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
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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 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, after being nearly homeless and couch-hopping for the last few months, I finally signed a 1-year lease. When I got home, I was surprised to see a picture of my new complex on the front page of the newspaper. It turns out that they are fighting a serious bedbug infestation. FML
Today, after three visits from exterminators and another from a steam cleaner, I still have bedbugs. FML
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, my wife’s unending cheapness and need for a “deal” has bitten us in the ass. Literally. She accepted a bag of clothes from a coworker and yup, you guessed it, it was infested with fucking bedbugs. Now our whole house has them, and all she said was, “At least the clothes can be washed.” 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, my boyfriend finally moved in with me, after being long distance for months. Our apartment just became infested with mice. FML
Today, my girlfriend won't stay over at my apartment anymore. Why? Because she saw a few roaches. Pest control comes every week and I spray every other day, so there's only so much I can about it. The worst part is now it's extremely difficult to spend time together because she lives with her mom and sister, who argue nonstop. FML
Today, my pregnant girlfriend and I moved into our first home together, signing a 1-year lease. Less than 12 hours later, we've discovered that the place is infested with cockroaches and we have a mouse. The landlord won't let us out of the contract. FML
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MorganHex 28
best you can do is a hotel for now or stay with either a parent or sibling if you can. or rent a camper. and if you had someone come treat your home like a bedbug company or pest control. call them asap and tell them they need to come treat it again for free bc it didnt work the first time. most companys have a guarantee of some sort.
readingrachel 9
Call the company that fumigated your place and complain; be polite about it but if they fixed your bug problem you shouldn't have bugs; they need to come back and re-fumigate. As for living somewhere talk to a close friend let them know what's up and home for some sympathy/pity
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MorganHex 28
best you can do is a hotel for now or stay with either a parent or sibling if you can. or rent a camper. and if you had someone come treat your home like a bedbug company or pest control. call them asap and tell them they need to come treat it again for free bc it didnt work the first time. most companys have a guarantee of some sort.
worldclassrager 41
I have heard gecko's are good with roaches...what about bedbugs? It's an idea...
readingrachel 9
Call the company that fumigated your place and complain; be polite about it but if they fixed your bug problem you shouldn't have bugs; they need to come back and re-fumigate. As for living somewhere talk to a close friend let them know what's up and home for some sympathy/pity
maikeru1979 23
except the fact that it might not have been the fumigator's fault. It is very common for bed bugs to travel WITH YOU as you leave to have your place bombed. Happened to a cousin of mine. She had them bad in her house. stayed with her sister while it was being done. afterwards..moved back into the "bug free" home, only to put her old comforter back onto her bed, re-infesting the house all because she didn't get new bed sheets/comforter
davecross 11
Time to burn the house down and have a new one rebuilt
maikeru1979 23
guess you should have made sure that you DE-Bugged YOUSELVES
maikeru1979 23
and bed sheets, blankets, comforter, clothing, towels
mt21mt 15
I'm willing to bet that your assumption the bedbugs had been crawling on this person's legs for a month and he didn't notice it until he was back at his house, is incorrect, and I'm going to assume the house wasn't properly fumigated if there were still bedbugs in the house.
Nikkinicole521 5
Are you sure they're bedbugs? My sister's coworker has been having a bedbug problem that they can't get rid of. She walked into work with my sister one day and my sister found a flea on her...
mt21mt 15
I'm going to go ahead and assume that after a month of dealing with this, that the OP, his girlfriend, and the employees at the pest control company know the difference between a bedbug and a flea. Maybe your sister's coworker had both fleas and bedbugs.
RockPrincess26 16
Try Diatomaceous Earth and an industrial heater. That's how my family and I solved our bed bug crisis. It saved us thousands.
Razell 13
Yup. Bag your mattress and pillows with DE inside the bag, sprinkle DE in all the cracks in your bedframe, work it into the carpet or, if you have hard floors, sprinkle it over the baseboards. Also move your bed away from the wall a bit and make sure there aren't any drapes touching the bed and the floor.
Catlover1130 14
That sucks. I've lived with those before and they are super hard to get rid of. Good luck to you
danzig_graves 25
fumigation only serves to drive bedbugs into the floorboards and hibernate. getting a proper exterminator who will actually spray high-risk areas is definitely recommended. also running clothes, sheets, etc. through the dryer will serve to kill any stragglers, and be sure to make sure that they haven't infested your vacuum. best of luck
SamySosa 10
fumigation is heat treatment that actually kills them and they spray the poison. but if you're place is really cluttered there's a good chance both these options wont kill them all.
darkshadus 10
Mix half water and half vodka it will kill bedbugs on contact plus it has the added bonus of 2 sprays for the bed and one for you repeat as needed and soon they will all be gone or you will be smashed and not care lol
Razell 13
Not sure why you'd dilute the vodka - it's perfectly safe to spray on fabrics at full strength, and as a bonus, will de-scent whatever you sprayed it on. This is an old theater trick for getting sweat-smells out of costumes when you don't have time to launder them between performances