Bug Expert: Put Luggage Here When Outside Utah for Holidays

Good Advice When Visiting Relatives and Friends 

You want to bring home good memories and renewed spirits when visiting relatives. You do not want to bring home any bugs like cockroaches or bed bugs. Whether you stay as a guest in a home or stay in a motel room, this bug expert has advice for a safe place for your luggage.  

In an article for Fox News, an entomologist from Pennsylvania says he leaves his luggage in the bathroom or even the bathtub. This is because bed bugs don’t like hard surfaces. You can place it on a coffee table or a nightstand in the room as well.  

Leaving Your Luggage Unpacked 

If you are worried you stayed in a place that had bugs, you can leave everything alone when you get home. Put the luggage in the garage and let it stay there for two weeks. After that, any bug that hitched a ride will have passed on due to starvation. 

This kind of information is helpful but it gets into my anxiety filled sub conscious. I stayed at a motel in Virginia that had me so worried that I barely slept. Maybe if I had my luggage sitting in the bathtub, I would had a better night. 

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These kinds of hacks help ease my illogical worry about bugs. Of course, they could send me even deeper, and I’ll end up sleeping in the bathtub myself. Sometimes I think I was better off when I was blissfully unaware.