King-Size It!

[Yukonart]

So I've had a king size bed for the last several years. It's great if you like to have a lot of space to sleep. It's huge, and some apartments can't accomodate them. . . mine can.

Well, about 6 months ago I spotted this baller-ass mattress set at the Bon while helping a friend shop for furniture. We were walking through the bedding department, and las I commonly do, I started randomly jumping on different mattress sets. I jumped onto this one, and instead of bouncing, I hit it, stopped, then slowly sunk into it. MEMORY FOAM! I stood up, looked at it, then faced away from it, and fell back. OMG, it felt SOOO good. So then I looked at the price tag and about had a heart attack. So, I thought . . . some people sure must get a good night's sleep on these things. . . in mansions!

Then, 2 months later I'm with my friend again, only this time she's ready to buy furniture, so we're there a bit longer as I was giving her a hand. While waiting for a salesman, I went into the bedding department again . . hunting for my comfy prey. I couldn't find it! Well, as luck would have it, they were no longer carrying that brand. . . only they were also clearing them out! So I come to find that they're marked down something like. . . 65% off. When I was given the current price, I HAD to take advantage of it. So, the set gets delivered, and things are great. Comfy, cozy, soft. . .

Fast-forward 3.5 months to a couple weeks ago. After sleeping on this thing a while I noticed that my lower back was sore some mornings. I couldn't figure it out. Finally, after waking up one morning on my stomach with a leg kicked-out, I realized what was going on. The foam compresses most under the heaviest parts of your body. In my case, my torso and fat ass. It eliminates pressure points, sure. . . but it also means that when my leg is kicked-out to one side, the fact that it's sitting higher on the bed's surface than the rest of me means my hips are rotated and my back turned weird. Yup. . . the very bed I thought was so comfy was actually preventing me from getting a good night's sleep after a while.

Finally, I went back to the Bon and ordered a new set. One that I was sure to try every possible sleeping position on to see what it'd do to me. I got a nice firm mattress set, and I think it's going to work out nice. Had it delivered this morning, and just finished wrestling the last set off the bed and shoving the new set onto it. OMFG. . . . king mattresses. . . NICE king mattresses are freaking HEAVY!!!! It was all I could do to move the $$$ one off the bed and slide it into my spare room. Thing must weigh close to 100 pounds! All I know of the new one is that it doesn't weigh quite as much. . . must be the sport model. So, after an hour of schleping sleeping goods, I made the bed, then layed back on it for a minute. Felt. . . . NICE.

Soo. . . now I just have to sell the 4-month-old set so I can pay the new set off.

[evolutionmovement]

Yeah, my sister has the memory foam and she likes it. I don't think I would as I move toomuch in my sleep and am usually on my stomach. I have a pillow top queen size.

Steve

[Yukonart]

Well, as much as the last one felt good to lay back on, you just nailed the very reason I have a hard time sleeping on it.

It's actually a good deal of work just to move around on top of a king-size memory foam mattress. And don't get me started on the difficulties presented when trying to tap ass on those things. You have to work twice as hard to let the good times roll.

[BAC5.2]

Man, I'm up at 2:30am because I came home and I can't sleep at ALL on my mattress upstairs. I'm tired, but I can't sleep on that damned thing.

I don't know what happened, it used to be SO comfortable, now it's not. It's really firm, and my 150lb frame can't sink into it. It feels like I'm sleeping on 5-ply cardboard (believe me, I've done this before staying at a friends dorm).

My dorm bed isn't much better, that thing is to soft, and I sag like a sumbitch.

Is it weird that one of the better nights sleep that I've gotten lately was on Matt's sofa at the Shootout? Goddamn that couch is comfortable as all getout. I might just have to ditch the bed and get a sofa in my room.

[Yukonart]

I know the feeling, Phil.

Was amazing. The best night's sleep I've had in over a month, was in a bed at the hotel in Richland over the weekend of my grandfather's birthday.

[LaureltheQueen]

I miss the bed.

[Yukonart]

I miss the bed.

Don't worry. . . the new one feels very promising.

[Legacy777]

I've got a pillow top....I almost have to have something similar that conforms because I sleep on my side at times......but not too soft because I sleep on my stomach too.

[entirelyturbo]

My bed isn't really useable right now, because my ghetto-ass grandfather threw my bed together on one of those Hollywood rolling frames, and it came apart underneath the mattress.

