mattress and box springs......

ok, so this afternoon......i accepted delivery of a new mattress and box springs.....and directed the old set to be lugged down to the front room...until we can get it up to andrew's new place........and from there lug his old set to the curb up in lexington or to the goodwill........such is the trickle down of the economics of such semi-durable goods...we have been thinking about the need for new bedding for quite some time....and it wasn;t until our eldest mentioned the shabby state of his own bedding that we decided that the time was ripe for improved sleeping conditions...all around......we got out of sequence there for awhile.......when a double bed was set up in the new basement room....or maybe it was when we created the retirement suite/guestroom on the first floor...at one time the only beds in the house besides ours were twins.......the mattress set that the eldest took to his apartment was the one we rejected at some point along the line and put into deep storage in the garage attic.....and so it was partially parental guilt that led us to buy new bedding and give the best of the rest to our eldest....to be together so many years as to have so many mattresses....hard to imagine how fast and furious one accumulates such things......hopefully it will be years before we reunite with a mattress set of old in the bedroom downstairs....as long as i can manage the steps.......