A tick in my underwear
@shaggin (71664)
United States
May 4, 2018 4:36pm CST
I haven’t been here much I’ve been working outdoors every minute I could on nice days.
There’s a guy in town asking for scrap metal. There’s a large portion of the property that things were just dumped over the years. A lot of it was before local garbage pickup came to the area.
I figured since he needs metal and I want a less junk yard looking property this is my chance! My dad put the washing machine in the pile but I’ve gathered all the rest. This was taken about 4 days ago and I’ve added a lot to the pile. He will have a full truck load when he comes maybe more then 1 load.
One neat object I found was parts to an old Victor wood burning stove.
Also while cleaning all this mess I found a large spot where bottles were dumped. Many were broken naturally over the years but someone has been down there smashing them on a boulder. It was very sad to see that and what a huge mess it’s been for me to pick it up and put it in buckets. Probably at least a hundred smashed bottles. Such beautiful colors too like cobalt blue and pretty purple.
I did find lots of unbroken bottles. One I am going to sell on eBay. Some my daughter will sell in the yard sale this summer. All the rest I have found people on Facebook interested in collecting them. It makes me happy knowing these people will have these decorating their homes instead of being smashed by whoever is destroying them lately.
I walked the puppy today and when we came inside she had 5 ticks on her. None on me but a few hours later when I went to the bathroom I saw one crawling in my underwear eeeekkkk!!!
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@shaggin (71664)
• United States
5 May 18
@Kandae11 Ticks aren't like fleas he they get on them and breed. They attach to them and burrow their heads in the skin and suck the blood. You have to pull them off and sometimes the head stays behind then you have to dig that out. They are absolutely disgusting! At least none of these attached and as they were crawling on us I picked them off and flushed them down the toilet.
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@shaggin (71664)
• United States
7 May 18
@LadyDuck We have all had them on us and we never go to the doctor. I'm stubborn that way! Unless we got a rash or got I'll I figured there wasn't really any reason to go. Lyme disease is getting really common here though so I may change my mind this summer. I just feel like as many times as we get bit we would wind up on antibiotics all summer and that doesn't seem good either. My parents and sister and her kids always go and get an antibiotic anytime ticks attach to them.
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@shaggin (71664)
• United States
7 May 18
@DianneN Nope here it’s not worth much. It’s helping my land look like less of a junk yard and helping the guy out so I’m happy. Usually people who collect scrap here are disabled or very poor. The only thing really worth anything is copper which I only had a few short copper pipes to throw in.
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@shaggin (71664)
• United States
9 May 18
@DianneN It makes me mad there is all this junk to clean up! A lot is stuff my father dumped. I told my mother he dumps it and it drives me nuts and I clean it up. My mom said my father mentioned that to her the last time he was up. If he can buy snowmobiles and a ton of other toys he can afford to dispose of things properly. He lives across the street and always makes sure his land looks nice but here he makes it look like a stinking junk yard 
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@shaggin (71664)
• United States
7 May 18
@cintol they are everywhere here now. They are getting worse and worse every year. I had never even seen one until about 6 years ago and now I see a few every day. There was an engorged one on my puppies head yesterday 
I need to get a flea and tick collar as well as get her back to the vet to her a Lyme vaccine.
I need to get a flea and tick collar as well as get her back to the vet to her a Lyme vaccine.1 person likes this
@cintol (11261)
• United States
7 May 18
@shaggin Which state are you in?? They say we have chiggers here as well, I haven't had a problem yet. Poor puppy, they told us to get some flea and tick stuff for our pup before we moved here, it was a little tube of liquid stuff we had to rub into his neck. He passed though and I can't remember the name of it.
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@Courtlynn (66921)
• United States
5 May 18
that's great you can help that man with the metal.
Ew ticks! Glad you found it before too late!
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@shaggin (71664)
• United States
7 May 18
@Courtlynn usually the people who collect metal around here are very poor or disabled and can't work other jobs so they do this to get a little extra money. I am so happy to be able to help him out. Leaving all the metal would have been a lot less work for me but it is worth it. My late husband used to take metal and return it so I'm surprised he never took all this. He probably didn't want to go down the big steep banks to pick it all up. Copper is the only thing really worth collecting.
