Summer Campout Check List

Personal clothing should fit the weather conditions. Synthetic pants, long underwear, extra socks, an extra set of clothes, hooded sweatshirt with a windbreaker and extra shoes. Protect your head from the sun with a hat.

Mosquitoes

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Bob, a fisherman, takes one vitamin B-1 tablet a day April through October. He said it works. He was right.

Hasn't had a mosquito bite in 33 years. Try it. Every one he has talked into trying it works on them. Vitamin B-1 (Thiamin Hydrochloride 100 mg.)

If you eat bananas, the mosquitos like you, something about the banana oil as your body processes it.

Stop eating bananas for the summer and the mosquitos will be much less interested.

This is going to floor you, but one of the best insect repellents someone found (who is in the woods every day), is Vick's Vaporub.

Plant marigolds around the yard, the flowers give off a smell that bugs do not like, so plant some in that garden also to help ward off bugs without using insecticides.

"Tough guy" Marines who spend a great deal of time "camping out" say that the very best mosquito repellent you can use is Avon Skin-So-Soft bath oil mixed about half and half with alcohol.