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It gets pretty darn cold here in Iowa and I like to save a little on the energy by turning the thermostat down to the low 60's at night. But, when I do that, obviously, the house will get rather cold. So, in order to avoid getting cold at night (and I get cold once the temperature dips below 72 (one of the reasons I liked Vegas)) and waking up in the middle of the night shivering (and I have done that before) I use 2 or 3 blankets to keep warm. So, being from the Great White North and knowing a thing or two about the cold, Lady G suggested we buy a Duvet. A what? Living the sheltered life I have, I had never heard of a Duvet. So, she explained what that was and I said it sounded like a good idea and I was OK in trying it out. So, we bought one at Overstock.com. Let me tell you, that thing keeps me so warn that I hate to get out of bed in the morning. And, I have actually woke up in the middle of the night from being too warm even though the thermostat was set at 62. As someone who prefers warm rather than cold, I can heartily recommend you getting a Duvet if you like snuggly warm at night.

Sir_Galahad wrote:As someone who prefers warm rather than cold, I can heartily recommend you getting a Duvet if you like snuggly warm at night.

I prefer GW.

I would also recommend using a humidifier in the house. We keep the thermostats at 60 by night and when we're not in the house, and 64 during the evenings and weekends. It feels much colder when we don't have the humidifiers running or when they're out of water and we haven't realized it.

gsabc wrote:

Sir_Galahad wrote:As someone who prefers warm rather than cold, I can heartily recommend you getting a Duvet if you like snuggly warm at night.

I prefer GW.

I would also recommend using a humidifier in the house. We keep the thermostats at 60 by night and when we're not in the house, and 64 during the evenings and weekends. It feels much colder when we don't have the humidifiers running or when they're out of water and we haven't realized it.

We have two going all the time in separate rooms but I am looking into having one installed onto the furnace so the entire house gets covered.

Duvets rock. The only reason I don't have one is we keep talking about getting a king bed and never get around to doing it, and I don't want to buy a full when I'll need a king or buy a king and have it ooze over the sides of the full.

Maybe when Stephen goes off to college we'll finally settle on what we want to do. We were going to rearrange the kids until Erin came along and ended that idea. Tossing a toddler girl into a mix of teenage boys limits rooming options.

minimetoo26 wrote:Duvets rock. The only reason I don't have one is we keep talking about getting a king bed and never get around to doing it, and I don't want to buy a full when I'll need a king or buy a king and have it ooze over the sides of the full.

Maybe when Stephen goes off to college we'll finally settle on what we want to do. We were going to rearrange the kids until Erin came along and ended that idea. Tossing a toddler girl into a mix of teenage boys limits rooming options.

Why do you need to wait for Stephen to go to college before you buy a king bed? Isn't your master bedroom big enough for one?

MarleysGh0st wrote:

minimetoo26 wrote:Duvets rock. The only reason I don't have one is we keep talking about getting a king bed and never get around to doing it, and I don't want to buy a full when I'll need a king or buy a king and have it ooze over the sides of the full.

Maybe when Stephen goes off to college we'll finally settle on what we want to do. We were going to rearrange the kids until Erin came along and ended that idea. Tossing a toddler girl into a mix of teenage boys limits rooming options.

Why do you need to wait for Stephen to go to college before you buy a king bed? Isn't your master bedroom big enough for one?

It's cavernous. Which is why we're thinking king. But we could move our old bed into one of the other rooms if they weren't full of bunk beds or captain's beds. Lugging stuff into the attic is no fun. I'd rather lug up one of the smaller beds, or just give it away, but I'd probably save it for when the kids are on their own.

Maybe I'll just have the entire upstairs recarpeted, and then rethink the furniture situation when everything has been moved out, but since I didn't win the Mega Millions this week........

minimetoo26 wrote: Maybe I'll just have the entire upstairs recarpeted, and then rethink the furniture situation when everything has been moved out, but since I didn't win the Mega Millions this week........

Somehow, I don't think a new bed will break the bank for ya.

How about if I talk you into buying a new bed and you talk me into finally buying a replacement for my 24-year-old mattress?

MarleysGh0st wrote:

minimetoo26 wrote: Maybe I'll just have the entire upstairs recarpeted, and then rethink the furniture situation when everything has been moved out, but since I didn't win the Mega Millions this week........

Somehow, I don't think a new bed will break the bank for ya.

