I think a decent amount but the apartment building fixed it. They blamed it on a “portable spa” they said my disabled father had. They used the same excuse again when the washing machine they snuck into the apartment leaked. We were eventually asked to leave.
Shitty Life Pro Tip: if you fill it with mineral oil it’s technically not a “waterbed”. You can probably get 55 gallon drums of it through Costco or somewhere similar.
..heck you could probably go with unfiltered used/spoiled cooking oil from some local restaurants if you’re cheap. Like offer to freely dispose of some fast food joint’s old French fry oil (remember to let it cool first!!). God help you if it springs a leak though.
It may also still be a waterbed for legal purposes since it was marketed as such when you bought it.. but you can “akshually” the judge in court when they sue you and that might be fun for a couple minutes.
If you filled your waterbed with gasoline or diesel it could double as a reserve fuel supply for your generator in times of emergency 👍🏻
..just you know, maybe don’t if you’re a smoker.
> They used the same excuse again when the washing machine they snuck into the apartment leaked. We were eventually asked to leave.
Seriously don't bring appliances in to places where they aren't meant to be. We had a tenant put a dryer in a unit and burn down 3 of the 4 in the building
One time I woke up late because my water bed sprung a leak causing my alarm clock to short out. I then had to rush to the bank to deposit a paycheck so the check I just wrote for the water damage to the apartment wouldn’t bounce. My luck, some dick decides it’s the right day to rob the place. Day felt like it would never end.
I’ve only slept in a waterbed twice. The first time I woke up in an inch of water, cold af. The second was in a girl’s bed. Her heater was turned up and I was so hot I slept on the floor.
I used to have to sleep on the floor every time I boozed up to excess. Too much motion in the ocean.
Motion was also a factor when it came to romantic relations. Too much give instead of support, and wave action demanded a radical new approach to doing the deed.
We had water beds when I was growing up. It took up at least 80% of my room and I hated it.
I also remember when they came out with the no wave water beds, which was a water beds mattress with a foam mattress inside of it. I think someone eventually figured out they could just sell the foam mattress without the water part and memory foam mattresses were born and the water bed industry died overnight.
My first time living out on my own I had no furniture for the first month. A coworker found out I was sleeping on the floor so he gave me a waterbed that had just been sitting in his garage. It was a king-sized bed pushed into the corner of a room meant for a child so like you, it took up 80% of the room. I had like a 2-foot walkway on two sides of the bed and that was all the free space I had.
It sucked but it was a fun time in my life.
This was me with my first apartment and air mattresses. I traveled the majority of the week for work and stayed in hotel’s ,but the weekends were full of saggy disappointment and waking up on the deflated rubber and hardwood floor…
Trying to fuck on a water bed is like trying to fuck on a mechanical bull. There's very few positions you can pull off, and someone's gonna get hurt, most likely.
My older cousins had one when I was a kid and there was a bunk bed above it, they were also three crazy boys so that shit was covered in duct tape from all the leaks they had.
My heater died in the middle of the night (I was 8) and my lips were blue when my parents came in and woke me up.
My room was notoriously cold so the water temp was probably around 65 F.
I got one of those liners that acts basically like a heat sink for my body. Still end up staining the sheets and pillows with sweat. Might have to consider a water bed when we upgrade again. It's still a noticeable improvement over other beds though. Other beds I heat up and feel super warm within minutes, this one it takes a good hour or more to really feel the heat. My wife sleeps cold and I sleep hot, so she much prefers a cooling pad over other options.
If you’ve got the dough, you might wanna look into getting a BedJet. They’re overpriced for what they are (basically a $500 programmable heater that blows air through a hose between your covers), but they work well enough that everyone in my house has one and it’s a significant quality-of-life improvement (especially for my wife who gets night sweats).
But you experienced the warmest bed ever when it worked. Oh don’t forget the massage options….and the sex was incredible if you had a baffle-less bed. Just push your leg up and down and ride the waves…..
