From the moment they brought her home, Kirsch and Butch were kicked off of all the comfortable places -- couch, bed, laundry hamper -- and forced to fend for themselves on the uninviting, uncomfortable, and cold floor.
The intervention included fitted mattress and pillow covers to the parent's and child's bed, laundry of bedding, and acaricide treatment of rugs and upholstered furniture.
After nearly a decade sat in front of a computer screen, washing up, cleaning apartments, making beds, laundry and playing games with the kids didn't seem much of a chore.
Garrett's Desert Inn, 311 Old Santa Fe Trail, (800) 888-2145, fax (505) 989-1647, www.garrettsdesertinn.com, is a motel next to San Miguel Church, with 82 sparse but clean rooms and suites, all with queen or king beds; laundry pick-up, free parking and a nice pool.
Some metropolitan areas offer bed bug laundry and dry cleaning services which have the added benefits of proven methods for killing bed bugs and bagging or storing cleaned items so they do not become re-infested while the home is still being exterminated.
Make sure you're fine with doing laundry, making beds, washing dishes, vacuuming and dusting, and cleaning bathrooms.
Try this scenario on for size: You wake up with dirty clothes and bedding, since laundry is limited.
She then logged activities for almost every hour of her day: making beds, folding laundry, unloading the dishwasher, yoga class, walking the dog, grocery shopping, weeding the garden, playing the piano, cooking dinner, and so on.
Wash your bedding with laundry detergent and dry on high heat until dry.
Just remember that in an average household, these things need to be done daily: Bedrooms should be clean, with beds made, laundry in a basket, trash in a trash bag.
(Oh yeah, I forgot to mention: We have to because the laundry bed is our bed).
