August 17, 2006
Beware the Bedwetters!
Craigslist offers enough interesting fodder for a daily roundup of its best and worst. But today one posting stood out to us as we searched the listings for furniture for a new house. Call it public service or plain crazy, but one local poster warns readers not to jump into buying used beds:
These beds have usually been urinated on - imagine adults still bed-wetting, aren't there doctors you can go to for this! Why do you think someone else wants to bring home your filthy urine-soaked bed, much less sleep on it. Filthy people who live in posh neighborhoods, dress up pretty, look good on the street perhaps but I have seen the other side of you! These people are disgusting!Bad shopping experience on Craigslist, maybe?
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Yeah, that's how I got my current mattress. A man in Baltimore had thrown it out on the sidewalk after his incontinent old mother had had an accident, so I got it, with his skeptical permission. I scrubbed at the stain with bleach, then sprayed the whole set down with a whole can of fresh-linen-scented disinfectant, wrapped up the box springs and mattress with two sets of antibacterial mattress padding, and put another cushioned mattress pad on top of that. Three and a half years later, still seems okay.
I sold my old mattress on craigslist in Boston, and i could never figure out who would want to pay for someone's used bed. It was, to me, paralell with buying used underwear. However, a woman paid my asking price for it--and it hadn't been peed on at all.
I think I'd rather be in credit card debt and buy a new bed than sleep on someone's urine. EW!
Selling a used mattress that had not been professional disinfected is illegal in some states. You can give them away, sure, but you can't profit from it.
It's news to me that adult incontinence is so common (and that the incontinent haven't heard of vinyl mattress covers), but I do have a story to tell about rented furniture, a certain short-term rental apartment in McLean Gardens (the ones they're condo-ifying now), and bedbugs that has taught me to avoid used bedroom furniture! You'd do better to find yourself a new mattress on sale.
Whether you realize it or not, every single one of us has at one time or another slept on a used bed. What else would call hotel beds? Lord only knows what happens on those!
I had a bedwetting problem into my teens. I at least wore protection to keep the bed dry and if you have to there's always wateproof matress covers. I still have the bed and me and my bf sleep in it among other things but yeah the bed itself was really never peed on. I can see how that would be gross.