I’m not sure if this reply was meant for me, but I was referring to the other commenter sleeping in different rooms to “get ahead” of the bugs, when all that does is attract the bugs throughout the entire home.

Moving from room to room actually moves the infestation through the home because they are attracted to our breath. As much as it sucks (and it sucked for me, I would sometimes start crying about going to sleep during our infestation because I didn’t want more bites), but staying in your room is the easiest way to not…

My neighbor had bed bugs and soon everyone on our floor did too. By the time I bolted it had spread even more. I threw out 90% of my belongings and had bites all over my legs. The skin-crawly feeling didn’t go away for months after I left. I would probably lose my mind if I ever got them again. When you share walls,…

My dad dated a very nice lady who went through a bed bug infestation, and it was making her lose her mind. I should have worried that she was going to infect my dad’s house with bedbugs, but she never did, and I was more worried about her having a bed bug induced nervous breakdown than anything else.

Lol I actually HAVE been sleeping on my floor - on a twin-sized mattress I put in a bedbug bag before it got infested and which is going in the trash as soon as it’s all over - for months (between how much clutter there was and how little energy I had, it took me 6 months to prep for extermination). And I’ve been…

I’m not even at a place where I can afford all-new furniture, but I STILL got rid of everything except one IKEA chair on which everything can be laundered and the frame taken apart for inspection. The extermination costs $1,200, and while all-new furniture for my whole townhouse is going to cost more than that, I’d…

Those strange, rattling, clattering, glimmering humanoid figures making unearthly wailing noises aren’t ghosts. They’re just the Pearly Kings and Queens.

I left all of my furniture at my last place for the same reason. One of my neighbors had bedbugs. Myself and the neighbor next to me had rodents. I wanted none of it, and bailed. I left everything except my recliner, and I took it apart to make damn sure there was nothing in it before put it in storage.

There are many different parenting styles for many different children.

He’s kind of full of shit with the attachment mothering shit too.

Yes. For something to disappear, it has to exist in the first place. I’m pretty certain 99.999% of companies do not offer this, and the 0.001% that do are “unicorn” companies that must treat their employees as actual human beings.

Meanwhile the rest of us would be ecstatic to have 1) health insurance with premiums we don’t have to sell our kidneys to afford, 2) plans that aren’t high deductible, 3) retirement matching with any kind of substance to it, 4) more than a couple of days off per year, 5) some fucking schedule flexibility.

Disappearing? It had to be somewhere first. 3% of workplaces (as stated in the linked article) is practicality nowhere.

I dunno, can we really use the word “choice” when children under the age of 15 are part of it?

Brother in law has a Ph.D. in communications. He works for the army writing press releases, speeches for generals and other such stuff.

Commuications is the carry-all term for print, electronic and web journalism, as well as public relations and public speaking.

Oh my God that story makes me rage. Punishing a child for using the correct name for parts of the body? FFS, why do people insist on making the proper terms for our genitals “bad” or worthy of punishment?

It’s not just weird and icky it can actually be dangerous. Teach9ing your kids correct terminology and anatomy can help prevent them from being abused.

The teachers were A LOT more harsh to us in private school, so I don’t know if they necessarily should believe a private school will cure the problem. Embarrassing students was a staple for some teachers when I was growing up. Some teachers are just power-tripping assholes. Such a shame, too, considering how noble the…

I don’t have kids, and (not kidding) I have biked 100 miles this week. I would never wear my cycling clothes, or my running clothes, for anything other than working out. For one, they are expensive and reserved strictly for situations where chafing must be prevented. The other thing is that they really aren’t…