Comments on: Why we need a massive public education campaign about bed bugs (reason #327) http://bedbugger.com/2008/04/03/why-we-need-a-massive-public-education-campaign-about-bed-bugs-reason-327/ bed bug news, information, activism, and support Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:14:38 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: nobugsonme http://bedbugger.com/2008/04/03/why-we-need-a-massive-public-education-campaign-about-bed-bugs-reason-327/comment-page-1/#comment-14447 nobugsonme Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:18:37 +0000 http://bedbugger.com/2008/04/03/why-we-need-a-massive-public-education-campaign-about-bed-bugs-reason-327/#comment-14447 Hi Paula, It is distressing that furniture delivery services still cart off used mattresses, sofas, etc. from people's homes. It is not a smart practice. I hope you and your kids will be back on a sofa soon. It's quite a heart-breaking image, all of you sitting on a hard wood floor. Hi Paula,

It is distressing that furniture delivery services still cart off used mattresses, sofas, etc. from people’s homes. It is not a smart practice.

I hope you and your kids will be back on a sofa soon. It’s quite a heart-breaking image, all of you sitting on a hard wood floor.

]]> By: paulaw0919 http://bedbugger.com/2008/04/03/why-we-need-a-massive-public-education-campaign-about-bed-bugs-reason-327/comment-page-1/#comment-14445 paulaw0919 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:01:15 +0000 http://bedbugger.com/2008/04/03/why-we-need-a-massive-public-education-campaign-about-bed-bugs-reason-327/#comment-14445 Just to add....no my neighbors don't have bed bugs that they know of and yes they know of our past experience. I was stating this because of what we know about bed bugs, up to 70% of people never react to bites and therefore infested furniture "somewhere" is getting put on delivery trucks and infesting the new furniture. Then on top of this, there's always the people not treating, and not caring about furthering spread anyway. Sigh. Just to add….no my neighbors don’t have bed bugs that they know of and yes they know of our past experience. I was stating this because of what we know about bed bugs, up to 70% of people never react to bites and therefore infested furniture “somewhere” is getting put on delivery trucks and infesting the new furniture. Then on top of this, there’s always the people not treating, and not caring about furthering spread anyway. Sigh.

]]> By: paulaw0919 http://bedbugger.com/2008/04/03/why-we-need-a-massive-public-education-campaign-about-bed-bugs-reason-327/comment-page-1/#comment-14444 paulaw0919 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:43:21 +0000 http://bedbugger.com/2008/04/03/why-we-need-a-massive-public-education-campaign-about-bed-bugs-reason-327/#comment-14444 This past fall, it has been a year since our fumigation. We are in financial distress, but there is light at the end of the tunnel and we are all doing well health wise. Even during the worse of our 6 month long infestation I always prayed of thanks for the blessings we do have in our family. But I am only human and I do get the "poor me's" from time to time. Not even so much for me, but for my children. My poor kids have basically grown up the last 2 yrs without knowing what it's like to snuggle and spend quality time together on a couch.(they are toddlers and pre-k age) I don't even think they would know how to act with a living room set in the room. We all sit nicely on the HW floors in the evenings together. Well, today I looked out the window and seen my neighbor getting new living room furniture delivered. It made me kind of sad for we couldn't afford something like that right now and may be over a year before we can. There are other much more important expenses that come with owning a home that need to come first. It will be years for us to ever recover and return to normal living from this "nuisance pest." B.S. a nuisance....anyway... Well, to get to my point...I look at the truck and think, "Reymoure and Flanagan, must be nice." I'm watching the new furniture come off the truck. To me it seemed nicely wrapped in this cloth and then plastic wrap. I'm thinking to myself, hmmm..seems safe enough. Then I see the delivery men taking out the old sectional and PUT IT ON THE TRUCK!!!! Yup, just dumped it right in, no wrapping it, nothing. Now I'm thinking WTF? By the time I can afford new furniture, it will be too risky to buy it anyway. I just miss my children not being able to have what I feel is their "right" to have, a normal living environment. I guess all I can say, besides my rant...it to be cautious with any type of furniture delivery., no matter the company. This past fall, it has been a year since our fumigation. We are in financial distress, but there is light at the end of the tunnel and we are all doing well health wise. Even during the worse of our 6 month long infestation I always prayed of thanks for the blessings we do have in our family.
But I am only human and I do get the “poor me’s” from time to time. Not even so much for me, but for my children. My poor kids have basically grown up the last 2 yrs without knowing what it’s like to snuggle and spend quality time together on a couch.(they are toddlers and pre-k age) I don’t even think they would know how to act with a living room set in the room. We all sit nicely on the HW floors in the evenings together.
Well, today I looked out the window and seen my neighbor getting new living room furniture delivered. It made me kind of sad for we couldn’t afford something like that right now and may be over a year before we can. There are other much more important expenses that come with owning a home that need to come first. It will be years for us to ever recover and return to normal living from this “nuisance pest.” B.S. a nuisance….anyway…
Well, to get to my point…I look at the truck and think, “Reymoure and Flanagan, must be nice.” I’m watching the new furniture come off the truck. To me it seemed nicely wrapped in this cloth and then plastic wrap. I’m thinking to myself, hmmm..seems safe enough. Then I see the delivery men taking out the old sectional and PUT IT ON THE TRUCK!!!! Yup, just dumped it right in, no wrapping it, nothing. Now I’m thinking WTF? By the time I can afford new furniture, it will be too risky to buy it anyway. I just miss my children not being able to have what I feel is their “right” to have, a normal living environment.
I guess all I can say, besides my rant…it to be cautious with any type of furniture delivery., no matter the company.

]]> By: lieutenantdan http://bedbugger.com/2008/04/03/why-we-need-a-massive-public-education-campaign-about-bed-bugs-reason-327/comment-page-1/#comment-8844 lieutenantdan Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:24:25 +0000 http://bedbugger.com/2008/04/03/why-we-need-a-massive-public-education-campaign-about-bed-bugs-reason-327/#comment-8844 Phone books were delivered Monday, they were laying in front of my house in a plastic bag of some sort, I asked my wife if we really needed them and she told me that she did not want them and that I should have seen what the van that delivered them looked like. She did not need to say a thing more. We do not take the store papers that have coupons into our house also because the vans that deliver them look raunchy. Phone books were delivered Monday, they were laying in front of my house in a plastic bag of some sort, I asked my wife if we really needed them and she told me that she did not want them and that I should have seen what the van that delivered them looked like.
She did not need to say a thing more. We do not take the store papers that have coupons into our house also because the vans that deliver them look raunchy.

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