So I've been sleeping for the past week on my couch, and I probably sleep better on my couch than on my bed. And my bed isn't uncomfortable. That couch was a hand-me-down when I moved, and it has been used and abused for 18 years. So it's so worn in and soft that it's the easiest thing in the world to fall asleep on. All my friends do the same thing, if we're watching a movie or something, they'll fall asleep on the couch

[mikec]

I hate sleeping on couches. I have yet to find one thats long enough that I don't wake up sore for one reason or another.

Of course, anything is better than the floor!

[evolutionmovement]

I have a nice couch in the living room that I'm writing on right now and my friend slept comfortably on it for a few months (maybe too comfortably as it took him 3 months to leave).

I found out my sister's memeory foam mattress is actually a hybrid as just the top layer is foam while the rest is spring mattress. It's very thick.

Anyone have a Craftmatic or one of those Comfort Selects?

Steve

[vrg3]

The quality of those memory foam mattresses actually varies from manufacturer to manufacturer. Supposedly the best among them is Tempur-Pedic. I remember some other mattress manufacturers tried to get the FTC to go after Tempur-Pedic because of their seemingly silly claims that they were better in so many ways than all their competitors, but the FTC's research showed the claims had substance.

I know I've slept on my girlfriend's sister's Tempur-Pedic mattress when housesitting for her and it was definitely one of the best surfaces I've ever slept on. The bed cost like an order of magnitude more than my car though.

But still, it's kind of worth it for quality sleep. Sleep quality affects pretty much every other aspect of life.

[mikec]

I'll still take my futon mattress over almost any other sleeping surface. But then for some reason I prefer a slightly harder mattress.

Edit: Oh hey! Now I'm Dedicated! Weird how it happened talking about mattresses and not cars.

[Yukonart]

First night on new mattress set. . . . EXCELLENT


New set = teh win.

[evolutionmovement]

Nice.

Shit, I think it's a sure sign of old age when you get excited about mattresses. Well, I did just turn 28 so I guess that figures. I'll have to start yelling at the whippersnappers across the street and voting republican soon.

Steve

[Yukonart]

Nice.

Shit, I think it's a sure sign of old age when you get excited about mattresses. Well, I did just turn 28 so I guess that figures. I'll have to start yelling at the whippersnappers across the street and voting republican soon.

Steve

Shhh! I'm older than you. . . and I act like someone Phil's age.

[BAC5.2]

Art is an old, old man

Speaking of old, I'm gettin up there. I'll be 19 in a week

[Yukonart]

Art is an old, old man

Speaking of old, I'm gettin up there. I'll be 19 in a week

Shhh! You be quiet, too! Laurel's only a few weeks younger than you, and you're speaking of getting up there? PSSH!!!

And happy future BIRFday, Phil! Now go to Canadia and hit some bars and nightclubs!

[evolutionmovement]

Hey that privateer captain in the book I read was 46 and married a 16 year old, so gettin' old has it's priviledges. My sister has a couple more friends I haven't struck out on. I wonder if the rest've caught the pattern yet?

Steve

[Yukonart]

Shhh, Steve. . .

Honestly, I consider myself fortunate even having the attention from a teen.

[evolutionmovement]

Just keep popping the pills discretely and she'll never catch on. Thank God for Viagra as those old-fashioned rings are painful!

Steve

[BAC5.2]

You know Pfizer makes a pill now called "The Weekender" which gives you a rockcock for 48 hours!

I think that would be borderline annoying, really. You'd do your business with your, whoever. Then what?

I guess it could be useful to hold a washcloth or something, but I'd just be worried about banging it into something unintentionally. Ouch.

[Yukonart]

Jesus guys. . . . I definitely DO NOT need any of that shit.

Although. . . a lot could be done in 48 hours. . .

[evolutionmovement]

Shit, I had sex for an hour once (just counting the pumping part) and we both got bored. She got sore. 48 hrs would be worse than that tantric meditation stuff - it's sex, not the LeMans and Sebring races run back to back.

Steve

[legacy92ej22t]

Damn Steve, I'd keep that little tid bit to yourself. I mean, using the word 'bored' in any situation where you and a women are having sex is just a no no in my book! Maybe you were doing it wrong?

Seriously though, I would definitely take that 'weekender' pill if I got invited to the Playboy mansion for one of Hugh's crazy weekend parties! Just think of all the damage you could do in the Gratto alone and all the girls that would think you were the biggest (well, at least in my case ) stud in the land!

BOT, I want a Calirornia King, or maybe even two. That way I could put them together and just a have a bed that fills a whole room. That'd be fun.