Well, dang. Apparently king sized beds is the way to go.
We've avoided them previously, because we move so often, and sometimes the rental market isn't great. (for example, when house-hunting here, only a handful of the places we saw had master bedrooms large enough for a king sized bed, and it would have been a _real_ squeeze to fit a king in the bedroom we had in Korea...)
But, I think it might be worth it. Maybe.
Anyways, thanks about the suggestions on how to get rid of the old mattress! Assuming we go for it, it's something we'd need to figure out.
I have to see a certain number of clients at my job to be a w-2. I'm only there 3 days a week, and it's a lot of pressure to get it all in. Even though the tax burden would go up a lot, I'm strongly considering switching to 1099 just to relieve some of the stress of hitting the numbers each week. It would be a big relief pressure wise, but not financially.
Well, dang. Apparently king sized beds is the way to go.
We've avoided them previously, because we move so often, and sometimes the rental market isn't great. (for example, when house-hunting here, only a handful of the places we saw had master bedrooms large enough for a king sized bed, and it would have been a _real_ squeeze to fit a king in the bedroom we had in Korea...)
But, I think it might be worth it. Maybe.
Anyways, thanks about the suggestions on how to get rid of the old mattress! Assuming we go for it, it's something we'd need to figure out.
Yes! We upgraded to a King size several years ago and will never go back. You should hear us complain whenever we travel and have to be in something smaller, lol. "OMG How did we ever fit in these tiny (queen-sized) things?!"
I'd love separate beds. I slept in the guest room last week (not a fight, just couldn't sleep) and it was glorious. And I get SO psyched for overnight business trips because it means a bed to myself.
DH and I basically have this. We have a king size bed and we each have our own covers. So we have two queen size blankets and two queen size comforters. He sleeps way on one side and I sleep way on the other. I touching. No fighting over blankets. I hardly even know he's here sometimes. It is amazing.
This is what we do too! It's pretty much like sleeping in separate beds
And, thanks everyone for all the support with my work situation.
Post by purpleminion on Apr 10, 2015 10:26:28 GMT -5
I have a REALLY flammable non-MM confession, but I'm too scared to share it. You guys would eat me alive.
So here's a way more tame one...
We have this really shitty teacher at my school. Yesterday he was showing a video in class. He talked for a bit before the video, then he looked at it and said, "Oh man, it's an hour and 23 minutes long! We better get started. I thought it was only 83 minutes." I gently pointed out to him that 83 minutes IS an hour and 23 minutes. He said, "Oh, is it? I get confused about that kind of stuff." I shit you not.
Post by irene adler on Apr 10, 2015 10:28:50 GMT -5
I am absolutely burying my head in the sand about the state of DH's retirement (he has a pension through his union). We are still working to max out roths/my plan, but I hate myself that I don't know and am scared to look.
I am absolutely burying my head in the sand about the state of DH's retirement (he has a pension through his union). We are still working to max out roths/my plan, but I hate myself that I don't know and am scared to look.
It's ok, we will be here to hold your hand and tell you it will be OK. And it will, but only if you look now and not like 10 years from now.
I am absolutely burying my head in the sand about the state of DH's retirement (he has a pension through his union). We are still working to max out roths/my plan, but I hate myself that I don't know and am scared to look.
It's ok, we will be here to hold your hand and tell you it will be OK. And it will, but only if you look now and not like 10 years from now.
The problem is that because it's a pension plan, it remains stagnant until he gets back to work. I liked seeing the payout benefit go up consistently. I am sad that it remains the same until there is work again .
So I guess my flameful is that DH and I (and usually 2-3 of our 4 cats) share a queen size bed? We are snugglers who do spoon most nights. We've been married for ten years this summer, and have lived together for almost thirteen. We've never even discussed buying a bigger bed.
No flames to the rest of you, but I would hate separate beds!
Post by UnderProtest on Apr 10, 2015 11:46:12 GMT -5
My in laws are a mess and I think both my husband and I are pretty much done with all of them. Should be interesting when we have to go to his sister's wedding this fall.
Sometimes I read the various "can I afford it?" threads and wonder WTF I do with all of my money that I would never be able to afford X,Y,Z...and then I read the bowling party thread and realized I might just be an idiot, because it didn't sound unreasonable at all to drop $80 for a friends birthday night.
Sometimes I read the various "can I afford it?" threads and wonder WTF I do with all of my money that I would never be able to afford X,Y,Z...and then I read the bowling party thread and realized I might just be an idiot, because it didn't sound unreasonable at all to drop $80 for a friends birthday night.
Friend, yes (well, maybe, depending on how close). Co-worker? Hell no (at least not with my co-workers).
Well, that's a given for me. I wouldn't even go to a co-workers birthday if I didn't consider them an actual friend.
