Take your suitcase and place in the deep freeze for 3 days. The whole thing. Clothes and all. I travel for work and have experienced bed bugs more than once. Totally gross. Wifey won’t touch you for a week.
“Take your suitcase and place in the deep freeze for 3 days.”
We have a chest freezer and did that with everything from files to jewelry to objects that could not handle heat. We had to buy a freezer temperature gauge because, once again, the buggers are tough. If the freezer is not kept at or below zero for three days, they could survive.
I’m so completely freaked out after our experience, that I now understand my mother and our neighbors’ hypervigilance and cleanliness routines of the 1940s and 50s around the house. Monday, strip all the beds and wash everything. Turn the mattresses, beat the pillows etc. Tuesday clean and vacuum every square inch of floor and wall and baseboards.
It was an effort to keep pests at bay. My mother was born in 1910. She had direct experience with bedbugs that only ended with DDT.
Now they are back, and no one has a clue as to what it takes to fight them.
Bring back DDT!