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Learning, Sharing, and Teaching => Ask a Mustachian => Topic started by: MayDay on November 09, 2014, 06:38:56 PM
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If you sleep with a partner, what size bed do you have? Or wish you had?
We have a queen, but have talked on and off about upgrading to a king. That feels unnecessarily fancy but on the other hand I kind of love the idea of having all that room. A full would be the cheapest but no thanks, I'd rather sleep alone in a twin.
A full would be the most economical by far as all my elderly relatives have lovely full bedroom sets with linens besides, and mattresses are cheaper. But again, no. Our queen mattress is still sadly sitting on a plain metal frame with no headboard and I refuse to buy or build one until we are completely settled on bed size. Our queen bedding wouldn't go to waste anyway as the kids or a guest room would make use of it.
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Full and we love it, even after 17 years!
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Full size all the way!
This is partly due to the fact that we live in teeny-tiny apartments but more about the fact that I start to feel lost (and lonely) when the bed gets too big. I'm an all-night snuggler ;-)
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Have a queen, want a king, but would not fit in our bedroom. Love me some space to spread out.
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11 years in a queen. We'd lose each other in a King, although I'm sure we'd get used to it, and our bedroom is certainly big enough for it. When traveling, we occasionally find ourselves in a double, and it's just not big enough.
Queen: small enough to cuddle, big enough that you don't have to, :)
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Depends on your sleeping habits. I hate cuddling while sleeping, and want to stay as cool as possible. Sharing a queen was too small for me.
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Wife and I are compulsive spooners, so queen is perfect. ;)
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Two small women, one cat and one mid sized dog on a Queen. It can get cramped.
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We have a queen now and are contemplating an upgrade to a king. My husband's legs have gotten a lot twitchier as he ages, and I'm hoping that a bigger bed will help him not disrupt me.
I'm thinking of starting to pick up King bedding online on Black Friday/Cyber Monday. We've tentatively agreed to buy the mattress as our Xmas gift to each other. Headboard will probably wait.
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Currently full, wanting a king, compromising for a queen in the near future.
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We upgraded from Queen to King a couple years ago. I love it, but I think 90% of the improvement is due to switching to a bedframe that doesn't squeak with every shift, and a better mattress that isolates movement so we don't wake each other up. The extra space is a bonus, and our master BR is amply big enough to accommodate it. I didn't love having to buy all new sheets and blankets though.
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Wife and I are compulsive spooners, so queen is perfect. ;)
Yeah, DH and I were spooners until I hit menopause, complete with hot flashes. Now I'm grateful for the extra room our king size bed affords. DH had it when we got married, so we've kept it. When we travel, we have done fine in queen or double beds. Also, our master bedroom is stupidly huge, so a smaller bed would look silly. I did score some killer linens at an estate sale recently, which took the sting out of buying new king sheets. Wow! They can get spendy very fast.
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We got a king a few years ago, and DH sleeps so much better. He can't sleep if he's touching someone, so the king is a sleep-saver for him. We have a zone between us that he refers to as the DMZ.
Of course cuddling is fine when he's not trying to sleep, just not when he is.
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Upgraded from a Queen to a King after nine years of marriage (and 3 kids) back in 2006.
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11 years in a queen. We'd lose each other in a King, although I'm sure we'd get used to it, and our bedroom is certainly big enough for it. When traveling, we occasionally find ourselves in a double, and it's just not big enough.
Queen: small enough to cuddle, big enough that you don't have to, :)
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Happy in our queen. I can't sleep while cuddling (DH considers this a great flaw of mine), so queen is enough space for me, without him feeling like I'm across the Bering Sea on a King. Double is too small but we'll suck it up while traveling. (Memo to Europe: Please get queens.)
Also, it'd be really tough to get a king into our 1933 house with a tight turning staircase. Would have to unbolt the door to nowhere (just a pretty floor to ceiling view) in our Master to haul it up through there. Barely got the queens up it - luckily DH has always insisted on split boxsprings because otherwise it wouldn't have made it.
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Depends on your sleeping habits. I hate cuddling while sleeping, and want to stay as cool as possible. Sharing a queen was too small for me.
This. I'll never go back to a queen. I sleep so much better now.
