I’ve slowly been replacing the furniture from my former life with pieces mostly bought at Costco Home, including a very simple platform bed which is much easier for my now 16 year old English Setter mix to jump onto than was the much higher, oak bed frame.
Replacing the old mattress/box spring combo is Costco’s version of the Tempurpedic mattress, both because I like a bargain, and because I have an occasionally re-occuring back injury from a long ago day when I was in a which car rolled over twice in a snowy ditch but landed on all four wheels, facing the wrong direction with part of the roof caved in… but more about that another time…).
The mattress comes in a box with wheels, since according to the box, the mattress weighs a whopping 185 pounds.
A friend and I wrestled the mattress out of the box onto the platform bed frame – which had a few challenges along the way.
Once we finally got it onto the frame, I used a box cutter to very carefully cut the vacuum packed seal, at which point the mattress started to unfold… and unfold… a la an old “I Love Lucy” slapstick mode…
Eventually unfolding to look like this (and your eyes are fine, the bottom picture was taken with a cell phone camera; the top two were not):
And – about 24 hours after that – really awesome, uniform mattress finally appears…
Tags: box spring, wrong direction, i love lucy, bed mattress, cell phone camera
