Old School

When Mom and Dad bought the cabin in 1960, one of the beds upstairs was a red twin, complete with springs and mattress.  Katie loved sleeping in the red bed, then I did, then Bart.  As kids we thought it was great - the middle would sink to the floor, and we thought it was the greatest bed in the world.

Fast forward to adulthood, and not many people enjoyed sleeping in the  red bed.  It was too, too soft . .  and bad for our backs.  But Mom kept it because she told me it would need a custom mattress.

In the early 2000's, Don and I bought a piece of plywood to put under the mattress, and although it helped, it didn't help enough.  My friend, Pam, slept in it, and she was a good sport.  But it was not comfortable, and at that time, I told Don we are going to get a new mattress, even if we had to get it custom made.

This year we went looking.  We gave the mattress people the dimensions, and amazingly, it is a standard twin size, give or take an inch.  So the Monday after our Wheeler Peak adventure, we purchased a new mattress.

When we took the old mattress off, we found this tag on it:

For 52 years (and years before that from the previous owners), we have been sleeping on a mattress that cost $29.50.

Needless to say, it was time.  We thought it was interesting that the name of the new mattress is:

Perfect.  Katie slept in it last week, and she said it was very comfortable.  Much better than the old one, for sure!