We moved into our new house a couple of weeks ago, and the previous owners have left us a present. It appears that their cat had fleas -- we're getting bitten.

Now, only the master bedroom in the house has carpet, and we've put flea powder down on that twice now (once a week), but we're still getting bitten.

Most of the sources on the Internet talk about flea collars and stuff for your pet. We don't have a dog or cat!

The problem is this: obviously, when we moved in, our clothes were on the floor in suitcases and boxes, so the fleas might have set up home in them. Is this likely? Will they have laid eggs there? Should we simply put everything through a wash cycle, or should we fumigate the clothes? How much cross-contamination would there be by putting clean clothes in the same wardrobe/chest of drawers as "infested" clothes?

How likely are the fleas to have set up shop in the matress? Do we need to spray it?

What else can we do? It's not bothering me that much, but Jenni seems to be a bite magnet -- not just fleas, either -- she almost got carried away by mosquitos in Key Largo!