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I had an old college friend come stay with me and it was a disaster. We were supposed to meet for dinner when I got off work and he never showed. After about six hours of frantic phone calls, I tracked him down at about 3am: he was at a bar, drunk with his best friend who had just happened to have broken my heart several months earlier. I told him that if he was not at my place in five minutes, all of his belongings would be thrown in the street. That worked, and when he arrived, I gave him directions to the nearest hotel.

Well, the exterminator came to my place this past Thursday and sprayed my place - I feel so much better! I sealed up most of the big cracks in my floorboards, bought a can of bed bug spray for my own use, and have thrown out my mattress and box springs. I also invested in a steamer (it was like $40) and the stuff I wasn't able to wash, I steamed since the heat kills the things. For dry cleaning clothes, I just put them in the dryer for about 10 minutes and they were not damaged. I went through every single book, CD and DVD I own, threw out paper towels, toilet paper and some gross wooden shelving I needed to get rid of anyway. Needless to say, I am becoming a minimalist -- it was a great excuse to rid myself of pointless clutter.

I'm still a little paranoid, because my neighbor thinks she saw a bloodstain on her mattress and is beginning to worry. She has been out of town and is getting it checked tonight - I'm just stressed about the little buggers returning.

I'm also worried about my office -- the chair that I use is fabric upholstered, and I'm wondering if I need to treat it or get rid of it.....any thoughts?

OZ is great! I used them for my previous move, and, although they were kind of pricey, I thought they were worth it. Three guys moved me out of a 6th floor walk-up on the Upper East Side to a 2nd floor walk-up (thank GOD) on the Lower East Side in less than two hours. They went over all the pricing BEFORE they started working - which I thought was nice - and if they needed to use one of their own boxes, they alerted me to the cost. It was like $800-ish, but I'm still glad I used them.