I like to travel light. Whenever I travel, for example, I pack my oldest socks and underwear, ones that are nearing the end of their useful lifespan. And after I wear them on a trip, I throw them away. No packing dirty socks and underwear back in my bag to be carried home next to my Robert Ludlum novel. Not a big…

Diatomaceous earth is made of the shell remains of billions of dead microscopic sea creatures, called diatoms. The shells are made of silicon dioxide, a fine powdery substance to humans, but millions of sharp edged particles to household insect pests, including bed bugs. When diatomaceous earth gets into the joints…

We got bedbugs by moving into an apartment building that already had them five years ago. My advice is in two sections: 1) Know your enemy: evil apartment corps, 2) Defeat the bedbugs without poison.

Same here. Every spec of dirt or dust that ends up on the blanket looks like a potential resurgence of something that took an entire summer to get rid of...

Hey how did you find out that I carry gallons of warm blood with me everywhere I go? Did you look in my thermos?

they can climb drywall. also, they come in through tiny holes. In a shitty Astoria apartment I lived in 7 years ago, they hid out in drywall and came out when we moved into the apartment through cracks between flooring and wood trim at base of wall (they also pestered the upstairs neighbor-previous tenant who was in…

Fuck bed bugs.

pipe cleaners....ain’t nobody got time for that.

I read this as I currently drink water from said Starbucks Stainless Steel Reusable Cup with Reusable Straw.