Quote from austinp:
Tomorrow spend $6 of your budget on a box of boric acid and mix that with flour & sugar. Sprinkle it all around your apartment. It'll knock the critters back enough to keep them from carrying you awhile while you sleep.
Boric acid and that white powder they use in pools. No, not bleach, demascus earth or something like that. Anybody with a pool has a big damn box of the stuff, ask em for a cup.
Careful not to get boric acid in food or your lungs. It's not terrible, IIRC but it's still a bad idea. This process takes a while. Roaches can live for an astonishing amount of time without food or water. I caught one and he lived for a freaken month in a jar. Things are pure Evil.
If you use the bait traps, it seems like A: roaches still like food better, so clean up and B: the brand name ones seem to be better than the second rate ones.