In islam we have been teached to shake shoe before waering them alhamdulillah

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The scorpion ? is the only animal that will commit suicide
If it is cornered !

We live in Central Texas, where there are scorpions, and my husband often travels to southwest Texas, where there are a lot of scorpions. He has used the boot-thump technique for over 50 years and it has saved him from stealthy scorpion attacks several times. Around here you also need to thump slippers, especially during the night. Meeting a scorpion up close and personal suddenly, in the dark, when you put your foot into your slipper, is NO fun. You are suddenly, distressingly, unpleasantly awake.

Scorpions do not survive in -23º. Not much does.

When I was younger my dad traveled a lot. I put plastic scorpions in his shoes one time before he left for South America to remind him that he should be checking for real scorpions. This was pre-9/11 but the airport security did not find it amusing so I’ve been told.

Hello Don et al, thank you for the public service announcement. I have been stung by a scorpion and can testify it’s no fun. It wasn’t in my shoe but in a piece of coral at the beach. I am a scorpio and never thought they would go for one of their own. Who knew?? And thanks to Gretl for the peppermint oil idea, I don’t mind spiders so much and my cat seems fond of the mice in a way the mice probably don’t appreciate, but I would like to discourage a mouse festival from happening and peppermint seems like a nice holiday treat anyway. Cheers!

The danger is most certainly real. I have a friend who had the little buggers consistently come up the drain into her bathtub!

My dad was stationed in N Africa in WWII, where he learned about boot heel-whacking and successfully thwarted several surprise attacks from the little dudes. Good advice. I was told that Peppermint Essential Oil repels rodents and spiders. Since we live in the woods and this time of year both spiders and mice find our house irresistible, I decided why the heck not? I’ll give it a try. I bought an industrial vat of it and have been soaking cotton balls and hiding them all over the place. It works. We have no spiders or mice, and the house smells like we live a tube of Colgate. All good. Except for all those random cotton balls…