We've hemorrhaged money recently on stupid stuff. We have a boat and a country house about 90 minutes from us. Yet, in the last six months we decided to purchase two separate Disney vacation club contracts. We must have Disney loving sucker written on our foreheads.
MIL and SIL moved to Orlando this past summer, and we were visiting Disney at least once a year anyway. Them being there has given us an excuse to go there more. I'd been wanting to buy in for a few years, MIL being there was just what I needed to hook DH in and convince him to do it:)
We've hemorrhaged money recently on stupid stuff. We have a boat and a country house about 90 minutes from us. Yet, in the last six months we decided to purchase two separate Disney vacation club contracts. We must have Disney loving sucker written on our foreheads.
MIL and SIL moved to Orlando this past summer, and we were visiting Disney at least once a year anyway. Them being there has given us an excuse to go there more. I'd been wanting to buy in for a few years, MIL being there was just what I needed to hook DH in and convince him to do it:)
Where did you buy? We'd buy DVC from you if you need to get rid of some
Sometimes I read the various "can I afford it?" threads and wonder WTF I do with all of my money that I would never be able to afford X,Y,Z...and then I read the bowling party thread and realized I might just be an idiot, because it didn't sound unreasonable at all to drop $80 for a friends birthday night.
My flammable is that I want to buy a $400 wooden playhouse for dd for the backyard. And then paint it to match our house. DH is not on board whatsoever which is making me more determined to find a way to make I t happen.
So I guess my flameful is that DH and I (and usually 2-3 of our 4 cats) share a queen size bed? We are snugglers who do spoon most nights. We've been married for ten years this summer, and have lived together for almost thirteen. We've never even discussed buying a bigger bed.
No flames to the rest of you, but I would hate separate beds!
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I'm guessing your cats are much smaller than our 90 pound lab? We were gifted a king bed (ILs upgraded their bed, so we got their rarely used spare bed) so we took it because free upgrade. Now we have a second puppy that will be between 80-100ish pounds in a few months, so we'll take all the space we can get.
We weren't going to start letting our first dog sleep in our bed, until the night a firecracker went off down the street in the middle of him peeing. He continued to shake for hours, so we let him crash with us that night. That night was the gateway into sharing our bed forever.
My mom told me she doesn't believe in PTSD. I reacted poorly, my cousin/her nephew has gone through it. I've been argumentative with her about it and sending her articles that counted her arguments. I know this is pointless and I need to let it go, I just can't. Her primary argument is that it's a new diagnosis and why can't people just suck it up like they did in the old days.
I'm guessing your cats are much smaller than our 90 pound lab? We were gifted a king bed (ILs upgraded their bed, so we got their rarely used spare bed) so we took it because free upgrade. Now we have a second puppy that will be between 80-100ish pounds in a few months, so we'll take all the space we can get.
We weren't going to start letting our first dog sleep in our bed, until the night a firecracker went off down the street in the middle of him peeing. He continued to shake for hours, so we let him crash with us that night. That night was the gateway into sharing our bed forever.
This is pretty much us. For a while we shared a full with 150 pounds of dog which was the worst. Now we share a queen with 75 pounds of dog and the other one sleeps on the floor. I had grand plans of training them both to sleep on the floor here, but we get terrible thunderstorms and my dog is terrified of them as a Southern Cal dog. Plus I secret love when H leaves and there's snuggle time with my pup.
H hates it when Moo comes up on the bed because 9 nights out of 10 he curls up on H's feet. I love it because a) 9 nights out of 10 I have half or slightly more than half of the bed to myself, and b) the 1 night he curls up with me it's snuggle time, and even though he prevents me from pulling the covers all the way up, he keeps me warm.
I guess another confession is I'm looking forward to Max being a little older so that he can be up in our bed too instead of the crate next to the bed (if we ever get him to that point- dude's middle name is Trouble with a capital T), even if it means even less bed space.
We've hemorrhaged money recently on stupid stuff. We have a boat and a country house about 90 minutes from us. Yet, in the last six months we decided to purchase two separate Disney vacation club contracts. We must have Disney loving sucker written on our foreheads.
MIL and SIL moved to Orlando this past summer, and we were visiting Disney at least once a year anyway. Them being there has given us an excuse to go there more. I'd been wanting to buy in for a few years, MIL being there was just what I needed to hook DH in and convince him to do it:)
Where did you buy? We'd buy DVC from you if you need to get rid of some
We bought aulani and Boardwalk.
Planning out aulani trip for next summer I'm excited for it.
Our two cats sleep in our (queen) bed with us. The male comes upstairs in the middle of the night and settles right in at the foot of the bed, but the female follows us when we first get into bed. She walks and rolls all over it and gets fur everywhere before she finally settles down.
We just washed the sheets tonight and my asthma or allergies or whatever is making me wheeze has been terrible lately. We shut the door to remake the bed and we're not letting them in to sleep with us tonight. The female is crying outside the door and I'm trying to ignore her