There are impulse purchases, and then there are impulse purchases.

[azurelunatic]

Last night, I totally impulse-purchased a bed. (I mean, I just completed my first week at my new temp job, and yay paycheck, and it's seven fucking thirty in the morning, so I'm going to have to maintain a very strict diurnal schedule to keep it, and I've been *thinking* about upgrading...)

There I was headed for Trader Joe's, and I saw that the mattress store was still open, and I popped open, and the next thing I realize, I'm on my phone arranging for enough money to be in my checking account (god, I love living in the future, I didn't have to talk to a single human being to do that) and telling the guy to deliver the bed on Sunday.

"What kind of mattress have you been sleeping on?" he asks me, as I perch on the edge of the unimaginably luxurious cheapest mattress in the store, the one that's discounted $100 on account of the upcoming sale weekend.

"To call it a 'mattress' dignifies the thing a little too much," I say, and he beams at me indulgently; clearly he's heard this sort of hyperbole before. "It was a hand-me-up from my brothers," I elaborate. "One of those folding thingies, from IKEA." He looks sympathetic. "Foam mattress about yea thick," and I measure out about three inches with my fingers. "Then one of those little foam pads, about yea thick," (one inch), "but that's in at least three pieces at this point." Unmitigated horror crosses his countenance. "And then there's the cardboard..." He masters his expression by the time I conclude, "And of course a folded comforter or two, so there's a little bit more padding."

Yes, it was high time for a real, grown-up bed of my own.

It gets delivered Sunday. And they haul the old one away. I can't wait.

Cross-posted to insomnia.

Comments

[majoline]

Your previous "bed" horrifies me.

Also, ooooh new-to-me comm. :)

[azurelunatic]

It is pretty horrifying! The mattress tries to migrate off the cardboard. I had an eventual plan to use ropes to secure it in place, but a new bed will be better.

The comm is lower-activity than I might like, but was among one of the very first comms created! It has a history!

[silverflight8]

Congratulations, omg-that-was-a-bed?, and I kind of lost it at your first sentence. I didn't know it was possible to impulse-buy a bed XD

[foxfirefey]

"I accidentally the whole bed!"

[azurelunatic]

Yes, but is that the new bed or the old bed?

[azurelunatic]

It's possible! It really just requires a fairly rare combinations! It requires having the available funds, having the need, and having the unexpected opportunity. Usually one or more factors is missing, given that typically one plans ahead...

To be perfectly truthful, I'd been thinking "Hey, maybe I should get a bed sometime soon," but it took walking past the mattress store to put it together with "RIGHT NOW."

[trixieleitz]

Congratulations, and sweet dreams!

[azurelunatic]

Thank you! I think I may even sleep hard enough that I don't realize that I'm asleep.

[jd]

Goodbye, little futon! You served us ... well, saved us from sleeping on the floor, so it's at least something.

[azurelunatic]

It had a good long run for a little piece of IKEA tat! It was certainly more comfortable than the other thing on the floor.

[waketosleep]

Man, I think you will sleep much better now. And your back might like you more.

[azurelunatic]

Yes, I think all of my parts will like me better now. I first realized that maybe my sleep might have things to do with my "bed" when I was dogsitting at my aunt's and slept a full 8 hours without even getting up to hit the bathroom. Amazing.

[arkeiryn]

I was going to tell you off for impulse buying something as big as a bed... But by the sounds of it, you really, really needed it *hugs*

[azurelunatic]

It's only a small bed!

[xinef]

Sometimes impulse buys are totally the right thing to do. Enjoy!

[azurelunatic]

I did look at cleverthylacine's recommendation a few days before, but I was not feeling the haul-it-yourself love, not in my current physical state. I will be quite happy with having the big burly delivery people showing up with the thing and hauling away its predecessor.

[poulpette]

YAY MATTRESS! You're in for some better nights :D

[azurelunatic]

And better days, on account of the better nights!

[crisavec.livejournal.com]

I think it took us 3 or 4 months of shopping around looking for the one mattress we both fell in love with...and then waiting for a sale so we could actually afford it without flattening the savings account.

The only problem with it now is that the cats like it too, and we have to fight them for bedspace.

[azurelunatic]

Oh dear. Cats in bed can be chaotic.

[rhea-windrider.livejournal.com]

Awesome, isn't it? Glad you got a new bed, from the sound of it definitely about damn time!

[azurelunatic]

Very much damn time. I can sleep more than a few hours at a time! It's lovely!