Rickerkioz:The worst month of my life was when I discovered my house had bedbugs.
Anything that furthers science's knowledge on how to destroy these foul creatures is OK in my book.
There is a rash of them globally. I've never heard of anyone I know having them, and have never seen them in person. Then one night I was up late and bam...I've got them. Really farking creepy things.
I think I got rid of them and they didn't infest the house, but I found out they came from a roommate's box springs months after I discovered them and a year after I lived her. In a completely different house.
I discovered a stinkbug up my pant leg when I arrived at work this morning so my co-workers were really getting a kick out of me punching myself up and down the leg/damn near ripping my pants off.
/sorry for the threadjack. //just needed to talk to someone about it ///DIEDIEDIEDIE-wap-wap-wap-wap
If your poor, don't garbage pick, get a foam rubber mattress and strip the fabric cover off, put that on a mattress size piece of plywood up on cement blocks. No couches or easy chairs, use plastic stack-able chairs. Don't have clutter, its not worth it, just have nice neat stacks of whatever tote you can find with your clothes in it.
If you get bugs, launder your sheets, and inspect the surface of the mattress, the plywood, and the cement blocks for bugs, spray them with rubbing alcohol. If they are coming from someplace other than the bed platform, apply a line of Vaseline to the underside of the plywood deck and renew it every time it dries or drips off.
Its going to take the politicians years to legalize something that will wipe out bed bugs again. Till then everyone thinks we can afford $200 a month for exterminator visits. Just sit tight until they announce the bugs are gone then start to rebuild your collections of crap.
fluffy2097:Rickerkioz: The worst month of my life was when I discovered my house had bedbugs.
Anything that furthers science's knowledge on how to destroy these foul creatures is OK in my book.
My apartment is still infested with the little monsters even after months of treatments.
We HAVE a way to destroy the blood sucking monsters. It's called DDT. To hell with falcon eggs, I want a pest free home
THIS. I am fortunate not to have had them but other apartments in my building have and I have co-workers who have. People just about go broke dealing with this plus it takes a mental toll, too, because of knowing that you go to sleep just to be covered in bugs.
The book "Silent Spring" was pretty much single-handedly responsible for this and yet it remains highly questionable. So we all suffer so some granola eating tree hugger can feel like a hero. Stop listening to the hippies.
THIS. I am fortunate not to have had them but other apartments in my building have and I have co-workers who have. People just about go broke dealing with this plus it takes a mental toll, too, because of knowing that you go to sleep just to be covered in bugs.
Living in a home infested with bed bugs is like a meth nightmare. You start feeling them crawling all over your body even when they aren't there.
THIS. I am fortunate not to have had them but other apartments in my building have and I have co-workers who have. People just about go broke dealing with this plus it takes a mental toll, too, because of knowing that you go to sleep just to be covered in bugs.
Living in a home infested with bed bugs is like a meth nightmare. You start feeling them crawling all over your body even when they aren't there.
Well do whatever it takes to maintain your sanity. I have heard of people having breakdowns over this. Keep telling yourself that our great grandparents dealt with it and were ok. I'm not trying to make light of it. God knows I'd be out of my mind and would want someone to try to put it into perspective for me.
Well do whatever it takes to maintain your sanity. I have heard of people having breakdowns over this. Keep telling yourself that our great grandparents dealt with it and were ok. I'm not trying to make light of it. God knows I'd be out of my mind and would want someone to try to put it into perspective for me.
Best of luck to you.
Thankfully My management company has been great at getting the pest guy to come out on a weekly basis to spray. I rarely see them anymore, but every few days I pick another one off the wall and crush it. They can only spray piretherin apparently, which will kill on contact, but it breaks down into harmless byproducts when exposed to sunlight, making it unsuitable for creating a kill barrier. With this stuff, the best hope you have is to spray over and over, hoping that you get a few drops of the stuff on every single last bug in your house, including the ones under the carpet and in the walls.
On the hippy bullshiat side, Peppermint oil kills them on contact as well, and smells a fair bit nicer.
