Saturday, April 9, 2011

A Sad End

Oh whoa is me, our bed has seen its end.  Yes, this bed...


The story begins a ways back.  We bought this bedroom set about 10 years ago.  It was one of our first big purchases as a couple.  We bought the king size bed, a double dresser and an armoir.  We shopped around and spent a good amount of money to buy quality.  And quality it has been.  The bed has survived ten years of 2 dog sleepers, 2 human sleepers and 5 moves...yes FIVE moves.  And honestly that is where the trouble began.  Each time we moved, took the bed apart and put it back together the screws were a little looser, the slats were lined up a little funkier and the whole thing got a little shakier. 

And then a few nights ago tragedy stuck, my husband and I were laying in bed and creak...creak...BAM!  We flew out of bed only to discover the top slat (of three) had snapped.  It was just holding on by a few splinters so we moved a storage box under it to support it and fell asleep.  We slept like this for a couple of nights, head lower then our feet and leaning toward the center.  Check it out...


We decided we would try and fix it this weekend.  And in the mean time I decided it was better to sleep with our feet below our heads so I flipped us around...


So last night I crawled into bed around 11 and after getting used to the new direction fell asleep quit comfortably.  My husband made his way upstairs around 1 after working diligently to find world peace (ok, he was playing video games...a little embarrassed by that.)  He got into bed and BAM, we were on the floor.  The bed was dead.

So we slept like this last night...


GHETTO! 

But we talked it over this morning and I think this is how it is going to stay for a while (I mean we will pull out the slats).  We don't want to run out and buy something cheap.  We want to buy another quality bed that will last us ten years.  And since credit cards are off limits we have to start saving up for it.  We also really need a new mattress so we are going into saving mode and are going to try and make both happen at once.  So when you close your eyes at night think of us on the floor patiently waiting for our new bed. 

So now I have to bid goodbye dear bed.  It has been a great ten years.  May you rest peacefully in bed heaven.