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SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It kind of sounds like you had cleanliness issue too.

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    • toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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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      • GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Jesus, fuck, at that point I would pack my quilts and sleep outside. Because fuck that.

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      • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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    • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I can be my own neighbor!

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      • toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        you can be your own grandpa, too!

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  • LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.”

    …….?

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    • toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      old.lemmy.world/comment/17371048

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      • LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Omg that’s so gross.

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• Godric@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  All some people need is the simple life

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Learned the trick. Quick, very quick, rinse in the sink, dunk it upside down in the drain. Rinse (heh) and repeat for the next can. Almost zero effort, clean cans for the recycling bag. I took a load the size pictured for recycling last month. No stink. Only got a lousy $100.10. :(

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  • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I just empty them, put them in a crate, then every monday empty the kitchen crate into my garage sack. When they’re full i take 'em up to CDS

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No stink, bugs, etc.?

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      • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Nope

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