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@shaggin (71664)
• United States
7 May 18
@Courtlynn lol if I didn't like someone I wouldn't help them out either.
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@Courtlynn (66921)
• United States
7 May 18
@shaggin my grandnothers bf collects and sells it sometimes. But screw him, lol
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@snowy22315 (169939)
• United States
5 May 18
Some bottles are awesome. I used to collect them. Actually, I think I have a couple here that I like.
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@shaggin (71664)
• United States
7 May 18
@snowy22315 my daughter wanted to keep two pretty cobalt blue colored bottles. I had to look online for how to get the rusty lids off them.
@marguicha (215405)
• Chile
4 May 18
Fortunately we have no ticks around. But pets here have to have something on them so they don´t get them.
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@marguicha (215405)
• Chile
7 May 18
@shaggin In some parts there are ticks and no one wants ticks from stray dogs to reach our pets.
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@shaggin (71664)
• United States
7 May 18
@marguicha oh I see that makes sense then. If the dog run in this area if will spread them. Here deer spread them a lot.
@infatuatedbby (95001)
• United States
5 May 18
I have never seen a tick, but eek! Glad you got some cleaning done :)
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@shaggin (71664)
• United States
7 May 18
@infatuatedbby I never saw one until about 6 years ago when I had one attached to my arm. Now I see more then one on a daily basis. They are horrible and Lyme disease is becoming an epidemic around here.
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@shaggin (71664)
• United States
7 May 18
@infatuatedbby yep but none seem to help
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@infatuatedbby (95001)
• United States
7 May 18
@shaggin Oh wow! That is crazy. Any sprays to prevent them ?
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@Carmelanirel2 (8084)
• United States
8 May 18
Wow, some of those items sounds like something people would be interested in, I hope you money a lot from what you sell.
My son took my girls into the woods the other day, but I keep forgetting to check them. I tihnk I would freak out if I found a tick in my underwear, you need to apply something to repel them next time.
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@shaggin (71664)
• United States
30 Dec 18
@Carmelanirel2 ticks are so bad here. In the summer just staying on the sidewalk about 25 feet long was all I walked and I wound up getting a tick on me. The ones around here are mostly all carrying lyme now and it is becoming quite an epidemic people getting lyme disease from them. I dont want to spray myself with harmful chemicals every single day when I have to go outside 9 months out of the year
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@shaggin (71664)
• United States
30 Dec 18
@Carmelanirel2 I have a natural one my boyfriends sister made but it didn’t work and attracted mosquitos. Even the repellents with deet I have used haven’t kept the rotten ticks off me.
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@Carmelanirel2 (8084)
• United States
30 Dec 18
@shaggin I understand about chemicals, but you get use something that is safe. Here is a link to make your own:
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@sallypup (57858)
• Centralia, Washington
4 May 18
The first year we moved into our place we had junk pickers come over. They probably made a few hundred off us. I just wanted the crud out and gone. Sigh on those ticks. We've never had those evil beings but this year I am finding them.
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@shaggin (71664)
• United States
5 May 18
@sallypup I save things to sell on eBay and then I never get around to doing it so then I wind u just donating it. I am going to make it a goal to list this one bottle for sale and it will be the first thing I have sold on eBay in at least 7 years.
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@Happy2BeMe (99399)
• Canada
4 May 18
Ewwwww glad you found it When you did. Those are some interesting bottles.
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@shaggin (71664)
• United States
7 May 18
@Happy2BeMe I found many more bottles some really neat some boring. I am hoping to get them to some interested people soon.
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@crossbones27 (48417)
• Mojave, California
4 May 18
I so hate ticks, little aholes
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
4 May 18
You might find some treasures there, who knows, like what the " American pickers" find. I think we are only a second choice to ticks,lol
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@shaggin (71664)
• United States
7 May 18
@louville most the bottles really aren't selling for much at all on eBay so it would be a waste of time for me to try to sell them. One though sold for $25 so I am keeping that in to sell. My daughter liked two of the pretty cobalt blue bottles that I am letting her keep.
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