I am getting ready for bed and going through my nightly routine of taking off my makeup, brushing and flossing my teeth and hopping into bed. Apparently, my arch nemesis, the cockroach, needs to get ready for bed too. If you know me in the slightest bit, you will have already discovered my extreme fear of these creepy crawlers. Letting out a blood curdling scream, I hop into the farthest place in my apartment and flail my arms like a mad woman. My boyfriend usually gets a kick out of my theatrics and has himself a chuckle before waltzing over and removing the nasty little critter. I know that everyone has had some sort of experience like mine. Jumping on the highest piece of furniture to get away from that fury rodent or scrambling to find a shoe to smash that spider like a pancake. What ever the case may be, all we want to do is extinguish the pests as fast as we can. I have found a great company, our new hero, that gives you awesome tips and tricks in reducing your chances of having a bathroom scare like mine.
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This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of the National Pest Management Association. The opinions and text are all mine.
I think I might be the biggest freak about bugs ever. Twenty years ago, I moved into an apartment. First night, roaches appeared. I never spent another night there.
In my current house, we get crickets (not normal crickets but camel crickets, which are HUGE, make NO noise, and jump like flippin’ Olympic athletes) in the spring and the fall. I got a cat. I don’t even like cats. I got a cat because I couldn’t deal with the crickets.
I have a problem.
When I first started reading I thought you were going to say you saw a bedbug! I use to think roaches were the worst thing you could get, but now I know better, it is bedbugs! Eeewwww! Horrible creatures from h@ll!