"We've Never Been Married Before" Mistakes

Every once in a while, Aaron and I realize that we’ve made a silly mistake. We suppose that, with time, we will become professional married people and the frequency with which we make these mistakes will decrease. For now, however, we will enjoy laughing at ourselves with the understanding that we’re still rookies in the marriage business.

We title these mistakes, “We’ve Never Been Married Before” mistakes. We attribute them to simple inexperience, which may or may not just be a ploy to make us feel better about ourselves.

Our most significant mistake thus far involves the purchase of our mattress. Aaron realized in mid-October that we would both be in need of a place to sleep in the near future, so he hopped online and began the search for a mattress. He decided to go for gold and get a king-sized mattress, because they were on sale for a steal.

We were both pretty excited about the prospect of having a place to sleep, and we anxiously awaited the day that it would be shipped to our local Sears store. It would be big, white, puffy, new and ours! Neither of us had ever made a substantial furniture purchase before, so we were feeling very much like grownups. Everyone knows that grownups get married and purchase furniture.

Shortly before the mattress arrived, Aaron double checked our invoice online and we came to a mildly disappointing discovery about the fantastic price of our mattress. The invoice very explicitly said, “MATTRESS ONLY.”

Translation: There is no box spring included.

Implications: Without a box spring, you cannot put a mattress on a bed frame. Hence, Aaron and I will be sleeping nine inches off the floor for a while.

Mattress companies apparently get some sort of sick pleasure out of knowing that people can end up with a new mattress and no box spring.  Quite frankly, we think it's funny, too, but we've also logged in our brains a caution against their wiles. You won't get us so easily next time, mattress people.

Granted, even just for half a set, he still got a good price and our mattress is rather comfy.

In addition, sleeping with our mattress on the floor makes us feel like poor newlyweds who live in a trailer, which somehow just seems appropriate for our situation in life.