The Vent and Rant Thread

[badgoodDeb]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

which one do you have?

Mine was from http://nationwidemattress.com BUT that appears defunct now. We bought it in 2005. Anyway, if you google "air bed mattress" or something like that, you can find off name ones that cost a little less.

Since I happen to like a really firm bed, I press the "MAX" button every night before getting in (which is different from MAX after a body is already laying on it -- I want REALLY hard). But I believe the numbers are still there.

The name brand type ... oh yeah Select Comfort ... has numbers that only go up by 5. ( 25 30 ...85 90 ...) Which is actually the most logical. Mine has every number from 00 to 100 ... but 81 isn't really different from 82. Plus, there is hysteresis ... 81 approached from below is not quite the same as 81 approached from above. Still, it is adjustable, and that's what I like.

[desertblues]

Ai, we don't have those things overseas; we've got airmatrasses for unexpected guests or to go camping. Is it very common to have one? Does it leak or can it burst?

[wodin]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

this is the vent and rant thread, where you... vent and rant. so unless mornings are an issue, they would be best in the other thread

Uhhh ... Aren't mornings ALWAYS an issue?

[wodin]

Originally Posted by wyndslash

one of my relatives in malaysia told us that she just put her clothes under her mattress and in the morning, they would be pressed and "ironed"

She must have been in th Navy back in the days of stripes and pipes. After a night on the town; you could take off your dress blues, brush off the mud and the puke, fold them up and stick them under your mattress and be ready to do it again tomorrow night!

[poohbear_nc]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

My old clothes dryer was great. I could put almost any shirt into it, and it would come out smooth enough to wear (for non-business use.) Then we bought one of those new combination washer/dryers with furry logic (must be, because fuzzy logic probably works correctly) and every single shirt that I dry comes out looking as if it were professionally wrinkled! I've tried taking the shirts out slightly damp... didn't fix the problem. I tried doing the shirts alone... no help there. I tried different settings... I though maybe there was a special setting to create intense wrinkling that I had turned on by mistake. Cotton sport shirts, flannel shirts, chamois shirts, even permanent press shirts... all make raisins look like plump grapes. I might actually have to clean the wax off my iron and use that for *Yikes* ironing shirts!


Stitchawl

I just sawa this on a T-shirt - and thought of your post:

IRONY. The opposite of wrinkly.

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by desertblues

Ai, we don't have those things overseas; we've got airmatrasses for unexpected guests or to go camping. Is it very common to have one? Does it leak or can it burst?

these things look like beds, talk like beds, and act like beds, but they are air mattresses INSIDE a stiff sided mattress appearing "envelope" (for lack of a better term). but I am on a regular air mattress, drooling after one of the other kinds

[wyndslash]

I don't think I've ever slept on an air mattress before. My last mattress was with me for 20 years. We just replaced them a few weeks ago.

[Stitchawl]

Japanese 'futon' are NOT what the rest of the world thinks are futons. If you were to put a Japanese futon on that wooden frame, you'd have slat marks all over your body in an hour. The word 'futon' means 'quilt,' not 'mattress, and Japanese futon are about the same as western thick bed quilts. That's why most Japanese bedrooms have tatami mat floors. Much more gentle on the body than hard wood!

The thing I love best about traveling is that I get to sleep in a real bed. The kind were you sit up in the morning and put your feet DOWN, rather than having to climb UP. It's almost as bad as having to sit on the floor to eat, which I try very hard to avoid! It was 'exotic' when I first moved to Asia, now it's a pain in the a... rear. Literally. Fortunately, we have enough room in our kitchen/dinning room for a genuine table and chairs. Thank God!

Stitchawl

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

Japanese 'futon' are NOT what the rest of the world thinks are futons. If you were to put a Japanese futon on that wooden frame, you'd have slat marks all over your body in an hour. The word 'futon' means 'quilt,' not 'mattress, and Japanese futon are about the same as western thick bed quilts. That's why most Japanese bedrooms have tatami mat floors. Much more gentle on the body than hard wood!