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Full size, more than 27 years. The only reason we keep considering going up to queen is for additional length, not width, but a larger bed wouldn't fit in our current bedroom. Besides, I like to cuddle.
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Full size all the way!
This is partly due to the fact that we live in teeny-tiny apartments but more about the fact that I start to feel lost (and lonely) when the bed gets too big. I'm an all-night snuggler ;-)
Agreed! I hate hotel rooms with a king! Plus I get cold in the middle of the night & have to crawl across a cold spot to find my human furnace! Queen works great for us. We sleep on a full when we go home to my parents' house and it's a little snug.
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King. Don't touch me while I sleep. Thank goodness my husband is not a snuggler.
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California king. We had a queen for years and are still fine with a queen if we end up in one. But with three kids on a weekend morning, a king was in order. I'm tall, and we're both slim, so we went narrower and longer with a California king. Couldn't be happier (unless we were already retired... but one thing at a time.)
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King. Husband is 6'3 and his feet stick out comically from a full not to mention we barely fit. A queen, still not great. Warning though, if you choose a king and move a lot, you will regret it. Pain in the ass. Alternative is 2 twins linked together, can't comment on that for a relationship cause we havrnt tried it but I bet it is easier to move!
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A king is the equivalent of two twin beds. We started with a queen, & upgraded to a king when we moved to a bigger house/bedroom. We occasionally encounter full/double size when we travel & it's torture.
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Full. Neither of us is very big, and we cuddle.
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Currently on a Queen, and have been since I was 16 when I was 6'4" and my dad was dismayed that my feet were hanging off the end of my full bed (now I'm 6'6"). My wife is just shy of 5'10". When traveling, a full sized bed simply "cramps my style" and I don't sleep well.
Our queen bed is on a heirloom bed set of solid oak, with dresser drawers build underneath, and a headboard as well. It's very well made, and upgrading to a King would require a new setup (sheets, bedding, frame, etc). I can see myself with this setup for a long time.
That being said, no way I'd downgrade to something less than a Queen.
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We've got a king and have had a lot of trouble (we've gone through a few mattresses now). Kings wear oddly - they call it the "king's crown". I've never had any trouble with queens, twins, etc, but we cannot find a decent king size mattress. Next time I will get two twins and push them together and cover with king-size sheets.
It seems to me that king beds are a lot more expensive. The prices for everything are disproportionately higher - sheets, duvet, frame, and obviously the mattress.
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We've had a queen for years. We'd like a king, but none of the bedrooms are big enough. DH thrashes about in his sleep, and we have cats, and the extra room would allow everyone to be more comfortable. But it's OK having a queen.
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King for sure.
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California King water bed since 1983.... plenty of room to go to sleep touching/wrapped, but roll away if get hot during the night. Hate hotels--nowhere decent can match what we want.
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It seems to me that king beds are a lot more expensive. The prices for everything are disproportionately higher - sheets, duvet, frame, and obviously the mattress.
Yep, I am still looking for very good quality long lasting, reasonably priced fitted sheets. Queen was easy, and we received queen sheets for wedding gift. Hard to find headboards at consignment or doors large enough to be headboards too.
On the other hand...
Another plus for king is that if you ever fight ( say over his spending $600 in a month eating out without you...jk) one of you does not need to find the sofa.
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We have a queen. We are both on the short side (5'4") and have plenty of room. A full would probably be fine though. We regularly sleep on a full when visiting family and it works fine.
A king would feel huge to us. The previous owners of our house had a king and it looked massive in the bedroom.
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King. Its three of us to start every night and usually four by the am.it was our baby gift when our second child was born.
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Full size but I hate it. I'm not sure if it's worth upgrading to a queen. We'll probably move to somewhere larger than 500 square feet in the next few years and hopefully we can get a king then.
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King. Husband is 6'3 and his feet stick out comically from a full not to mention we barely fit. A queen, still not great. Warning though, if you choose a king and move a lot, you will regret it. Pain in the ass. Alternative is 2 twins linked together, can't comment on that for a relationship cause we havrnt tried it but I bet it is easier to move!
Very true! Ours wouldn't fit up the stairs, so we ended up doing this sort of toss up/hand off thing over the balcony and in through the sliding glass door. If it wasn't for the balcony off the master, we would be sleeping in the dining room right now. And it weighs a metric ass-ton.
