a roach pit, I kid you not. Everyone has them. No house is ever "clean" enough to keep them out. And on summer evenings, the ground is crawling with them outside. They especially love hot concrete on summer nights -- it is quite distressing to be out for a walk and realize that you are crunching roaches under your feet, literally, because there are hundreds of them on the sidewalk.
Le Fanu said:But this is the whole point; my decks are in very dry places. I would never put my decks in dark, forgotten cupboards! I don't understand why I don't have any of the ideal conditions for them and yet I keep seeing them scuttling and if I see 3, it means there are thirty .
Le Fanu said:Surely tarot card material is not attractive for them? I'd be happy to have them nibble through my books if they would only leave my tarot decks alone! A lot of decks are in wooden chests which are not easy for these creatures to get into, but many are in their cardboard boxes on bookshelves. I keep thinking that the outer box for the 1JJ Swiss is more like old fashioned cardboard; what they make tarot card boxes out of now is a completely different type of cardboard. But god they have really gnawed my 1JJ Swiss outer box!