How about if I talk you into buying a new bed and you talk me into finally buying a replacement for my 24-year-old mattress?

It wouldn't so much be the new bed, but the bed, matching nightstands and dressers, bedding, mattress, carpeting for four rooms and a long hall................


I'd turn it into Extreme Makeover, Home Edition. As long as I got people trooping through my house moving stuff, I might as well do it all at once.

minimetoo26 wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:

minimetoo26 wrote: Maybe I'll just have the entire upstairs recarpeted, and then rethink the furniture situation when everything has been moved out, but since I didn't win the Mega Millions this week........

Somehow, I don't think a new bed will break the bank for ya.

How about if I talk you into buying a new bed and you talk me into finally buying a replacement for my 24-year-old mattress?

It wouldn't so much be the new bed, but the bed, matching nightstands and dressers, bedding, mattress, carpeting for four rooms and a long hall................


I'd turn it into Extreme Makeover, Home Edition. As long as I got people trooping through my house moving stuff, I might as well do it all at once.

If that's what you really want...

Although I think just getting a new bed that doesn't match everything would be easier to start with.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

minimetoo26 wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote: Somehow, I don't think a new bed will break the bank for ya.

How about if I talk you into buying a new bed and you talk me into finally buying a replacement for my 24-year-old mattress?

It wouldn't so much be the new bed, but the bed, matching nightstands and dressers, bedding, mattress, carpeting for four rooms and a long hall................


I'd turn it into Extreme Makeover, Home Edition. As long as I got people trooping through my house moving stuff, I might as well do it all at once.

If that's what you really want...

Although I think just getting a new bed that doesn't match everything would be easier to start with.

It's easy to see you've never been married.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

minimetoo26 wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote: Somehow, I don't think a new bed will break the bank for ya.

How about if I talk you into buying a new bed and you talk me into finally buying a replacement for my 24-year-old mattress?

It wouldn't so much be the new bed, but the bed, matching nightstands and dressers, bedding, mattress, carpeting for four rooms and a long hall................


I'd turn it into Extreme Makeover, Home Edition. As long as I got people trooping through my house moving stuff, I might as well do it all at once.

If that's what you really want...

Although I think just getting a new bed that doesn't match everything would be easier to start with.

Right now my room is Early Salvation Army. A bed I bought off a co-worker back in about 1986, two mismatched nightstands, my old dresser with a mirror, a tall dresser that my s-i-l had left in our attic when she moved and she hasn't reclaimed it in over a decade, so I doubt she wants it back, and mismatched bookcases overstuffed with books. If I get a nice bed, I'm splurging for the works.

After Christmas and quarterly taxes in mid-January, maybe we'll see how things stand. It may depend on if the Jets or Giants hit the Super Bowl...........

minimetoo26 wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:

minimetoo26 wrote: It wouldn't so much be the new bed, but the bed, matching nightstands and dressers, bedding, mattress, carpeting for four rooms and a long hall................


I'd turn it into Extreme Makeover, Home Edition. As long as I got people trooping through my house moving stuff, I might as well do it all at once.

If that's what you really want...

Although I think just getting a new bed that doesn't match everything would be easier to start with.

Right now my room is Early Salvation Army. A bed I bought off a co-worker back in about 1986, two mismatched nightstands, my old dresser with a mirror, a tall dresser that my s-i-l had left in our attic when she moved and she hasn't reclaimed it in over a decade, so I doubt she wants it back, and mismatched bookcases overstuffed with books. If I get a nice bed, I'm splurging for the works.

After Christmas and quarterly taxes in mid-January, maybe we'll see how things stand. It may depend on if the Jets or Giants hit the Super Bowl...........

You could keep all your mismatched old stuff and just buy the full-sized duvet.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

minimetoo26 wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote: If that's what you really want...

Although I think just getting a new bed that doesn't match everything would be easier to start with.

Right now my room is Early Salvation Army. A bed I bought off a co-worker back in about 1986, two mismatched nightstands, my old dresser with a mirror, a tall dresser that my s-i-l had left in our attic when she moved and she hasn't reclaimed it in over a decade, so I doubt she wants it back, and mismatched bookcases overstuffed with books. If I get a nice bed, I'm splurging for the works.

After Christmas and quarterly taxes in mid-January, maybe we'll see how things stand. It may depend on if the Jets or Giants hit the Super Bowl...........

