[MsLady]

My mom remembers bedbugs. I think they use to put kerosene at the bottom of the bed posts to keep the bed bugs out. Every night when I was little mom would always say, “good night, sleep tight, don’t let the bed bugs bite.”

[ponygirl]

An older neighbor lady of mine was telling me what it was like to live in Arizona in the 1940s. She said they used to sleep outside in summertime, in a sleeping porch. There were no mosquitos here then, unlike now... all the golf courses and the Tempe Town Lake have bred mosquitos like crazy. But her father would pour kerosene into empty tuna cans and then set each bedpost into a can. This wasn’t for bedbugs... it was to keep the scorpions from crawling up into the bed.

[I see my hands]

"Every night when I was little mom would always say, 'good night, sleep tight, don’t let the bed bugs bite.'”

Sis? Of course, that was right after the "Now I lay me.."

[andrew2527]

Hopefully you didn’t have any candles lit.