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Tips to reduce the hell of bedbugs/"necessity is the mother of invention"
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blazing
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Posted 8 months ago
Mon Jun 15 2009 10:43:56
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This may be a bit juvenile and I really don't have alot of time here today but wanted to do this quickly
I am just posting from my own experience.
#1. I have found obsessing about them has been a law of diminishing returns.. I wasted alot of time worrying about them and when i finally saw one in my house it was like whatever. I did everything I could and they are still here so I just don't care anymore.
#2. I have REFUSED to let them scare me or bully me in any way. If they are there, they are there. Obviously, I have a light infestation right now but I have almost no reactions to getting bit.. in fact I wonder if I even am but I guess I must be. In any case, if I feel something on me, I figure it's just nerves or if it is a bug, it's a bug. I will kill it, though I never see them.
#3. I have used this experience as a springboard to an entirely new atttitude about life and living. I have completely scaled back my consumerist spending due to this, though i was largely unmaterialistic to begin with. Why spend money on useless crap when it just weighs you down, especially on a bedbug infestation. It is truly remarkable how little we actually need to live. If I ever get my own place that's more permanent (I travel alot) then I will get a bed (with BB covers just in case) and have plastic chairs and drawers and boxes. I hate TV anyhow so don't need that in my house. I realize most people cannot live like that but since I can, all the more power to me and much easier to battle an infestation when I am just trying to control them in the walls rather than crying about all the stuff I have to throw out.
#4. Just as the bedbugs adapt to us, so do I adapt to them. Though it is extremely hard to get rid of them, it is not hard to at least control them. And the fact that they are so resilient absolves me from feeling the need to obsessively trying to stop them, when it is out of my control. Witness the post of that girl the other day who lamented having them after taking such extreme measures. Either she somehow failed in stopping them, or she was successful but moved into a place that had them all along. This is an exercise in craziness. So please let's simplify our lives. Necessity is the mother of invention so it's only when they are everywhere when something will be done about them and people will report about this without snickering.
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