Electric Blankets and Memory Foam: An Odd Pairing
Okay so I need to tell you about the winter I basically cooked my own mattress, because it’s relevant, and also because I still think about it more than is…
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…
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…
How I Know a Mattress Has Had Its Day
I was standing at the kitchen counter this morning, coffee half poured, doing that thing where you press both knuckles into your lower back like you’re eighty three, and my…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Top of a TV Stand: What Sits There Besides the TV
I currently have fourteen objects on top of my television stand. I counted them this morning, out of what I can only call morbid curiosity, and then I stood there…
Top of a Tall Bookcase: Styling Without a Ladder Every Time
Everybody talks about the top of a tall bookcase like it’s dead real estate. A place you fill because you have to, not because you want to. I heard it…