mtbc | Mattress update

mst3kmoxie's bed much helps her back and she kindly gave it up for me to try last night. It was so bad for my back that I moved back to my own bed in the night.

I do find some interesting information online, such as that mattresses can be too firm for people with back problems, but there are enough mutually contradictory reviews of the mattresses that are plausibly within my meager price range that I think I'll punt on all this for a while. I am willing to spend more on items that I use frequently and will last for a long time but since our move to Scotland our budget is tight indeed: now asset purchases of a few hundred pounds get a line item in my budget spreadsheet with a cell for how many years the cost is to be amortized over and

mindstalk is quite correct about my risk-aversion on what for me is a big-ticket purchase.

All is not lost, though. I sit now in my armchair with a blanket wedged into the small of my back. Perhaps I can try sleeping on my back with some kind of small pillow wedged in there.