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Dude, you need to get out of there ASAP. Contact your local housing board, contact a local attorney for a free consultation, this is a really big deal and just changing your diet is not gonna help. If the infestation is as bad as you say AND the landlord has failed to do anything about it, you are usually open to legal recourse. Review your lease with an attorney and see what recourse you have.

If you're seeing multiple out in the open, thats a really bad sign. Roaches don't like being out in the open and will only really go out in the open if theres a real infestation.

With that being said, below check out the best most effective ways to make your house as unlivable as possible for those sons of bitches:

The key to taking care of the roaches is essentially making your house a living hell for them to live in.

First, Determine the kind of roach you have. German roaches are the most common, and tend to be the ones found in apartments.

Second-of-ly, Throw out any and all cardboard you have. They live on the glue holding it together. This means ALL of it, every old amazon box, cereal box, shoe box, old pizza box, gift box from your aunt you wanted to reuse for your other nephews birthday... throw all that shit out. I hope you were planning on spring cleaning because that's next.

Once you've thrown out all your cardboard, I highly suggest deep cleaning the entire apartment, get up every single crumb you can, do it around the entrance to your apartment, do it on every window sil, every shelf. Just....everywhere. Every crumb, hair, and just general shit you pick up is one less morsel for them to eat.

Clean every single dish, bowl, culterly, all of your dishes and put them in large storage bins something like this.

Now, go through your fridge and remove everything, clean the entire fridge out. If you can empty it I would, though this is /r/budgetfood so just I'm sure others will disagree if this is needed. All of your canned good, rice, pantry crap go into another empty bin. Put these in the middle of your living room floor.

Move all your furniture away from the walls and try to get as much of it off the floor as possible. Try to remove as many "hiding spaces" as possible.

Got textbooks, novels, bibles or any other book that has glue in it? Either throw them away or check and comb every single page for roach eggs. They like to lay them deeeep inside the bindings. Once searched, put them in a bin and stack with the rest of your stuff.

At this point, see if your landlord will come in and fill any open holes in the apartment, this includes pipes for plumbing, heater pipes coming out of drywall, underneath dishwasher, cabinet seams. Basically anything that can be caulked should be. If your landlord is an ass and doesn't want to/won't its gonna make this next part harder but not undoable.

So now that's done, you're next gonna wanna buy these two things:

Depending on the size of your place, a shit ton of boric acid

a drill

A Powder duster

The boric acid dries out and fucks up the roaches exoskeleton and they then ingest it causing themselves to (hopefully painful) death.

Take the boric acid and cover your entire floor with it. You don't need to use the duster quite yet, but just make sure your floor is completely covered. Next cover your furniture. In your now empty pantry and drawers, cover them in boric acid. This includes bath tubs, under the sinks, around the toilet etc.

Now at the bottom of one of your walls take your drill and drill a hole into your wall deep enough to get to the internals. Using the powder duster filled with boric acid, shoot the powder up into the wall. The idea is to coat the entire inside with it. It more important to get the acid everywhere. After your first hole, move about 8inches to a foot in either direction and continue spraying internally in the wall. continue to do this until every walls inside is covered in boric acid.

So now the adults are slowly on their way to perish, Nope the fuck out of your apartment for a few days, if you can't for some reason leave for a few days, in the very least do not bring any food, water, plastic, glue, boxes, paper, anything new into the house. Trash should be taken out multiple times a day and laundry needs to be stored in ziploc bags.

Okay, so now the adults should be slowly dying. Unfortunately, prior to their death, besides eating all of your food, they've been nonstop fucking and laying eggs all over your house. So now your house is literally about to be filled with shitty roach orphans and outside of going back in time and trying to teach the roaches in your apartment safe sex methods, there isn't much you can do to stop them from hatching.

Unfortunately this means in about 10-20 days after your initial treatment, you'll have to do the entire thing again. After that, outside of maintaining an impeccably clean apartment your roach problem should become more bearable. Sadly, unless EVERYONE in your building follows the above steps, you'll always have that problem.

Source: Dealt with these little shits for about 6 months, every treatment I basically grilled the bug guy to give me as much info as possible on roaches....

Maybe a large plastic storage box that has a gasket seal, that you can pipck up at a home improvement store and put cardboard boxes inside that,
Example: https://www.amazon.com/Ziploc-WeatherShield-Quart-Storage-Clear/dp/B00MWTJXP0/ref=sr_1_4?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1527304184&sr=1-4&keywords=seal+plastic+box

This right here works great. I'm not now using a mixture of of a couple of containers off amazon and I just rinse them out with some baking soda with a little water then let them air out a bit.

I'm using these and these and they both work great. I really like the little ones for singles because it's a perfect shape.

I bought these:

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00MWTJXP0/

two of them are full of filaments, along with dessicant.

That's awful! I hope insurance covers it.

We're planning on moving some books to the basement too, since we're running out of space, and we've decided to put the books in these airtight plastic containers (they're cheaper at Walmart). I know that's too late to help now, but maybe it will be for the future?

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KL7VPWO http://www.amazon.com//dp/B00MWTJXP0 a variety of sizes

i'm very careful now after bringing home a grain beetle infested bag of dry beans. i buy from high turnover sources and double bag all snacks and starches using airtight bags, not loose garbage liners. anything you buy in the store that's a bag in a box, or box only (like pasta) should discard the box and be double bagged or bell jarred or lock&lock containers when you get home. i also put one small fly traps in my containers as moth indicators. i really don't bulk up much since between aldi's and online walmart shopping, there is no money to be saved by going bulk.

http://www.amazon.com//dp/B00OJM2710

my building has lots of roaches and mice, but i have other strategies to keep them out of my apartment, so i'm more concerned with containing bugs i may inadvertently bring home, then anything already living in my building.

Like stogie-bear said, use tupperdors, or, use big weather-tight containers, like these.

https://www.amazon.com/Ziploc-WeatherShield-Quart-Storage-Clear/dp/B00MWTJXP0?psc=1&SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=duckduckgo-ffab-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00MWTJXP0

For the cost of one cheap humidor, you'll have a huge amount of space. They're made bpa-free by https://www.shopirisusa.com/ who make some decent plastic.

I've got four of these, and they're full. I'm planning to buy four more.

With these, you throw some of the big boveda's in them, put them somewhere where the temperature is stable (for us with a basement, we've really got it made)... and that's it. I don't have to mess with mine at all. The humidity is always perfect and they're always smoke ready out of the box.

Since the bins are huge, you can buy some of the cedar shelves online or make some, or whatever to hold singles. Old cigar boxes work. Lately I tend to buy more boxes than 5-packs so those stack pretty nicely inside these.

EDIT: Here's my cellar, https://i.imgur.com/N5Gc7gH.jpg

I use these Ziploc containers. They have a foam like seal in the lid to help keep out dust and moisture. They stack nicely as well. So far I'm liking them.

https://www.amazon.com/Ziploc-WeatherShield-Quart-Storage-Clear/dp/B00MWTJXP0

While it looks very cool to have a bunch of filament spools hanging everywhere, it isn't a good way to store filament. Get a dry-box (a plastic box with a gasketed lid) and put a tub of Damp-rid inside with all your filament spools. It doesn't look as pretty, but it will keep your filament from absorbing moisture and getting bubbly or brittle.

In case you're worried about replacing the Damp-rid, I've got a box with a 10 oz tub that's been in there for 2 years and it is still working fine...