Bed

[cosmolinguist]

Curling up in another Holly's bed last night, I mused on how recent events had taught me that other beds seem to be much better than the shitty buy-to-let furnished-flat one I usually have to sleep in. Back in my own bed now -- I can tell from the pain in my hips -- the same thought recurs.

I'd resolve "to sleep in more different other people's beds" but it'd give you all the wrong impression.

(Anyway, Andrew says we're buying a house in a few months which would, it must be said, fix this particular problem, even as it creates rather more.)

Comments

[miss_s_b]

We keep saying we're going to have to get a new matress for Holly's bed cos it's getting a bit knackered. Your bed must be REALLY awful :(

[cosmolinguist]

My mom said something similar about my bed at theirs (the other that's led to this recent observation; turns out I'm sweet and innocent after all :) ). Yeah, this thing's really a piece of shit.

Luckily it's one of the things Andrew's totally oblivious to, rather than one of the things he's really sensitive to (the world seems to consist only of these two categories), so it's only me who's bothered by it.

[miss_s_b]

Well, here's hoping you get a nice house with a nice bed in it soon *hug*

[pseudomonas]

Gah. I'd say complain to the landlord anyway cos it might make things nicer for the next tenants. But I realise this might take spoonage that you would rather spend elsewhere.

[cosmolinguist]

He'll have to replace almost all the furniture before he can rent this out to anyone else, so they'll at least have new cheap shitty furniture; this was already used by the time we got here.

[starbrow.livejournal.com]

It might be worth telling your landlord about the pain your current bed is causing, asking if they can remove it, and let them know you'd be willing to buy yourself a new one and take it away with you when you leave. You'll have to buy a bed when you buy a house anyway!

Just make sure to buy a good bed. We bought the best bed IKEA sell and we're pretty happy with it over five years later. It wasn't super-cheap but this one of the things where economy doesn't pay.

[cosmolinguist]

Our landlord has been proven in the past not to care about unusuable furniture, a broken washing machine flooding the spare room, the damp including near the circuit-breaker box and the fact that if you so much as touch said box all the lights flicker...and a variety of other things I won't ennumerate in hopes of keeping my blood pressure stable, but you get the idea. I don't hold out much hope things will get better here.

[zammis.livejournal.com]

could you get a mattress pad with memory foam? My mom has fixed a couple of broken-down beds with them in her house.

[haggis.livejournal.com]

Another option would be to look for an unfurnished flat and buy your own bed? That could be a stepping stone to buying your own house because it reduces the amount of stuff you need to buy when you move in.

[haggis.livejournal.com]

Also, I'm happy to talk in detail about
how much our move cost to help you work out a budget for the upfront costs. I'd recommend the professional I used (IFA,

[haggis.livejournal.com]

Solicitor and surveyor - they were perfectly competent.

[cosmolinguist]

Thanks; we know nothing (having thought house-buying would be a long way off as we have no savings to speak of, until Andrew recently found some scheme where you don't need a deposit if you are/do a list of things he thinks apply to us) and could really do with the help.

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

House-buying sounds exciting! I agree with the people saying that the expense of a really good mattress is a sound investment, too. You spend roughly a third of your life in led after all, so it is worth making sure that is quality time. The frame of the bed isn't so important, but the mattress itself is.