I have heard of people having breakdowns over this.
I almost did. I seriously almost did. It was farking horrible. The bites swelled up to the size of golf balls, and I would get bit on my face, hands, feet--I had no way to hide those bites, and people started to stare. I couldn't sleep. I couldn't visit my friends, or hug people for fear I'd spread the bastards (I probably brought them home from public school on my coat. The school refused to spray our cluttered classroom despite half the class having the bugs and parents complaining).
I had a tiny apartment, so clutter was unavoidable. It was old, so there were a bajillion places for them to hide. The exterminator had to come three times and I spent hundreds of extra dollars on laundry, mattress covers, cleaning products, etc.
Not to mention, I couldn't sleep.
Finally I started drenching myself in Deep Woods Off.
If you can stand the smell, ignore the directions on the bottle. Apply it everywhere. Don't forget your face and the back of your ears and neck (I forgot that one time and I looked like Frankenstein for two weeks). It's literally the only thing that saved my sanity till they were finally gone.
Treygreen13
2009-11-03 01:25:49 PM
The Angry Hand of God
2009-11-03 01:30:32 PM
Kate Gosselin's Pap Smear
2009-11-03 01:31:07 PM
Rickerkioz
2009-11-03 01:35:04 PM
Anything that furthers science's knowledge on how to destroy these foul creatures is OK in my book.
NaziKamikaze
2009-11-03 01:42:13 PM
Anything that furthers science's knowledge on how to destroy these foul creatures is OK in my book.
There is a rash of them globally. I've never heard of anyone I know having them, and have never seen them in person. Then one night I was up late and bam...I've got them. Really farking creepy things.
I think I got rid of them and they didn't infest the house, but I found out they came from a roommate's box springs months after I discovered them and a year after I lived her. In a completely different house.
Jubeebee
2009-11-03 01:51:21 PM
You gonna get traumatically inseminated.
burndtdan
2009-11-03 02:08:37 PM
bugmn99
2009-11-03 02:11:49 PM
/sorry for the threadjack.
//just needed to talk to someone about it
///DIEDIEDIEDIE-wap-wap-wap-wap
Saberus Terras
2009-11-03 02:14:01 PM
/Like why we don't date robots?
//better not be obscure
///Not funny is OK
NittLion78
2009-11-03 02:15:10 PM
E_Henry_Thripshaws_Disease
2009-11-03 02:17:15 PM
Just because it was wiping out all the raptors! Jeez
FunkOut
2009-11-03 02:22:10 PM
Just because it was wiping out all the raptors! Jeez
I thought a comet wiped out the velociraptors.
fluffy2097
2009-11-03 02:31:10 PM
Anything that furthers science's knowledge on how to destroy these foul creatures is OK in my book.
My apartment is still infested with the little monsters even after months of treatments.
We HAVE a way to destroy the blood sucking monsters. It's called DDT. To hell with falcon eggs, I want a pest free home
DasRaven
2009-11-03 02:46:30 PM
archichris
2009-11-03 03:07:10 PM
If your poor, don't garbage pick, get a foam rubber mattress and strip the fabric cover off, put that on a mattress size piece of plywood up on cement blocks. No couches or easy chairs, use plastic stack-able chairs. Don't have clutter, its not worth it, just have nice neat stacks of whatever tote you can find with your clothes in it.
If you get bugs, launder your sheets, and inspect the surface of the mattress, the plywood, and the cement blocks for bugs, spray them with rubbing alcohol. If they are coming from someplace other than the bed platform, apply a line of Vaseline to the underside of the plywood deck and renew it every time it dries or drips off.
Its going to take the politicians years to legalize something that will wipe out bed bugs again. Till then everyone thinks we can afford $200 a month for exterminator visits. Just sit tight until they announce the bugs are gone then start to rebuild your collections of crap.
Hyaku-Shiki
2009-11-03 03:31:56 PM
1. They're immune to it because they've developed resistance.
2. It's bad for the environment.
gshepnyc
2009-11-03 03:34:43 PM
Anything that furthers science's knowledge on how to destroy these foul creatures is OK in my book.
