Good night, sleep tight – don’t let the bed bugs bite

My mother said that to me EVERY night before tucking me in to bed. EVERY night. I had NO CLUE what bed bugs even were back then. As a matter of fact, I never really thought about them until I started to travel A LOT.

I’ve gone from my goodnight saying to being totally freaked out that I’m going to wake up with a rash of bites and take those nasty bugs home with me. As a blogger who goes to a lot of events and does quite a bit of travel writing (as well as vacation travel), I’m now KEENLY aware of those little suckers. So much so, that I have a routine. I leave my suitcase out in the hall…go in to the room and lift the sheet off the bed and look in the upper and lower seam of the bed and around the tag. Luckily, I’ve only had ONE time that I saw them…and after screaming…I went back to the front desk and asked for a new room, which I checked the same way before accepting (although I stayed awake all night with the creepy crawlies just thinking about them).

Now I have a TOTALLY new routine. I still leave my bag in the hall, only now I enter ARMED AND READY. I pull back the sheet and spray the mattress with Pronto Plus Household Spray. I also spray around the headboard and footboard (if there is one), because I’ve since learned that those nasty inseccts can hide in the cracks & crevices of furniture, and more.

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