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King.
Neither of us like to be touched when we sleep - he twitches once he's asleep if I'm touching him, and I just can't get comfortable until I'm back to the sweet isolation of my side.
And we can't share bedding either - After 2 weeks of me trying to yank the super-king duvet from around his tightly-cocooned and very asleep body I gave up and got my old single duvet off the spare bed. 14 years later that's still how we sleep :)
Basically, he was used to a Queen all by himself, and I was used to a Double (what you call a Full?) - so it really had to be a King for us both to have a chance of sharing well. Traveling, we share smaller beds just fine, so long as the mattresses don't have a lot of roll-together!
Downsides to a King are, as already mentioned, the price of the linen, the huge hassle of shifting it, and the sheer space it takes up in the bedroom. We hardly ever shift house. We use our linen to death (just have had to replace some, after 14 years), and have only bought houses with a master bedroom big enough for the bed (we've just shifted into our 4th house since getting married).
There is no way we'd ever permanently downgrade, although I totally agree with the poster upthread who said what a huge difference the quality of base and mattress make. We got rid of our first King bed about 3 years ago (mold. gross), and switched from a box-base to a slat-base with good mattress. Hugely better sleep as a result, and way less cross-disturbance when one partner decides to roll over by launching himself in the air, spinning, and crashing back into the mattress, while curling his duvet around him. For instance.
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As others here have said, we prefer a queen because we cuddle. When we sleep on King sized beds (like in hotels), it takes me several rolls to get to his side, and it's way too easy to just not cuddle with all the space. He jokes that he would prefer a king, but says it doesn't really matter, because even if we had a king, he'd still just have his tiny sliver of the bed!
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Full!
Maybe we are extra small people but it really doesn't seem squished... at least until the pets decide to join us. We can easily sleep without touching if we want to. Eventually I think we will upgrade to a queen so we can have a little more space to accomodate the animals and our future kid.
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Full size all the way!
This is partly due to the fact that we live in teeny-tiny apartments but more about the fact that I start to feel lost (and lonely) when the bed gets too big. I'm an all-night snuggler ;-)
Agreed! I hate hotel rooms with a king! Plus I get cold in the middle of the night & have to crawl across a cold spot to find my human furnace! Queen works great for us. We sleep on a full when we go home to my parents' house and it's a little snug.
LOL at human furnace. I sleep sandwiched between my husband and dog on a full, but I'm lanky and always cold.
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full (UK double).
We like to be close, a double is nicely proportioned in our room and kings are so much more expensive for everything.
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King. I sleep very hot and need my space. We had a queen for a while and it was okay, but I am much happier with the King. If we have to sleep in a double, I get very little sleep. And in the summer, we'd have to run our A/C almost constantly. I can't sleep without the weight of a blanket (not just a sheet) on me and a hot or even warm room doesn't work for me.
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Full for 30 years; Six feet and 5'8". I think kings are isolating ( for us, anyway). My friends say it's too easy to go to bed mad in a king.
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Wife and I are compulsive spooners, so queen is perfect. ;)
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1 year on a full that belonged to someone else; I found myself climbing the edge of the bed a lot. When we moved and I had to purchase, I bought a queen, and we've loved it since. Of course, we like to cuddle, so... There's that, too. :)
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To all these cuddly sleepers: Are you SURE you're both cuddly sleepers? Maybe your partner is just doing a "hug 'n roll."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0eStJlnNKo
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Always had a full with springs until about 8 years ago. Then we got a queen with foam. Obviously it is bigger but with the foam, but the biggest benefit is that neither one of us gets awakened when the other moves or gets into or out of bed.
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A single in university was fine. A double when we started working and were saving up. A king at the moment. Based on my results, there appears to be an inverse correlation between amount of sex and bed size.
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Queen.
I'm like Goldilocks. A full is TOO SMALL. A king is TOO BIG. A queen is JUST RIGHT.
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Queen size for 33 years of marriage, but we have enjoyed King-sized beds in hotels, and it always makes us go, "hmmmmmmm...... nahhhh" :)
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Queen because the Hub is tall and likes to really stretch out lengthwise. We cuddle so intensively that I joke we are doing synchronized sleeping.
