A Blessing....And a Curse

The Man of the House and I decided that we would spend our Economic Incentive check on a new bed. Well, we spent that, and more. I'm kinda scared about it.

We have been sleeping in a couple of deep cavern-like pits in our old mattress. Okay, mine is deep, his is a lot more shallow, but still, it was very uncomfortable for him. He has never slept the entire night through, to my knowledge.

His friend at work tells hubby that he has just spent $1800.00 on a new mattress and it was the best money he ever spent. Hubby tells me he has no intention of spending that much on just a mattress, but he wants to get the best mattress we can afford.

Off I go to the internet to research all day, reading reviews and studying how various mattresses are built and getting prices along the way.

I say that I would like to see and try out a Sealy Trueform. I can get the whole kit and caboodle (mattress, bow spring, bed frame) for just about the amount of the incentive check we are about to receive. Awesome, eh?

We go to our local Sleepy's. They do not have the Trueform in house. Grrr. We try out the Tempur-Pedic. Same thing, just more money...at least that's what I think.

The Man of the House is sold on this thing! The salesman tells him we can get interest free financing for four years. I manage to convince him that I NEED to try out the Trueform by Sealy before I make any decisions.

Night before last, we drive out to Riverhead and to the Sleepy's showroom out there. I like the Trueform, but the saleswoman shows us the brand new Tempur-Pedic Allura. The showroom by us doesn't have it, so that means we have not tried it. Hubby loves it. Darn.

I finally give in, saying that I can sleep on anything, as long as he can sleep comfortably for once. After all, didn't I sleep just fine when our air mattress deflated and we had nothing but a box spring with a featherbed and a visco-elastic foam mattress pad on top of it?

Yesterday, the kids and I work on clearing anything in the way of the path to and from my room and the front door and stuff on the floor in my room around the bed and everything under the bed.

Along the way, I learned that Rich has more pairs of shoes than I do! How did that happen?!
But I digress. We move the games the are on top of the bookcases, in case they get run into and then shower upon whomever might be standing there. We got rid of the surf rod, and a bunch of other stuff. We found a lot of stuff too! Darn it, I'm getting distracted again.

The thing is, I was in a lot of pain last night, due to all the work the kiddos and I put in, so I was thinking that here's the new bed's chance to prove to me how therapeutic it really is.

Summing up the rest of the story, bed is delivered, We go to sleep and guess who wakes up in pain? Yup, yours truly. I couldn't stop crying this morning. We spent an arm and a leg, and my back is killing me. Am I looking at twenty years (the length of the warranty) of this? In the research I did, I did read that it takes time to get used to one of these beds, so maybe I should give it the full twenty one days, but so far, I am one unhappy camper.
And that's all she wrote.