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Me_Roy
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Why aren't you taking the advice of the exterminator who posted in this thread?
You're taking baby steps. You need a big Floppy Boot Stomp.
Plenty of folks leading you to water here...
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JonnyBtreed




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Why are you using alcohol? That's not going to kill them.
Postponing is only going to make the problem much worse. It could very likely become so bad you WILL NOT be able to deal with it yourself in the very near future.
Have ya talked to your landlord yet?
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lifeiswhatyoumake
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I read in a lot of places that people had good experiences with using alcohol. It's cheap, that's why I'm trying it.
I don't have a landlord. I didn't sign a lease for this apartment. I'm just paying my roommate straight up. I told him that he might want to tell his landlord about it.
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Might is an understatement.
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Well, he knows the bugs are in my room. What would happen if I told the front office myself, even though I never signed a lease?
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He might get in trouble, or you could get kicked out worst case. Which might be cool, as there is bed bugs.
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lifeiswhatyoumake
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Cool. I'm pretty sure I'm moving in with some good friends at the end of this year, so I just need to try to take care of the bed bug problem until then.
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Me_Roy
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Quote:
lifeiswhatyoumake said: Cool. I'm pretty sure I'm moving in with some good friends at the end of this year, so I just need to try to take care of the bed bug problem until then.
You're like some jackass with a treatable but nonetheless persistent and unpleasant STD that nonetheless continues to sleep around like nothing's the matter. You seem to pay no heed to the fact that your problem will become -- and might well already be -- other people's problem at well. You're a public health liability.
Have a nice end of the week and weekend.
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lifeiswhatyoumake
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Re: Bed Bugs... [Re: Me_Roy]
#18956451 - 10/09/13 08:53 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Chill man. I haven't gotten bit the past few nights, actually. My bite marks are starting to go away. I haven't seen a bed bug in many days.
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Perhaps my attack is too much for the bed bugs defenses!





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Me_Roy
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You are a very chill fellow, Original Poster. I will give you that.
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lifeiswhatyoumake
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You're chill, too, yo!
This thread has been good to me. I hope it's been good to you, too!
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Re: Bed Bugs... [Re: Me_Roy]
#18963248 - 10/11/13 10:12 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Me_Roy said:
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lifeiswhatyoumake said: Cool. I'm pretty sure I'm moving in with some good friends at the end of this year, so I just need to try to take care of the bed bug problem until then.
You're like some jackass with a treatable but nonetheless persistent and unpleasant STD that nonetheless continues to sleep around like nothing's the matter. You seem to pay no heed to the fact that your problem will become -- and might well already be -- other people's problem at well. You're a public health liability.
Have a nice end of the week and weekend.
Minus the insults, I would have to agree. When I been staying in hostels/hotels around the world and bed bugs are discovered, the room is closed, the mattress burned and all fabrics etc destroyed. The individual who had occupied the room will not be allowed to move to another room until ALL their stuff has been hot washed and dried at least twice and they have received a similar scrub down.
This was the case even in $5 per night shit holes in Mexico etc. I really wouldn't assume you have got rid of them until you have taken real steps to deal with them. If you are moving in with "good friends" you really don't want to drop this deuce on their doorstep..
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You know what to do..
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Hmmmm, I also sleep on a mattress on the floor and I just saw one of these fuckers several days ago on the floor a couple feet from the mattress. My roomate denied it was a bed bug but it definitely was. However, subsequent searching of the bed showed no sign of more. It's possible one got through my window, as the window is cracked and crudely boarded up. I hope I don't get more. What should I do?
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burn down your entire apartment complex
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koods
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There was a month long period where I thought I had bed bugs. Turns out what I thought were bed bugs, were actually carpet beetle larvae. There is a website that deals with bed bugs, and they say that a majority of people that report they have bed bugs really have carpet beetles. In case you don't know what a carpet beetle looks like, they are like little miniature lady bugs that are cream colored with brown spots, and their larvae are like tiny worms or caterpillars that are divided into three different colors.
Heres a carpet beetle larva next to the larger bed bug for comparison.

http://blog.epa.gov/greeningtheapple/2012/05/carpet-beetles-are-welcome-in-my-house-if-it-means-not-having-bed-bugs/
The carpet beetles did eat little holes in a bunch of my t-shirts. They don't normally eat cotton, but if you leave your stank on them in the hamper, they will munch.
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Re: Bed Bugs... [Re: koods]
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Now, if somebody could do something about these fucking stink bugs
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Re: Bed Bugs... [Re: koods]
#18965934 - 10/11/13 09:25 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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bed bugs are fucking gross man, i mean look at these little biznatches


shit's gross as fuck dude these pics give me the creeps
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Re: Bed Bugs... [Re: Niffla]
#18965959 - 10/11/13 09:29 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yeah, when I thought we had bed bugs, I thought I was going crazy. Literally, that was as close to insane as I've ever been. I couldn't sit still for a minute without lifting up the cushions and checking. Now that I look back at it, it's kinda funny, but i was absolutely mentally unbalanced at the time. 
God damn, now that I think of it, I probably was nuts. I started wearing earplugs so they wouldn't crawl inside my head while I was asleep.
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