Category: furnishing bedbug-free homes
By nobugsonme on May 22, 2008 in avoiding bed bugs, bed bugs and mattresses, bed bugs and the media, bed bugs in the media, bed bugs new york, bed bugs spread, bedbugs, city of new york, city policies, consumer, furnishing bedbug-free homes, mattress recycling, mattresses, new york city, new york state, news | 0 Comments
Fox News NY visits a mattress recycling operation in Woodside to report on bed bugs in “refurbished” mattresses.
It is perfectly legal to spritz, recover, and resell used mattresses in New York. They have to be sanitized and labeled properly.
There is no way to “sanitize” used mattresses to reliably remove bed bugs. [...]
By nobugsonme on Nov 6, 2007 in Caveat Craigslist, Caveat dumpster, Freecycle, Green, Grist.org, Meredith Viera, Today Show, bed bug epidemic, bed bug garbage, bed bug refuse, bed bugs, bedbugs, consumer, consumer warning, craigslist, curbside, furnishing bedbug-free homes, mattresses, new york, nyc, secondhand, spread, tossing stuff out, tossing things out, used furniture | 8 Comments
On the Today show this morning, Katie Couric Meredith Viera said, “You can’t live in New York without finding old mattresses and TVs along the curbside because people don’t know what else to do with them. But there is someone who will take them.”
Her interviewee, Chip Giller of Grist.org, suggested going to Craigslist or [...]
By nobugsonme on Sep 4, 2007 in Quincy, bed bugs, bedbugs, colleges, consumer, curbside, dumpster diving, eastern nazarene college, furnishing bedbug-free homes, furniture, massachusetts, mattresses, students, students and bed bugs, usa | 4 Comments
The Patriot Ledger of Southofboston.com (2/2008: link removed; no longer working) reports that even students’ own furniture cannot be brought into dorm rooms, say Eastern Nazarene College officials, who are trying to prevent bed bug outbreaks on campus.
That means no mattresses, no sofas at the school in Quincy, Mass. The policy only applies to [...]
By nobugsonme on Aug 31, 2007 in Bed Bug Helloise, bed bugs, bedbugs, consumer, furnishing bedbug-free homes | 0 Comments
Thanks to our Anonymous commenter today who suggested this:
A great “side table” for Bedbuggers: it’s really a thick glass vase turned upside down. At $60, it’s a cute idea and not a bad deal, and something you could use for other purposes as well. Side table? Bedside table? Enormous vase?!?
Check out [...]
By nobugsonme on Jul 15, 2007 in ABCDC, Allston-Brighton, SROs, VANDU, activism, bed bugs, bedbugs, boston, british columbia, canada, downtown eastside, furnishing bedbug-free homes, good ideas, government, hotels, low-income housing, massachusetts, mattresses, multi-unit buildings, public education, treatment, treatment in hotels, usa, vancouver | 8 Comments
Vancouver’s Radio CKNW (AM980) reports on their website Saturday:
Advocacy group fights bed bug outbreak
VANCOUVER - Community advocacy group the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users VANDU is trying to fight a massive outbreak of bedbugs in that city’s Downtown Eastside by gutting infested rooms.
The group’s Anne Livingston says residents have had six weeks notice to [...]
By nobugsonme on Jun 29, 2007 in apartmenttherapy, bed bugs, bedbugs, consumer, dumpster diving, furnishing bedbug-free homes, furniture, prevention | 12 Comments
Well, I know what your answer is, of course!
But I am glad to see Maxwell at Apartmenttherapy.com covering this question as a poll. I think it’s great AT is taking bed bugs seriously. After all, it’s a home and design blog. Nothing, nothing screws up a home (or design scheme) like bed [...]
By nobugsonme on Jun 22, 2007 in avoid bed bugs, bad ideas, bed bugs, being green, colleges, consumer, dumpster diving, freegans, furnishing bedbug-free homes, new york | 16 Comments
The New York Times is fickle. In the last year, they’ve scared the pants off of New Yorkers by publishing scary articles about how bed bugs were spreading around the city and what you need to do if you find them.
So imagine my surprise to find that yesterday, Steven Kuritz published an article in [...]
By nobugsonme on May 29, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, clothing, consumer, furnishing bedbug-free homes, tools and weapons | 6 Comments
Bed Bug Helloise returns with a useful tidbit:
Hello everyone!
You know, besides reruns of Green Acres, and occasionally speaking of herself in the third person, there’s nothing Bed Bug Helloise enjoys more than sturdy, useful bed bug-fighting products.
So believe me when she tells you she has exciting news: XL Ziplocs are now being [...]
By nobugsonme on Mar 31, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, consumer, discounts!, furnishing bedbug-free homes, mattresses, tools and weapons | 11 Comments
We’ve been recommending National Allergy covers since we started the blog, since a lot of readers have been happy with them.
I personally used two vinyl covers from Target for $10 each, which each ripped in turn. Then I got a National Allergy one. I like this one because instead of the [...]
By parakeets on Mar 27, 2007 in Tipping Point, bed bugs, bedbugs, consumer, furnishing bedbug-free homes, mattresses | 22 Comments
by Parakeets
Here’s a powerful tipping point: Bedbugs are mentioned in the newsest Brookstone Catalog! We have finally arrived.
Their featured “NEW” product is a mite-proof mattress cover and in big letters on the top of the print catalog page, the headline reads:
“Mites and [...]
By nobugsonme on Mar 15, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, consumer, furnishing bedbug-free homes, tools and weapons | 6 Comments
Bed Bug Helloise has come back out of hiding, just long enough to point you towards what appears to be a nice, reasonably-priced white welded metal bed frame. Since we’ve seen too many expensive metal frames, I was pleased to see this:
Dear Bedbuggers, I know you are broke from your battles with the scourge, [...]
By nobugsonme on Dec 26, 2006 in Hints from Bed Bug Helloise, bed bugs, bedbugs, consumer, furnishing bedbug-free homes, tools and weapons | 4 Comments
Bed Bug Helloise writes:
Our home was covered in XL ziplocs full of clothes and linens; you couldn’t even twirl a masked assassin bug in here. So we got some space bags: they seem airtight enough, if you vacuum them carefully (though sometimes they re-inflate). However, they should best be kept standing up [...]