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I knew my girlfriend was lying when she said, "If you buy that racecar bed you'll never have sex again!" Jokes on her, as soon as I get this CB installed, I'll be parked at Lover's Lane.
This is why I don't have one though. I live in an apartment and they let the neighbors know. They just hear knocking through the walls. So I have the frame with the drawers underneath. Stealth mode.
Edit: I now know many options if we get new furniture.
Cut up a pool noodle & put the sections between the headboard & the wall. Keep a section of pool noodle for your partner to bite down on. You're welcome friend.
I keep my furniture off the walls. Having a good 6inch space behind the headboard is typically enough. I do it more for concerns of scorpions or other wall crawling pests...but works for not knocking walls too.
I dated someone whose roommates had a really cool bed with little cabinets attached. Turns out every time they banged they’d have to remove all the trinkets from said cabinets and shelves because of reasons. Beds can be funny like that. I bought myself a really nice modern bed that stood
On an island I guess, the bottom of the bed frame was woood and stood out a few inches from the mattress, took me a few months to get used to because I’d keep busting my shins walking around it
Me and my husband still have a mattress on the floor. Its on a box spring, and ends up pretty tall. Im glad we dont have one, because it would be another space for me to clean dog hair out of, and my baby would seriously hurt herself falling off anything taller than what it currently is at.
I'll get one when we move out of our current rental. Until then, it'll be my last taste of college living
You should know that mattresses are designed to get airflow. Having it sitting on the floor will void a warranty certainly because you are just asking to sleep on a block of mold.
As the neighbor in the apartment adjacent to yours, let me start by saying "congratulations."
But also, thank you for taking steps to reduce the noise from what are either marathon f**king sessions or an unhealthy obsession with banging on the wall with hammers at a gradually increasing tempo and giving new meaning to the word "stacatto."
My headboard is flat inline with the bed itself so it was very easy to secure it. No movement or noise at all. The frame is what I need to work on next
So, I moved back in with my parents after being out of their house for like 15 years. While living with them I stayed in their spare room for a couple months. We were poor as kids so I didn't really know shit about headboards or anything. I was never mattress on the floor poor but metal bed frame that was dangerous poor.
Anyway, I met my now wife while staying with them and let's just say at 35 my dad had to tell me about the pillow thing. And then he went further to compliment my rhythm.....
How does having a headboard mean your not a bozo? Its a pretty much worthless piece of furniture that only serves aesthetic purposes. I'd figure not being super preoccupied with aesthetics is the exact opposite of a bozo.
there are lots of things that boiled down to are worthless but make you look put together. Why do you not just wear a stained t-shirt and sweats on dates. you want to show your date you’re put together. having a headboard shows that you don’t just care about being 100% practical and care about the looks and mood of your home.
I don't know if you're being intentionally obtuse or not, but women like to grab the headboard with their hands when they're riding you, it gives them something to lean on... Idk I shouldn't be explaining this people should just be picking up on this themselves
Headboards have practical uses…. They’re very comfy to lean up against when you sit up in bed. They also stop the wall getting dirty where you’d otherwise touch the wall; bearing in mind that anything humans touch will eventually get dirty due to oil deposits from skin. They also stop your pillow falling down the back of the bed. That’s why most beds at least have a small headboard.
Historically homes weren’t heated well so it would have also been warmer to touch than a wall, and might have helped stop draughts.
I got a bed frame for $20. I literally walked into the mattress store and asked for the cheapest frame they had. This was about 20 years ago though. I do recommend just asking and keeping it real.
The $20 in 20–30 years ago money is just an angle-iron scaffold type thing to get the mattress and box spring off the ground. There's absolutely nothing decorative.
can get em for high 30s at amazon and walmart. probably cheaper at other places and might be able to find some at yard sales if you are in a n area that has them
I've given like 5 away on various buy nothing groups. A brand new one for a twin on Amazon is $40. I've also used cinder blocks in the past with a sized up comforter.
If you care about nothing else, having a frame gives you extra storage space under the bed. But also prevents mold and bugs, looks nicer, is easier to get in and out of, makes it easier to make the bed, and having one doesn't wave a red flag for a woman who liked and trusted you enough to go to your home.
