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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
Just finished assembling a set of closet shelves - with the relentless help of Pixie cat - who repeatedly tried to bat the Allen wrench down the heating vent - and am now sitting against the heating pad.
Is there a cut off age for assembling DIY furniture? I think my joints may have reached it.
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OH yes, there absolutely is.
I have a serious question--if you've
completely forgotten what TYPE of mattress you need--firm, soft, feather-top, not, yadda--how the holy hell do you figure it out? I can no longer sleep in my mattress. If I do, if I spend more than 2, 2.5 hours in it, when I wake up I'm literally in tears, due to pain. (No sympathy, folks, I'm just explaining
why I gotta do something here.)
I used to get all my mattresses from the companies that provided them to our hotels, right? But, that was back in "the day" and I don't do that any more. And I'm
reasonably sure that my FF&E guy, the furniture provision company, has been sold to people that no longer know me and would say "who the hell are you and why should
you only pay $X for a mattress?" (sigh--I used to get smoking deals on them...sigh.)
I know I
used to get feather/pillow-tops, deep ones, like 17"-18" deep. But my back has, well...not gone so good the last few years. I have some arthritis issues in the Facet joint and some other crap. Yowchy crap.
The mere
idea of laying on some mattress for 20 minutes or so in some damned store seems idiotic to me. And I doubt that either I want to try to lie on some mattress in a store for 5+ hours, or that they want me to, either. Ya know?
Thoughts, gang? Speaking of crap that we oughtn't be doing at 65+?
Hitch