New Mattress, Night One:
Well, first let me tell you a depressing little story about my old bed (Aside from that it was sagging and stained.). Once upon a time I was depressed. And then I had two - count 'em two - bad relationships (what involved a lot more crying) while owning this bed. I fought in that bed. I agonized about the meaning of my life and contemplated dying in it. I burned approximately seven hundred sage sticks over the top of it to try to cleanse all that shitty shitty energy out. And then yesterday, two men hauled it away for me, replacing it with a brand new luxury sleeper named "Aspiration". And we had the most incredible --
NIGHTS SLEEP! HA. You think I'm going to tell you all the details about our amazing sex life? Because I just did. And that's all you're going to get.
The nights sleep was, indeed, incredible. No back pain!! No tossing and turning! No nightmares! (Unless you count dreaming about horses giving birth a nightmare, but I don't because they weren't just giving birth they were giving birth to pristine white foals. I told B this and he said I was freaking him out and left for work as fast as he could.)
There is one small problem with my amazing new mattress though, and it comes in the form of whatever chemical treatment they used to make it flame retardant, stain proof and capable of space travel. All night I drifted in and out of perfect sleep smelling my bed. And not in a good, smelling-the-febreezed-carpet kind of way. In a What the F! is that burning peanuts and mushroom scent. Some nights the smell under the covers is me, and I did make a shiitake mushroom sauce last night, but this time I could tell the scent was not coming from my body and it disturbed me.
Kids - how am I going to get this smell out? Please, someone have a miracle remedy. It's almost too weird to sleep on, and you know how I hate losing sleep.
Stay tuned for night two.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
To The Mattress!
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3 comments:
Let is air out for awhile...I have never had that but I hear the memory foam beds stink from all the chemicals and they say to let it air out for at least 24 hours.
I think it'll eventually just start to smell like you and your house. Hopefully you smell good! Sort of like a new car looses it's new car smell eventually.
looks like you got your first spam comment!
anyway, onto the mattress (i am so fucking jealous by the way)
take all your sheets off, spray it with febreeze and just let it air out for the day. you may have to do this a couple of times before the lovely smell goes away.
or you could try one of those mattress covers made to protect it from dust mites. it would probably seal out the odor.
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