You could keep all your mismatched old stuff and just buy the full-sized duvet.

I seriously lack Girl Genes. I need the Decorating Fairy to show up and do my house all nice and fabulous all at once when I'm gone sometime. Especially window treatments. You can't just go out and get curtains these days. Someone has to come measure and design and install "window treatments." I hate doing that kind of stuff. Put me in a hammock and hand me a Mai Tai and send me a bill for the frickin' window treatments, I say....

minimetoo26 wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:

minimetoo26 wrote: Right now my room is Early Salvation Army. A bed I bought off a co-worker back in about 1986, two mismatched nightstands, my old dresser with a mirror, a tall dresser that my s-i-l had left in our attic when she moved and she hasn't reclaimed it in over a decade, so I doubt she wants it back, and mismatched bookcases overstuffed with books. If I get a nice bed, I'm splurging for the works.

After Christmas and quarterly taxes in mid-January, maybe we'll see how things stand. It may depend on if the Jets or Giants hit the Super Bowl...........

You could keep all your mismatched old stuff and just buy the full-sized duvet.

I seriously lack Girl Genes. I need the Decorating Fairy to show up and do my house all nice and fabulous all at once when I'm gone sometime. Especially window treatments. You can't just go out and get curtains these days. Someone has to come measure and design and install "window treatments." I hate doing that kind of stuff. Put me in a hammock and hand me a Mai Tai and send me a bill for the frickin' window treatments, I say....

Maybe we can make this a Bored Project. I know dimmzy is a decluttering expert; does she do redecorating, too, or do we want a couple more BBs on the team?

The team can stop here on the way back and fix up my place, too.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

minimetoo26 wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote: You could keep all your mismatched old stuff and just buy the full-sized duvet.

I seriously lack Girl Genes. I need the Decorating Fairy to show up and do my house all nice and fabulous all at once when I'm gone sometime. Especially window treatments. You can't just go out and get curtains these days. Someone has to come measure and design and install "window treatments." I hate doing that kind of stuff. Put me in a hammock and hand me a Mai Tai and send me a bill for the frickin' window treatments, I say....

Maybe we can make this a Bored Project. I know dimmzy is a decluttering expert; does she do redecorating, too, or do we want a couple more BBs on the team?

The team can stop here on the way back and fix up my place, too.

So maybe Dimmzy comes and we get rid of half this stuff, then the Decorating Fairy comes and brings nice stuff, all the while I'm at WDW or someplace fun. What a way to stimulate the economy! Too bad I didn't win the Mega Millions. I could Get America Working again single-handedly....

minimetoo26 wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:

minimetoo26 wrote: It wouldn't so much be the new bed, but the bed, matching nightstands and dressers, bedding, mattress, carpeting for four rooms and a long hall................


I'd turn it into Extreme Makeover, Home Edition. As long as I got people trooping through my house moving stuff, I might as well do it all at once.

If that's what you really want...

Although I think just getting a new bed that doesn't match everything would be easier to start with.

Right now my room is Early Salvation Army. A bed I bought off a co-worker back in about 1986, two mismatched nightstands, my old dresser with a mirror, a tall dresser that my s-i-l had left in our attic when she moved and she hasn't reclaimed it in over a decade, so I doubt she wants it back, and mismatched bookcases overstuffed with books. If I get a nice bed, I'm splurging for the works.

After Christmas and quarterly taxes in mid-January, maybe we'll see how things stand. It may depend on if the Jets or Giants hit the Super Bowl...........

But you saved money by not buying the NHL tv package.

ulysses5019 wrote:

minimetoo26 wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote: If that's what you really want...

Although I think just getting a new bed that doesn't match everything would be easier to start with.

Right now my room is Early Salvation Army. A bed I bought off a co-worker back in about 1986, two mismatched nightstands, my old dresser with a mirror, a tall dresser that my s-i-l had left in our attic when she moved and she hasn't reclaimed it in over a decade, so I doubt she wants it back, and mismatched bookcases overstuffed with books. If I get a nice bed, I'm splurging for the works.

After Christmas and quarterly taxes in mid-January, maybe we'll see how things stand. It may depend on if the Jets or Giants hit the Super Bowl...........

But you saved money by not buying the NHL tv package.

