Inexpensive Way to Get Rid of Gnats in Alabama

It’s gotten hot so that means the gnats are being messy again. For the record, I really dislike gnats because mainly they are a nuisance. But summer in the south includes bugs.

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You can’t even crack the door and here come the gnats just buzzing. Yuck.

Now my mother hated them too and she had a surefire hack to keep those gnats out of your way. It’s a $3 secret to help you capture gnats. I’ve even seen a similar recipe and variations of it on TikTok.  So if it’s on TikTok, you know it’s real.

Cheap Remedy for Killing Gnats Fast

1 plastic cup or repurposed clear glass jar

Add the following to the cup and mix well as you are combining ingredients

½ cup of apple cider vinegar ($1.60)

Two squirts of dishwashing liquid ($0.98)

2 tablespoons of something sweet. Sugar, Pancake Syrup, or Honey. (we'll round that to 20 cents lol)

Be sure to set it on the counter where you can't knock it over, and just let it sit, and the gnats will come to the sweet concoction. Thank me later.