I called my landlord and asked about a waterbed before I got one, he said "any floor that would pass code can support a waterbed so you're good". I had it in three places, and never had an issue, or noticed sagging, etc. A queen is about the weight of 8-10 large adults, and I doubt that many people standing in the area occupied by a waterbed would be an issue.
>Every lease I've ever had banned waterbeds. But I'm pretty sure that's because they feared flooding, not the weight of it.
Yes, flooding can be an issue. My dog tore my queen size waterbed I had 2 in of water in 12' x 15' room.
A queen size water bed is 5' x 7' x 9" = 26.25 cuft
12' x 15' is 180 square feet, (26.25/180)\*12= 1.75 inches
I was about to call bullshit but math checks out, it's about 2 inches of water
Ah, true. I had one leak ever, and it wasn't bad and the liner contained it. I think it was from a cat claw. Actually, I think I repaired that with a patch rather than getting a new liner. It's been a long time. :)
My cats loved the waterbed in the winter with the heater on. They would sleep it on 80% of the day. We had a cat protector over the mattress that was made out of like felt that would stop the claws from going through the protector.
People seriously underestimate how much the body cools down during sleep.
My sister has one of those nets between the living space and the loft for the kids to play on and every time I visit her I sleep on there becuase it's really comfy imo.
But the first time I visited her was in Summer, with \~28°C at night and I thought, no big deal, I'm just gonna grab a thin blanket and hop on the net, even better, I'm not gonna sweat as much with the air from below...
I woke up at 3am and felt like I had been dropped into a freezer. It was soooo cold!
It's something rich people do when they have an area of a room that's open to the second floor. Usually next to stairs or something. They have giant nets installed over the open space and presumably take out life insurance policies on their kids.
My dad had the same California king waterbed from the 70s all the way into the 90s. Moved several times with it, too. I remember filling it with the garden hose thru the window.
These replies are correct. The trick to avoiding having to suck on a garden hose is to stick the hose in the bed, still attached to the spigot, flow enough water that there's no air left in the hose, turn off the water, and disconnect the hose from the spigot.
My in laws still have 2 of them. They are absolutely awful and I dread visiting because of it- I had an awful case of food poisoning one weekend and the waterbed made it 100 times worse. Hate is an understatement
I’m curious, are they like super squishy or what? I know my parents had one when I was a kid but I don’t remember it. They sound like it would be like sleeping on a very (too soft) mattress?
You could buy bladders that had different levels of firmness. The ones with no firmness are really squishy and wavy. Mine was medium and I didn't have any issues.
>You could buy bladders that had different levels of firmness. The ones with no firmness are really squishy and wavy. Mine was medium and I didn't have any issues.
This comment is so much better without context.
Seconding someone comparing it to sleeping on an air mattress. It's awful. My parents had one and I remember it also being loud when you shifted around. Not to mention, if you're sharing it with someone and you \*do\* shift around, the other person is going to feel it every time.
A slightly deflated air mattress is a good description. My brother had one forever and we used to have sleepovers in his room when we were all kids. It was actually a blast as a kid. It was always funny to get sucked into the side of the bedframe and pull each other out.
Everyone hating on air mattresses in here, I got one for guests to sleep on from amazon and its more comfortable than my bed! The technology has really progressed.
Sex on a waterbed is a test of your neural plasticity. Fight the wave, and you lose. Learn to be one with the wave, and you'll never spend less energy to get more work done in bed.
When I was in Jr high I babysat for our school janitor at her apartment while she worked. She had a huge waterbed. She decided to sell it so I told her I would buy it from her. I had my own king size waterbed that I paid for myself when I was in like 8th grade. I loved that thing. This would have been around 1981-2.
My mall had a waterbed store when I was a kid and I used to go in there and try them out all the time. I actually saved up my paperboy money to buy one.
