You Should Probably buy a New Bed

So here I was with a real job and an apartment and absolutely no furniture or the makings of what you need to live in an empty house.  I went on a drive with one of my coworkers to go visit the historic Florida town of St. Augustine and in our conversation, she offered me the use of a futon type piece of furniture that I could use to sleep on until I had the bed situation figured out. I had to buy some pillows for it, but overall it was a great place to sleep for the first few days.

But still, I needed to get a real bed. Still being in the college living expenses state of thinking, I thought to go to Craigslist but upon mentioning this was warned of the rampant bed bug problem in Gainesville and told I should just buy a new bed.

This was another expense I wasn’t particularly expecting, and shoot, how much do brand new beds even cost?  So it was off to a bed supply store for me. I went with the first place that turned up on a Google search for “mattress store” and while the outside looked a bit dingy, inside they had a beautiful display of beds. After a brief introduction of the layout of the showroom, I went bed by bed and found those that felt the best. Going back and forth, laying on different beds, I narrowed it down to two and then started to look into the prices. They were much more than I wanted to pay, but I really needed a bed. I beckoned the salesman and told him that I wanted ‘this’ bed but that I was only looking to pay around $600 (it was priced $825).  He brought it down to $670 for me and with a look of indecision from me he took to his pricing book. He told me that the absolute lowest he could go was $620 out the door and I said “excellent”.

He let me know that the price included a frame, box spring, mattress and free delivery, so it turns out I did even better than I expected! Because they didn’t have the bed in stock it would take till Friday (this was on Sunday) for the bed to come in. I had the futon so I told him not to worry.

They delivered the bed Friday during my lunch break and had it set up in a matter of minutes.  I signed some paperwork and then ate my quick lunch on the bed, contemplating the color scheme I would soon be moving forward with as my apartment was finally starting to take shape!

And yes, the bed is wonderfully comfortable. I hadn’t had a new-new bed since I was a child so I’ve been feeling very spoiled (thank goodness for tax returns to make it possible!)