Good Night's Sleep

We finally broke down and got a new bed. We bought a sleep number bed. The biggest selling point for us? It comes in pieces and you assemble it. We have a partial circular staircase that goes upstairs and getting a box springs and mattress up has always been a nightmare. I have to confess, the box springs we were still using was nearly 40 years old. They had such a difficult time getting it up there when we moved in, no one ever wanted to try getting it down and a new one up. So, it just stayed. I woke up every morning aching. Now, no more! With the new bed, it came in just three boxes, which we were able to open up downstairs and carry the various pieces upstairs. Since we decided to save the money and put the bed together ourselves, it was an interesting experience, but we succeeded. Now I wake up in the morning and no more aches! I don't know if I can attribute this to the sleep number bed, or just the fact that we finally got a new mattress and box springs.

It was a nightmare getting the old box springs down the stairs, now we have to do some painting in the stairway where we gouged the walls trying to get it down.

As I said, for us, the real advantage to the sleep number bed was the fact that we could easily get it up the stairs into our room. For that reason alone, it was a good investment.