TICTH myself, for wasting money on a totally useless (for me) purchase on eBay.
Having seen an ad on YouTube for mattress toppers, intended to improve one's *sleeping experience* (ha!), I looked on eBay, and ordered one. The brain cell controlling my Spatial Awareness wossname was on strike, and I failed to appreciate the fact that something intended to fit on a double bed was going to come in a Very Large Box, even if folded up.
I also failed to read the destructions until after I'd ordered the thing, at which point I realised that there is simply not enough room in the Ark to lay the topper out flat - it's made of memory foam which needs time to expand, so unpacking it would be like opening Pandora's Box.
Result - delivery this morning to the Arkland Office of a simply huge box, far too big to even put in the back of the car, albeit not heavy...
The Staff were amused, but sympathetic, and the Owner has kindly offered to keep the box in the Office whilst they ask other Arklanders if anyone wants to buy a brand-new standard double mattress topper. O no (sez I) let it be given away, free, gratis, and for nothing, and, if there are no takers, let it be put in the skip. Wasteful, I know, but hopefully, it will go to a good home.
I could have sent my £38 on something useful - like a good single malt WHISKY - but let this be a lesson to me to be more careful in future.
Possibly, if the seller agreed to accept a return, but it would involve me in a good deal of effort in just taking it to the Po Stoffis - the box is far too big to go into the car - and I would need the assistance of at least two other people.
On the whole, the Owner's offer of keeping it in the Office, and getting his Yard Manager to ask around, is a better deal, despite the £38. Dagon alone knows how much the return postage would be...
Hey ho. Live and learn - I think I'll stick to buying small items (like model railway locomotives ) that I can actually carry.
I'm sorry you're not able to use the mattress topper - I wouldn't be without mine. I don't remember it billowing out like demented ectoplasm. If you actually have a double bed, it's not going to be any larger surely?
I'm sorry you're not able to use the mattress topper - I wouldn't be without mine. I don't remember it billowing out like demented ectoplasm. If you actually have a double bed, it's not going to be any larger surely?
No, it'll be the same size, but apparently it has to expand upwards, as it were.
My berth is a sort of Dutch-style box bed, so just manoeuvring the topper into position would be difficult. Quite why I didn't think of all this before ordering it is a mystery known only to the gods (if gods there be).
Mine only expanded - if expand it did - to its current depth of a couple of inches. The remarkable thing about memory foam is how much difference a quite thin layer makes.
I think you may be mistakenly denying yourself a treat.
As regards the mattress topper, I'm sure @Firenze is right, and that it would be a boon and a blessing. Alas! the logistical problems, together with my general feak and weeble fizzical state, mean that it's probably best to give it a miss.
It is the case that you have to secure it at each corner with a strap that goes under the mattress. I have A Chap who comes to clean and do stuff, and he does the mattress hoicking and bed changing.
We also have memory foam pillows.
Come to that, I have memory foam trainers. You could sell me anything with it in.
Yes, it's the corners and the straps that would present problems - it's hard enough for me to wangle an ordinary fitted sheet onto the mattress.
Had I thought about the affair properly beforehand, I might have been able to arrange/bribe/cajole a Friend into helping, but no...I admit to being a Cowardy-Custard, taking the easy way out, and letting the Arkland Office get rid of the thing for me.
I have an Under-Blanket thingy (it's made of what they call teddy-fleece and goes between the mattress and the under-sheet) which has the corner strap things, and allegedly keeps you warm in winter and cool in summer. (and actually does - although maybe not when the minimum temperature is 15°) It was bought for my old bed (a conventional British double), but it actually fits on the smaller mattress of the new one quite perfectly.
Today I condemn to the nether regions differing clothing sizes. I ordered a couple of shirts which were advertised as "oversized", thinking that an "oversized" 2XL (allegedly 20-22 US, which is usually reckoned to be 22-24 UK) would be ample. Reader, it was not - it barely buttoned, and having waited several weeks for them, I am a v. pissed-off piglet. I shall now have to go through the faff of returning them (between them they cost over £70, and I'm not prepared to give that much to the local charity shop).
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Having seen an ad on YouTube for mattress toppers, intended to improve one's *sleeping experience* (ha!), I looked on eBay, and ordered one. The brain cell controlling my Spatial Awareness wossname was on strike, and I failed to appreciate the fact that something intended to fit on a double bed was going to come in a Very Large Box, even if folded up.
I also failed to read the destructions until after I'd ordered the thing, at which point I realised that there is simply not enough room in the Ark to lay the topper out flat - it's made of memory foam which needs time to expand, so unpacking it would be like opening Pandora's Box.
Result - delivery this morning to the Arkland Office of a simply huge box, far too big to even put in the back of the car, albeit not heavy...
The Staff were amused, but sympathetic, and the Owner has kindly offered to keep the box in the Office whilst they ask other Arklanders if anyone wants to buy a brand-new standard double mattress topper. O no (sez I) let it be given away, free, gratis, and for nothing, and, if there are no takers, let it be put in the skip. Wasteful, I know, but hopefully, it will go to a good home.
I could have sent my £38 on something useful - like a good single malt WHISKY - but let this be a lesson to me to be more careful in future.
Possibly, if the seller agreed to accept a return, but it would involve me in a good deal of effort in just taking it to the Po Stoffis - the box is far too big to go into the car - and I would need the assistance of at least two other people.
On the whole, the Owner's offer of keeping it in the Office, and getting his Yard Manager to ask around, is a better deal, despite the £38. Dagon alone knows how much the return postage would be...
Hey ho. Live and learn - I think I'll stick to buying small items (like model railway locomotives
No, it'll be the same size, but apparently it has to expand upwards, as it were.
My berth is a sort of Dutch-style box bed, so just manoeuvring the topper into position would be difficult. Quite why I didn't think of all this before ordering it is a mystery known only to the gods (if gods there be).
I think you may be mistakenly denying yourself a treat.
I repeat, my foam topper is bed sized (king in this case) and 2 inches thick.
Yes, I got it, too!
*And now, here's your Quiz Inquisitor....*
As regards the mattress topper, I'm sure @Firenze is right, and that it would be a boon and a blessing. Alas! the logistical problems, together with my general feak and weeble fizzical state, mean that it's probably best to give it a miss.
We also have memory foam pillows.
Come to that, I have memory foam trainers. You could sell me anything with it in.
Had I thought about the affair properly beforehand, I might have been able to arrange/bribe/cajole a Friend into helping, but no...I admit to being a Cowardy-Custard, taking the easy way out, and letting the Arkland Office get rid of the thing for me.
Today I condemn to the nether regions differing clothing sizes. I ordered a couple of shirts which were advertised as "oversized", thinking that an "oversized" 2XL (allegedly 20-22 US, which is usually reckoned to be 22-24 UK) would be ample. Reader, it was not - it barely buttoned, and having waited several weeks for them, I am a v. pissed-off piglet. I shall now have to go through the faff of returning them (between them they cost over £70, and I'm not prepared to give that much to the local charity shop).