I’ll start. Apt next door is having a cockroach infected. 4 days ago, I was playing sims on my laptop, wearing my eyeglasses. Right lens got blurry, took off, huge cockroach was crawling across inside of lens. While I was wearing them. Freak out ensued.
Life Pro Tip
A really cheap and effective way of getting rid of roaches, without even using poison…
Get a medium to large metal coffee can, or any old metal can I guess. Make sure it’s cleaned out and dry to start with, and is not rusty.
Then get some spray cooking oil and a few scraps of bread. Spray the inside of the can with cooking oil, then drop some bread scraps in there.
Now you have a roach trap, set it near where the roaches are generally at their worst, and they’ll crawl out of the walls and into the can to get their munch on, but won’t be able to crawl back out.
Check it every couple or few days or so, eventually the roaches will start piling up and most of them that have been in there for a bit will end up dying because they’re covered in the cooking oil and apparently can’t absorb oxygen.
Take the trap as necessary and either dump it in the toilet and flush them away, or if you have access to a bonfire burn pile, bag the little demons up and burn them. Then clean the can out and reset the trap as necessary.
Even with the worst infestations I’ve ever seen, this tends to eliminate over 99% of them within about two weeks, if not less.
A few thoughts about the different approaches between my trap vs poison…
If you poison them, then they just go back into your walls and die, further stinking the place up, is more dangerous to people and pets, and honestly isn’t even nearly as effective as people would hope.
But roaches are simple and stupid. They’re really easy to trap, and why the hell would I want them going back into the walls in the first place? Especially when I can just flush them instead?
What is the reasoning behind the not rusty warning?
That its more slippery and not rough
Thank you for passing through to read my advice. By all means please share the advice to anyone that happens to need it…
I also read your post, and I can fully agree from the Gulf Coast of the USA, that swamps can be rather nasty and have lots of weird bugs and slimeys, but usually not quite as bad as you described.
Maybe lay off the shrooms and smoke some green instead? 😂🤣
Haha shrooms just need space, and I didnt get the meaning of “setting” back then. Living in a tight space with parents downstairs and a very hot night is simply not a good idea
Aaaaaaaaaah, I hate it.
New neighbour moved in earlier this year and brought them with them, and they’re just little German cockroaches, but seeing them at all freaks me out. I’d probably die in your case.
Landlord’s done a full “move all the furniture” spray treatment, and bi-weekly gel treatment, and they just keep coming. Mostly babies, but no matter how clean the kitchen counter top is I still find them scurrying about on it.
Try the oil can thing
Worked at Office Depot back in ~2012-2014. Was the lead tech, and was the primary hardware fix guy. Had a guy bring in this old dell clamshell case PC with an xp sticker. It and him already smelled…off. After discussing some issues (no power) and finishing the paperwork, I cracked it open. They came spilling out. Dead, alive, and various sized. All the droppings too. It was one of the first machines I refused to work on. The guy had no choice but to leave with it. Didn’t really say much after that.
The only other PC that came close to that were those of chain smokers. Where the tar buildup was actually sticky to the touch, coating everything, outside and in.
Crazy how these loungs look like. Its so disgusting, and its not even like peanut butter, that tar is actually carcinogenic
Yup. After my first tar PC, I refused them going forward.
Also, the cheap incenses (the ones that light instantly) can cause a similar scenario. I guess the moral here, clean your computers!
I would add “be happy we dont need open fire to heat anymore and stop smoking your damn house”
Okaaay I got one.
I was with my family in a small vacation house, near a lake. Very wet and swampy surrounding, hot wet summer night, I really needed to go out and get some fresh air.
Walked barefeet and without artificial light, you know back to the roots and stuff.
The grass was just verry sticky and slimey, it was pretty weird so I got my phone, turnes on the flashlight and damn… hundreds of slugs and snails everywhere, around my feet, in front and behind me.
I hate slugs so much, it was the most disgusting moment in my life. Ran very carefully to the lake, onto a dock, to wash my feet off. Slugs everywhere, on the dock even. The lake was full of weird tiny insects racing around, the air was full of mosquitoes and flies.
This planet can reall, be hostile, its crazy. And thats in a state where the climate is so nice life is flourishing.
Learned: living near standing water sounds nice but is horrible.
Also I was on a shitload of mushrooms, which was not a great idea. The grass was basically all fractals and differentiating slugs from sticks didnt make it better. Damn, what a night.
Edit: this was about Cockroaches only? Idk I never saw one haha, Germany seems quite nice?
I just stepped on a slug on accident the other day without noticing. I had flip flops on, and the flip flop acted as dead a slug catapult as I stepped forward. It landed on the back of my bare leg while wearing shorts. I was so grossed out. Washed tf out of my leg. My story pales in comparison to yours, but fuck slugs.
Uuuurg wtf hahaha. Had organs on my leg once when riding a longboard