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Definitely Queen for me.
We had a double bed for quite a few years, but then with small kids sneaking in to cuddle, it just got too squishy. We upgraded to a Queen two years ago and it is AMAZING. It's just right, and it's nice for my hubby too, because a double is only 72" long, while a queen is (I think?) 78" long. Now his feet don't hang off the end anymore!
I personally don't like King beds. Just too big. Always feel weird when we sleep in one at a hotel.
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.... I sleep in a queen and I'm by myself and I find it "small" :( And no I'm not "large" but I like to wake up and get lost in the bed and "find" my way out of it. If it's smaller I get depressed about having to wake up and rolling onto floor. Yes, I'm unmustachian when it comes to sleeping :) Well, at least I don't need scents/noise, just pure darkness, comfy bed and 6 pilllows and 2 blankets (thick/thin)
But I might want a longer bed next time, my toes hang off now
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We sleep on a full sized bed, and it's always been ample for us. Even for those days when we'd wake up and, oops, I didn't put the baby back after nursing... And I like my space when I'm sleeping. But I am quite petite. DH is normal sized. If we were both normal sized I might want a queen.
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My parents spent their whole married life sleeping in a double bed. My mom told us once that she suggested they change to a queen. My dad's response was that it was all he could do to chase her down in a double he'd never find her in a queen. It must have worked, they ended up with eight kids.
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King! It's luxuriously huge and we love it. It also cost us only $279 (it's a tempurpedic knock-off from Amazon).
Big benefit is that if one person is ill (with a cough/cold, etc) and doesn't feel like cuddling (our normal MO), we can each have a side of the bed to ourselves. This was a problem for us with a double bed--we couldn't spread out if we needed to. We also like to hang out in bed sometimes on rainy days with books, magazines, laptops, dog, etc and the King just gives us more breathing room.
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Full size all the way!
This is partly due to the fact that we live in teeny-tiny apartments but more about the fact that I start to feel lost (and lonely) when the bed gets too big. I'm an all-night snuggler ;-)
Haha, me too.
We have a full and it's fine. We are both average-ish size (5'8" and 6'0", average build) and it doesn't feel too narrow for me (plus I like having my boyfriend keep me warm, I'm always super cold at night) but it does feel a little short. I like the idea of not upgrading so as to resist hedonic adaptation (and would not even consider a king for that reason, my parents have slept in a queen bed for 29 years and they're fine). But the mattress we have now kind of sucks (it was a cheap one when I bought it five years ago), and when we upgrade to one that doesn't hurt our backs we will probably go for a queen just to have a little more space, although it will be a tight squeeze in our current bedroom. Plus occasionally our two dogs snuggle with us (and I'm assuming future kids will as well) so the extra space would be nice.
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I personally don't like King beds. Just too big. Always feel weird when we sleep in one at a hotel.
Me too!!! In a way it's a little luxurious, but also so awkward. The poster upthread who said they like to wake up and have to find their way out of bed... I HATE that!
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Queen size for 33 years of marriage, but we have enjoyed King-sized beds in hotels, and it always makes us go, "hmmmmmmm...... nahhhh" :)
Yeah it is fun for the novelty like in a hotel, but I actually really like our queen. Not sure even if it was an option, we would switch to king. 17 years marriage + 5 years of living in sin.
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I don't live with my partner but we've been adjusting to sleeping together for a while. At first, he had 2 twins that we pushed together to make a ghetto king. We slept wonderfully in this, and didn't sleep very well in my Queen, so we began to think that we'd have to get a King size. Which is fairly ridiculous as neither of us has a big place, and when we priced them out they were SO expensive. But neither of us had been in a relationship for a while, so getting used to someone else in the bed was hard. Then someone offered to sell him a second hand Queen, which he decided to get. It's actually worked out OK space-wise, although we need to get a better mattress for that bed (or move in together but that's another issue). Now we sleep pretty well in both Queen sized beds - mine and his, and I think long-term a Queen will suit our needs perfectly. But I have to admit, if we go away and stay in a hotel, I always book a room with a King size bed - it's so luxurious to have all that space.
