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Old Jun 17, 2025, 01:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Blue_Bird View Post
Yes definitely take precaution to keep away bed bugs. I had them back when I lived with my mom and they were a nightmare to deal with. Literally nothing got rid of them and the landlord did nothing to help so we got stuck with them for years, it was terrible. We tried everything. Thankfully I don’t have that problem in my supportive housing apartment now and if you do get bed bugs here they will treat the apartment for you.
That’s good you don’t have them there and they’ll treat them for you. Here when I had them management set everything up and paid but if they ever have to come back, they’ll set it up again but I will be financially responsible for extermination. I’ve been uber cautious since. Even if I got brand clothes they stay in the bag until I do laundry then they go in the dryer with everything else and I keep cloth or cotton balls with strong essential oil scents that supposedly keep them away from my backpack when I go out to, say, the library. I got a Swiffer so at least once a week I go around the whole studio and inspect the pad after to make sure I don’t see anything that looks like a shell, dead nymph or egg. Rearranged things so nothing is near the window and heater. Call me paranoid, but exterminators are expensive and I have no clue where the first one could’ve come from.
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