Color me shocked! We walked into the first store, stretched out on the first mattress and bought it! Shall I call a doctor? 🙂
Jeremy recommended Wayside Furniture to us when we first got here and that’s where we’ve bought everything we’ve bought so far . . which is a total of a love seat, recliners and now a mattress set.
We left home, went to Hobby Lobby. Vince wanted to get more lacing/weaving plastic and some findings for making/finishing the different things he and Addie were making. Then we went to Home Depot for stakes for measuring out the fence around the garden. Then we went to the paint store to pick out deck stain because the guy working on our deck was supposed to come Thursday to start refinising it but it rained too much today and is supposed to rain tomorrow. Spring in Missouri is no time to get a deck refinished. From there we went to the furniture store.
You can’t tell much about it from the picture but here it is.
I fell in love with the first mattress we tried. Vince wanted me to try them, then whatever ones I liked, he’d try, so we walked around and I tried a few more. I went back to the first one, which is a Chattam & Wells Hamilton Luxury model. I had never heard of Chattam & Wells so the salesman explained a bit about it. Then Vince tried it. He said “It feels better than our current mattress!” He’s never liked the Restonic that I have so we agreed to make the following changes:
- Addie’s mattress set gets hauled away.
- Our current mattress goes to the basement bedroom.
- The basement mattress set goes to Addie’s room.
- The new mattress goes on our bed.
It will be delivered Friday. As much as I love my Restonic set, I’m really excited about getting this new one. This means I have to change the sheets on three beds Friday!
I still can’t believe we walked into the first store and bought it within 10 minutes. I read him the blog post I had written earlier and told him he made a liar out of me. 🙂 That’s fine! I’d rather get good surprises than bad surprises.
As we were leaving the store, Vince said “Are you done buying furniture now?” I’ve bought recliners, a love seat and now mattresses. I think Vince may need to see how often other wives get new furniture. This is probably all the exact furniture we’ll have when we go to the old folks home in 20 or 25 years. He’s a lucky man . . and I’m not sure he even knows it . . though I do tell him often. 🙂
Cindy says
What about Addie’s mattress?
Judy Laquidara says
Sorry . . forgot that part but went back and fixed it. The current basement mattress, which is ok and Addie approves of it, gets moved to Addie’s room.
Paula Nordt says
All the new furniture purchased this year has been by my husband. His recliner, his new mattress. And not cheap either!
Elle says
Nope. The mattresses are on Vince. He doesn’t like the one you’re on now 😉
Congrats on a short day of shopping success!!!!! Totally worth this morning’s post 🙂
Judy Laquidara says
The mattresses in Addie’s room were horrible. They’re some the former owners left with the furniture we bought so we were bringing the basement bedroom mattresses up for Addie’s room and had to buy new mattresses for the basement but then we both liked the new ones so much, we decided to change our mattresses to the new ones.
Rebecca says
Congratulations on your easy solution!
I’m facing the same decision, but I lean more towards Vince’s style…I want to know what my choices are and make the best one. John just wants a new mattress! I think it will make a difference in how we feel for several years!
Then there’s price. I told him I had found a really good=-looking mattress for $2,500 (never intending to spend that much) and he thought we could buy one for $250! Ha! (and “help meee!”) We compromised, but it won’t be easy.
Nelle Coursey says
I got a new recliner for Mother’s Day and I love it. My old one is probably around 20 years old. It is a Lazy Boy but there is absolutely no padding left in the seat! We are keeping it for company, but I think the new one might help my back also. I have small bone spurs on my endplates in my back.
Susan Nixon says
You sound very reasonable to me! He doesn’t want to sit or sleep on the floor, so I’m sure he’s just giving you a hard time.
Ruth says
Sounds like the husband of one commenter hasn’t done any furniture shopping in 50 years… a lazy boy recliner set us back nearly a grand 10 years ago.
Judy Laquidara says
They make them in all price ranges though. We bought three after moving here and I think we paid about half that for each. Ours probably are not top of the line but with a dog, a cat, a granddaughter and adults who sometimes sneak food into the living room, we always buy average and replace them as needed. I don’t think we’ve ever kept a recliner 10 years. We bought two in Texas. One was probably 8 years old and it didn’t make the move. One was 4 years old and it did make the move.