Today, after three visits from exterminators and another from a steam cleaner, I still have bedbugs. FML
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A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, three days after finally having a bed to sleep on, I woke up with multiple bedbug bites. I can't use my blankets, wear any of my clothes and it's back to sleeping on the floor for me. FML
Today, after being moved to three different employer-provided apartments because they all had mold and electrical problems, I requested a bigger bed. The bed they delivered had bedbugs. FML
Today, I was glad to find out that all the bedbugs have been eaten. Now I have a spider infestation. FML
Today, my girlfriend and I moved back in after over a month of couch hopping and $2,000 of heat and chemical treatments for a chronic bedbug issue. I just found bedbugs on my legs. We've used all our favors and have nowhere to go. FML
Today, an exterminator sprayed for cockroaches in my dorm room. After classes I got back to find three large cockroaches on top of my bed. Now that the exterminator has sprayed everything, all the cockroaches are coming out. FML
Today, I discovered I have bed bugs. I have nowhere else to sleep and I won't be able to afford a new mattress for at least a year. I'd better get used to these giant welts. FML
Today, I woke up to something crawling on my leg. Thinking it might be a spider, I jumped out frantically to check. The good news: it's not a spider. The bad news: it's a bedbug. My apartment was just treated for them. FML
Today, my neighbor kindly set off a bed bug fogger rather than getting an exterminator, which we'd even offered to help him pay for. We have baseboard heating in our condo building. Guess where the parasites crawled to now. FML
Today, after finally going to therapy for anxiety like everyone wanted, I discovered the itching feeling that kept me awake at night was actually caused by a bedbug infestation. FML
Today, I discovered that my bed has a flea infestation. I discovered it after sleeping naked in it for about an hour. FML
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mav11b 5
throw that shit away!
Charlie Given 28
The bed bugs are in your electronics, TV's, game systems, DVD players etc. are there favorite breeding places because it's always warm inside them. bag up in sealed bags, all of your electronics that have vent holes for about 72 hours or they're in your walls or coming from a different apartment through vents under the doors etc.
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mav11b 5
throw that shit away!
Charlie Given 28
The bed bugs are in your electronics, TV's, game systems, DVD players etc. are there favorite breeding places because it's always warm inside them. bag up in sealed bags, all of your electronics that have vent holes for about 72 hours or they're in your walls or coming from a different apartment through vents under the doors etc.
Jon Tessler 14
you need to toss your bedding, and buy a new Mattress. also doesn't matter how many exterminators you call, bedbugs are impossible to kill, start tossing stuff out. that's the only way to beat them.
angeleyes0724 10
Incorrect. We lived in a shothole apartment that got infested when someone moved in and the landlord had to pay an exterminator until they were dead. Took him coming once a week for 6 months but it CAN be done. Also, OP, keep all your clothes in plastic bags and wash everything in HOT water when you do. I'm sorry this happened to you, as someone who's been through it, I wouldn't wish bedbugs on my worst enemy.
bleachedraven 14
They'll just ruin everything, nothing's clean anymore, throw it out.
mando 10
Burn everything, it's worthless now.
nammavic1 12
Rubbing alcohol and bag shit up for months.
Warp1978 15
I rented a place with bed bugs..... I had to start from scratch. I had to get rid of my books! Even after bagging them and putting them in the freezer for a day to kill the eggs they were still hatching. 😱😱😱
Lora Wood 11
Anything you bag must also be tapped shut and needs to stay sealed for a 18 months. If you use storage containers make sure they are completely sealed with duct tape. If you put sealed things in a storage facility that gets below freezing it will extend their nasty little lives! Bed bugs are so bad in my city I am afraid to use the public library