Today's Adventure: Changing the Bed

Sounds simple enough, right? I mean, how hard is it to change sheets. I wish it were as simple as that! I decided not just to change the sheets, but to change the mattresses as well. Wha? Why? when I built my house six years ago, I decided that rather than buy a cheap mattress/springs set for my spare bed, I would move my several-years-old, but still very good set that I had on my bed to the spare room and buy a new set for my bed. Everyone I talked to agreed it was a good idea.

So I went out and bought a luxury mattress--not just a pillow top, but a luxury pillow top. This mattress is so deep I had to get a special low-profile set of springs with it, and even then I needed a set of bed steps to get into my antique walnut bed (the bed is so high I have to rig two dust ruffles to reach from the frame to the floor!). One of my nieces said something about the Princess and the Pea--great analogy.

Skip ahead about four years. The luxury pillow top mattress, guaranteed never to develop a hole in the middle, did just that. Now, I come from a family that regularly turns their mattresses--just flipping side to side one time, over-end the next. This lessens the wear-and-tear on the mattress, and helps prevent the dreaded valley in the middle. With the luxury pillow-top, this isn't an option. Not only does it have a pillow top only on one side, the other side is just a papery backing, much like the bottom of a set of box springs. I could turn it around, bottom-to-top, but that was it, and the valley deepened.

Today, I got fed up. Instead of just changing sheets, I stripped both beds, pulled, pushed, and slid the mattresses across the house, and remade the beds. The spare bed is now ridiculously high (and the frame of it is so low you can't store anything under the bed), almost hiding the headboard, and my lovely Princess-and-the-Pea bed appears diminished. I even moved the bed steps away, as I don't need them. :( I figure I'll sleep better, plus I can look for another mattress to take the place of the luxury lemon.