Quilted, pillow-top queen-size mattress on a pillar frame, no box spring. Four pillows: two standard-sized ones in the back for support, two king-sized ones to acutally sleep on. Oh, ad flannel sheets. I have three, maybe four sets of flannel sheets.
In my corporate apt., I have a queen on a box spring one a metal frame that sucks ass. I brought my king-sized pillows down with me and bought a third comforter, rather than bring one of my duvets.
Me and the soon to be named SoccerDuck started out with a Twin and a broken box spring. (She would always tumble down to my side of the bed, it was pretty funny. We finally ditched the box spring.)
We then were finally able to afford a new bed and bought a King size bed. It was nice, but apparantly the new box spring was unable to support too much, errr, action… and again ended up with a broken box spring. Fortunately the King has two and the second one was more sturdy. I ended up sleeping in a hammock for a few years.
Just this year, looking through the paper, saw an ad for discounted beds… REALLY cheap. Went to inquire about a new box spring set and bought a new California King size bed. (A much better quality bed and MUCH softer)
Cal King, for anybody who doeesn’t know, is about 4 inches thinner than a king, but longer. I actually like it quite a bit more than the standard King, which was a bit short for me.
Me and SoccerDuck still have enough room, nice sturdy METAL box springs (no more of that wooden crap!) and its long enough to completely lay on without my feet hanging off. All in all, its excellent. 
Queen-sized mattress lying on the floor. I’ve kinda mentioned from time to time that having an actual BED might be kind of nice but this keeps falling on deaf ears as my wife likes the ultimate firmness that comes from putting the already-firm mattress on the floor.
She gets most, if not all, of the pillows, too.
Me and the soon to be named SoccerDuck started out with a Twin and a broken box spring. (She would always tumble down to my side of the bed, it was pretty funny. We finally ditched the box spring.)
We then were finally able to afford a new bed and bought a King size bed. It was nice, but apparantly the new box spring was unable to support too much, errr, action… and again ended up with a broken box spring. Fortunately the King has two and the second one was more sturdy. I ended up sleeping in a hammock for a few years.
Just this year, looking through the paper, saw an ad for discounted beds… REALLY cheap. Went to inquire about a new box spring set and bought a new California King size bed. (A much better quality bed and MUCH softer)
Cal King, for anybody who doeesn’t know, is about 4 inches thinner than a king, but longer. I actually like it quite a bit more than the standard King, which was a bit short for me.
Me and SoccerDuck still have enough room, nice sturdy METAL box springs (no more of that wooden crap!) and its long enough to completely lay on without my feet hanging off. All in all, its excellent.
Queen size mahogany sleigh bed with an extra firm matress and box springs (my bad discs don’t like it if I have to sleep on a soft bed - I can barely move in the morning), four pillows, extra firm. When the SO and finish the house we’ll momve onto the king size water bed, which is surprisingly firm (tube construction helps a great deal).
My wife’s parents bought us a nice queen sized bed as a wedding gift this past summer. At first, I wasn’t so sure, because we certainly didn’t have a queen-sized mattress or box spring to go along with that and I didn’t really want to spend the money.
But then a friend of mine tells us that he actually has such items laying around his house that he doesn’t use and wants to get rid of. We just have to go pick them up. No problem, just rent a U-Haul for a couple hours.
We get the mattress and box spring with little difficulty, and then the bed arrives. We’re putting the thing together, and about halfway through it, we realize that this thing is a hell of lot bigger than the double bed. Sure, that’s the whole point, right? But I mean, a LOT bigger. In fact, there’s simply not enough room in our room for the thing. Not if we also want to keep the dresser and be able to get into it from both sides.
So… out goes the dresser. It now resides in our front hallway, which I guess is all right, since my lovely wife will now sometimes disrobe right there in full view from the living room. Mmmmmm…
Uh, sorry. Anyway, we get it all together and throw our newly acquired queen-sized mattress on the thing and glory in our newfound sleeping space. For about a day.
Until we realize that this free mattress we got was free for a reason. Namely, it’s the most uncomfortable, thin piece of crap that ever had the nerve to call itself a mattress. After a couple of days, my back started hurting terribly. It had to go.
So, to sum up, we sleep in an oversized bully of a queen bed that evicted our other furniture with a double-sized mattress atop a queen-sized box spring. Yeah, it’s pretty messed up.
We sleep in a double.
My wife makes noise about getting a Queen, but I’ve succeeded in vetoing that idea so far: the last thing I want is for her to have more room in bed to escape my cuddling clutches. I can’t sleep if I don’t have some part (any part) of myself touching her.
