SOOO Much Moisture!

Alright everyone- Instead of making an extremely long social media post, I thought I'd just make a blog entry to ask for your help.

Our apartment is on the bottom level of our three story building, and the building is partially built into the side of a hill. As a result, more than half of our apartment is underground and poorly ventilated. We have two windows, one in the living room and on the same side, one in the office.

Since it has been raining for the last week, our humidity level in the apartment has gone from moderately annoying to...STICKY, damp, un-bearable-ness.

Our kitchen floors are sticky

Even the cat doesn't like to walk across the linoleum right now

Our carpet is damp-talk about a gross feeling.. I've been wearing house shoes so my feet don't touch the carpet

When I get dressed in the morning my clothes are damp

We can't sleep at night because our sheets feel damp...

I walk into the apartment when I get home from work every day and feel like it's dirty because it smells musty..but I can't mop the floors because that would bring even more moisture into the air

The worst part is the damp socks.

We have one ventilation fan in the bathroom that we leave running all day, I have tried burning candles in hopes that the flame would dry up some of the moisture (sadly all this has done is make our apartment smell like a musty bakery/coffee shop)

We have one small de-humidifier I keep on constant run in our bedroom, and it does a fantastic job doing what it's supposed to, but it's so small it can't keep up.

Our A/C unit has a fan option that we have been running trying to help get the moisture out, and that has seemed to help some but not a whole lot..

What else can I do? I don't want to buy a bigger de-humidifier because our lease us up in 2 and a half weeks and I hate to buy something expensive that we don't know if we will need in our new place..


Any ideas?! I'm open to anything at this point.

The only good thing about all this rain- my garden is loving it!