Jackson Heights Life

Have you ever picked up used furniture from the street that has been discarded as trash?  It is a great way to get used furniture for free. I picked up a computer table, wooden cart, wooden chairs, wooden table, and drawer.  I use Lysol disinfectant spray to clean them first.

I don't pick up mattresses or sofas or anything like that.  I only pick up hard wood tables, or metallic carts.  I am using a metallic cart as a shoe rack.

Actually, every major city and many smaller cities are now having problems with them as well.  Add to that some dormitories at colleges, hotels, public schools, nursing homes, etc.  In NYC I believe there has not been a major education campaign because of the issue of the number of tourist dollars potentially being lost if people think they will have to deal with them if they visit here.

But one of the top things that should be in an education campaign (if there ever is one) would be not to trash-pick furniture.  Those days are over, at least until a better pesticide can be found.  Of course it's still possible to pick things from the trash and not get bedbugs, but I agree with cybgrand - it isn't worth the risk to you or to your neighbors.

My friend had a new mattress delivered from Sleepys that was infested with bed bugs when it arrived. They refused to admit it, but I bet it's from them taking away old mattresses in the same truck they deliver new ones.

I never heard of bed bugs except for an episode of The People's Court with Judge Milian.