The bugs won. We have been defeated.
We put up a fight, spent all our money. Sprays, powders, sticky traps, professional heat treatments, professional residual sprays every seven days for several weeks....
Every time I start to feel like we can beat this, I discover another one somewhere. We were supposed to have the dog come and sniff tomorrow, it was our "all clear" test... I just found TWO live ones on the pillow I had been using. I was too confidant, I felt like they were gone and so did the pest control man. Therefore I skipped laundering my bedding for a few days... and, alas, there they were.
We have thrown everything away... I am serious, all the furniture in my house is gone except the kitchen table and chairs. No beds, No dressers, No couch or chairs, No end tables, No rugs.... just nothing... Our family consists of my husband, me, and our four children, one of whom is a baby.
We are moving out in 30 days with nothing except a few trash bags full of our clothes, a computer, and the few toys my kids own that could be washed in hot bleach water. I had to toss out so much stuff. We are getting a new apartment and will have nothing to put in it and literally no money after we pay the deposit on it.
Oh, and get this, I have been washing our clothing and towels and such and bagging them to move immediately after they dry... and just moments ago my dryer finally quit working.
And I cannot be more serious when I say we have no money... Like, none.