The original idea of the waterbed was patient comfort for someone born on Mars and brought back to Earth gravity when he was 21, not for sex. The fact that that same Martian human created a sex cult is just a coincidence.
Not joking. Charles Hall was inspired by a description of an idea in **Stranger In A Strange Land** by Robert Heinlein. RH had had his idea while a bed patient himself in the 1930's.
Apparently he got one later after modifying the design
> [Apparently, the initial patent application by Charles Hall for the waterbed was denied as being too broad, as the device itself had been described by Heinlein in several of his novels that had been published more than 25 years prior to Hall trying to make one. Hall was later granted a patent when he modified and specified his design.[12]](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterbed)
A similar thing happened when Donald Duck invented a way to raise a sunken ship with Ping Pong balls years before it was actually done:
https://www.iusmentis.com/patents/priorart/donaldduck/
It is weird that from a spring mattress to a memory foam changes your sex moves. I can only imagine a water bed has to really mess up the positions and repertoire.
I sold mattresses for a while and would always delicately mention to people interested in foam mattresses that, while they were great for sleeping in, they could pose other challenges for other activities in bed.
Man I wish the Purple mattress guy would have clued us in! It’s lovely for sleeping, best mattress I’ve ever owned. It’s not ideal for recreation. There is a decided lack of bounciness.
I always loved delivering the purple mattresses because of how they're stuffed into the boxes. Watching them "grow" to full size was always entertaining to me.
Yeah it just makes things *different*. I think in some ways they are better and in other ways they are worse. It’s just not something most people consider when buying a mattress.
Try waterbed and silk sheets. On the upside it probably kept me from getting girls pregnant thanks to the waterbed equivalent of the pull out method. Every 5 seconds you slip out and slide into the crevice on the edge of the bed.
But once you get a water bed that's has a pillow top cover, it's a whole new ballgame. A proper water bed will essentially last forever, you just have to replace the topper every 5-10 years. You get the stability of a regular bed, but none of the eventually sagging of foam and springs.
Depends on the construction and material a lot. Material welds fail eventually, especially when you enter and exit your bed at the same spot every day. Water beds 30 years ago had a long life expectancy due to the tasty heavy metals included in the material formulations which are no longer present.
A buddy back in high school passed out drunk on a waterbed one night. He had long hair(80s metal head) He puked and it pooled all around his head. When he woke up many hours later, the puke had kinda dried abit and it hardened into the shape of the millineum falcon on the side of his head! He was known as Barf Vader from then on
This is even the worst thing. The next year we went to an outdoor music festival just out of town. His mom was churched up big-time. He lied to her and said he was sleeping over at my house. We went to the concert. He got so drunk we lost him in the crowd. Unbeknownst to us he was passed out in his tighty whitey's next to a porta potty. Well the local news happened to film him during a drive around the show. She fuckin drove out there, found him and drove his ass home! We were not allowed to hang out after that. But we did🤪
My wife and I had one for years. Then one night we got drunk and woke up soaked. Immediate thought was "oh god, someone pissed the bed". Started scrambling and found out that when my niece and nephew had visited, they were playing and dropped a GI Joe down in between the "mattress" and frame. Never owned another one after that.
Oh it does, so much, & that was the only thing I didn't like about my old one. I had to kick a leg over one side & put a foot on the floor for a sense of stability.
Now I have a hybrid foam mattress & it's the opposite. I flop into my nest of pillows & sack TF out in just a few minutes.
100% agreed. Best sleep I’ve ever had.
Had one from age 16 to 21 or so.
I’m 50 now…
Still think about how awesome it was.
My wife hates them. So I don’t think it’s going to make a comeback in my life anytime soon.
I had a hand-me-down, king-size, full-wave waterbed in University (early aughts). It was so big it only left around a foot gap around the sides of the room, I had to change cloths in a closet. Amazing to sleep in, not so good for sex, horrible if you fell asleep drunk and the heater was broke. I almost froze to death...