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We shared a single for nearly five years and this autumn moved into a furnished flat with a UK king size bed (US queen). WE HATE IT but the landlord won't let us swap because she has nowhere to store it. I wish we could have a single between the two of us again, or at least just a normal double bed, and get back all the floor space in the bedroom!
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Queen.
Room can't fit a King.
Can't imagine it any other way.
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I must have a king. I like my side of the bed my side! Cant stand people touching me or breathing on me when asleep. Getting harder now when the kids want in the bed.... grrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!
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And we can't share bedding either - After 2 weeks of me trying to yank the super-king duvet from around his tightly-cocooned and very asleep body I gave up and got my old single duvet off the spare bed.
Lol, this is my wife and I.
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3 years ago when we started, it was twin. ~1.5-2 years later moved up to a full-size futon (sacrificing mattress quality for space!!!)
Then we moved in and got a queen. Durapedic (?) foam mattress that is pretty great at isolating movement.
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After perusing this thread it seems that mustachians are willing to cut back on almost everything except bed size :)
Wife and I are larger than average and have a full. i wouldn't consider going bigger. I also can not stand to be touched while sleeping, but it is not a problem. we have plenty of room. One thing that helps is having personal blankets. no fighting over the covers.
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I must have a king. I like my side of the bed my side! Cant stand people touching me or breathing on me when asleep. Getting harder now when the kids want in the bed.... grrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!
Good luck...
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I admit that I am too cheap to have every considered buying it ourselves, but we were gifted a king from his parents when we got married, and I love it so much, and often say how grateful I am for it, two years later.
Granted, our old queen set was OLD. So the bigger problem was probably mattress quality (that whole rolling in towards the middle thing definitely makes the bed feel smaller than it is!) rather than size.
As it is now, we use two full sized pillows, mine up against the edge of the bed, and his up against mine - so basically almost a third of the bed is mostly unused. We aren't cuddlers (at least not all night) but we sleep within reach of each other :). Sometimes I even have to tell him to shove over, as he'll trap me on the edge of the bed, even though he's got tonnes of room on the other side.
The times it has been nice to have the extra room are the (fairly infrequent) occasions when the hubs suffers from bad night sweats, and so he's able to roll over to find some dry sheets. And that's about it.
So my conclusion is that I would probably go for a good quality queen bed, if I was looking to purchase one. Also, I seriously can't believe people actually share blankets?! We have a collection of at least 5 different blankets on our bed at a time, so we each have a good selection. We are both duvet hogs!
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California King since 17 years ago when I was pregnant with our first baby. Hubby is 6 foot 3 and we both need our space before we fall asleep. We tolerate sleeping in queen sized beds when on vacation. Anyone contemplating upgrading if you have the room should do it!!
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Two double beds pushed together. We specifically measured the bedroom before we bought to make sure they would fit. Plenty of room, peaceful sleep. Bliss.
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A single in university was fine. A double when we started working and were saving up. A king at the moment. Based on my results, there appears to be an inverse correlation between amount of sex and bed size.
hahaha
What I'd like to know is, do all of you posters go to sleep at the same time as your partner? Mine expects it and I find it kind of a drag sometimes because I need less sleep, but I don't know if suggesting this would be normal or a war declaration or somewhere in between.
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Early marriage we were in a double, and it was fine. We were both thinner then, and only had two cats. Now, we're in a king and it's not big enough. There is generally a kid and two dogs in bed with us, two kids and three dogs on the worst nights. I used to love to be all snuggly in one bed with all the creatures I love best, but as I get older, I crave my own space. What I really want is a secret bedroom that no-one knows about: big bed, crisp white sheets, utter silence, complete darkness, no sounds or smells except my own!
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This is such a fascinating thread! We sleep in a Full, which I find roomy. I checked with my partner, and he agrees. We are cuddlers, though not necessarily when sleeping, but we like to be close to each other. We have no pets or children.
