This is just disgusting. I was watching, I think, Dateline Sunday night about the buying (taking for free from the side of the road) and selling used mattresses. I was shocked to find out that companies in the US buy these used mattresses for $5. Then, all they do, usually, is take the old cover off, spray a few spritzes of insecticide and then recover it for new (used new) and sell them for $40-$50. Many still have bedbugs or the blood secretions of bedbugs, fecal matter, urine residue and other disgusting leftovers in them.

This is a disgusting post but I have to tell you about it so you know, if you didn’t already. Do you know who buys these mattresses? You’ll never guess. HOTELS!!!!! So, not only do hotels not wash their bedspreads between guests and leave them with semen stains for the next visitors…they also let us sleep on beds with other, even more disgusting growths…including harmful mold and bacteria!

I ask you, do we not pay enough for a hotel room for them to buy a brand new (even a cheap brand new) mattress and pillows and bedspreads that have been properly laundered between guests? We’re not talking about Third World countries here…we’re talking the United States of America that has laws for laws for laws!!! What is going on America?

If you own a hotel, manage a hotel or work in a hotel and what I’m saying or what many of us saw Sunday night is wrong…please, comment here so we can all see which hotel we can stay at safely…or, you can shoot me an e-mail to: from_diana@yahoo.com.

Didn’t mean to disgust anyone but sometimes…its the only way to get the message across.

D