Steve got Jets season tickets instead. Not even a wash. Then there's airfare and hotels and car rentals. He likes to play, don't he?

And if you knew how to quilt you could make yourself a pretty duvet cover. I will change my avatar to show you the one I made for my bed.

minimetoo26 wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:

minimetoo26 wrote: I seriously lack Girl Genes. I need the Decorating Fairy to show up and do my house all nice and fabulous all at once when I'm gone sometime. Especially window treatments. You can't just go out and get curtains these days. Someone has to come measure and design and install "window treatments." I hate doing that kind of stuff. Put me in a hammock and hand me a Mai Tai and send me a bill for the frickin' window treatments, I say....

Maybe we can make this a Bored Project. I know dimmzy is a decluttering expert; does she do redecorating, too, or do we want a couple more BBs on the team?

The team can stop here on the way back and fix up my place, too.

So maybe Dimmzy comes and we get rid of half this stuff, then the Decorating Fairy comes and brings nice stuff, all the while I'm at WDW or someplace fun. What a way to stimulate the economy! Too bad I didn't win the Mega Millions. I could Get America Working again single-handedly....

Maybe you and I could do a Trading Spaces deal!

Although Ithaca isn't quite as warm as WDW, this time of year.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

minimetoo26 wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote: Maybe we can make this a Bored Project. I know dimmzy is a decluttering expert; does she do redecorating, too, or do we want a couple more BBs on the team?

The team can stop here on the way back and fix up my place, too.

So maybe Dimmzy comes and we get rid of half this stuff, then the Decorating Fairy comes and brings nice stuff, all the while I'm at WDW or someplace fun. What a way to stimulate the economy! Too bad I didn't win the Mega Millions. I could Get America Working again single-handedly....

Maybe you and I could do a Trading Spaces deal!

Although Ithaca isn't quite as warm as WDW, this time of year.

But...but...that would still have me trying to decorate. Only you'd be the one stuck with my lame results! I wouldn't wish that on anyone.

Okay, but not on someone I actually like.....

Marley says:

How about if I talk you into buying a new bed and you talk me into finally buying a replacement for my 24-year-old mattress?

Gosh Marley we have so much in common!

In fact, mine is even older. And in serious replacement need. I went to a near futon store before the snow-storms started inching closer, & almost put my money down.

I like futons better than stuff with sticky springs in it, but it turns out the store I went to was the "organic futon" store & specializes in mattresses with wool inside the cotton, because wool is organic & foam is not. I am allergic to wool, though probably not inside a mattress, but I wouldn't want to find out I am in fact allergic to wool inside a mattress after I got it home. So non-organic foam-core it will be. They do carry them. I already have one on my couch, & am not allergic to it, if only they are still using the same kind of foam for futons 22 years later, which is probably too much to ask.

This store is just a tiny bit wacky; they have great looking futon bed frames, & I might just buy one too instead of using a former housemate's old in-two-pieces/needs-to-be-clamped-together frame. But for the other bedroom, if I wind up never getting another housemate because I've been burned so badly on it, I wanted to get a guest futon; all they have in the fold-into-chair cheaper ones are right on the ground, which is not a good idea in a drafty house. Then they tell me they discontinued a model which was just what I want because it wasn't constructed according to organic-enough specifications.

I am into things like fair trade. I would eat organic food if I could afford it. I am happy to be buying reforest-able wood instead of depleting the rain forest forever. But I do not care if all the itty bitty pieces of my futon frame are sufficiently "organic".

minimetoo26 wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:

minimetoo26 wrote: So maybe Dimmzy comes and we get rid of half this stuff, then the Decorating Fairy comes and brings nice stuff, all the while I'm at WDW or someplace fun. What a way to stimulate the economy! Too bad I didn't win the Mega Millions. I could Get America Working again single-handedly....

Maybe you and I could do a Trading Spaces deal!

Although Ithaca isn't quite as warm as WDW, this time of year.

But...but...that would still have me trying to decorate. Only you'd be the one stuck with my lame results! I wouldn't wish that on anyone.

Okay, but not on someone I actually like.....

Well, on the TV show it's really the professional staff who do most of the planning and detail work, with the two couples being unskilled labor. So we do it the same way, with two teams of highly skilled BBs doing the important stuff, while the two of us basically get out of the way to let it get done!

The heck with a wimpy little duvet! I've got a huge down-filled quilt!