If you can raise the funds for them mattress enclosures will avoid the need to throw out your mattresses. And large plastic bags like the vacuum seal ones are good to put washed and dried clothes straight into. A vacuum you can empty every day is also essential.
Maybe get some professional advice before you leave it too long or move everything through the house though because they can spread.
Check your local laws to see if your landlord has to treat this. They may need to know anyway as you can get them from neighbours and they can spread through a building
We have mattress enclosures around the mattresses that we have, however, they were second-hand from when we moved out and have punctures in them. By now, the bed bugs must have burrowed into them, and at least some bugs have avoided the pesticide treatments as a result. And with my bed being a box spring and two mattresses on the floor, it's been easy for the bed bugs to get onto my bed and bite me.
The only vacuum we have is a little hand vacuum as well. I want to get a new one, a shop vac if possible, and I've asked my dad for help finding one, but I haven't even gotten a reply about that.
I've been contacting our landlord, but all he's done so far is send a guy to spray down our mattresses with pesticide. I asked him to tell the other units about the bed bugs, but I don't know if he has. I know it's ultimately his responsibility to make sure the building is pest-free, but our apartment is pretty cheap, so I don't really know if he cares. I might have to escalate to reporting him, but I really want to avoid that if I can.
Between needing bed frames, paying to launder our clothes and bedding, buying treatment things like a steam cleaner, needing new clothing storage, and needing to buy a new vacuum, the cost of everything has been beating me down.