My apartment is still infested with the little monsters even after months of treatments.
We HAVE a way to destroy the blood sucking monsters. It's called DDT. To hell with falcon eggs, I want a pest free home
THIS. I am fortunate not to have had them but other apartments in my building have and I have co-workers who have. People just about go broke dealing with this plus it takes a mental toll, too, because of knowing that you go to sleep just to be covered in bugs.
The book "Silent Spring" was pretty much single-handedly responsible for this and yet it remains highly questionable. So we all suffer so some granola eating tree hugger can feel like a hero. Stop listening to the hippies.
fluffy2097
2009-11-03 04:04:51 PM
THIS. I am fortunate not to have had them but other apartments in my building have and I have co-workers who have. People just about go broke dealing with this plus it takes a mental toll, too, because of knowing that you go to sleep just to be covered in bugs.
Living in a home infested with bed bugs is like a meth nightmare. You start feeling them crawling all over your body even when they aren't there.
Goodfella
2009-11-03 04:07:20 PM
Unixfreak
2009-11-03 04:14:22 PM
But if everyone did that, they'd have to get jobs.
gshepnyc
2009-11-03 04:34:55 PM
THIS. I am fortunate not to have had them but other apartments in my building have and I have co-workers who have. People just about go broke dealing with this plus it takes a mental toll, too, because of knowing that you go to sleep just to be covered in bugs.
Living in a home infested with bed bugs is like a meth nightmare. You start feeling them crawling all over your body even when they aren't there.
Well do whatever it takes to maintain your sanity. I have heard of people having breakdowns over this. Keep telling yourself that our great grandparents dealt with it and were ok. I'm not trying to make light of it. God knows I'd be out of my mind and would want someone to try to put it into perspective for me.
Best of luck to you.
Elroyone
2009-11-03 04:52:39 PM
4chan
2009-11-03 05:08:47 PM
Just because it was wiping out all the raptors! Jeez
I thought a comet wiped out the velociraptors.
I think comet wipes out stains
fluffy2097
2009-11-03 05:32:33 PM
Well do whatever it takes to maintain your sanity. I have heard of people having breakdowns over this. Keep telling yourself that our great grandparents dealt with it and were ok. I'm not trying to make light of it. God knows I'd be out of my mind and would want someone to try to put it into perspective for me.
Best of luck to you.
Thankfully My management company has been great at getting the pest guy to come out on a weekly basis to spray. I rarely see them anymore, but every few days I pick another one off the wall and crush it. They can only spray piretherin apparently, which will kill on contact, but it breaks down into harmless byproducts when exposed to sunlight, making it unsuitable for creating a kill barrier. With this stuff, the best hope you have is to spray over and over, hoping that you get a few drops of the stuff on every single last bug in your house, including the ones under the carpet and in the walls.
On the hippy bullshiat side, Peppermint oil kills them on contact as well, and smells a fair bit nicer.
Kymry
2009-11-03 05:33:17 PM
I almost did. I seriously almost did. It was farking horrible. The bites swelled up to the size of golf balls, and I would get bit on my face, hands, feet--I had no way to hide those bites, and people started to stare. I couldn't sleep. I couldn't visit my friends, or hug people for fear I'd spread the bastards (I probably brought them home from public school on my coat. The school refused to spray our cluttered classroom despite half the class having the bugs and parents complaining).
I had a tiny apartment, so clutter was unavoidable. It was old, so there were a bajillion places for them to hide. The exterminator had to come three times and I spent hundreds of extra dollars on laundry, mattress covers, cleaning products, etc.
Not to mention, I couldn't sleep.
Finally I started drenching myself in Deep Woods Off.
If you can stand the smell, ignore the directions on the bottle. Apply it everywhere. Don't forget your face and the back of your ears and neck (I forgot that one time and I looked like Frankenstein for two weeks). It's literally the only thing that saved my sanity till they were finally gone.