I remember when the average household had .5 TVs in the entire house. If you were lucky enough to have a boob tube, everyone would gather around it in the living room, adjust the foil antenna and watch the news or The Brady Bunch or some other riveting classic family show we all cherished! But now there’s a TV around every corner, or at least 3 TVs, as that is the average number per household these days! And with that TV boom coupled with the tablet boom and the Netflix boom, comes an abundance of movie watching in bed. And since food and TV watching go hand-in-hand, there’s an awful lot of dining in bed happening!
Now we’re not talking the occasional breakfast in bed. I read a study the other day that said something like 68% of us watching TV in bed, and 1/4 of us eat at least one full meal a week in bed! That’s a lot of snacking between the sheets!
Seems harmless, right? A midnight snack while you binge watch Downton Abbey? A quick dinner while you catch up on The Voice? A few crumbs here and a few crumbs there never hurt anyone, after all! Not so! Eating in your bed can lead to all sorts of gross issues, both seen and unseen!
The nastiest of the creepy crawlers that dine on your bedroom leftovers are ants, flies, and cockroaches. Gag! Both need very little food to sustain themselves, and your dinner droppings provide just the meal ticket they need to come crawling {and invite their hoards of icky friends!}. Even if you do your best to clean up after yourself, eating in bed directly correlates to a bug increase. And it’s one thing to see a cockroach run across your front porch, but thinking about them running around under the covers makes my skin crawl. Ick!
Do you eat in bed? Full meals or just snacking? Do you watch TV in bed but keep the food in the kitchen? Or do you firmly believe that bedrooms are for sleeping, not watching or eating?! Weigh in below!
Don’t let the bed bugs bite,
~Mavis
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