Two people need to buy a mattress for their new bed. They've been putting it off forever and whenever they've made it inside a mattress shop it's been impossible to make a choice.
But now we actually have the bed it's impossible to put it off any longer. This weekend we had to buy a mattress. Then October goes and gives us amazing weather. I don't want to be trawling bed shops when it's this sunny. But clever Jon has a plan. He's found some bed shops up in Chingford and we can get there along the Lea! Which means we can combine a lovely bike ride with the necessary shopping.
It wasn't all as easy as it sounds though. First off, out of town bed stores don't have very good bike parking provision, can you believe it! It's almost as if everyone who goes there drives! But the first place had a Halfords too, you would have thought they might have wanted to encourage cycling.
We started off in Benson Beds, after saying we had an absolute maximum budget of £500 the man took us straight to a £750 mattress. When I explained, quite calmly I thought, that our MAXIMUM budget was £500 and queried why it said £500.99 in big letters by the mattress, his boss decided we could buy the whole base, headboard and mattress for £500. THIS IS WHY IT'S SO HARD TO BUY A BLOODY MATTRESS - BED SALES MEN ARE INSANE!
Then we tried Dreams, nice salesmen (and women), one nice mattress, for £750. Why are they all so expensive? This is making John Lewis look reasonable. After they tried to sell us interest free credit (do they not know that I save up if I want to buy something?) we left, deciding to go back to John Lewis. At least we had some vouchers for money off.
But as if a miracle had happened we walked past Feather and Black and went inside. Actually Jon went inside and I stood outside with the bikes - we couldn't be bothered with the faf of chaining them up again. But then the best thing happened, we found a good mattress, that was comfy, that was less than £500 - whoopie!!! So I had to chain the bikes up after all [edit: Jon chained the bikes up and does sometimes read this blog!!].
Gosh, that was a massive post on mattress buying, possibly the most I've ever written on the blog, sorry.
Whilst I have no pictures of mattresses, we did take some pictures along our ride, much more fun.
Can I just clarify, I'm not actually wearing Lycra
lunch by the Lea
Jon's smile looks a little painful
so then when we got home we tidied the room and moved some furniture about. These photos are a bit rubbish though, sorry
we moved the drawers to the other wall
and hid lots of mess under our tall bed - wicked!
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