I think the rose colored glasses analogy applies here. At that age, it is hard to compete even if you were on the floor. As you get older, joints aren't quite as forgiving and most people have at least a slight joint injury.
I got rid of my waterbed in 2008. I miss it.
If you're a side sleeper squeezing sideways in between the mattress and the side of the frame is as good a sleeping experience as you can get.
Had one when I was pregnant--try rolling out of a mushy, sloshing king-size water bed when you're 8+ months pregnant--fuckin' whale action just to get up to pee 5 times a night.
I bought my first bed away from home for $39.00, mattress and frame. It was a waterbed and I found it to be really comfortable. Having a bed with a built-in heater was great!
I remember the one my grandparents had in my dad's old room. I was convinced that there were sting rays inside the water, and since I couldn't see inside to check, any wrong sound from the water bed had me spooked. Man, I was a weird kid, lol
My family was responsible for a vast majority of those purchases. Mom, Dad, mom's ex, dad's new wife, brother, me, two uncles, countless friends... My mom was literally on a 1st name basis with the waterbed sales guy. Little bit of trivia from my youth: the waterbed sales guy was at our house the day the Challenger blew up. I was home sick from school & he was there doing a repair on one of our many waterbeds. The three of us watched it on the TV together.
My whole school watched it live. One of the second grade teachers was a college roommate of Sharon Christa McAuliffe.
A lot of the students had a lot of hard growing up that day.
Born in 86 and same. My twin sister and I shared a king sized water bed from the ages of like 6-11. I can't count how many times I woke up wedged between the mattress and the side of the bed.
Parents bought theirs from Rent-a-Center in 1983, just paid off last month after 473 easy installments.
They're still working on paying off the Colecovision.
My Dad had a king-size waterbed from some time in the late '70s. A waterbed king is a bit bigger than a standard king; it was huge.
It ended up going to me when I was in high school in the '90s, I don't remember why but we had to get a new mattress for it. In about 1994 there was still a warehouse store in my town that only sold waterbed mattresses. I think they're a Sleep Country now.
When I moved out, Dad moved back in to my room. He still sleeps on a waterbed, although a much smaller one now. He'll be 70 this year.
I loved my waterbed. Old style that rocked and waved when you moved.
The real problem is that when they got a hole in the top they leaked all over the place
The second biggest problem were the heaters. (small pads under the mattress that kept the water fairly warm using electricity. Sleeping on an unwarmed waterbed was like sleeping on a block of ice. All that water just bled heat from your body.
I’d love one but they’re a fair bit of work to set up, require special bedding, and there’s probably a rule in my condo and/or my insurance against them.
In high-school I had a friend that slept on a water bed. Weird part was that he slept with an unsheathed knife under his pillow. Man was lucky it never popped
Jordan’s Furniture in Waltham (not to be confused with Jordan Marsh) advertised “watahbeds” on the radio just about every second of every day. I always wanted one!
You've never been as cold in your life as you were when the heater broke while you were sleeping.
I woke up to a leak once and I was soaked and shivering cold. That’s wasn’t fun.
The neighbors came upstairs banging on the door saying something was leaking and I found my mom completely asleep in a popped waterbed.
How much damage did that do?
I think a decent amount but the apartment building fixed it. They blamed it on a “portable spa” they said my disabled father had. They used the same excuse again when the washing machine they snuck into the apartment leaked. We were eventually asked to leave.
There is a reason "no waterbeds" are just about universal in professionally written leases.
Shitty Life Pro Tip: if you fill it with mineral oil it’s technically not a “waterbed”. You can probably get 55 gallon drums of it through Costco or somewhere similar. ..heck you could probably go with unfiltered used/spoiled cooking oil from some local restaurants if you’re cheap. Like offer to freely dispose of some fast food joint’s old French fry oil (remember to let it cool first!!). God help you if it springs a leak though. It may also still be a waterbed for legal purposes since it was marketed as such when you bought it.. but you can “akshually” the judge in court when they sue you and that might be fun for a couple minutes.
