Sleeping On It
January 25th, 2008 @ 2:00 pm by Mrs. Kiwi
Mr. Kiwi and I have needed a new mattress for years. Unfortunately, we’d also been saving for a wedding for years. In the months leading up to the wedding, our night’s sleep would get poorer and poorer, and we’d wake up so sore. Despite that, we figured that we’d rather have a crappy night of sleep than have a few loved ones not included in our wedding day.
It wasn’t until the honeymoon when we realized how important a good bed really is. After a few different hotel rooms with nice king sized beds, we just hated to come home to our crappy queen sized mattress. When all the wedding ruckus had died down, we realized we were broke, since just after all the money was spent for the wedding, we also had Christmas gifts to buy! DANG! We knew we couldn’t put ourselves before all the Christmas presents for family, and we decided to wait until after New Year’s Eve, when I’d get my “almost enough to cover the cost of a mattress” holiday bonus and scrape together some money from our paychecks to pay for a new bed- start the new life and year off right!
Luckily, we were given two Christmas gifts that were also wedding gifts- and it was enough to cover the cost of a new mattress. Mr. Kiwi and I were elated, since we were so proud of ourselves for coming up with a plan to not have to be the newlywed Scrooges for Christmas, and yet luck had been on our side- and we could afford that mattress we so badly needed. Mr. Kiwi is not a small man, and a queen bed does not make such a comfortable spot for a 330 pound man (especially when the coils are literally poking through to Mr. Kiwi’s back!)
Anyway, the day after Christmas the checks are deposited, and we head over to Sit and Sleep to choose a new mattress- Mr. Kiwi sized! Of course, even though we now have this huge CA king bed, I kind of miss the way we fit in our queen sized mattress- I always knew just where he was. Now I wake up and reach for him, and I can’t find him right away, it’s odd. I never really thought I’d miss him when we’re in the same bed!
It all worked out okay, scrimping and saving for the wedding, and then scrimping and saving for the Christmas gifts, and working out a plan to scrimp and save and buy ourselves our very first mattress together. Somehow, even though we were going to be sensible about the mattress, and not buy until we had every penny saved for it- the mattress gods decided we had worked hard enough, and gave us the bed.
Is there anything you’re waiting to buy or do until after the wedding? I really am glad we waited until after to buy this bed, since we already lived together before, we needed something fresh and new to come home to!
How do you guys sleep? Is it a fight of the mattress, like it is in our house?
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8 Responses to “Sleeping On It”
We got a post-wedding mattress too! Took us almost 6 months, even though it was theoretically my “wedding present” to Mr. Bluebell. Hehe whoops. 
Our first post wedding purchase: We just picked up my husbands brand new truck on Wednesday, He is sooooooo excited.
Poor guy has been driving the same jalopy for the past 12 years. I’m sure it was considered hot right out of high school, but… I’ve had two new cars while we’ve been dating, so it is definitely his turn
I can’t wait to buy a new mattress. Right now we have a double size mattress 
I wiggle a lot when I sleep and my FI is a light sleeper and the two just don’t mix that well. But like your situation, we’ve been saving for a wedding and house so the mattress is just not high up there on the budget priorities. I’m hoping that we receive some cash gifts from the wedding and we can go out and buy a bigger mattress. King Size would be sooo nice… I’m jealous 
We bought a new mattress when we moved, but just a queen size. We had been to hotels with a King size bed and likewise didn’t like waking up in the middle of the night trying to find each other!
We are going to get a new kitchen set with the money we get from the wedding. We are currently using a 5 year old Ikea set that has seen better days. It will be nice to sit down to dinner on a chair that does wobble like it’s going to break.
We’re currently house hunting and one of the criteria - deal or no deal - is that the master is large enough to comfortably fit a king bed. No exceptions. We’re in a queen now . . . and one of the reasons I LOVE vacations is the king bed at hotels. FI feels the same.
Congrats on your new purchase!
We splurged on a king size mattress when we moved in together. It was worth every penny!
Mrs. Kiwi, Los Angeles
Age and Occupation in 06: 27, Bookkeeper
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, P.E. Teach/Coach @ private schools in LA
Engagement Date: March 31, 2006
Wedding Date: November 3, 2007
Venue: Radisson Hotel
About Me: I'm a bookkeeper who failed high school algebra. I'm currently living in Los Angeles, literally a street over from where I grew up with Mr. Kiwi, my honey of three years. We have a jumbo mini-dachshund (seriously, he's huuuuge), and we're planning an autumn themed wedding on a shoestring, paid for by ourselves. The wedding date is my late grandma's birthday, I needed her there somehow, and that seemed like the best way for us. I can't believe I'm a Bee! I couldn't be more proud!
Ugh. I would looove a new mattress. You’re so awesome for saving for it! I’ve tried before, but have let other things take the money. It’s so important, and soooo expensive. I’ve yet to figure out WHY it’s so expensive??? I even thought about putting one on our registry… maybe a group of people would get together to get it? I think we would stick with a queen though, for the same reason you said, we like being close together on the bed
(*cheese*)