Toddlers: 12 - 24 Months

SAHM's- any weird fears?

Any of you SAHM's pick up any paranoia/fears? Mine is pest bugs. I am obsessive about keeping our place clean for fear of getting pests! We had a bout of grain beetles once (a jar of organic rice that was kept just a little too long in the pantry), and carpet beetles once (they fly in from outside and love any kind of natural fibre/clothes tucked away in your home!). Got rid of those guys but now I think I have a phobia!

So now I am always vaccuming and cleaning lol. Mostly the carpets and the kitchen

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Re: SAHM's- any weird fears?

  • YES. We got house centipedes 2 years ago at our old duplex. They love living in piles of laundry. Now I'm obsessive about nothing soft being on the floor. No blankets, no clothes.image
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  • AAUUUU!! The pic sent me into a fit of heeby-jeebies!! lol!


    I don't mind one or two bugs, like a fly buzzing around or a spider in the corner..but any kind of bug that can get in and multiply *TWITCH!!* nightmares!!  I won't put blankets on the floor either. I get this weird feeling like something will be stuck to it if it touches the floor too long, even if there is nothing there.

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  • imageGoombaGirl_79:

    AAUUUU!! The pic sent me into a fit of heeby-jeebies!! lol!


    I don't mind one or two bugs, like a fly buzzing around or a spider in the corner..but any kind of bug that can get in and multiply *TWITCH!!* nightmares!!  I won't put blankets on the floor either. I get this weird feeling like something will be stuck to it if it touches the floor too long, even if there is nothing there.

    I'm the SAME way. I have severe fear of flying bugs though. Like I will see one flying and will drop to the floor screaming.

    My parents leave blankets on the floor for the dogs because they have only hardwood and cement flooring and I curled up with one of the blankets and a spider crawled out. I almost died. lol.

    We have these beetles that fly. OMG I almost died the first time I saw one. I seriously freaked out beyond all control.

     

    DH thinks I'm crazy 

  • Mine isn't weird, it is legit-I am fearing black widow spiders. We have had two of them (complete with red bellies) in the past month. I am constantly searching around the house and especially where she plays.
  • DH thinks im crazy too about how freaked I get about pests. Any little speck on the ground I have to lean down and check that it's not moving lol. He finds it so funny because HE is the bug-phobe!! I am fine with one-off bugs... I take macro photos of the bugs that visit our balcony (ladybugs, wasps, flies, leaf-foot bugs etc) but pest bugs make me squirm.

    Macro Photo I took recently:

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  • imageSwissPrincessBride:
    Mine isn't weird, it is legit-I am fearing black widow spiders. We have had two of them (complete with red bellies) in the past month. I am constantly searching around the house and especially where she plays.

    Oh jeez. I would freak. Seriously have you thought about hiring an exterminator ?

    I had a friend in HS who lost half his leg to a brown recluse bite when he was 7 months old. It crawled in his jammies and his parents couldn't figure out why he was so upset until they took his jammies off and it had started eating at his flesh.  

  • imageSwissPrincessBride:
    Mine isn't weird, it is legit-I am fearing black widow spiders. We have had two of them (complete with red bellies) in the past month. I am constantly searching around the house and especially where she plays.

    YES that is definitely legit. Luckily we don't seem to have any dangrous bugs around here. (vancouver bc)

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  • Our apartment complex covers all extermination needs, thankfully. I just went to the front office and they sent someone out right away to identify then kill the first black widow. They came out within two days and sprayed our entire home. The second one I found was a few days later and it was already dead. I am assuming it died from the spray but I contacted our front office again. They will re-spray tomorrow.
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