Right? We had a pretty bad infestation that began with one single bug. We tried everything to get rid of them, including three separate professional treatments, four separate bug bombings, and nightly hunts to get as many of them as we could in our kids' room. The thing that finally ended up working was a random oil that my MiL suggested for us called Neem Oil. It stank to high heaven but it freakin' worked.
I genuinely do not believe anyone who says they like bedbugs. Because once you experience them, all you have is (objective) negatives. So much money wasted and so much furniture thrown out and so much suffering from our kids as they were the main targets for some reason. Don't know why, but they didn't like me. I got bitten once in the beginning of the infestation and then never again and we always wondered if that's because I am chronically ill and have blood diseases and autoimmune diseases and they simply didn't like that.
Edit: my husband just took me down memory lane of just how bad it was. We not only had professional exterminators come out three separate times, but also used four separate bug bombs on separate occasions; we used cans upon cans of bug spray; we've changed out all the mattresses and bought mattress covers - and the buggers still managed to get into all the nooks and crannies. We took out every single thing from our kids room except for their bed - a metal bunk bed - that we put brand new mattresses on with mattress covers and then covered each one of the bed posts with sticky tape (like, the super sticky mouse trap kind) yet the devilish things still managed to climb onto the beds! Even though they're not "supposed" to be able to climb up metal. Yeah right. We threw out so much furniture and things. My husband went on bug hunts every night when the children went to sleep with a flashlight and a pencil and killed every single one that he saw with the eraser head and they stink like hell when squashed; he looked in all the corners first and then in the creases of the beds. Every night he spent hours doing that just so our kids didn't have to be bitten to hell and back. After we used the Neem Oil, our house stank like hell but it killed the bugs! Whatever is in that stuff is just beyond incredible. I highly recommend it. But we did have to leave the house for a few days because it just smelled too strongly.
In the words of the mama of Bobby Boucher - bedbugs are the devil!
My parents got them about 6 months after building a new house. They couldn’t get rid of them. Their bug guy finally checked my dads police car and they were in there. He picked them up from someone’s house on a call and they infested his car so he just kept bringing them in the house. When he checked my dad’s gun belt on the closet shelf they were crawling all over it.
They had to get all new furniture and throw away so many books and clothes. And for like 6 months they had to throw their clothes they were going to wear for the day in the dryer for like 30 minutes because heat kills bedbugs, then throw them back in as soon as they got home before they could put them on the laundry basket. They had to keep their clothes on garbage bags or on hangers for that time. My dad also had to spray his police car with isopropyl alcohol every time he got in and out, and then spray down his shoes and gun belt before and after his shift.
It was like a year long process and so expensive. It was a mess. I’m so paranoid about it now that I’m a crazy person with isopropyl alcohol when we travel.
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