keetsa debt
like a good consumer, i was only debt-free for about 36 hours.
jay’s been complaining for months about his back hurting in the morning, presumably from our soft coil mattress, and so on saturday we went to the berkeley Keetsa mattress store to check out their environmentally-friendlier memory foam mattresses – they’re like tempur-pedic, only a bit cheaper, and the company is committed to reducing their carbon footprint and all that. it was a choice between getting another coil mattress with a foam layer on top, or going all out and getting the 100% foam mattress, which is the best. lying on the beds, it seemed obvious that the 100% foam mattress was waaaay more comfortable, didn’t transfer movement between us, and didn’t seem like it was eventually going to do the cave-in-the-middle thing that our current mattress was doing. after some debate and a lot of lying around, we decided to go for the 100% foam, and since it was embarrassingly expensive, we financed it. well, i financed it. 0%, but still – i’m back in debt.
after we had just talked about how awesome it was that my august 15th paycheck would be the first paycheck i’ve had since i was 17 that i didn’t owe anyone anything.
i made jay promise we’d pay it off before the end of the year, ASAP.
as for the mattress, 2 nights sleeping on it and i’m not in love, which sucks. i like that the foam stays warm underneath me, but without the pillow top and coils it seems really….not hard, but SOLID. it’s just weird to have NO movement. she said give it 30 days to get used to it, but if you pay more than a grand for a mattress i kinda want to love it right away. sigh.
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