marcicat | apartment life update

It makes good sense to have an air mattress instead of a traditional (read: heavy) one when you live on the second floor and don’t love carrying heavy things up and down stairs. And so part of the moving process was researching air mattresses and whether or not they can be used as one’s primary bed. (They can.)

There was a warning I saw many times when reading about air mattresses — they’re cold. Honestly, I disregarded this entirely. How cold could they be? Cover them with a mattress pad, you’re good to go.

WRONG. SO WRONG. WRONGITY WRONG WRONG WRONG.

For anyone who is too hot when they sleep, an air mattress is for you! I am not one of those people; I am a ‘pile on the blankets and still sleep in socks, long pants, and a sweatshirt even in August’ kind of sleeper.

My air mattress now has: mattress pad, wool blanket, fitted sheet, and two blankets on top of it, BEFORE you get to the sheets and blankets that go on top of me. And it’s very comfortable! Just — wow, I feel kind of bad for disbelieving those reports now.

Mirrored from The Marci Rating System.