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I tried to order a bag of See's Toffette's on Amazon and they were out. (Sounds of sobbing and whining).
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Oh, poor brats. Here is some WIZ-Dumb for the new year!

Get in touch with your IN-FUN-IT self.
Develop your fool potential.
Don't forget how unique and special you are. Without you, there could be no everybody.
It is bad luck to be superstitious. Thank your lucky stars you are not.
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More Wiz-Dumb....
-If you are thinking about procrastinating, put it off.
-Try that refreshing new feeling, called thinking. Introduce your mind to your mouth.
-Appreciate the unique design of the human body. It was designed so that we can
neither pat ourselves on the back, nor kick ourselves in the butt too easily.
-Remember, too much of a good thing is....................................................wonderful!
-Never use big words, when diminuitive ones work just fine.
-Frolic, but do not frog-lick. Remember to savor the frog's pholosophy of life:
Time's fun when you're havin' flies!
-Quit while you are in bed.



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My son's infinite wisdom at 6 years old;
Why is little a big word and big is a little word?
I was speechless. Ugh 🤔
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I'm not mopping tonight. I'm in my pj's looking at Law n Order.
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I decided to rotate my mattress and wash the bed pad - unfortunately I decided to do this late in the day - my bed pad is still not dry so now I'm on a half made bed without a pad that I'll have to undo and remake again tomorrow
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I was really bad this afternoon. I agreed to go to Walmart to pick up a prescription for hubby. There were no empty handicapped parking spots and I didn't dare walk through the slush so I parked in the yellow striped bit.
I made it into the store but there were no electric carts. A worker was just plugging one in so I said i would take it. "Oh no" he said some one took it and the battery is too low it will be about 20 minutes but there are some up front" It is a superstore and I can't walk that far so I asked him to fetch one for me. he said he could not do that because he was not allowed. So I asked him to find someone who was allowed to. He was gone a long time and i thought he was hiding somewhere and I prepared to hobble to the Service desk and raise hell. Just then he rounded the corner riding in a cart!!!!!!!! He got out told me it was fully charged but he was not allowed to do that. So I thanked him profusely and climbed on board and proceeded round the store. Trouble was every few minutes it would suddenly stop and refuse to go forward. it would eventually start but repeated this many times, it did not matter where I was.
I than rode the cart out to my car and left it in the parking lot. A cart collector abandoned his string of carts and took it straight back to the store. Yes I know they are for instore use only but i was feeling really bad today.
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It's OK Veronica....Don't feel bad.A big store like Walmart should help people in and out of their store. I'm just sorry that you are hurting so bad today.
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The laundry room dryer was broken, and my bedding was already washed.
After having the flu, I threw away all my pillows, bought a new mattress pad,
just because the old one did not dry.The process took all day yesterday, late into the night, a shower and wet hair.
Today, waited all day for a handyman to arrive, and I am just worn out getting well here!

Reminder to colds and flu survivor's: BUY NEW TOOTH BRUSHES!!

Veronica,
We are allowed to take the carts outside to the car.
You go girl! And feel better.
BTW,
If you say "I would like to drive this cart home!" or "I would like to steal this cart",
a very nice and solicitous clerk will escort you out and take your cart back for you.
File this for future reference under "Cart Etiquette".
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Veronica
Hope you aren't now banned from Walmart
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You shouldn't go to bed with wet hair but hope you're comfy cozy tonight

I threw away mom's pillow which went with her to the ER -

I wonder why California is being so hard hit with the flu? I read UCLA had 200 ER patients in a day - nearly all with the flu
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My New Years resolution is lights out by midnight - I don't have much resolve in keeping it
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MsMadge, that was one of my new year's resolution. Sleep before midnight. So far I'm still going to bed at 1:00am but finally fall asleep around 2:00. Wake up at 5:00. Then doze-wake-doze, etc... between 5-7am.
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Bookluver, I have The Exact same nightly sleeping patterns as You, and I hate it!!! It probably doesn't help that here it is, 3AM, and I'm still up and munching on one of those Dark Chocolate Oranges, that I got in my Christmas Stocking!! I think the chocolate is making my heart pound really hard, when will I ever Learn???? DUH!!!!!
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Oh speaking of mattresses, why are the new ones so darn thick. Because of such thickness it's a struggle to get the sheets back on... and forget about tucking the foot corners between the mattress and box spring, I would need a car jack to raise the mattress because now it is so darn heavy!!

Plus one can no longer flip over the mattress like we could the older ones. All you can do is spin the mattress 160 degrees.

And I paid mega bucks for this nonsense :P
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Did you mean 180 degrees FF, or was it just too heavy to spin the rest of the way :P
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Banned from Walmart - ! :D

My SIL's late MIL may be the only person in the store's long and honourable history to have been banned by John Lewis - founded by a Quaker, "never knowingly undersold", owned by its staff and famous for its dedication to customer service. But then again, though may she rest in peace, it's quite possible she's managed to start a fight in Heaven.

