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impulse buy
Jun. 8th, 2014 11:04 pmEarly this afternoon ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lord_kjar and I went out to purchase some supplies so that we can make a better hammer dulcimer stand than the improvised one we have been using that started life as the support for a portable table. We did, in fact, get those supplies. However, while we were out we also bought a bed.
We have been thinking of getting one for a while--we have gotten the moldy floor out of the downstairs room and re-painted it, so now it is set up ready to be a guest room, but it lacked a good bed. We still have the bed frame from the bed we have been sleeping on, but we moved the mattress to the floor months ago, rotated it 90 degrees, added an extension to the (new) foot end made of cheap foam. We have been enjoying having a larger bed to sleep on (and one where his feet don't hang over the edge. However, it felt weird to step on the foam end on my way into bed at night, since it was way squishier than the rest of the mattress. So it has been in the back of the mind that we should buy us a larger bed and put the old mattress back on its frame for the guest room downstairs.
However, beds aren't cheap, so while it sounded appealing, it also sounded expensive, and I have been thinking we would wait till we are certain that I have some sort of employment lined up (since my current contract ends at the end of this month). But while we were out we decided to stop by a bed store to see what prices were like, with no intention of buying anything today. Yah, right.
We left the store with one of those new high-tech foam mattresses that change their shape when you press on them, and then slowly revert to the original shape when you let go. If feels a bit weird, but totally comfortable to lay down on. And, because it is foam, even though it is about 30 cm thick, and king-sized (180 x 200 cm), we could fold it in half and carry it home in our car.
Expensive? Yup (a cost a bit more than 1.5 nyckleharpas), but because we bought the display model today, rather than waiting, he did sell it to us for way less than the list price (which was more than 2.5 nyckleharpas). I am looking forward to sleeping on it, and finding out if the fairly recent thing I have had where my back hurts a bit if I sleep for more than 7 hours is still an issue on the new type of mattress. I am guessing that it will no longer be a problem (and one could say I just bet a fairly hefty chunk of cash on it). And we have the guest room ready for houseguests next weekend for the Spelmanstämman event, which is a bonus.
lord_kjar and I went out to purchase some supplies so that we can make a better hammer dulcimer stand than the improvised one we have been using that started life as the support for a portable table. We did, in fact, get those supplies. However, while we were out we also bought a bed.We have been thinking of getting one for a while--we have gotten the moldy floor out of the downstairs room and re-painted it, so now it is set up ready to be a guest room, but it lacked a good bed. We still have the bed frame from the bed we have been sleeping on, but we moved the mattress to the floor months ago, rotated it 90 degrees, added an extension to the (new) foot end made of cheap foam. We have been enjoying having a larger bed to sleep on (and one where his feet don't hang over the edge. However, it felt weird to step on the foam end on my way into bed at night, since it was way squishier than the rest of the mattress. So it has been in the back of the mind that we should buy us a larger bed and put the old mattress back on its frame for the guest room downstairs.
However, beds aren't cheap, so while it sounded appealing, it also sounded expensive, and I have been thinking we would wait till we are certain that I have some sort of employment lined up (since my current contract ends at the end of this month). But while we were out we decided to stop by a bed store to see what prices were like, with no intention of buying anything today. Yah, right.
We left the store with one of those new high-tech foam mattresses that change their shape when you press on them, and then slowly revert to the original shape when you let go. If feels a bit weird, but totally comfortable to lay down on. And, because it is foam, even though it is about 30 cm thick, and king-sized (180 x 200 cm), we could fold it in half and carry it home in our car.
Expensive? Yup (a cost a bit more than 1.5 nyckleharpas), but because we bought the display model today, rather than waiting, he did sell it to us for way less than the list price (which was more than 2.5 nyckleharpas). I am looking forward to sleeping on it, and finding out if the fairly recent thing I have had where my back hurts a bit if I sleep for more than 7 hours is still an issue on the new type of mattress. I am guessing that it will no longer be a problem (and one could say I just bet a fairly hefty chunk of cash on it). And we have the guest room ready for houseguests next weekend for the Spelmanstämman event, which is a bonus.
