[CobraJet]

We already know how, but are not allowed to use what works anymore. When my Dad was a child in the 1930’s, he said he slept with them every night. By the 1940’s they had DDT and were able to get rid of them forever.

[MsLady]

My mom said they use to put the bed posts in cans and fill them with kerosene I think it was. Doesn’t sound exactly safe when you consider they also heated with fire places.