We have an anti-allergy mattress cover. It actually zips up around the mattress and there's another for the box springs too. Those are great, but you still have to clean them, and it's still a good idea to clean the mattress as well.

We don't shampoo, we just vaccuum. We have a Kirby and it sure does suck the dustmites and skin cells out! I don't know how well that cleans the mattress, but it does a great job of selling vaccuums. lmfao

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.