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A single in university was fine. A double when we started working and were saving up. A king at the moment. Based on my results, there appears to be an inverse correlation between amount of sex and bed size.
hahaha
What I'd like to know is, do all of you posters go to sleep at the same time as your partner? Mine expects it and I find it kind of a drag sometimes because I need less sleep, but I don't know if suggesting this would be normal or a war declaration or somewhere in between.
we don't, for that same reason--bf needs way less sleep than me. I kind of hate it though. I wish he was a book reader instead of a TV watcher, that way he could come to bed and read a book (I am a professional sleeper, having a light on would not bother me in the slightest) but instead he stays out in the living room watching TV. I keep trying to explain to him that he would get laid more if we went to bed at the same time, but alas...
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After perusing this thread it seems that mustachians are willing to cut back on almost everything except bed size :)
Wife and I are larger than average and have a full. i wouldn't consider going bigger. I also can not stand to be touched while sleeping, but it is not a problem. we have plenty of room. One thing that helps is having personal blankets. no fighting over the covers.
Sleeping poorly = cheap. We have been in a queen for 29 years and recently slept in a king while on vacation. It was a lot better. Had we the room, we would definitely get a king. Some things are just not worth skimping on. Our queen is fine, but I do prefer a king.
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A single in university was fine. A double when we started working and were saving up. A king at the moment. Based on my results, there appears to be an inverse correlation between amount of sex and bed size.
hahaha
What I'd like to know is, do all of you posters go to sleep at the same time as your partner? Mine expects it and I find it kind of a drag sometimes because I need less sleep, but I don't know if suggesting this would be normal or a war declaration or somewhere in between.
What if you got up earlier?
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Queen.
We need a new mattress though. I found the old mattress thread. I'm still confused.
My 8 year old thinks we should move to a king so we can all sleep in the same bed! Um. No.
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We actually just went from a King to a Queen a couple of weeks ago to give us more space in our master bedroom. We have been making it work, but in reality, both of would really prefer to go back to a King. We have found the extra floor space really isn't doing much for us.
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Our first (used) bed was a king because it actually ended up a little cheaper than the equivalent queen. It was gigantic, luxurious, super comfortable, and not at all practical. We had a tiny bedroom at the time. About 60% of the floorspace was taken up by that stupid bed. Not exaggerating. It was dumb.
We then moved to a house with a larger bedroom and downsized to a queen at the same time. Saved floorspace, less of a pain in the butt to move (still a pain).
She takes up around 70% of the bed when sleeping, because she likes to "sprawl out." I'm a compact sleeper, so it works well. And we're still close enough for the non-sleep activities beds were made for. ;)
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Queen. Plenty of room as needed. Not as ridiculously oversized/wasteful as a King.
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GuitarStv is confused by people who are concerned about floorspace in their bedroom.
The bedroom is for sex and sleeping. More bed facilitates both of these purposes. Floorspace in the bedroom is primarily used to collect dust bunnies and dirty clothing.
My ideal bedroom would be wall to wall bed.
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What I'd like to know is, do all of you posters go to sleep at the same time as your partner? Mine expects it and I find it kind of a drag sometimes because I need less sleep, but I don't know if suggesting this would be normal or a war declaration or somewhere in between.
What if you got up earlier?
OMG I never thought of that!!! How brilliant!!!
but seriously, I'm not a morning person. Caving on the bedtime question is the lesser of two evils.
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California king. King is a little bit wider than we need, and the extra length rocks for tall guys.
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What I'd like to know is, do all of you posters go to sleep at the same time as your partner? Mine expects it and I find it kind of a drag sometimes because I need less sleep, but I don't know if suggesting this would be normal or a war declaration or somewhere in between.
What if you got up earlier?
OMG I never thought of that!!! How brilliant!!!
but seriously, I'm not a morning person. Caving on the bedtime question is the lesser of two evils.
I'm not a morning person either, but when I get enough sleep, I wake up. Then I can read or make breakfast or whatever.
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Love my King 4 post rice bed. Killed some jungle mahogany for it.
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GuitarStv is confused by people who are concerned about floorspace in their bedroom.
The bedroom is for sex and sleeping. More bed facilitates both of these purposes. Floorspace in the bedroom is primarily used to collect dust bunnies and dirty clothing.
My ideal bedroom would be wall to wall bed.
I've got just the bedroom for you!
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The floor space in the bedroom argument confuses me as well. Why would I want floor space? When we had a big dog he slept half under the bed anyway!
