Comments on: Today show recommends sharing used mattresses on Craigslist, Freecycle

By: Rick

Rick — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:42:51 +0000

I realize all of you on this website have been “bitten”, but reusing is good advice. If every person who moved to New York City for any length of time bought all new cushioned furniture, I can’t imagine the pile of waste we’d be looking at. Do you never sleep in hotel beds? Or a friend’s or extended family member’s bed? Do the best dilligence you can and get a zippered mattress encasement.

By: bed bugs in the media: the Today Show, Tuesday morning

bed bugs in the media: the Today Show, Tuesday morning — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:40:19 +0000

[...] am sure it is a coincidence that I criticized Meredith Viera’s recent recommendation on the Today show that viewers recycle used mattresses via Craigslist and Freecycle. But I am glad they’re [...]

By: nobugsonme

nobugsonme — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:03:15 +0000

It absolutely was Meredith Viera, my error. Corrected. In my defense, I was watching on a very, very small screen.

By: pleasehelp

pleasehelp — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:49:06 +0000

This is shocking. I’m writing to the Today Show & beg for a follow-up to set the record straight & try to mitigate what they’ve done… But the correspondent was Meredith Viera, not Katie Couric.

By: lieutenantdan

lieutenantdan — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:19:08 +0000

Listen to this! A couple of weeks before we had discovered our infestation our young yuppie neighbors had family coming to stay with them so these fools who find and do everything by computer got the brainstorm to use a company that they found on the www that will RENT you a mattress. They did. Did we get our infestation from that, I do not know, they claim that they check and have not seen any bed bugs and have not been bitten. Even though at that time the news on bed bugs was not like it is now I though it a foolish idea.
Who in their right mind would sleep on a rented mattress anyways, I never liked sleeping on a hotel mattress before I even knew of bed bugs. Remember the stories in the news when the reporter inspects with a black light and finds all kind of disgusting stuff?

By: James Buggles

James Buggles — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 03:07:24 +0000

Most states prohibit the resale of returned mattresses as new. They are probably sold through other channels. Always buy new.

By: James Buggles

James Buggles — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 03:05:26 +0000

Since when did Katie return to the Today Show? Anyway, irresponsible journalism.

By: hymenoptera

hymenoptera — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:53:15 +0000

Ahh used mattresses; the gift that keeps on giving.

By: parakeets

parakeets — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:55:25 +0000

What about the mattress sellers who let customers sleep on a mattress for 30 days and then let them return them? Those mattresses are eventually re-sold. (One mattress seller in the Boston area brags that they don’t do that as a selling feature!) The whole mattress thing is making me very squirmy.

Actually, the good advice in this post should also apply to not taking ANY bedroom things in second hand–bedding, pillows, nightstands, headboards, bedside clock radios, even stuffed animals that might have been on the bed.