Found a 1950s grocery list in a cookbook that taught me a weird trick for keeping ants out of the pantry

John Fox · 2026-03-11T02:45:04.766463+00:00

I tried the old list's suggestion of drawing a chalk line across the doorway, and it actually stopped the line of little black ants I'd been battling for a week, which makes me wonder what other old household hacks are hidden in these forgotten bookmarks.

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