Last Thursday I discovered that my room is heavily infested with fleas. I have three cats who, due to a shared-home situation, live only in my room-I used topical Advantage-like treatments and flea collars, and they're currently staying in my dad's room until I can fix the problem (we'll be treating his room afterwards as well). My main problem, however, is that I have obsessive-compulsive disorder and an especially severe paranoia concerning small crawly bugs (ie haven't slept since Thursday, taking three or more showers a day, spending hours at a time checking my clothing to make sure it's flea-free). I've been camping out in the living room with a small bag of carefully inspected and sanitized clothing and a can of OFF! bug-repellent, which I'm surprised hasn't given me seizures because I use it so much. The thought of going back into my room for an extended period of time to clean, wash, and treat my cluttered messy room- is almost too overwhelming to grasp. I managed, with the aid of rubber gloves, long sleeves/socks/pants, and strong sedatives- to grab most of the flea-riddled clothing from my very-messy floor, and put it all in trash bags. Besides that, no progress has been made. I'm more than willing to do the job of eliminating the fleas, provided that I can do it without them anywhere near my skin, face, clothes, or hair..if that's even possible. Basically, what I'm trying to accomplish is TOTAL, fail-proof eradication of these little monsters. I'm ready to just light the room on fire at this point. I have "Hartz 2 in 1 flea-killing carpet powder", "Hartz flea-repellent for cats", OFF! flea repellent, and a third of a gallon of flea killer; I also live in a eucalyptus grove so I have unlimited access to the leaves. So.. -What orders/combinations should I use these in? -How can I kill the fleas hopping around in my trash bags of clothes? Getting them to the washing machine is all I have to do but I don't want to "infect" any other areas of the house. -Is there any alternative stuff I can use on my clothing/skin besides the OFF!, that I can obtain or make, without buying anything? I'm broke. -How should I treat the mattresses on my bed? -I read that virtually nothing can penetrate the flea cocoons, so re-treating the area after awhile is advisable. Would it be wiser to keep the cats out of my room between the first and second treatments? Any additional advice, help, or suggestions would be immensely appreciated. Thanks in advance..

10 days ago I noticed an odor in an upstairs bathroom. Since there was a laundry hamper in there I figured it was time to do the wash but the odor persisted and became stronger and stronger. I isolated the source to the linen closet, removed everything in there and found nothing. This awful smell is clearly a decaying animal of some sort and it must be in the wall behind the linen closet. I do not detect the odor on the other side of that wall which is a bedroom. My question is will this odor eventually dissapate or must I have the wall opened and have whatever that died in there removed? I think the smell is beginning to ease up a bit, but it sure isn't pleasent!