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This is why water beds are amazing
Winter you put memory foam to keep you from the cold water, in summer you sleep on the cold water.
Only downsides to a water bed are: 1. Heavy 2. You have to add chemicals to your mattress as regular maintenance 3. It can't really be extra firm (but a lot more firm than people think)
The water will steal every bit of heat from your body, but you'll stay warm with a blanket
Sometimes I can’t take a bath cause the moving water makes my head spinny. I can’t imagine how bad the water bed would feel lol. I’d probably have mid night breaks for puking.
That's a misconception for water beds.
High-quality water beds have stabilizer pads in the mattress
The idea of the old crappy 70's water bed where they slosh around is a poor idea.
You aren't laying on a ziploc bag barely filled with any water.
It's more like a ziploc bag filled with molasses. If I pushed a corner down it would slowly bring up everywhere else. If I stopped pushing a corner it everything would slowly go back down.
Say I have a massive gut and sleeping on my right side. I'm displacing X amount of water. If I was to turn to my left side I am still displacing the same amount of water. Just the empty space that use to hold my gut would be filled with the water from the other side where my gut is now. Someone on other side of bed wouldn't even feel it because the water underneath them doesn't change.
Thing must weigh like a ton and that without the gut. How do they even assemble this stuff? And whole thing sounds like an accident waiting to happen
Yeah, they can weigh up to 2000lbs with a king-size bed. A king-size bed is 6,080 sq in.
A fridge can weigh 300lb being 36"×30". 1,152 sq in.
Fridge is .26 pounds per sq inch. A water bed is .33 pounds per sq inch.
So while heavy the weight is distributed basically like a fridge. This is assuming an empty fridge.
As for durability, a quality waterbed mattress is thick. You aren't going to pop it or cut it without deliberately trying to.
Even if you took a knife and stabbed it from the top, it's not going to leak until you put weight on it.
It really depends on where you are. There are places where summer is the same temperature as some other place's winter.
Also, I hate the fact that in winter you have to stay inside all the time, there's no sun and everything is cold and sad. Spring and Summer are the times of the year when you travel, go out, enjoy nature and make memories.
And if you have a decently insulated home or AC, you can sleep great.
I make memories in winter too though. Nothing better than playing in the snow with your little daughter. Or ice-skating.
Also, pubs are fucking great in the winter.
That said, I do prefer the summers we have here. The temperature is always around 23-27 °C here, which is great. Also very little humidity.
come to sweden, where the winters make people kill themselves and the summers are actually a fairytale wonderland.
I am happy sitting alone on my computer. Sweden sounds amazing.
Love fairytales, will visit Sweden now
*Cries in tropical weather*
Even when it rains, it can still be over 30 degrees. Life is pain.
Winter is about to arrive down here. It's dry season, with "cold" (18-22º C) nights and scorching hot (29º+) days. Oh, and there's a fuckton of heatwaves that might come around, which are totally not caused by excessive pollution and CO2 emission!
I feel you, man. I live by the coast. I'll be lucky if my neighborhood doesn't join Atlantis in the next decade.
It was a beautiful 3 chilly days over here, now we went back to our regular daily hell 🫠🫠🫠
learn to open your doors and windows in the nighttime (with bug nets obviously) and keep them closed during the day, nature's AC.
That works now, but from June to August the nights aren't all that much cooler and there is rarely any wind either. Still makes sense, but it feels so futile. I am Sisyphus.
I still like to, if I can, because I don't want old-breath hotboxing CO^2 brain damage. My mom calls this fresh air.
The nights aren't very cool in some parts of the world.
I wish bug nets for windows (or at all) were standard in Sweden. In some places in the country you will be bitten by 10 thousand mosquitoes just because you dared to open the window for a minute.
I keep my PC in my bedroom so it's hard in general to keep the room comfortable but in the winter you can at least open the windows for a few seconds and nearly instantly make the room comfortable (and without insects). In the summer it's fucking impossible to keep the room cool no matter what you do. At least the PC has good cooling so it survives; I just wish I would.
You can install bug nets yourself easily. There are some from tesa, its the net and a roll of velcro-like tape. I love them.