Full. But I live alone. I know it’s also called a “double” but I can’t imagine 2 people sleeping on this thing. I vastly prefer it to a twin, but I don’t move all that much and I’m pretty small, so really it doesn’t matter.
My bed is an antique cherry four-poster, though. It’s an heirloom from my great grandmother that my parents gifted to me to clear out their basement and I love it. It’s so gorgeous. We had to get a “low” box spring for it because the frame is so tall that I’d have to get a stool to climb in. As it is, my legs can dangle off the edge without touching the floor. It’s fantastic.
Queen, but that’s not why I came here. It’s really because this thread is crying out for a Mitch Hedberg quote.
I have a king-sized bed. I don’t know any kings, but if one ever needed to sleep over, I guess he’d be comfortable. “Oh, you’re a king, you say?
Wait until you see what I have in store for you! It is to your exact specifications…I did not know you guys were all the same size. I think I can set your lady up too!”
I voted queen because that’s the bed I normally sleep on, but, the bed that is mine is a twin. But it’s not level, and is not quite long enough. I can spread diagonally on a full size or queen.
When I got married (46 1/2 years ago) my aunt gave me the advice to get a king and we did. Luxury. I have slept on a 54" bed with her and it is just not enough. The extra 6" of a queen made an enormous difference, but on the king, it is like she is in another county. And we can still get together and hug if we get the books off the bed. I imagine a Cal. queen would also be very nice.
I just moved up from a Full to a Queen on labor day. I’ve had the full bed ever since I had to give up my Queen-sized waterbed, which I slept on from age 12-18. It feels so great to have the extra space, and even though the bed frame was made in 1972 (it’s a leftover from my grandmother’s house), I got a new Bob-o-Pedic mattress for it, which is incredible.
I read a statistic somewhere that two people sleeping in a queen bed have less personal space than if they both slept in a twin, and that a king is equal to two twins. One of the few times I slept in a king was at a hotel last summer when I got together with an old ex, and we had MORE than enough space, even when we weren’t cuddling.
Holy crap! A set of 400TC sheets for that bad boy is about $2,000.00! :eek: And we’re not even talking about stuff like a comforter or dust ruffle or anything!
I Have had a king for about 30 years, but I’m sorry I just bought a new mattress. I’m finding it more and more difficult to handle the sheets and blankets. I wish I’d gone to 2 twins on a king frame. It’s hard to get old!
But the wife is having shoulder problems and uses five pillows, and we’re tending a second dog who may become a permanent fixture, so most nights I feel like a piece in a jigsaw puzzle.
Hotels don’t always have queens at least, btw. I know of three, two of which are part of the resort I work at, that have rooms with two fulls.
I just bought a full last month, after sleeping on a full-size futon (now a couch!) for a couple of years, because I have this nagging feeling that twins are kid beds. And were I to have somebody over (you never know what might happen, though it’s been a long time) I’d have enough room for two. It fits me and my cat fine, though she likes to try to take over the exact center of it.
I used to live in a small village called Ware in Hertfordshire. It’s a really tiny village but it’s famous for three things:
It’s the longest continuously occupied place in western Europe. They’ve found bones and stuff from prehistoric and then evidence of continuous occupation right up until now (mezolithic, bronze age, roman etc). Nowhere else in Europe has the same record of continuous length. Other places started earlier but were abandoned and still other places have been continuously occupied but not from so far back.
It held the record for the most pubs in one town. It’s situated just outside London and used to brew all the beer that would then get shipped into London. At one point, there were a hundred pubs in this one tiny village. Every shop on the main street was a pub.
Number 3 is where it gets relevant to this thread - the Great Bed of Ware. The Great Bed of Ware is the biggest bed ever built. No one knows why it was built but it was built nevertheless. It’s just a huge bed that can sleep fifteen people at once and it’s currently kept in the Victoria and Albert museum.
This bed is interesting because it actually gets a mention in Shakespeare. In Twelfth Night:
Anything that gets mentioned by Shakespeare is uber cool.
The Yeti demands Cal King…The Yeti sleeps and mates in the Cal King…The Yeti is pleased with his Cal King. Anything else is just a sofa or a backseat of a car.
