After ten years...

[ppakky]

your mattress may double in mass, from products left by bodily fluids, the corpses of dust mites and the feces left by those dust mites.

Carpets have a similar issue.

[Samurai Kai]

Oh... GOD.

[Nibi]

Good thing I got a new mattress 3 months ago.... O.o

[Hazellius]

Well, there goes my blissful ignorance X_X

[Tegir]

haha, we learned this in bio 10.our teacher told us that dried semen is their favorite food. if you leave your bed unmade or uncovered, the mites will dry out and die more likely.

[Mint]

Good thing I got a new mattress 3 months ago.... O.o

lol me too. got a new one in April. also built a nice elevated bed frame which helps keep it far from the floor. though the most annoying pest i keep finding, mostly around the bathroom, are silverfish.

[Nibi]

lol me too. got a new one in April. also built a nice elevated bed frame which helps keep it far from the floor. though the most annoying pest i keep finding, mostly around the bathroom, are silverfish.

I'm so happy I've only seen one of those so far in my house. D: I hear they like to eat paper, so they'll end up destroying books. Bleh. Pesky little buggers.

[Zen]

Does not happen at all:  http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/mattress.asp

[Nibi]

Does not happen at all:  http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/mattress.asp

Now I wonder how much it would actually end up weighing after 10 years.

[tokar]

haha, we learned this in bio 10.our teacher told us that dried semen is their favorite food. if you leave your bed unmade or uncovered, the mites will dry out and die more likely.

I knew there was good reason to be pissed off at my mother.  She always insisted the bed get made every morning

[ppakky]

Geez. Looking at mite pictures >.<

Makes me feel weird looking at them for awhile.

Peacock Mite looks interesting.

[Univaded_Fox]

...we made a change.

[tokar]

...we made a change.

thankfully the Canadian people realized that we needed an ABC gov't.  Anybody But Conservatives   go justin go   make your dad proud.

[Samurai Kai]

...we made a change.

I voted for Trudeau, knowing many people did not agree with him and now I'm watching all the butthurt conservatives on the news articles. XD

[Nibi]

The only person I know who voted Green.... .3.