User blog comment:TenshiAkari12/Well, this is embarrassing.../@comment-53539-20141012145031/@comment-32500188-20141012160844

Thank you for that tip! Definitely trying to do as much as possible to kill 'em off and keep the rest at bay from the rest of the household. As much as I want to try this out, I'm faced with the problem of manpower... my bed is kinda funky in it's frame style, which was intended to make it look a lot bigger than it really is. (The headboard has some HUGE legs, and the bed overall is impossible for me to lift on my own. Heck, my parents were the ones that bought it anyways, I never really was a fan of this frame because it's big, bulky, and a huge amount of trouble in dire situations like this.) So I'm probably going to have to own up and let them know what the deal is when they get back. That way, my dad can at least help me in both getting the bed treated and protected and we can figure out a less expensive and more effective route when it comes to exterminators.

At the very least, I've already placed orders for a box spring, mattress, and pillow protectors, since strangely enough, my bed is the only bed in this house without either of the three. (srsly wut? How messed up is that?!) Plus, I saw somewhere that folks were giving high accolades to this stuff called CimeXa, so I'm going to go ahead and try it out on top of figuring out how to get traps set. Basically it's a DE substitute, but supposed to work a lot faster and last up to 10 years if left undisturbed. I'm definitely going to need something that lasts a while to put in those crevices around the house... and maybe enough to put a fine layer on the carpet once I get the first round of vacuuming done. (Hopefully that'll take care of our carpet beetle issues on top of that.)

Judging by the progress I'm making, though... I may have to take my first day off from work to make sure nothing is left unturned and unprotected. I'm pretty squicked out by this whole thing, and I definitely don't want to take any chance of giving them the opportunity to move somewhere else within the house that isn't prepped to send them to their demise. :-(