So, is anything interesting going on here today?
I have something completely uninteresting to talk about: tell me about sleeping on futons as we're thinking of ditching the bed.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:03, 12 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

futons are not bad
I quite like the way they look. Read the thread below for fun and games
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:03, Reply)

They look OK but you might as well sleep on the floor.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:04, Reply)

For other people I guess
I don't actually mind sleeping on the floor though
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:05, Reply)

Fair enough, but if so, there's no need to buy a futon then IS THERE?????

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:07, Reply)

Yeah apart from the oddity factor
I sleep on a bed because otherwise it'd be a bit weird
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:07, Reply)

If you're really pressed for space
reinforce the shoulders in your favourite jacket, put it on with the coathanger in and dangle yourself in the closet for the night*.

*_{Speaking from years of experience...}
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:10, Reply)

But isn't it good to have the air circulating in the wooden slats bit?

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:10, Reply)

Depends on the level of must.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:11, Reply)

t ky anus.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:20, Reply)

When you're done sleeping on them, you can fold them up in a funny way and they become a sofa!
It's like Transformers for the domesticated.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:03, Reply)

Not just that
They become a sofa of immeasurable discomfort.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:04, Reply)

They are indeed shit sofas.
But it wouldn't have to be a sofa. Just a futon.

And on that note, why the fuck do they call some tables occasional tables when they're always a table?
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:15, Reply)

Bad idea, even the thickest, most expensive ones.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:04, Reply)

This^
They do not cater for tall people either. Fucking uncomfortable
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:06, Reply)

I did that for a bit when I moved home last year.
It's alright, but good futons are heavy and so difficult to put away, bad futons are light and easy to put away.
It's a delicate balance, I think you need a graph.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:05, Reply)

Maybe even a spreadsheet?
Oh, do say we can have a spreadsheet!
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:05, Reply)

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:06, Reply)

We can't embed spreadsheets in offtopic,
I should put that on the features request thing.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:07, Reply)

I'll do a Powerpoint in anticipation.
*Opens Office*
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:07, Reply)

would it be a plain spreadsheet
or a fitted one with a valance?
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:09, Reply)

I don't need to put it away, it can stay open.

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:10, Reply)

Why not just get a bed then?

(PsychoChomp, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:12, Reply)

See my post below.
I need a superfuton.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:16, Reply)

If only more girls had your open attitude in general.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:12, Reply)

I should serve as a warning, really.
I'm a cautionary tale.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:16, Reply)

I exacerbated a back problem
by sleeping on a futon. Wouldn't recommend them.
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:05, Reply)

You're supposed to unfold them first.

(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:06, Reply)

You could always try one out by sleeping on a couple of pallets

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:06, Reply)

I have seriously considered making my own from pallets
except I burnt all the pallets I had during the cold weather.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:11, Reply)

Were you on a picket line?

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:15, Reply)

No, but I will be at the end of March.
Actually, good point - can I strike if I'm on maternity leave?
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:17, Reply)

You don't pick potatoes, you dig 'em up...

(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:18, Reply)

Well now,
actually they get ploughed up and then you go round picking them up. Well, you did in the old days. Well, not 1847 when the potatoes went bad. *weeps*
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:21, Reply)

then you scooped them up with your hands

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:46, Reply)

Decent Futons are ace.
Go for a good quality one though, with a wooden frame. Cheap ones are pretty grim.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:06, Reply)

get one with slats that are close together if you get one
main advice though: don't get one.

or, get a futon base and put a proper mattress on it, which is what I have done. Albeit quite a high one.

My mattress has about twice the number of springs as a normal one and is topped with memory foam. It's incredible. Get one.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:06, Reply)

smugtress

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:07, Reply)

a little bit
I've had it for about 5 or 6 years, and pretty much every time I get into bed I think (or say) "man, this is comfortable"

that's good value.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:09, Reply)

I love my bed
Orthopedic mattresses ftw
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:10, Reply)

BURN HIS HOUSE DOWN!!!
You sicken me, you orthopaedophile CUNT.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:14, Reply)

Hey, you told me to buy it for our "special times"

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:17, Reply)

For our 'bunga bunga' parties.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:23, Reply)

I've texted Silvio to sort the next one out

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:34, Reply)

What he says ^^
Not that I've slept in Vippers bed obviously. But I do have a memory foam mattress and everytime I go to bed I think "why didn't I come to bed sooner, this is fantastic".
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:12, Reply)

What type of mattress is it?

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:17, Reply)

I think the make is Slumberland
it wasn't particularly cheap, but it was definitely worth it.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:21, Reply)

I rate this five croissant advice.

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:12, Reply)

They sound very trendy
but with my arthritic knees, I couldn't be doing with getting down that far, and then strying to get back up again would be hilarious.

I like American beds. They're easily a foot higher than ours, and very supportive.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:08, Reply)

+unless you are Japanese

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:09, Reply)

???
*thick*
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:10, Reply)

I believe
(and I may be wrong) that this is a reference to how 'supportive' lots of Americans have been about the Japan disaster.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:11, Reply)

Indeed it was

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:14, Reply)

ohhhhhhhhhh
I get it now. Sorry, that was a good foot higher than my head.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:15, Reply)

Wouldn't recommend it
I slept on one for 6 months prior to my ex finally moving out. My back is still fecked. And it's a decent quality futon. It's ok for the occasional night, friends staying over etc, but beyond that I just wouldn't do it.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:09, Reply)

So, the problem is
although I like my bed it's too wee for me, a baby and a wee husband. i know, I'm surprised that we actually need more room.

Anyway, I figured - I have a double futon, we could get a single futon as well, we could put 'em altogether into one big superfuton and then we have good bed space, the baby doesn't wake up when we roll over in bed, and she can't fall out from a great height and land on her head.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:13, Reply)

So it would require buying a single futon
and possibly a comfy new mattress.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:14, Reply)

Why not get a cot?
Or is this not practical?
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:14, Reply)

I think catface is too big for one of those.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:16, Reply)

Just thinking the bars on the side may prevent impregnation

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:17, Reply)

A baby and marriage also does that.

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:18, Reply)

This^
*sadface*
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:21, Reply)

Haha, gutted.... oh, wait. I made myself do a sad face.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:23, Reply)

I don't think he is

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:18, Reply)

I took a picture of him eating a matzo cracker the other day.
It was one of the giant matzo crackers but it just looks like he's a tiny person eating a regular cream cracker.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:19, Reply)

You neeeeeed to post that here!

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:30, Reply)

*obliges*


"So matzo, he's gotta be - so matzo, he's gotta be big and strong, enough to turn me onnnnnnnnn"
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:43, Reply)

Matzo matzo maaaan, I wanna be, a motza man.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:58, Reply)

IT'S A LITTLE PERSON!
Look at his tiny hands clutching his food!
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:58, Reply)

Not practical.
If she sleeps beside me I can feed her in the night without having to get up.

I am from the lazy school of parenting.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:18, Reply)

Then kick catface out onto the settee until jr starts on solids
Cheap + pregnancy free
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:20, Reply)

I have absolutely no experience with babies, and consequently know nothing
but I thought it was bad to sleep with babies in case you squish them in the night?
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:29, Reply)

No drinking and its OK

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:33, Reply)

You lose the available space under your bed to dump stuff.

( girlinthehole, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:38, Reply)

This is definitely a downside.
However, we've just boarded out the roofspace. Loads of room for junk.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 10:50, Reply)