• Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
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      21 hours ago

      Bedbugs can’t survive heat. 1 hour over 100F or a few seconds at 200F kills them. Depending on what you have available, either throw your clothing in a dryer on high for an hour or use a steamer that goes over 200F to rid them. Alternatively placing them in a black garbage bag in a parked car for a day if it’s hot out will also do it. Depending on what is infested, some plastic totes to stage things that haven’t been treated yet can greatly limit their ability to re-infest while you’re treating stuff, and re-treat within a week if you’re not certain (their life cycle is about a week, so treating the same item twice in a week kill get any that survived before they can multiply again)

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        15 hours ago

        Another option is freezing it. For stuff that’s hard to wash or heat sensitive (usually sleeping bags or pillows) chuck it in the freezer for a week.

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          5 hours ago

          Mom mad me take my sisters bed outside cause she suspected be bed bugs. We checked the bed and saw nothing. Just One night at freezing temp and you can see ALL of them littered on the bed. It was disgusting. Had to wipe them off and bring it back inside.

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      23 hours ago

      Take an aspirin, they hate the taste.
      50 mg a day keeps the bedbugs at bay.
      I do it every time I’m staying overnight at hotels, in particular.
      Obviously, medical supervision is advised if you intend to do this for a long time, let’s say, more than 2 weeks.

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      1 day ago

      Don’t forget to put all your clothes, bags, and other belongings in the freezer for a week when you come home.

      I sheltered two people during the storm surge last year and I think they brought in bed bugs, though I didn’t wait long enough to properly confirm other than the itching and bite marks. In other words, the floor still has “bubble marks” from when the varnish started cooking during my week-long extermination craze.

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          19 hours ago

          Thank you, and it absolutely is, but I’m lazy and haven’t yet found a proper solution for hosting images.

          I sometimes host smaller images like the above on Catbox, but Imgur, Catbox, and other similar sites feel just as clunky and unfit as Discord. At least to me.

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              3 hours ago

              Hmmm, seems much the same as catbox, except that you need a click more to get the image link but gives you more options in return.

              What I’m really interested in would be a (preferably) self hosted solution which allows one to share either single images or albums with visible (but non-obscuring) labels, and where one can easily flip through images in an album. Also needs batch upload (can be by FTP, the method doesn’t matter much). I’ve tried Pixelfed half a year ago, and while I really wanted to like it, it didn’t really have proper albums and labels at the time.

              Hosts like Postimages and Catbox are fine, I guess, much like Discord is “fine, I guess”, but I don’t want to spam the host by uploading an image 50 times for 50 different posts, and no way that I’m gonna check all previously uploaded images whether I’ve already uploaded the one I need.