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How well do you care for your own bed? Do you jump onto it? Do you rotate it regularly? How old is it? How much did you spend on it? How elaborate is your beddings and linens? Feel free to answer the other questions, but the real question in mind is DO YOU JUMP ON YOUR BED???

I was posting in the other bed thread and was reminded of bedjump.com

some good ones...




I don't jump on my bed, there's a ceiling fan too so low head room! I don't put my shoes on the bed. No outside clothes on the bed either.

At one time I walked into a linen store saw the display and said, "I'll take the whole thing from pillows to duvet cover." It set me back about $800 but it was an awesome bed set with about 8 pillows, some foam, some down, some mixed.

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Gatorade Frost

I'm pretty confident that if I jumped on my bed, my head would go through the ceiling.

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feelgood

No, my moronic brother broke it when he jumped on it. So I put a hole in his door

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splck

My head almost touches the ceiling when I stand on my bed, so no I don't jump on it. My kids on the other hand love bouncing on it.

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Charlatan

My daughter loves to bounce on our bed...

My wife and I love to bounce on our bed... but that is an entirely different thing.

As for bed linens... my wife is obsessed with them. We have many sets. When I bought our bed I actually spent a lot of money, around $1,0000, on new high thread count sheets, a new duvet, skirt, duvet cover and pillows. It looks awesome.

I am most certain that my wife cannot wait to come to Singapore so she can buy new linens for a new bed.

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Lady Sage

Very well, on occasion, not as often as I should, going on 5 years old, 1000 with wrought iron head and foot boards and frame, cotton jersey t-shirt sheets in summer/flannel in winter and the real question.... only if it counts while bouncing having sex.

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Elphaba

My granddaughter has become a jumper of beds since she was introduced to a trampoline a few months ago. My sisters and I did the same at an early age, without the need of a trampoline experience. I no longer jump beds, but I will jump my husband when the mood strikes.

CSflim

I sometimes walk across by bed (without shoes) to get to the window on the far side so I can open or close it. That's about it.


fair's fair!

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Grasshopper Green

My son jumps on our bed. Our bed sucks, so I'm not too worried about it. A new mattress set will be our next large purchase, and then my son's bed jumping activities will have to kept in his own room.

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*Nikki*

We have very high ceilings in the bedroom, however we have a shitty bed frame and I am sure were I to jump on it I would break it and we would be sleeping on the floor.

snowy

Only on hotel beds...futons aren't really good for jumping.

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little_tippler

My mattress is good quality but my bedframe is from IKEA so you can imagine that means no jumping or I'll have a broken bed pretty fast! I would jump on it if it were better. I have enough head room for that.

My bed linen is pretty simple really, in summer I use a thin sheet with an undersheet and maybe a light cover, and in winter the duvet comes out to join the rest. I have some nice pillows and a throw that I bought in different places but that coordinate with the rest of the room's colours.

My bed and mattress are only 6 months old and I'm not sure what you mean by rotate it? What, the mattress? If that's it, then no. Should I?

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maleficent

to preserve the life of the mattress.. you should rotate it (flip it end to end - then flip it over and do the same thing (if it'snot a pillow top)

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amonkie

Trade hotel beds for tec's bed ... just did it last night and slipped on the sheet

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ShaniFaye

I havent jumped on a bed since I was a teenager

I rotate/flip my mattress every 3 months

To be honest up until right before mine and Dave's wedding I didnt know that high thread count made such a difference lol I just bought the cheap 180 counts at target. OMG we got a 400 count set as a wedding present....I will NEVER again buy the 180's anymore!!!!

I have a collection of quilts from my grandmother, so those are usually whats on my bed....I dont have a preference for the "look" of my bed....nobody really sees it but us lol

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settie

I HATE my bed, the mattress I mean. It and the boxspring are around 21 years old...a hand me down. >.< I was supposed to get a new mattress this summer, but, alas, life got in the way. So I sleep on the lumpiest bed you'll ever sleep on. I miss my old bed, my brother got that mattress, it was so perfect. *pouts*
My bedsheets are pretty new, about a year old or so. Maybe less... around $500 i think, maybe $600. I even had custom curtains and drapes made out of an extra bedsheet I bought. ^_^ I try to flip my mattress every 6 months, or basically, when I remember to. Haha. But it doesn't really matter anymore, its an ancient mattress, one side is way more lumpy than the other, so I don't like to flip it and sleep on the lumpy side. And as for the REAL question: YES! When the time calls for it, I'll jump on my bed. ^_^ Who cares at this point? The thing is so old, if it breaks, all the better! But it hasn't broken yet!

healer

I haven't jumped on a bed in years. It used to be one of my favourite pastimes as a kid. Nowadays, however, I tend to jump onto the bed more often i.e. come home from work, drop bag and keys, walk up to the bed and jump onto it landing whole-body at once. After my body stops moving I start contemplating whether I should take my clothes off before I fall asleep.

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Bill O'Rights

Annnnnd...you guys are how old again?

To answer the question...no...I do not jump on my bed.
I have fallen into it, over it, and crawled under it. I have stubbed my toe on it, swore at it, and I have jumped Mrs O'Rights in it. But, I have never jumped on it.

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We have a platform bed. Sometimes I'm afraid the sex we have on it is too much for it. Jumping is right out.

We turn the mattress whever we think of it, which is more rarely than recommended.

blahblah454

I don't jump on the bed at all, but my girlfriends kid jumps on the bed all the time. We don't mind as long as long as he doesnt go crazy with it. He also loves it when we throw him on the bed, make him do flips, stuff like that. Oh yea, he is turning 5 this Sunday.

newtx

Confucious say antique bed not good for jumping.

