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Today the boy toy and I spent some of our time tearing apart a 24-year-old mattress. It felt good, actually.
My mother bought this King Koil mattress and box spring in the late summer or early fall of 1996. I'm not sure because I was down here in Maryland and she was up there in Massachusetts. I went to see her in October 1996 because she was in and out of the hospital three times that month. She complained that the mattress was thicker/taller than the previous one, which she had put on my bed when she got the new one (both beds were full size). One night while I was up there, when she got up to use the bathroom in the middle of the night, she fell on her butt and it scared me. After that I made her start sleeping in my bed, and I would sleep in her bed, because I was younger and the extra height didn't bother me.
At the time, she didn't seem hurt from the fall. However, she apparently bled a tiny bit into her spinal column because of her blood thinner. And when she had a spinal anesthetic for a minor procedure a few months later, her legs got paralyzed and her condition spiraled out of control and she died.
When I bought my condo in 1999, I needed only one of the two beds in my childhood home, so I took my bed frame and my mother's King Koil mattress and box spring (because it was so much newer than the other one). I've had it all these years, through weight gains and flings and illnesses and whatnot. Supposedly you're supposed to change your mattress every eight years; this one was three times that age and had all kinds of saggy spots and stains and dust and whatnot. The boy toy and I were tired of waking up with backaches.
Despite the pandemic, we did some shopping ... but oy vey, the prices nowadays. We ended up getting a firm spring mattress from IKEA. I know a lot of people complain about IKEA mattresses, but they do have a partial 25-year warranty, and I am pretty sure it will last for eight years. There's just no way I could have afforded anywhere from $600 to $1800 for a freaking mattress, plus delivery charges. I spent less than $250 on that mattress and it was rolled up so tight that it fit in the back seat of Anna Three (my Corolla).
So far, we have been sleeping very comfortably.
We don't want to keep the old mattress around until the next condo "community dumpster weekend" in November, so today the boy toy got out his box cutter, and we cut off all the cloth and foam on the outer layers and bagged it up for trash. At some point we'll have to borrow a metal-cutting tool for the bare springs.
It served its purpose, but no mattress lasts forever.
My mother bought this King Koil mattress and box spring in the late summer or early fall of 1996. I'm not sure because I was down here in Maryland and she was up there in Massachusetts. I went to see her in October 1996 because she was in and out of the hospital three times that month. She complained that the mattress was thicker/taller than the previous one, which she had put on my bed when she got the new one (both beds were full size). One night while I was up there, when she got up to use the bathroom in the middle of the night, she fell on her butt and it scared me. After that I made her start sleeping in my bed, and I would sleep in her bed, because I was younger and the extra height didn't bother me.
At the time, she didn't seem hurt from the fall. However, she apparently bled a tiny bit into her spinal column because of her blood thinner. And when she had a spinal anesthetic for a minor procedure a few months later, her legs got paralyzed and her condition spiraled out of control and she died.
When I bought my condo in 1999, I needed only one of the two beds in my childhood home, so I took my bed frame and my mother's King Koil mattress and box spring (because it was so much newer than the other one). I've had it all these years, through weight gains and flings and illnesses and whatnot. Supposedly you're supposed to change your mattress every eight years; this one was three times that age and had all kinds of saggy spots and stains and dust and whatnot. The boy toy and I were tired of waking up with backaches.
Despite the pandemic, we did some shopping ... but oy vey, the prices nowadays. We ended up getting a firm spring mattress from IKEA. I know a lot of people complain about IKEA mattresses, but they do have a partial 25-year warranty, and I am pretty sure it will last for eight years. There's just no way I could have afforded anywhere from $600 to $1800 for a freaking mattress, plus delivery charges. I spent less than $250 on that mattress and it was rolled up so tight that it fit in the back seat of Anna Three (my Corolla).
So far, we have been sleeping very comfortably.
We don't want to keep the old mattress around until the next condo "community dumpster weekend" in November, so today the boy toy got out his box cutter, and we cut off all the cloth and foam on the outer layers and bagged it up for trash. At some point we'll have to borrow a metal-cutting tool for the bare springs.
It served its purpose, but no mattress lasts forever.
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Date: 2020-08-24 02:39 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2020-08-24 07:29 pm (UTC)From:I have a few herbs in pots, but the brick exterior walls of my building face south and soak up thermal energy from the Sun and radiate it back out. Fruiting plants like tomatoes and strawberries don't survive. This town has a community garden plot ... with NO source of water, so unless you can haul your own full buckets and tanks out there, your plants will shrivel up in a dry period.
I admire your work in the garden, but I can't replicate it. At least I have a great local farmers' market.
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