Picking a Mattress Type Without Losing My Mind
I was on my knees at eleven at night, wrestling a mattress topper back into position after it had slid a full foot to the left for the third time…
A Carpet Cleaner and a Mattress: Tempting, but Wait
Every fall, right around the time the Rug Doctor rental machines start reappearing by the door at my hardware store, someone on my street posts in the neighborhood group asking…
Turn It or Leave It Alone? Mattress Advice Is a Mess
I currently own six mattresses. Not because I’m running a boutique inn out of my house in Indianapolis, but because that’s just what happens when you’ve got a master bed,…
Stacking an Electric Blanket on a Mattress Topper
I was on my knees at eleven at night, wrestling a two inch memory foam topper into a fitted sheet that was clearly sized for a mattress with less personality…
The Eight Year Mattress Rule: Where Did It Come From?
I logged it once, out of curiosity, the same way I log board feet before I quote a job. Eight hours a night, seven nights a week if I’m lucky,…
Top of a Headboard: Yes or No?
My sister in law Dana walked into the guest room last spring, stopped dead in the doorway, and said, “Ben. There’s nothing up there. It looks like you’re mid eviction.”…
The Mattress Question I Stopped Overthinking (Mostly)
I was on my hands and knees vacuuming under my bed on a Sunday, the specific kind of chore that only happens because you’ve run out of other ways to…
Tossing a Mattress in a Dumpster: What I Found Out
Every job I’ve ever quoted has one line in it nobody reads until it’s a problem: the exceptions. Dumpster rentals are the same deal, except with mattresses everyone’s already decided…
New Sheets Straight Onto the Bed? I Have Thoughts
I count these things because apparently I’m the kind of person who counts things now. In the last three years I have opened and washed nine new sets of sheets…
Flipping a Mattress: Habit or Real Advice?
I own seven mattresses right now. Seven. I did the math the other day while flipping through old receipts for something completely unrelated to this, and I sat there in…