I occasionally have a snack in bed (usually pre-workout) but it's usually just crackers or dry cereal, and no dishes or wrappers are left to lie around. No bugs.

I only eat in bed when I'm sick. I don't have bugs in my bedroom. We once had an ant issue in the kitchen but they were coming in through a crack in the window frame and we treated and fixed it and the problem went away.

I never eat in bed. Am I the only one old enough to remember those Sesame Street episodes where Ernie ate cookies in bed and Bert lectured him about the crumbs? 😂

Depends on your house.

I eat in bed occasionally. No bugs. And certainly no rodents.

Odd question. Eating in bed doesn't cause bugs. Having bugs causes bugs.

Gross to eating in bed!
What meals do you have there? Breakfast, lunch and dinner, or just snack time? The crumbs must be awful.
Do you use the sheets to wipe your mouth and hands?

I love eating in bed. I’d take every meal there if I could. Not messy. We clean up. No bugs up here.

For the PP at 11:15 - totally agree. The shoes off, no exceptions people are double nuts! Same with the don’t sit on the couch with outside clothes people.

My take is that it is class based. In earlier times, poor people were shamed for being unclean so now people are hyper clean to try to show that they are of adequate status, and is a smidge of OCD and here we are.

Anonymous wrote:OP, if you eat in your kitchen or dining room do you have bugs in those rooms?

Good question!

Anonymous wrote:I do not understand people who eat in their bed.

I started eating in bed during a period of poor health and depression. It is not a great habit. I had no bugs or anything, just crumbs.

OP, if you eat in your kitchen or dining room do you have bugs in those rooms?

I don’t eat in bed, ever. Occasionally there will be ants in the kitchen floor during certain parts of the year, despite pest control, and we will need to take the appropriate extra measures. The master bedroom is next to the kitchen, which is off of a patio and sometimes I spot a few ants in there. It’s an old house and not air tight.

My kids do not listen to me and do eat in their bedrooms sometimes. Their rooms are not near the kitchen. I have never seen or heard of ants in that part of the house.

We don't eat in bedrooms and yes we have the occasional bugs. Scorpions to be exact but we live in the SW so they're everywhere.

Everyone has some sort of bug in their house. Whether you see them or not is a different story.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If an apartment truly has a pest problem, even if you never eat in your apartmetn, you probably will not be spared.

+1

You will see it in the kitchen too or panty.
If bugs come in they will find food.

Same with mice, plus mice are also looking for warmth and shelter so they will come in to your home even if you have zero food in the house.

Mice happen. So you fill in cracks, store food properly, put traps out at season change.

I’m kind of weirded out by how “clean” Americans (or at least DCUM) feels the need to be. Showing twice a day, putting garbage in public bins, never eating for fear of pests or rodents arriving somehow in the middle of the night. We live very normally. In the spring, ants try to move in. We take care of that. In the summer we have a spider issue and deal with that. In the fall we sometimes get mice and deal with that. None of it lasts more than a week or so, especially as we now know the soft spots.

We have pets, kids, leave doors open, live like actual normal human beings and eat and have food in the house. It’s very weird to me that people are so freaked out that there are bugs and rodents on the planet to deal with.

No, because I don’t spray crumbs all over the place and then lie in my crumbs. If a couple of crumbs escape, I gather them in my hand and toss them.

Anonymous wrote:"more bugs" ??? We don't have any bugs in our house regardless of where we eat.

Yes, you do. Everyone does. There are bugs in everyone’s house. You may not notice them, but they’re there.