Thanks ML. It sure makes me want to stay home and not have company!

Marti, I wonder how long it will take for them to get a bedbug spray on the market?

I can remember my grandmother taking her mattresses and pillows outside to sun all day long, and beat the heck out of them. It was a part of her spring cleaning. Every year, she'd empty out the house, and then get sand from the creek and scrub the walls and the floors, no electricity to worry about, and then boiling water all over everything, with homemade lye soap (I helped her make it), and then rinse it off with bucket after bucket of well water, and then everything got a good scrubbing outdoors, even the metal bed frames. My grandma was called "Tiny" but she was sure a powerful and determined woman.

Wow, scrub the walls with sand???? My grandmother (born 1888) used the old motor oil from the car to polish her wood floors and keep bugs out. At least that's what mom said, but grandma was getting a little senile when mom & dad married so maybe she just picked that up later in life.