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Official Holiday with Family Thred

lbE08 said:
or shove the beds together and send up some king sheets.
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honestly even a new twin mattress would be better than what I've got up there. mushing together two 30-year-old twin beds wouldn't be terribly comfortable either, just more surface area for springs to jab you.
 
RollTheQuad06 said:
I had a nice few days with my parents. My sister, her hubs and their toddler are with his family, so it was just my folks and me. While I love my nephew and it would have been fun to see him at Christmas, it was nice to have adult conversation and just relaxing hang-out time with my folks. At Thanksgiving it was like constant toddler time and I barely feel like I got to chat with the grown-ups.

Unfortunately, my parents still don't believe me that the 30-year-old twin mattress in my childhood bedroom should probably be replaced. I think parents with adult children should have at least a double bed in a guest room (my folks have a double so they think a queen is unnecessary). My sister and my old bedrooms still have our old twin beds in them, and there's a sofabed downstairs in the living room that is a double or queen. I need to someday just buy a larger bed to send there.
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How many nights a year do you sleep there?

I probably wouldn't replace it either.
 
They'd probably spring for a queen when you get married.
 
BillBrasky said:
How many nights a year do you sleep there?

I probably wouldn't replace it either.
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Not many, fewer than 10 days. I'm sure it doesn't make financial sense but it's just so uncomfortable. I deal with it.

PhDeac said:
They'd probably spring for a queen when you get married.
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My sister is married with a kid, and they just have to sleep on the sofa bed. Sister and I will probably just buy them a guest bed someday.
 
RTQ, just refuse to come home for the next big holiday because of the bed. You gotta play hardball.
 
lbE08 said:
or shove the beds together and send up some king sheets.
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my childhood room has twins and finally this year my mom pushed them together and got a king memory foam topper and sheets to make it a big bed. wife and I had been sleeping in my sister's room while she slept on a sleeper sofa in the basement.
 
Twin beds are fine for someone to sleep on solo, unless its as you say really uncomfortable cause of the springs.
 
ImTheCaptain said:
hotels exist where parents live, right?
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i cannot imagine any circumstances under which i would pay hundreds of dollars to stay at a hotel rather than sucking up whatever circumstances i needed to for a free place to stay with the people i'm visiting anyway.
 
It would be about the same cost for a couple nights in a hotel, or buying a bed and mattress that would last a decade or more.
 
lbE08 said:
i cannot imagine any circumstances under which i would pay hundreds of dollars to stay at a hotel rather than sucking up whatever circumstances i needed to for a free place to stay with the people i'm visiting anyway.
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really? that seems like a ridiculous position to take given the variety of possible situations.

for me, part of being a grownup is enjoying the visit, not just doing the visit. Sometimes there are situations where I'd rather pay a few bucks and sleep comfortably and have my own bathroom. Especially for visiting in-laws or certain family members, if they have kids or when my kid is born.
 
lbE08 said:
i cannot imagine any circumstances under which i would pay hundreds of dollars to stay at a hotel rather than sucking up whatever circumstances i needed to for a free place to stay with the people i'm visiting anyway.
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Because hotel sex is great.
 
ImTheCaptain said:
really? that seems like a ridiculous position to take given the variety of possible situations.

for me, part of being a grownup is enjoying the visit, not just doing the visit. Sometimes there are situations where I'd rather pay a few bucks and sleep comfortably and have my own bathroom. Especially for visiting in-laws or certain family members, if they have kids or when my kid is born.
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yeah, i suppose my comment stems from the fact i have no issues with any of my family. :noidea:

to each their own, but personally i can't imagine staying in a hotel to visit family.
 
Would totes prefer a hotel when visiting in laws , happy to stay w my family. I like my space some privacy I'm not real extrovert fella usualluy
 
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