Out With The Old...In With The New

They say on average that a mattress lasts around 10 years. Well, Brent and I have been together but not married for over 10 years and ever since I have known him he has had the same bed. When we got married, we got rid of my bed because it was a water bed and kept his. So, how old was his mattress? No, one knows. Brent does not know where he got his bed from and either does his parents. It is that old. You could no longer read the tags on the bed and when you slept on it, it felt like you were sliding towards the middle and your feet were higher than your head.

Last year, we decided to purchase a new bed for us as a Christmas present to ourselves, but when we were quoted $1200+ we quickly changed our minds. So, for the past year we have been sleeping on this same old mattress. This year we thought we would try again, surely we could find a bed cheaper than that. We thought well we have to buy Josie a new big girl bed, so now is the time to look. And guess what we found a new bed for both us and Josie and we did not break the bank. Josie got a new Twin size bed and us a new Queen size bed. We really wanted the King size since Josie is in our bed for at least half of the night and of course is a bed hog, but after doing some measuring we did not think it would quite work out that well in our room. Since, we purchased 2 beds they gave us an additional discount and even through in a free bed frame for Josie. How nice of them! On the plus side, they even delivered it for FREE! YEAH!

So, how much of a deal did we really get. Well, 2 beds (mattress and box springs: 1 queen and 1 twin), twin bed frame, delivery, and mattress protectors for both beds all under....$850. Can you believe that? And no these mattress are not crappy they are really good quality. Lets just say in the future I will be returning to this factory direct store for all of my bed needs.

Now comes the tricky part, getting Josie to sleep all night in this new big girl bed. In her toddler bed, we had no problems at night she would happily climb in and go straight to sleep, with this bed it is a whole different ballgame. It now takes us around 1 hour to get her to bed when in the past it was about 10 minutes max. Poor us!