Friday, December 4, 2009

does your husband jump on the bed?

Someone (who shall remain nameless) broke our box springs.
By jumping on our bed.

We got a new(er) one from a friend about a month ago.
But our old, squeaky, broken box springs has been sitting in our bedroom for the past month.

While I was gone last week, Kent painted our bedroom. It looks beautiful. It desperately needed the paint. (No one should ever paint one wall of their bedroom gold. Yuck.)
And because he wanted it to look good when I came home, Kent also cleared out the bedroom, hung up pictures, moved the pile of unfolded laundry, etc.

Leaving us with this:
Some people put couches on their front porch. We put box springs mattresses in our kitchen.

And now we can't figure out how to remove it from our house. It won't fit in the back of our car. It certainly won't fit in our garbage can. And I refuse to let it get shoved in our out-of-sight-out-of-mind pile in the garage. It would be there forever. Not to mention our car would no longer fit in our miniscule garage if a box springs was in the way.

So, until further notice, it is in the kitchen.
Kent suggested drawing pictures on it and propping it against the sliding doors. They are, after all, in need of curtains. It would solve both of our problems, he said.
You'd be surprised at how quickly you can get used to something like this being in your way. Just slide it across the floor when you need to access that corner of the kitchen. No big deal. I almost don't even notice it.
Almost.

7 comments:

Teresa said...

Isn't it time for one of those big garbage pick ups- the ones when everyone leaves their unwanted things at the crub...like the time I was there?
I'm loving the little bit of Christmas I see in the picture too =)

The Tibbitts said...

I love the picture of Nicholas with the stuffing--that is too cute! Good luck with the mattress. Maybe you could call someone in your ward who has a truck for help taking it to the dump.

Cindy said...

We had to cut ours up into pieces (Well Dallin did) but that was just to fit it the dumpster at our old apt. I know the big garbage pick up is coming....in February. So at least it wouldn't live in "the pile" for too long. Oh yeah then there's the car issue. Never mind...

Mrs. Lunceford said...

My son Matt did the same thing on their bed. Well, maybe not jump, but flopped on it, with the same results. Boys stay boys for a LONG time!

heidi said...

ha ha! you ALMOST don't notice it. i agree, we do quickly get use to unwanted things being in our way.

Lis said...

When we get back, if its still around ill help you get rid of it. We have a BIG truck. =) Just let me know!

Lisa Brown said...

Hasn't he heard what happened to the monkeys who jumped on the bed? At least he didn't "break his head" - he he!