I'm guessing we will move in the next few years, and our mattress should be fine for 3-5 more years, so I'm thinking once we move and know if the bedroom will fit a queen or king we'll decide then.
My grandparents had an old house, their narrow stair case had a 90 degree turn. Even getting a queen upstairs was a nightmare. They got put on the furniture store's "do not deliver" list for in-room set up.
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After perusing this thread it seems that mustachians are willing to cut back on almost everything except bed size :)
Wife and I are larger than average and have a full. i wouldn't consider going bigger. I also can not stand to be touched while sleeping, but it is not a problem. we have plenty of room. One thing that helps is having personal blankets. no fighting over the covers.
Sleeping poorly = cheap. We have been in a queen for 29 years and recently slept in a king while on vacation. It was a lot better. Had we the room, we would definitely get a king. Some things are just not worth skimping on. Our queen is fine, but I do prefer a king.
I would agree that getting poor sleep as a way to save money would be cheap. But we are both larger than average and each have enough room to sleep without touching each other. The full is plenty big enough. If our sleep was compromised I would not hesitate to upgrade.
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After perusing this thread it seems that mustachians are willing to cut back on almost everything except bed size :)
Wife and I are larger than average and have a full. i wouldn't consider going bigger. I also can not stand to be touched while sleeping, but it is not a problem. we have plenty of room. One thing that helps is having personal blankets. no fighting over the covers.
Sleeping poorly = cheap. We have been in a queen for 29 years and recently slept in a king while on vacation. It was a lot better. Had we the room, we would definitely get a king. Some things are just not worth skimping on. Our queen is fine, but I do prefer a king.
I would agree that getting poor sleep as a way to save money would be cheap. But we are both larger than average and each have enough room to sleep without touching each other. The full is plenty big enough. If our sleep was compromised I would not hesitate to upgrade.
Do you move a lot? Some people move more than others and could get in each other's way. Some people sleep in fetal position while others sprawl out to be comfortable. There are many right ways to sleep.
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We have a queen. It works well for us, enough room so we have our own space, not so much we feel isolated. When we slept on my double when we were first dating, that was a little too cozy.
re: floor space... do you folks have separate dressing rooms? Our room would not fit the dressers and the night table and a king sized bed with room to walk around the bed. Honestly he really needs a night table, too, but there's just no space.
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39 years of marriage in a full size bed. A queen would be okay, but we have had king size several times on vacation and neither of us liked it. We are both 5'9 with a combined weight of 400 pounds so we aren't small people.
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Sleep on a king, wish it was a queen. DH loves this bed, but it's too big for me. I snuggle up to his side so we really just use his third. ;)
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Sleep on a king, wish it was a queen. DH loves this bed, but it's too big for me. I snuggle up to his side so we really just use his third. ;)
This is exactly what I imagine would happen if we uprgraded
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I'm amazed that one one else has said this yet, but we have a split king. It's two twin extra long matresses inside a king frame. We each have separate blankets and matresses for isolation (and sanity) but we can throw a king comforter over the top so it doesn't look ghetto like two twin beds together (plus no gap between them). The only downside is that it's hard to find affordable sheets, we usually have to wait until they clearance out dorm room stuff since most dorm beds are twin extra longs.
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I'm amazed that one one else has said this yet, but we have a split king. It's two twin extra long matresses inside a king frame. We each have separate blankets and matresses for isolation (and sanity) but we can throw a king comforter over the top so it doesn't look ghetto like two twin beds together (plus no gap between them). The only downside is that it's hard to find affordable sheets, we usually have to wait until they clearance out dorm room stuff since most dorm beds are twin extra longs.
Apart from the lack of isolation/sanity, would it theoretically work if you used the split mattress but regular King sheets and blankets? We have a split box spring but a full King mattress, and moving in the next few weeks. I just keep thinking once this mattress goes, we should go the two twin route over the King frame. We typically stay on our sides anyway but we're used to sharing sheets. And we have all the nice King sheets, would be a shame to have to replace them all again. Also, how well do the mattresses stay together? Do you have to frequently push them back together to close the gap or do they stay put?
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Have a Queen. Sometimes want a King when the kiddo joins us when he sick but for the most part happy with a Queen.
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If I could get away with it I would sleep in two singles! I'm not a spooner and I like my sleep.