my old one got eaten by antelopes.
i’m 6’ and sleep on my tummy, and i’m poor. do i need a box spring? i don’t want memory foam or anything. currently i own a sized ‘full’ cheap ikea frame, but i’m thinking a queen might be the way to go?
I am not fake.
What’s your budget? Metal framed queens are quite rare.
+/- $250?
I read this as “please help me pick a mistress”.
Words cannot describe my disappointment.
mattresses and mistresses are in the same genus, IIRC.
and the “what’s your budget” question would still stand.
Also the “metal framed queens” part.
Awesome.
i cannot sleep there :(
Metal Framed Queer?
Queef
I want to say consumer reports had a useful article about mattresses? check the back issues at your library.
For couples Queen is the perfect size. Full is a bit short and cramped, but in a King you’re too far away from each other, especially if you each need to be near your own bedside table/lamp/phone/bookpile command center. You could fit a small family in the acreage between you and your sweetie.
Queen has the extra length of a King, without the my-marriage-is-dead noman’s land.
Foam is best. Inner spring mattresses all shit the bed eventually. Foam is indestructable. Regular latex is not that much cheaper than momory foam, and both are divine. You’ll save in the long run.
find a moving sale. Got my clean mattress & box spring for $25, and an extra fiver had the guy deliver to my place.
Get one from Ikea, Solgen some name like that. Foam with a quilted gray cotton cover, about 6“ thick. Comfortable on the floor or a platform bed, no need for a box spring and pretty cheap. They also can be rolled up for storage.
My dream, my finest dream, for when I have a decent income is a mattress at which a demigod would not sneer. My futon days will end!
find a moving sale. Got my clean mattress & box spring for $25, and an extra fiver had the guy deliver to my place.
never heard of bedbugs?
never heard of bedbugs?
Yikes, no kidding. Also, when you buy a mattress, make sure you have it delivered and have them haul away your old one—used mattresses/box springs are hard to get rid of. Donation places won’t take them and they cost money to dump in most landfills.
Just leave in in the middle of the turnpike.
in my neighborhood something like a matress put out on the curb will last all of 10 minutes before someone takes it away.
I believe it—they’re so expensive to buy new. Couldn’t you just set off a flea bomb to kill bedbugs?
Great tip on the Ikea mattresses, Jaq. Boy, are they ever cheaper than the ones in the stores here, which have all that unnecessary sculpting on the top. I just want a block of foam with mattress ticking over it. The cheapest Ikea ones are awfully thin, though. The fitted sheets would fit all funny.
xpost—If we were closer to Cap Hill/ID/U district here, that would be true, it would be gone between raindrops. But I’ve been driving past a thoroughly waterlogged sodden one (next to a loveseat) in our ‘hood for the past 2 weeks, so feasibility is locale dependent. Kind of surprising actually—we are in a neighborhood full of low income housing. Maybe it was too trashed to start with.
The cheapest Ikea ones are awfully thin, though. The fitted sheets would fit all funny.
Ikea mattress + big hunk of memory foam = mattress thickness, and still a lot cheaper than a mattress.
never heard of bedbugs?
In my case they were referred to as crabs. They had to have originated in the used mattress I bought as I had no lovelife at the time. It’s also worth noting that a mattress needs to be rotated or flipped once in a while to keep them square/firm/whatever.
I have a IKEA spring mattress—it was pretty cheap and it is very good! Works like a dream with my cheap IKEA frame, ho ho ho.
Crabs are easy to get, you don’t need a love life. A pair of Calvin Klein jeans spread crabs around my whole circle of friends in college. It was 1979, we all wanted them, only one of us actually had a pair so we took turns, obviously not laundering them in between.
we all wanted them,
The Calvin Klein jeans, not the crabs.
i don’t have crabs but i do have a mattress. i got it from sit ‘n sleep for 350, and it’s purty nice!
Queen?
no, I couldn’t get a queen with a high-enough coil count, so I settled for a really fluffy full.
350 for mattress and box spring/frame, or just the mattress?
May I ask why IKEA is always in all caps?
Yes, you may.
according to wikipedia:
“IKEA was founded in Älmhult, Sweden in 1943 by Ingvar Kamprad, then 17. The company name is a composite of the first letters in his name in addition to the first letters of the names of the property and the village in which he grew up: Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd. This acronym is incidentally similar to the Greek word οικία [oikia] (home) and to the Finnish word oikea (correct, right).”
Like ABBA, I see.
I am going to buy a mattress too, and the memory foam shiznoli seems like what’s called for. However—where to buy? I normally would recoil (HA eh...) from second-hand mattress buying, but foam ones would appear to have fewer DARK POTENTIALITIES in this area, so I may eBay it. Tell me if I’m off-base though, I have no idea. (NB It is silly, maybe, but I have never been to Ikea and would love to continue this trend.)