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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thatslifeiguess7 16
Did you get rid of all your furniture? Go to a health food store and ask for Neem oil, then get rubbing alcohol and downy Take an empty spray bottle fill half way with the rubbing alcohol and one cup downy plus six drops of Neem oil shake and spray in each room. Especially on the walls, in the bathroom etc. once dry get dominicus Earth from home depot or such put it in your carpet then vacuum. Use the earth and neem oil in your wash. repeat every two weeks. I foster kids and trust me this works
SamySosa 10
well it's very likely you carried them around when you couch hopped. the extermination is a day so honestly idk why you jumped around for a month. they should have told you to stay put. better hope you didn't infest you're friends. my neighbor keeps getting them because when she has them people come over or she goes there. can't solve the problem if you keep making the problems.
onlylonly 5
dryer sheets in, and around your bed. and spend the twenty dollars on a jug of spray. get three of them and cover the walls, corners, carpets and anything pourous, wood, or cloth. Ortho is the brand of poison. and bounce is the dryer sheets you want.