# What size is your bed?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-size-is-your-bed/554373>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 20, 2010, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-size-is-your-bed/554373 "2010-09-20T05:31:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-size-is-your-bed/554373/81 "2010-09-23T16:08:18Z")

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I voted “Queen” after checking the linked mattress sizes, but I’m pretty sure that is normally known as a King in the UK (5 ft width). Anything bigger is, I think, a Super King. But I could be wrong.

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**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-size-is-your-bed/554373/82 "2010-09-23T18:33:11Z")

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Queen, and I will never ever \*ever \*again buy a smaller mattress–and if I ever buy a mattress with someone else for a shared bed, it will probably be a king. I shared a full with a boyfriend for several months once–_never again_.

When I’m sleeping alone, the half of the bed I’m not currently using usually gets a small stack of books. (Though that even happened when I was a kid and had a twin bed.)

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**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-size-is-your-bed/554373/83 "2010-09-23T19:44:29Z")

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> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#):
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> Queen, and I will never ever \*ever \*again buy a smaller mattress–and if I ever buy a mattress with someone else for a shared bed, it will probably be a king. I shared a full with a boyfriend for several months once–_never again_.
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> When I’m sleeping alone, the half of the bed I’m not currently using usually gets a small stack of books. (Though that even happened when I was a kid and had a twin bed.)

Heh. When hubby is traveling for work, ‘his’ half of the bed gets my book, my glasses, and maybe a bottle of Benadryl and a box of Kleenex! 😉

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