• toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    not to the roaches… i learned that the hard way a few years ago.

    during covid, i left a couple of cases of empty bottles on my kitchen floor and didn’t think anything of them for a month or so. that’s how i found out my neighbors had cleanliness issues, and the roaches found out they had a new place next door to terrorize. horrible experience - don’t keep your empties in your apartment.

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        it was covid lockdown. i don’t think i was the only one who skipped the odd laundry day.

        this was a whole different thing, though. i’d already lived here (i’m still in the same place) for three years without any issues. i’m not neurotic, but i do try to keep my place clean.

        or at least i thought i did…

        these roaches taught me so much. to this day, i still keep my organic waste in a bag in my freezer. i got rid of my coffee machine and switched to instant - explaining why would probably make you sick. i never leave dishes to “soak” any more.

        i’m telling you, it got bad. really bad. i talked to the super, and she said that someone moved in who ‘was from a different part of the world and is used to roaches’. like, what? it got to the point where i always had a fly swatter in one had and a bottle of windex in the other. i was killing 20-30 by hand every night. they weren’t coming over for food; they were so bad at the other apartment that they were coming there to scope a new place to live.

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          5 days ago

          i got rid of my coffee machine and switched to instant - explaining why would probably make you sick.

          I have a French press so I don’t have to worry about brewing roach coffee.

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            5 days ago

            Pourover gang here to also flex on this guy’s roach tea.

            Fr though, I dealt* with roaches for years and it was legitimately traumatizing. Any time I feel something brush my leg or I catch a glimpse of something dark in the corner of my eye I begin to panic. I’ve woken up in a cold sweat because I would have dreams of roaches and shit. Truly awful experience

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      5 days ago

      “Left a couple of cases of empty alcohol bottles on the floor for a month….”

      “Then I got roaches from it! That’s how I knew my neighbors had cleanliness issues.”

      …….?