Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This thing. Oh how it has changed my life. I live alone in a small NYC apartment, and for the past 3 years have had a mysterious increase of American cockroaches. I used to find maybe 2-3 per summer. Since May, I’ve seen over 20. I’ve paid an exterminator, sealed every nook and cranny shut, but for some reason they really want to come in here and die. Maybe I should take it as a compliment? Anyhow, it might seem that having mostly dead ones is better than live ones. But I’m really not sure. They are so big, I just can’t stand to pick them up. Not even with a shop vac (which their big dead bodies clog up anyway). They terrorize me. I really pride myself on not being afraid of silly things, but I just can’t with these. Spiders? Fine. Snakes? No problem. Geckos? Cute! American roaches? 😱 Another huge issue are the half-dead ones. What does one do when you arrive home from a long day at work, ready to sit down on your couch and enjoy some dinner and Netflix, but there is a half-dead roach lying in front of your tv? If you try to kill it, it WILL get up and start running at you. But it’s too big to pick up with your little girly hands. Your night is ruined. The apartment you pay $2,000+/month for does not belong to you. Find somewhere else to eat your dinner and relax until the roach is dead enough to try to pick up the next day. I paint these scenarios for you all so you can truly understand how much this bug picker-upper has given me back my home and life. It picks up these huge roaches perfectly. I’ve only tried it on dead or half-dead ones, but that’s fine with me. It’s so easy to use, that this morning, before putting my contact lenses in, I noticed what seemed to be a dead-ish one on my kitchen floor. I purposely left my contacts out so I didn’t have to see details, grabbed this thing, snatched up the roach in one fell swoop and dropped it in the toilet. Was it dead or alive or brown or black or winged or not? Thanks to this contraption, I’ll never have to know.