I had a recent ID thread for an insect infestation we came across on a stay in a hotel complex - which Lou very helpfully identified as booklice (phew!). However, I'm struggling with a bit of anxiety at the moment, which wasn't helped by spotting bugs in the room and spotting on the bedding, though not on the beds themselves (in reference to the thread on OCD, I don't have OCD, but I do have Asperger's, and the difficulty with thought patterns can be similar. Rather irritating as I'm also an academic, a very logical person, so there's a lot of stern self-talk going on!), and I felt that reasonable but not excessive precautions for home would probably include some passive monitors and then letting go (I'm nearly there as it is, calming down now I'm home after the scare). The difficult balance is always being cautious and sensible without tipping over into excess and paranoia, and I feel like letting the monitors do their work and giving my brain a holiday might strike that balance.
The thing is, how many do you usually need? Is it one per bedroom, or one per bed? Although we don't travel very frequently and are careful, checking when we go, my inlaws come in stay with us once a month or so, and they do travel more than us, on average I'd say they take 3 holidays a year. And after the recent buggy room, a conversation with my father-in-law revealed that not only does he not check the bed when he travels, he has no intention of ever doing it. In his words "why would I? I don't want to know - it's not like I could do anything even if they were there". Facepalm. I don't know how to explain to him that ignorance may be bliss, but only until you run afoul of an avoidable problem! But that doesn't inspire confidence - I can only hope that they never encounter the real thing. So when they come, they sleep in the kids' single beds and their suitcases obviously stay on the floor in there, which is next door to our own bedroom. Am I right in thinking that we need a monitor for each bed, or is one monitor on one of the beds enough, since they are only about 2 feet apart and in the same room? Similarly, we are apparently inheriting the inlaws leather sofa in a few months (whether I like it or not) when they replace theirs. I have no reason to think they have any issues at their house - no bites on holiday, no bites when we visit, no bites for them, no signs of anything. Is there anything to do with that other than install a monitor on the sofa downstairs as well?
Sorry for the long post, many thanks if you've gotten through it. The passive monitors I was thinking of were David's/Packtite type, rather than climbups.