Comments on: Case of the Dusty Suitcases http://www.home-ec101.com/case-of-the-dusty-bag-lady/ Real skills for real people with real lives. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:55:09 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: JRae http://www.home-ec101.com/case-of-the-dusty-bag-lady/comment-page-1/#comment-4808 JRae Sat, 06 Oct 2007 19:12:07 +0000 http://www.home-ec101.com/?p=498#comment-4808 Alright, now that I'm a pseudo-expert on bedbugs, I'd like to mention that our pest guys told us to NEVER pick up used furniture off the street. As we live in NYC this used to be the best way to get free furniture! But now with the rising bedbug epidemic it's more likely than not that used furniture could be infested. One of the other common ways to spread bedbugs is through luggage. That's why in hotels they have luggage racks- to get your luggage off the floor and hopefully away from the bedbugs. Now HOPEFULLY anyone donating used items to thrift stores and such is aware enough to not donate anything that might be infested with bedbugs... but since this is a relatively new problem (new within the past 50 years anyway) a lot of people don't know what to look for or even if they are infested. So I would take in any used furniture and luggage only if they'd be carefully inspected by someone who knows what to look for, and maybe spray them down with some serious pesticides just in case. Our pest guys told us bedbug cases are exponentially rising in NYC, and mom who works for an industrial laundry place in Hawaii says they are now having to make new regulations for bedbug infested bedding. So it's a nation-wide problem on the rise. Protect yourself before it happens to you! :P Alright, now that I’m a pseudo-expert on bedbugs, I’d like to mention that our pest guys told us to NEVER pick up used furniture off the street. As we live in NYC this used to be the best way to get free furniture! But now with the rising bedbug epidemic it’s more likely than not that used furniture could be infested.

One of the other common ways to spread bedbugs is through luggage. That’s why in hotels they have luggage racks- to get your luggage off the floor and hopefully away from the bedbugs.

Now HOPEFULLY anyone donating used items to thrift stores and such is aware enough to not donate anything that might be infested with bedbugs… but since this is a relatively new problem (new within the past 50 years anyway) a lot of people don’t know what to look for or even if they are infested.

So I would take in any used furniture and luggage only if they’d be carefully inspected by someone who knows what to look for, and maybe spray them down with some serious pesticides just in case.

Our pest guys told us bedbug cases are exponentially rising in NYC, and mom who works for an industrial laundry place in Hawaii says they are now having to make new regulations for bedbug infested bedding. So it’s a nation-wide problem on the rise.

Protect yourself before it happens to you! :P

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