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Post by Opti on Jun 4, 2013 8:09:18 GMT -5
Have I mentioned how much I love vinegar? That shit is good for everything. It is. I just found out this weekend it will even kill weeds. This guy used it to get rid of moss on his patio and dicovered it also killed weeds in the spray area. They didn't come back.  |
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Post by michelyn8 on Jun 5, 2013 9:58:36 GMT -5
And the unspoken consequences of her actions - the fact that she left everything at the old place (the kids confirm this) for the land lord to deal with. Depending on the condition of the things she left, there's no telling how many other people she may have also infected if they took her unclaimed items. That probably bothers me just as much as the fact that we got infested - how many others did she also affect?
You'd be surprised how uncaring people can be when it comes this type of thing. My daughter is renting from a former classmate of mine. Her apartment is one of four in an old house and is in the section that may have been the carport at one point. There is an apartment on the far side of hers from the main house (possibly a former garage) that is leased by the brother of another classmate and grew up with the landlord so not a fly by night type tenant. Her former neighbor who had the downstairs portion of the house was evicted around the first of the year and the apartment was empty for a while as well as the apartment in the upstairs portion of the main house. After new tenants moved in to both, they discovered not only a bedbug infestation but also a roach problem. DD1 and her "far side neighbor" hadn't had a single problem fortunately. LL has had to treat the main house twice and even though her apartment wasn't treated the first time, just the second because she found one bedbug a day or two before, has had to deal with finding temporary care for her cats, clean up and worse yet, both sets of tenants in the main house have indicated they are looking for new apartments so LL is losing good tenants.  Not to mention, I'm not to crazy about visiting DD1 for more than a few mintues or having anything in her house come to mine for fear of "hitchhikers". 
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Jun 7, 2013 8:19:40 GMT -5
Saw a vacuum that had an ultraviolet light that kills eggs, dust mites, even virus and bacteria
Brand and cost? I could use that to vacuum Gwen's head the next time.  We're on day 2 of being lice free. Cross your fingers.
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Jun 7, 2013 8:30:11 GMT -5
Have I mentioned how much I love vinegar? That shit is good for everything. Salad dressing, killing bugs, washing windows, and makes your hair shiny. What more can you ask for? Apparently a puppy... |
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Jun 7, 2013 8:35:16 GMT -5
Kara, I'm sorry you're dealing with this. Hugs (even though I'm skived out by the thought of bed bugs too) Would the massive laundry front be easier to deal with at a laundromat? Get that part over with in a couple of hours?
As for the bedbags things, I've got them on DS's bed, not for bugs but due to peeing though his pullups at night.
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Post by doxieluvr on Jun 7, 2013 8:38:09 GMT -5
Saw a vacuum that had an ultraviolet light that kills eggs, dust mites, even virus and bacteria
Brand and cost? I could use that to vacuum Gwen's head the next time. We're on day 2 of being lice free. Cross your fingers. Spray her hair daily with hair spray. It simulates a dirty environment and discourages lice from inhabiting her head. |
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