The thing I love best about traveling is that I get to sleep in a real bed. The kind were you sit up in the morning and put your feet DOWN, rather than having to climb UP. It's almost as bad as having to sit on the floor to eat, which I try very hard to avoid! It was 'exotic' when I first moved to Asia, now it's a pain in the a... rear. Literally. Fortunately, we have enough room in our kitchen/dinning room for a genuine table and chairs. Thank God!

Stitchawl

I'm kind of ok with sleeping on the ground (obviously depends on the ground). I completely give up if I am in a situation where floor sleeping is called for. (unless it is an incredibly well padded.carpeted floor)

[natasha_fawn]

My bed has a foam mattress, no box spring. Not Tempurpedic, a much cheaper off brand, but it's the most comfortable bed mattress I have ever slept on. Second only to my thermarest air "mattress" and sleeping bag for camping. (The thermarest is only an inch thick, but somehow it's ridiculously comfortable.)

The foam mattress is firm with a squishy top layer that I can snuggle into while still having back support. It cost more than I wanted to spend and I took a lot of convincing, but it was actually worth it.

(Very small vent: Mothers require entertaining. S.other's mother is leaving tomorrow morning, mine will be here another day and a half. She wants more shopping, I think, oh dear...)

[badgoodDeb]

Here we go. I'm at home to check. My brand is Comfortaire. Dunno whether *that* still exists or not.

I take afternoon naps (when available!) on a carpeted floor. I do like firm. A floor gets too firm after 5 hrs or so, tho.

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by natasha_fawn

My bed has a foam mattress, no box spring. Not Tempurpedic, a much cheaper off brand, but it's the most comfortable bed mattress I have ever slept on. Second only to my thermarest air "mattress" and sleeping bag for camping. (The thermarest is only an inch thick, but somehow it's ridiculously comfortable.)

The foam mattress is firm with a squishy top layer that I can snuggle into while still having back support. It cost more than I wanted to spend and I took a lot of convincing, but it was actually worth it.

(Very small vent: Mothers require entertaining. S.other's mother is leaving tomorrow morning, mine will be here another day and a half. She wants more shopping, I think, oh dear...)

I got one from COSTCO last year. it has pretty much collapsed ;o(

[SameOldStory]

The big problem for me, concerning a plain "air mattress", is that you body never heats it up in the winter. And in the summer heat you need more than a little padding to let your body ventilate.


Stitchawl, I'm assuming that the Japanese futon is thin so that it can be cleared away when not in use?

The ones here, I'm sure you've seen them, are made up of a great many layers of quilted cotton. Somehow, though, it doesn't feel like sleeping on 6 to 8 inches of layered sheets. They're very comfortable winter or summer.


The two most uncomfortable places I ever slept were in an elevator mechanical room on top of an apartment building, and totally unprepared night in the woods in winter. Both long boring stories.

Strangely enough I've never had a problem sleeping on the ground while backpacking. And I just remembered sleeping under a highway overpass when it was inconvenient to set up camp during a heavy rain.

Nice, high, and dry. But very noisy.

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by SameOldStory

The big problem for me, concerning a plain "air mattress", is that you body never heats it up in the winter. And in the summer heat you need more than a little padding to let your body ventilate.

That's where the 'Thermarest' brand of air mattresses really shines. Because of its construction with internal open cell foam inside the envelope, it does make for perfect insulation, even laid down on ice.

Stitchawl, I'm assuming that the Japanese futon is thin so that it can be cleared away when not in use?

Right. They are supposed to get folded up during the day and stored inside the one closet found in a Japanese bedroom.

The ones here, I'm sure you've seen them, are made up of a great many layers of quilted cotton. Somehow, though, it doesn't feel like sleeping on 6 to 8 inches of layered sheets. They're very comfortable winter or summer.

I've experienced them. When my wife was told it was a futon, she replied 'So sorry, it is what?'

The two most uncomfortable places I ever slept were in an elevator mechanical room on top of an apartment building

It's a bitch when all the rooms in the Hilton are booked, isn't it...


Stitchawl

[phenomshel]

Sat through an hour and fifteen minute lecture on every pet peeve our Customer Service Manager has apparently been storing up for the six months she's had the job. One of them is having food on the front end. Well, then the local Culver's picks tonight to bring us frozen custard Oreo sandwiches. She let us have them, but she wasn't happy about it.