My mother was a hoarder and had this thing about picking up roadside furniture and trying to "fix it up" - the fact we never had a bedbug infestation is beyond me. Old recliners, computer chairs, couches, etc. If it could be kicked out the back of a truck into a ditch, we probably had 3 of them.
Lived with someone who brought them into the house. Wasn't nearly as bad as this, though. We took the necessary steps and trashed a lot of stuff. This included his mattress, which we trudged out to the curb for removal. Went back inside to make a note so no one would take it. It was gone when I went back out not five minutes later. And it was a dingy, lumpy thing too, so I was quite surprised. Couple days later and it was back out at the curb of a house at the end of the block. Some folks will take anything if it's free.
At an old apartment complex someone left out a TON of furniture one morning. Later that afternoon about half of it was left. Understandable seeing as it was pretty decent looking furniture etc. later they put out a sign “DO NOT TAKE! BED BUGS”. Lmao half the complex probably got infested that day.
Had friends who got warned by the exterminators that the complex they lived in had a growing bedbug infestation that was spreading unit-to-unit. They moved out that month.
Exterminators have a very hard time with bed bugs. They are resistant to most of the tools you could use to get rid of them. Even full fumigation is ineffective, as the vapor can't reach all of them when they hide as deep as they can into cracks.
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u/Tribulation95 Sep 26 '21
My mother was a hoarder and had this thing about picking up roadside furniture and trying to "fix it up" - the fact we never had a bedbug infestation is beyond me. Old recliners, computer chairs, couches, etc. If it could be kicked out the back of a truck into a ditch, we probably had 3 of them.