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For the last year, my apartment has had the world’s most baffling bedbug problem. I know I have bed bugs. I have seen and caught five (in 12+ months). But I have scoured my apartment twice and never found a single bug when I was actually looking for them. And I’ve had my apartment checked by pros twice and they didn’t find anything either.

So basically I have the world’s mildest bedbug problem than never gets any worse. However, this is not what my question is about. My question is:

I want to get rid of my bed. It’s a lightly used $900 storage bed. I don’t want to just throw it in the trash. But I can’t imagine who would take it, knowing that there is a very small possibility it might have bed bugs.

Can anybody think of something I could do with it, so that it’s not just going to waste?

Is it solid wood, can you sell it for firewood? Sorry, I'm a bit at a loss because you're right, unless you lie, most people aren't going to take something that might have bed bugs.

Yeah, that's basically what I thought. And as tempting as it is to lie (I would place the odds of it having any bed bug eggs on it at maybe 1%), I'm not going to take that risk with someone else's home.

Such a waste, though. :(

If it's furniture, the wood's likely to be treated or stained/painted. Nobody with any sense is going to buy that as firewood, especially if there's a possibility of bedbugs. They'd still have to haul and store it and they could just... buy actual firewood.

I would read this to be 100 percent sure.
https://www.europeanbedding.sg/blogs/articles/103741958-how-to-remove-bed-bugs-from-a-mattress

Then - do you like your mattress? Is it comfy and you want to keep it, a good size? Or would you rather something else completely?

If you like the mattress, do the vacuuming and cleaning and zip it up in a bug-proof bag and you'll probably be okay. You could thoroughly clean the frame with wipes or whatever, and sell that - a lot of people don't want a 'used' mattress anyway. Or donate it - a storage bed is pretty handy, and bedbugs don't actually really like wood or metal.

Then you can put your sealed up, clean mattress on a new frame.

OR - toss the mattress, sell/donate the frame, and get something new.
Good luck!

The problem is not with the mattress. The mattress is fine, and I'm keeping it. It's the bed frame I'm getting rid of.

I'm getting rid of the bedframe because I don't want it anymore, not because of the bedbugs. It's just too big for my room, that's all. The problem is that I don't want to throw it in the trash, but I can't imagine who would take it, given the bed bug situation.

donate it - a storage bed is pretty handy, and bedbugs don't actually really like wood or metal.

It's a LOT of pieces, and it's not real wood (it's that weird wood composite shit), so I'm worried that if I missed even one bed bug egg when I'm going over it, it could infect the new owner's home.

Also, nobody will take it if I tell them it came from a home with a bed bug problem (albeit the worlds most bafflingly mild bed bug problem). But if I don't tell them that feels unfair to them. They deserve to know.

Sorry, I didn't mean to be ungrateful. Thank you for taking the time to respond to my post with suggestions. Maybe you're right about donating. I'll think on it.

I don't know if I feel like spending like two hours cleaning the fuck out of all sixty pieces of my bed frame and then hauling it on foot to the nearest donation point, though.

Gah. :(

If cleaning and then selling or donating are not an option, then find out when your local dump is open and accepting furniture.

I mean, I could clean it and sell it, I guess. But I feel like it would be unethical not to tell the buyer the situation with the bedbugs. And I doubt anyone will take it, even if I clean it and give it away, if they know bedbugs have been anywhere near it.

If it's not real wood and you don't think you could get someone to take it if you disclose you had bed bugs, then I think you will just have to get rid of it. If it were solid wood in decent shape, someone might be willing to take it as scrap to make something else out of but particle board/plastic doesn't work that way.

This sounds similar to a problem my firend recently had. Exterminators got called in. She got rid of most of her furniture (sleeping on a cot!) and had the glue traps lying around (caught bed bugs there!). Essentially we came to the conclusion that it must be a problem with her neighbors/the building (as there was nowhere the bugs were coming from, management just shrugged once she said she was moving and stopped doing treatments, and she caught bedbugs by certain cracks in the apt). Because once she moved, the problem stopped.

To answer your actual question: Nope. I would get rid of it (also had bed bug problems) and if you've had them, and they spread, that is a nightmare. And if you are already strapped for cash, this would not help. If you weren't this will not help either. Where I live, you're required to wrap the bed in plastic (people leave notes on it sometimes) that there were bed bugs. The frame, if it's not wood, still. If you really want to give it away, just make sure that you let people know the situation. We had a lovely bed with storage (WOOD!) and my mother got super paranoid about it and got rid of it. Someone probably took off the street.

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