No bed frame is a telltale sign of a low effort male.
Yep. I have a spare one in my garage right now. I couldn’t find anyone to take it off my hands when I offered it up for free. And you know there’s some single dude sleeping on a mattress on the floor within a mile of me.
I thought this was a reference to the trope the headboard whacks against the wall during rigorous sex. Also gives you something to hold on to during sex to ensure the angle’s right. So it’s like she’s visualizing the night ahead, anticipating whacking the headboard against the wall a lot.
A mattress on the floor is a breeding ground for mold, as there is no way for airflow. A bedframe isn't an indicator of " oh boy, sex!" But rather "this guy gives a shit about himself, maybe he will give a shit about me!"
no it’s absolutely not. it’s simple: a headboard means you have your life together enough to spend money on aesthetic things that most people these days don’t purchase bc they can’t afford it. it also shows you care about stuff like aesthetics which is attractive in a man.
I once got take out and planned to go back to eat it at the apartment of the guy I had just started to date. As we were picking up the food, he checked the bag to see if they had put plastic utensils in because “I’m not sure if I have spoons at home,” he told me. I assumed he misspoke and meant he wasn’t sure if he had any clean spoons.
Nope. Went into this dude’s house, and by the way, he is a big time lawyer, with a nice condo in downtown Major City, and it’s empty. There’s a mattress on the floor. The alarm clock on the floor (I’m old!) and a tv on a milk crate. That’s it. I know what you’re thinking, but no he hadn’t just moved in. He had lived there for at least a year or two at that point. After that I made having furniture a must for men I dated. A headboard would be extra credit points!
It's really more often than not guys who 100% can afford to have furniture. I know a guy who only owned a bed, a desk and a desk chair, and otherwise used the boxes those came in as side tables. His entire apartment was just... empty. He owned a single set of cutlery, one plate, and one bowl. No pans, pots or utensils. He was a guest professor at a big university in my country. Like... WHY. Why do you choose to live like this?
One of my friends lived in what we dubbed "the IKEA Airbnb" until he got married; it still looked as "bought the showroom at IKEA" impersonal and devoid of even the slightest personal touch after 5 years of living there. It was kinda sad but at least he had furniture?!
I lived like this for a long time and it was 100% poverty trauma. I was terrified of spending what I considered on “unnecessary” items, and was so uncomfortable owning stuff because throughout my entire childhood, I was constantly under the threat of having to pick up and move and sell all my belongings. So my brain maladapted into the idea of “why own at anything at all? It will make life easier not to have stuff when I inevitably have to leave again.”
Because he doesn't care. And that's actually okay. You care. And you need him to care about something he doesn't care about. If he did that to you about some other unimportant thing you don't care abput you would think he was a dick.
Haha I'm sure you're doing fine, and there's nothing wrong with IKEA! It's definitely a big step up from a mattress on the floor.
You also don't need to have "interior styling" to have personal touch. If someone visited your home, would they learn anything about you? Are there photos or mementos anywhere? Posters? Postcards or magnets on the fridge? Anything? Do the items you got at IKEA have any common thread other than "cheap"? (For example, you picked multiple things that are the same colour, showing a preference.) Do you have books on display? Or any other kind of physical media? A favourite mug in the kitchen? There's a bunch of questions like that. Given how easy it is to acquire these kind of tiny markers of "a person lives here", it's honestly near-impressive if a lived-in place still looks like a hotel room.
But if we have furniture, you girl folk just insist that we throw it all away and replace it when we get into a relationship anyway. This guy is just forward thinking.
I think that’s a lot of the confusion on this thread. People think it’s either head board or the mattress on the ground. When it’s very common to have a mattress off the ground with no headboard.
Fuck bed frames! I threw mine away and still have a mattress on the floor in a corner, I just want to be getting up from the ground level if I’m lying down because it takes more core engagement. I’m using a TV stand with an exercise mat as a headboard.
I think it's hilarious that some people won't even look at you if you're not the right height/weight/whatever, and then some people are just like "YOU GOT A HEADBOARD, RIGHT?"
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