I admit, if the smallest of the rug rats wakes up and has to join us, in addition to the two dogs, it does get a little crowded, but I would feel lost in a king bed. I know because in hotels, we just end up using about half the bed. In this matter, smaller is better.
Lately I’ve been sleeping in the creaky old twin bed in the baby’s room, because the wife wants to grab the king-size for herself and the tot. She throws me out on the pretense that my snoring keeps the baby awake… :o
Am I wierd because I have 8 pillows on a queen-sized?
My wife and I sleep in a California King Size bed. It’s a little bit skinnier and a little bit longer than a standard King. Hard to find sheets for it anywhere but the west coast, though.
Another owner of a California King bed here. I get my sheets at a linen outlet store. Plain white, white-on-white stripes, dots, whatever - they all go together as long as they’re white, but they have to be all cotton and the highest thread count I can find. That cool, crisp finish on a good cotton sheet is just a heavenly comfort to me.
I sleep in a double bed but I only use up 1/4 of the room. I hate sleeping alone on that damn thing so I usually get my sister to come over and we talk until we fall asleep.
It’s a double bed (which is big when you’re in high school), with a pillow-top matress. Add flannel sheets (cotton jersey in the summer of course), a silky down comforter, four big fluffy pillows… (and Shimmery, who fits so perfectly inside your arm)
Mmmmmm…
p.s. That’s the original Shimmery, my teddy bear.
alice’s king-sized bed is the size of my old dorm room. No shiznit. I’m sleeping in one of those twin-extra-long things. At least I have plenty of bedding.
This is the first year in my life that I sleep in something other than a twin. When I moved in with my SO, all we had was my twin, since we’d already been away from home for school for a year, me off-campus,a nd him in res. When his dad came to help move us in together, he saw the tiny matress, said, eddentially, “WTF? The TWO of you sleep on that?!?!” and then proceeded to write a cheque to my SO for more than enough money to get a new bed. We tried to tell him it wasn’t necessaey, but we weren’t all that forceful, since the twi SUCKED! Besides, we counted it as our birthday gifts (both within a week of moving).
So we went to the store and actually could have afforded a King, but concluded that a Queen was more than big enough for the two of us. Much to my SO’s chagrin, I like to sleep cuddled up anyways. We didn’t even get the more expensive Queen either, because it was way too soft. The middle-range price was the best. And we had enough money left over to buy a new computer desk, too.
As for sheets, we use what came in a “bed in a bag” set for 98$ at Zeller’s. They’re actually quite nice - I love the colour and pattern. For those of you who saw a past thread of mine about a painting I was looking for, our bedset looks a lot like the “rose garden” painting by Paul Klees. We have one big long pillow (I guess it’s a body pillow?) stretching across the top of the bed, the only one without pillowcases from the besdet. Instead it’s Winnie-the-Pooh. We each have a regualr small pillow as well. The “decorative” pillows are actually on the bench that we have in the room - neither one of us need more than what we have. My SO also has a HUGE feather pillow with McDonald’s pillow case that his mother gave him when he was a kid - he uses that under his legs to help support his back.
We have no pets (can’t afford any at the moment even if we could have any in this house) but we do have a nice collection of teddy bears and other stuffed animals that sleep in the top corner of my side of the bed.
This bed is wonderful. After the month of sleeping in the twin until we got this one deleivered, it was heaven! It’s the comfiest bed in the world, and I avoid laying down on it during the day cuz I’m prone to falling asleep It definitely helped with my insomnia! We have the twin in the other room as a guest bed, though usually it’s where I do my homework.
I can’t believe I just wrote such a long post about my bed…
A top of the line California King Posturpedic pillowtop.
Have I ever mentioned that my beloved works for Sealy Mattress?
I sleep in a twin bed. The top bunk of a bunk bed.
Two twin beds pushed together. We call them the Lucy and Ricky Special.
In this bed sleep, Mr. Ujest weighing in at 250 lbs. Me, at a hundred less. Our son, at a hundred a five pounds less than me and our dog, at 120.
Everyone snores, but me.
JustPlainBryan and I share a double bed. It’s just right for the both of us, and we do like the closeness it provides. We’ve got a feather mattress, which makes it seem like we’re sleeping on a cloud, and I have some really lovely high-count 100% cotton sheets that are just heavenly. I really do love my bed.
queen sized bed, firm, , five pillows and i need another comforter, it is so cold in my room.