Gilda

It's where I spend a fourth of my life, so I take very good care of it.

Do you jump onto it?

Never.

Do you rotate it regularly?

Yes. It's a single sided mattress, so we never flip it, but we do rotate it end to end once every month currently. We did it once a week for the first three months. And by we, I mean Grace.

How old is it?

Ten months.

How much did you spend on it?

About $2500 for the mattress set.

How elaborate is your beddings and linens?

2 matched bedsets for spring/summer and fall/winter with two sets of sheets for each duvet. Sheets are changed once a week at a minimum.

Gilda

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stevie667

I can't stand up on my bed without investigating what i put in the loft recently, so no jumping.

Bouncing around when i have to get up early in a temper fit, all the time.

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SaltPork

I haven't jumped on a bed since I was 3. I fell off and broke my ankle on one of those gigantic steel Tonka toy trucks, which I proudly still have, and have refrained from jumping on beds since then.

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Ch'i

Do I jump on my bed? As much as humanly possible.


On a lighter note; no, I don't jump on my bed. Not since I landed on my head and couldn't lift it up for three hours.

shesus

I have jumped on our bed. It's fun, but I don't do it much. I prefer bouncing on it.

Anyway, yesterday I jumped on it to get to the phone. I was like a ninja ...run..jump..land...bounce...slide. And I missed the call, but it was fun.

As for rotating and flipping the mattress. I try to keep up on that, but it's a pain. The only time I'm in bed is when we're going to bed at night. Sometimes in the middle of the day, but no sleeping happens then.

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Tamerlain

I bounce on my bed at home all the time. Mostly I bounce off it onto the floor. I don't jump up and down though... I'm too tall for that now, unfortunately.

I can't really bounce on my bed here when I'm at school, since I sleep on an air mattress.

Aside: Yes, an air mattress. Highly portable for one such as myself who has to drive across the country twice a year.

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Mrs Master

Im going to sound like a party pooper here but No Bloody Way!!, and if my children did they wouldn't appreciate the consequences. My oldest son did in the past without my knowledge, didnt take long for many of the springs to break, Ive got better things to spend my money on. I might as well go jump on the bonet of my car.

Buy a trampoline guys, we've got a Hercules and anyone under 180kg can jump on that and the bounce you get would be much higher than a bed.


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MageB420666

I still jump and bounce on my bed on occasion. The mattress is about 5 or so years old. I've never intentionally flipped or rotated it, although it probably happened when I moved into my apartment about 2 months ago. My bed linens consist of one cheap ass fitted sheet, and my favorite comforter thats so old its splitting at the seams in some places.

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raeanna74

Don't jump on it as it's fairly high and there's not much headroom if I were to stand on it.

The set we got when we first got married cost us about $450 if I remember right. We didn't much money to throw around as I was still a student and hubby was a factory laborer. We still have that boxspring and someone else gave us a better mattress to go on top so that part was free. The bedframe is wrought iron and sturdy but only cost us $25 from a rummage sale. If I had to replace it I would have to pay a whole lot more so I'm not going to chance wrecking it.

I have a several sheet sets. Some are 100% Egyptian cotton. There is nothing better than 100% cotton sheets. Forget that polyester/cotton blends - ick. The comforter and skirt we have now were on clearance so didn't cost too much but they were 50% off and I only paid about $45 I think. Good deal in my book.

I try to flip the mattress when I remember but a queen size mattress in a room without much clearance between the bed and the ceiling fan makes it a bit difficult if I can't recruit hubby to help me. I have to catch him when he's IN the bedroom and not laying down or sleeping if I hope to accomplish that.

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analog

I like having my mattress on the boxspring, and the whole thing right on the floor, no frame holding them up. I don't know why, but for some reason it actually seems like LESS of a good idea and seems to make odd noises when I try to jump on it. lol

Not only is it low to the ground, so it improves look of the open space of the room, but it also allows one to just lie down into it... no climbing up or scooting onto it, I just lie down onto it. And no, I don't like it that way because I used to fall out of bed- people always seem to ask me that.

It really came about because I once had a frame that was "ok", but not "great", and sex with the new girlfriend was not "just good" or even "great", but "insanely great", and we broke the fucking frame IN HALF. The motion snapped off a half-dozen metal rivets that held the metal frame pieces together... and that was after only a few days of sex.

When we were done laughing at having BROKEN the bed, I removed the frame and put the boxpsrings and mattress directly on the floor, with the intention of getting a new frame soon... but... suddenly the bed didn't give... and it made no noise... and it didn't bang against the wall...

And we said "wow".

And my mattress has stayed on the floor since then.

basmoq

I have a Tempur Pedic so, for starters, it isn't bouncy. For seconds, we spent too much on the bed and pillows ($2200) to afford a frame, so it's on a cheep metal frame that holds it off the ground. Our sheet sets were all wedding presents around 200 thread count, not the best, but not horrible.

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Intense1

Can't jump on my own bed, as my room is in the attic, and I would jump only once and then have to go to the hospital. Plus call in a carpenter to fix the hole.

But, honestly (and I am 43 years old), every time I check in to a hotel room, I jump on the bed, because......well, just because! Danggit! I don't have to have a reason! I jump! Yee Haa

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Aro23

if i do i'll break it......won't be happy about it

Carno

Jumping on a bed has never been fun for me. Beds are not like trampolines, you can hardly get any air at all on a bed and you'll probably bottom out on the thing also.

I wonder why anyone would ever jump on a bed, except little kids...

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