changing my bedroom
I don’t like change, the rooms in my house included.
But I’ve had this giant hand-me-down bedroom set for years. It’s too heavy for me to move to clean and I can’t get anybody to help.
I recently got a new mattress and it’s amazing, but I wasn’t planning on changing anything else.
I have asthma and allergies, and even though I have an air cleaner running in my room every night, it can only do so much when I can’t get a vacuum under the bed or behind and under the chest of drawers and nightstands (yes even the nightstands are ridiculously heavy).
So yesterday my mom was like you know you don’t have to keep those just because they’re hand-me-downs right?!
The thought hadn’t occurred to me (yay schizophrenic brain that gets stuck in boxes) that I could get rid of a bedroom set just because it doesn’t work for me instead of waiting for it to fall apart.
So yesterday I tore the bed apart and got all the pieces out of my bedroom and did a big cleaning. It took five hours to get the stupid bedroom set dismantled and out to the garage.
My bed is on the floor until the new frame arrives, but I’m super excited about the frame because it’s lightweight (super easy to move for cleaning) but made to withstand 3500 pounds. Like seriously they showed a car on top of this thing.
It wasn’t nearly as expensive as I thought it would be.
BTW why has cost of living gone up to unbearable levels but beds and frames are NOTHING compared to what they were when my parents were my age?! seriously the mattress alone was $1200 25 years ago (adjusted for inflation that’s $2300) and my new mattress was $250.
I have blankets thumb-tacked to all four walls in my bedroom to dampen sound from outside -- noisy neighborhood and sleeping like a paranoid schizophrenic means I wake up so so so much.
I took those blankets down and instead of tacking them back up (because it’s hard to wash them regularly) I’m going to hang them on curtain rods on the walls.
The room feels so much lighter already!
One of these days maybe I’ll realize some change is good and actively change things instead of stumbling into it without meaning to🙄