100lbs of rice and 50lbs of beans just fucking destroyed. These blighted assholes are really making me rethink my “no-kill” trap policy.

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    While I can empathize with senior disciple for their loss, you’ve committed a great blasphemy, that we cannot turn our eyes against.

    Your mention of the freedom unit is a spit on the rules-based order of the leftist cult. This shall not be let go, and you’ll be punished thoroughly with twenty-five whips for every freedom units you’ve uttered in front of every disciple.

    For those of you who were traumatised by the imperial units, here’s the conversion rate: 1lbs = 0.453592kgs. Courting death!

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        I feel you man I live in the country and all my shit is in plastic bins because of mice. Sorry you had to find out the hard way.

        And yes you have to kill them or you will get infested. Use A LOT of snap traps. I have 10 in my attic and one in every cabinet. Poison baits hurt raptors and should be illegal tbh.

        Get these

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          And whatever you do, don’t get glue traps, trust me. Snap traps are kill-humane as they kill instantly.

  • while you are rethinking your storage situation / strategy, i just want to give an endorsement for Cambro polycarbonate food grade containers. they make containers and lids that seal tight, last forever, and at volumes ranging from “i’m a normal kitchen human doing normal things” to “me and my several large adult sons will rule these wastelands with bellies full of grains and pulses” or maybe “this is for a commercial kitchen” i suppose. they are usually stackable and color options with transparent sides, usually with unit markings to tell you how much you’ve got left. stg, i do not have an affiliate link, lol.

    if you’re in North America, webstaurantstore.com usually has the widest selection, a powerful search tool and sometimes insanely cheap prices, but their costs for shipping are buttcheeks for residential addresses so it’s a bit of a wash. i would make an account there regardless and request a free catalogue, because they are fun to look through. amazon can occasionally have some good deals on Cambro stuff, but their algorithm is shit and it will try to steer you towards knockoffs. sometimes i find the thing on webstaurantstore and then search for it on amazon using specific terminology. i like squared sides (as opposed to round) because i’m an efficiency asshole, but round bottoms have their uses if you want to occaisionally use smaller (~4-6 qt) containers for mixing ingredients.

    not even Rat’xal, Lord of 10,000 Rats, could defy the sanctity of my grain and lentil storage situation. though there is a cat around here too, but the only thing he catches is naps.

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      not even Rat’xal, Lord of 10,000 Rats, could defy the sanctity of my grain and lentil storage situation

      You’ve found the way to ward off Pete Buttigieg!??

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      Cambros fuckin rule. All my grains and beans are in Cambros. There’s a local restaurant supply store open to the public and I stock up when they’re on sale (both containers and dry food)

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    I would simply come to an agreement with the mice and have them raid other people’s rice and bean stash

    try putting more skill points in Nature and taking Animal Friend spell

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          This is a very tenuous alliance.

          At the capitalist bug farm, mice were always getting into our waxworms, because they buildings were poorly built, they used poorly-sealed kitty litter boxes to grow the waxworms in, and the racks easily allowed the mice to climb up (partly because of escaped-worm cocoons on them).

          We’d see them running across the main floor all the time. It was very common to open up a box after 6 weeks and see a litter of baby mice inside, and barely any waxworms. Maybe one out of every 50 was like that.

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    get some kind of lockable heavy wooden chest for dry goods if you have the space for it. Cabinets ain’t to be trusted if there’s rodents about

    EDIT: Sorry, shoulda read the thread first. bean-think