to think that those of you of have abundant cushions on your bed are just as bad as the loons who have teddy bears on theirs?

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A friend (rather DP's workmate's girflfriend) just moved into a new house. She is a lovely girl, went round their house with some lilys to nose have a look.

She has about 6 great big cushions on her bed all nicely arranged. And one of those strips of material like a scarf at the bottom.

I made all the right noises but then said 'what do you do when you go to bed, do you just throw 'em on the floor?'

She looked at me as if I was old man Steptoe and said 'no we put them in the ottoman'. And by the window is a blanket box in which she puts the cushions at night, and then puts them back on the bed in the morning.

That's MAD isn't it?

Mind you, she is only 24. Surely a bit of real life will knock that madness out of her.

Does she also have a canvas print of a closeup of a flower in either black and White or sepia? That she has quite clearly purchased from ikea?

No decorative cushions but I do have a lovely decorative blanket at the end of my bed, it's soft, it looks lovely and comes in handy when I can't find my dressing gown

Reproduction Mies van der Rohe Barcelona chairs perched on a shag pile rug?

I have an orchid in the bathroom (damn thing just won't die!) and I want a keep calm and carry on poster for the kitchen. I even have 3 canvas pictures above my bed with the picture that runs between the all.

No cushions, ottoman, bed runner, letters or stone though. Am I a lost cause?

and a Cath Kidston 'vintage style' cake stand that has never been used?

there are mutterings on twitter about this today too

I'm actually jealous of people like the OPs mate, because she's 24 and probably this really together person, v. me who was a 'late bloomer' and all over the place at that age.

At 40, this colleague will probably have a really comfortable life.

In direct contrast to me.

So I think YABU.

I admire people who are that sorted and organised. I think it's a good thing.

lol at TWAT in silver letters.

Or some on the toilet door (to be read out Waynetta Slob stylee) AHM AVIN AY SHIT

I have no cushions. I have cats.

I also have teddy bears - well I have a mutant doll that DH bought me (now that's love). But he/she/it spends most if it's time on the floor as the cat attacks it.

I do too though I don't have a handy ottoman to put them in. I even have a runner in matching colours for one set of bedding (the scarf thing you talked about). In my opinion it makes my bed look lovely and inviting. Each to their own and all that. You probably have things in your house that she might think "Well I wouldn't have that in my home". Horses for courses

Twatty Pebble

nonsense expat, all her expendable income is spent on cushions and daft shite. mine was happily pissed up a wall.

And a single Louis ghost chair. As her dressing table chair.

I once lived in a serviced apartment for 3 months while dh was working abroad. Every day a cleaner would come and pile up the bed with cushions, every day I would put the extra cushions on top of the wardrobe...

It was very frustrating.

They also turned on the dishwasher every time they came, even if it was COMPLETELY EMPTY.

I bought loads of cushions when I got my new sofa, they stayed on it for a few weeks until DP and I got fed up with arranging them all the time......wish I had thought about it a bit more beforehand as I spent a bloody fortune on them

nah, Expat.

It is her first house, just moved out from her parents.

She went out with her mum who bought the lot.

In six months time she will be struggling to pay the gas bill because she went out on the razz like the rest of us.

She is a lovely girl - she is all excited about her first place. Good on her - my first flat I sat on two plastic garden chairs and an inflatable arm chair because I coulnd't afford a sofa.

YANBU OP
Cushions on the bed aare only one step away from cushions on the parcel shelf IMO
pointless

And some bastard came round and sat on said blow up chair and popped it with a lit fag.

was gutted. Would have killed for cushions, ottomans, teddy bears, anything, back then.

Suppose that is the difference between having your first flat at 16 and not 24.

I have 2 cushions on my bed - good for creating a barricade against small people when they invade our bedroom in the mornings. And a throw - good for throwing over the invading hordes to slow their progress.

Bigus have just looked at this site and I think the 'art, painting and sculpture' section has surpassed itself. I can't choose between

angel wings. why? or ah yes, my feelings exactly and a snip at £275

But to be honest, it's all so aspirational and perfect that I might have to apply for a store-card

Fuckerada, £275 for that trite shite! And the angel wings - well, words fail me )and that doean't happen much).

Some people have too much money and not enough sense........

Was it an episode of Cheers where Sam went round to Diane's place and discovered that her bed was covered in a mountain of stuffed toys? He threw them all out of the window one at a time while she was in another room. Or maybe I'm making it up.

I have a hand made silk quilt made by my mother as a wedding present on my bed - would never sleep under it as it's silk she bought in China and it would get ruined - it just gets folded in two and hung over the bed on a night - takes all of 10 seconds.

Might be fluff and frippery - but the colours on it (it's absolutely beautiful - really shimmery ruby and blue-green) don't half cheer me up when I make the bed on a morning and open the curtains and light reflects on it. Not a lot can cheer me up on a wet and rainy Monday morning.

Also have cushions on the bed because I use them to prop myself up when we retreat to bed with a DVD - because otherwise I get to see half the screen and two cat ears blocking the view usually - they just get punted off onto the floor when we go to sleep, but come in handy for clobbering the husband with on occasions. They're not decoration - they're ammo and I'm not particularly precious about them - they're the old ones we don't have on the sofa anymore.

Talking of bedding - I had to evict the cat from INSIDE the duvet cover this morning.

Basically I can get out of bed, flick my hair and pretend I'm Nigella or something and then stagger downstairs to be confronted with the horrid reality of a mountain of dishes and a husband leaving wet towels everywhere (our bathroom's under the stairs - daft idea of our landlords)!

Ah but Poldra the angel wings are by the artist Cocoa Dodo, don't you know...

Yabu because she is young and excited (actually, not very young at 24)

Yanbu because I too want to have a life where I have
a) an ottoman in my bedroom
2) time to stack it with cushions in the evening
3) time to make my bed in the morning
4) money to buy uneccesary items

hence: teeny bit

On the other hand, I have something MUCH BETTER.
Next to my bed I have a heart made from Lego, ds1 made it for me.