Home Depot Deal Alerts & Discussion Thread

Home Depot water bags now 1¢!!!

Today we went to Home Depot and got more of the cups, and while I was there I saw the water bags that i was interested in, in the bottom. They were previously discounted to $2. I got one to check the price, and it appeared as a penny!! :smiley:

Iconic photo, hope you don’t mind if i add it to my signature assuming SB doesn’t make it the official photo of BLF?

I found a lot of the 3D Armor Max (both old & new packaging) and the Energizer lights, but not much else. Well I did get some Husky 15’ long 16/3 extension cords for $3.33ea and an AC USB charger plug rated 2.1A for $3.98.

-Garry

Mouse traps work

I’m surprised for two reasons, i had some of those cheese pedal traps and they were useless (different brand), and your mouse does not appear to be restrained at all, how is it held?

It seems the trap flipped over and we’re looking at the bottom. The mouse is pinched by the corner of the trap.

KuoH

laying a corner of a mouse trap on a mouse in the displayed fashion would not hurt it.

That’s it! The photo was staged! I’m boycotting these mousetraps as they obviously don’t work! :slight_smile:

-Garry

Mine were so stiff i had to push on the trigger with a broom handle with enough force to lift a small cat to set it off. But again different brand. I ended up getting a $5 trap, worked great, mice are gone.

It’s not just laying on it, the trap has sprung and is pinching the abdomen. Perhaps this image will help.

It is in the sprung position, even though the trigger bar appears set. You can see the trigger bar on the left side of the image in question, thus the mouse is pinched between the snap bar and base, but it’s upside down so you can’t see it.

KuoH

Haha I never thought the mouse catch would bring so much discussion
Nevermind when I said they work… They actually don’t work very well.

Later the same night the trap caught another mouse… or not… It was gone before I got to the trap.
Instead I found the mouse (i think it was the same one) trying to get an avocado seed through a small gap, repeatedly trying to pull it in, making noise. So I rolled the seed away and put a trap in front of the hole, and a few minutes later the trap snapped… when I came to get it, i found the mouse had escaped into its hole.

So the second time, the mouse escaped twice!
And the first time the mouse did not seem very well held down and I was worried it might escape. The first mouse (in the picture) was held on the center by a corner of the killbar.

These mouse traps are too weak!

Heads up, my local Home Depot has the learherman Wingman on clearance for $22. Not a bad price but I’m sure it’ll drop. I went in looking for some of the skeletools (ok, I’d have killed a small mammal just to find ONE) but this is all I could find that was worth looking at.

We are very committed mousers :stuck_out_tongue:

Building a better mousetrap is not just an expression :smiley:

The metal and wood ones work better. If they tend to escape, take the serrated edge from an empty box of tinfoil and use small brads to attach that to the end of the trap. Not sharp enough to stop the mouse from going in but it helps to hold them from slipping out. Also put the traps where the sides are closed in so the mouse has to center itself in the trap to get to the bait. They make some really big traps for rats which can break a human finger when sprung so upsize if your quarry keeps escaping. Sometimes you have to wire or fasten the trap in place or they will run away with the trap on them. Just make doubly sure your pets can’t possibly get to those big traps :open_mouth:

Phil

Extreme Sports

why not use humane traps, and release the poor mice out in the woods where they can try to live, and get into the food chain ??

A good trap breaks their neck so that helmet should not work

Tried it, complete fail, they would not go in, and once it did and escaped.

excuse is not believable. use humane traps. release out in woods.

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why not use humane traps, and release the poor mice out in the woods where they can try to live, and get into the food chain ??
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excuse is not believable. use humane traps. release out in woods.
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Because its a pest vermin. Thats why. Also because if you RELEASE IT? its just coming back in again and again anyways. Like a freaking merry go round.

Myself? I have a better mousetrap… its commonly referred to as a “C-A-T”, ha ha. have you ever SEEN what a cat DOES when it catches a mousie? Jesus, it plays with it, it tortures it, then it eats it alive. The mouse is better off getting caught in a trap than by a cat, really.

I will terminate, with extreme prejudice? PEST VERMIN that enter my house and will not vacate. I kill mice, rats, raccoons and possums if they enter the house.

i catch and release snakes and bats, i like them, i dont feel they cause any harm inside the house, so, i do not terminate them with extreme prejudice.

Say that after you are the one that has to routinely repair the damage done by the little guys. They are incredibly bad for a house. They chew through wiring, they defecate everywhere you really don’t want them to, ruin insulation, so on and so on.

Unfortunately, they breed like crazy so if you can’t stomach killing them you’re going to be dealing with them forever.