FF you're an innocent bystander in the Bedroom Beautiful Wars. The standard depth for a mattress used to be 6-7" but is now 10-15", partly because of marketing-led oneupmanship but (I suspect) also because they're in cahoots with bedding manufacturers conspiring to make us all invest in millions of dollars worth of bedlinen.

The good news is that you're not supposed to need to turn them as you used to do. Though it could be just that the manufacturers are resigned to not recommending something that is beyond the musculature of most people who would do the turning, i.e. women, and let's be honest women of a certain age, too - how old were you when you first paid any real attention to mattress welfare?

I do still turn the pocket-sprung one now on the spare bed, but that is mainly to check that I can. More recently I invested in a Tempur for myself - and, forget it. Not only hernia-ready heavy, but bendy with it so you can't even get any leverage going. I've barely got over the workout I had getting it from one bedroom to another last time I changed everything round.
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Cwillie, good catch.... yep only 160 degrees because of the weight :P I will deal with the other 20 degrees tomorrow.
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Ff
I hurt my knee trying just to spin it around

I kept my old beauty rest 25 years or so but my new one about 3.5 years old already is sagging in the middle
No wonder they say to replace every 8 years

The tall mattress helps getting out of bed in the morning but if you're vertically challenged you practically need a step stool to get in at night

Even mom's adjustable bed proved too high at the end of her being able to transfer herself so I bought lower legs which then made it too low to use with the hoyer lift
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I got a flyer advertising full size mattresses for under $200, the picture looked a lot like the 25 or 30 year old one on mom's bed that I want to replace. I'm thinking even if they don't last long I could replace it 5 times and still pay no more than I paid for my own.
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I remember trying to get my parents to replace the mattress they had, it was so old I was surprised it wasn't made out of straw. They refuse to look for anything new. It's like come on, you got your money's worth out of this thing.

Eventually I convinced my parents to swap out the guest room mattress as I thought they hadn't had overnight guest in 20 years so I doubt they would at that time being in their 90's. Moving the old mattress was like moving a large rubber band, it wobbled so much.

Ah, much better :)
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When my mom was little she really did have a straw mattress, I can remember stories of how sweet and fluffy the mattress was when it got new stuffing. And I know that it was common for kids to share a bed, in big families sometimes three together, but mom only had 1 sister.
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Stacey,
That was so very kind of you to like my last post!
You are the only one who has liked it. Amazing feat of informative writing, wasn't it?
And....you always have such good taste about things.
Thanks!
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Really? 😂
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Such an excellent bratty response to my three little dots!
Now there are 4 people who liked my informative conversation, and also who have good taste when buying mattresses and reading dots!
I am wondering what would have happened if I put 4 dots (not knowing morse code).???

. . . .
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The mattresses may be moving away from the thick mattresses with box springs, but I too am a beauty rest fan, going on many years now. When last I bought one, the box spring was very thin, about 5 inches deep. The mattress cannot be turned, it actually is hollow!  Meh, who does that?
Next mattress only will be thinner, solid, and maybe foam mailed to my house, popping open on arrival, and placed on a platform or something.

I dislike that I could never slip my fingers between the mattress and box spring to make the bed. This one is lasting way too long! Really wanting a change.

Hence, the 3 dots-I did not have time to type in the mattress comments and my computer is way way out of whack.
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Ah mattresses, ya gotta love them. I know what you mean Send about trying to make the bed and getting fingers between the mattress and box spring. We just bought a new mattress and I recently noticed the tops of my knuckles always look scraped. Light bulb moment........you just helped me figure that out Send!

Making my bed has become such a production. I wanted it to look as good as the display we saw in the store so we bought all the extra fancy pillows and so on. Now I actually dread making the bed. It looks lovely when it's done but E Gads! Hubs lets me do it.Says I do such a good job of it. Sure, flatter me so you don't have to do it.
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My brother is co-owner of a bunch of mattress stores. He's been in the business for about 12 years. He gifted PJ and I with this huge CA King mattress and frame. I consider it the mattress albatross - 20" thick. I can't move it. It's on an adjustable electric frame about 10" off the floor. I am short - short legs. I can barely get in and out - my feet don't reach the floor if I sit on the edge of the bed. PJ loves this bed. Of course, he's 6'8" and isn't vertically challenged like me. He says it's easy on him getting in and out of bed.  I do like being able to raise the head of the bed to read. And my brother was nice to give us this gift. 
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Maybe we should all get a long shoehorn to slip between the mattress. Remember them?

Or, sew a tab where one would normally lift it.

I recall when making a bed was a whole lot easier!
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