Don't feel alone, Glenda. I'm my Grandmother.

Each spring we set clean concrete blocks up on end in a large flat area of the lawn. Then we moved the bedsprings and mattress out there and set them up on the blocks so they could "air."

We'd dust and clean the bedsprings with Pine-Sol, dry them with clean towels, and let them set in the sun a full day, sometimes two. If they stayed out over night, we had to go out early and "dry" them off again.

We'd "beat" the mattress with a broom, vacuum them, (both sides) and turn them so both sides were well "sunned."

All the pillows got beaten and sunned, too. Quilts were either washed and sunned, or just sunned before being stored.

This was done every year. Not because of bugs, or vermin. No bug every set it's hairy claw into my Grandma's house. It was done because that's what "clean, decent women and housewives did."

I was looking at my mattress the other day, wondering what Wes would say if I asked him to help me carry it out for a "sunning."

We always washed our combs and brushes and put them on the porch to dry and sun!

ExDIL never heard of washing her combs and brushes, ditz! let alone sunning them to dry.