This is my bedroom story:
DH begged and begged for a new mattress. I didn't see the point, our old mattress was fine to me, and I hate (hatehatehate) spending money on things we don't need (Disney trips, of course, we need). Regardless, he insisted he wasn't sleeping well. Then he brought me a mattress sale advertisement and I knew he was serious. So I said fine, we can get a new mattress. We went to the store, tried out a bunch of them, and made a decision.
DH convinced me to buy a queen sized mattress set. Convinced because I really didn't see the need to move up from our current full size and, worse, I knew it meant we would have to buy a new bed frame. "But you really liked that frame we saw at IKEA!" he insisted. Yes, I liked it, and we had decided that we couldn't buy it because it was too expensive. Well, fine, time for a trip to IKEA.
We go to IKEA and the only bed I like is the expensive one I saw before. Sighing in defeat, I take out my credit card and pay for the item. We load several large boxes into our car and drive home.
Upon getting home we realize that the only way we'd be able to put together our new bed would be by removing everything from our bedroom and building the thing inside. "Hey!" said DH, "You know, this would be a perfect time to paint the bedroom!" Sadly he is right. So, we go to Home Depot and I pick out the paint color I'd been thinking about for this part of the house. Once again, I reluctantly fork over the credit card, joking this time that this "mattress" of DH's is ending up considerably more expensive than he had originally promised.
The day the mattresses arrive we clear the room, paint the bedroom, and build the bed. Once the mattresses were in place a sad thought crossed my mind.
I have absolutely no sheets that will fit this bed.
So, out once again, this time to BB&B to buy new sheets. All in all our "on sale" mattress replacement ended up costing us a heck of a lot of money and an entire weekend worth of work. The saddest part of all of this? There's only one piece of furniture I've wanted for the longest time. We don't need it, so I have refused to buy it, and since DH isn't particularly interested he hasn't used his considerable wiles to convince me to buy it. All I've wanted for years is a new bedroom dresser to replace the old broken one we inherited from my parents. You want to know the one item of the bedroom that didn't get replaced? Yep. Still using the old dresser.
. DH is 6'2" & I'm 5'2" 
, up until then we had been sleeping on a xlong full size antique maple set for 45 years 
! We're snugglers, he does not like it when we travel and on occassion have king size beds, as he jokes he feels like 
. Like most of you, our adult kids all have kings and love them! 