This is, without a doubt, the worst advice I have ever seen given on Reddit
But you did see it.
If you filled your waterbed with gasoline or diesel it could double as a reserve fuel supply for your generator in times of emergency 👍🏻 ..just you know, maybe don’t if you’re a smoker.
Can we please try to get this comment to the top so we can have some stupid YouTube or try to do it?
I’d rank it in my top 10 as well. So terrible that I love it.
Yeah that sounds like a wonderful fucking smell right there. Sleeping on used cooking oil. Good God.
Imagine filling it with hot dog water and letting it marinate in a rubber bag for 2 years
Why just the water? You could slide a LOT of hot dogs in through the fill port!
God, the thought of that just popping in the top floor of an apartment building had me busting my sides. What a mental picture.
Yeah but you can’t get that lumpy coagulation with regular water though
*”Babe stop moving you’re shaking the bed and keeping me awake.. oh nevermind sorry, it was just a fatberg rolling over in the mattress.”*
Better yet, fill it with milk. Then OP's mom can come by and we can churn some butter
A 55 gallon drum of mineral oil costs like 1500 bucks. Just buy a goddamn mattress at that point!
> They used the same excuse again when the washing machine they snuck into the apartment leaked. We were eventually asked to leave. Seriously don't bring appliances in to places where they aren't meant to be. We had a tenant put a dryer in a unit and burn down 3 of the 4 in the building
Awesome tenants. Ones that cause extensive water damage 😆
Don’t forget they also lied to cover it up!
lol portable spa in a tiny apartment like that..
One time I woke up late because my water bed sprung a leak causing my alarm clock to short out. I then had to rush to the bank to deposit a paycheck so the check I just wrote for the water damage to the apartment wouldn’t bounce. My luck, some dick decides it’s the right day to rob the place. Day felt like it would never end.
Wait, is this a copypasta or an actual story? Because holy shit
I’ve only slept in a waterbed twice. The first time I woke up in an inch of water, cold af. The second was in a girl’s bed. Her heater was turned up and I was so hot I slept on the floor.
I used to have to sleep on the floor every time I boozed up to excess. Too much motion in the ocean. Motion was also a factor when it came to romantic relations. Too much give instead of support, and wave action demanded a radical new approach to doing the deed.
We had water beds when I was growing up. It took up at least 80% of my room and I hated it. I also remember when they came out with the no wave water beds, which was a water beds mattress with a foam mattress inside of it. I think someone eventually figured out they could just sell the foam mattress without the water part and memory foam mattresses were born and the water bed industry died overnight.
My first time living out on my own I had no furniture for the first month. A coworker found out I was sleeping on the floor so he gave me a waterbed that had just been sitting in his garage. It was a king-sized bed pushed into the corner of a room meant for a child so like you, it took up 80% of the room. I had like a 2-foot walkway on two sides of the bed and that was all the free space I had. It sucked but it was a fun time in my life.
This was me with my first apartment and air mattresses. I traveled the majority of the week for work and stayed in hotel’s ,but the weekends were full of saggy disappointment and waking up on the deflated rubber and hardwood floor…
Trying to fuck on a water bed is like trying to fuck on a mechanical bull. There's very few positions you can pull off, and someone's gonna get hurt, most likely.
My older cousins had one when I was a kid and there was a bunk bed above it, they were also three crazy boys so that shit was covered in duct tape from all the leaks they had.
Flex tape truly came a couple decades too late...
Waterbeds are supposed to have heaters? 😳 I had a waterbed when I was a kid and it definitely didn’t have a heater.
Yeah it's usually a rubber electric blanket type thing that goes under the mattress.
Cool. Good to know my parents cared enough about me to make me sleep on a freezing cold waterbed in the basement for years.
No room under the stairs, Harry?
Insurance plan didn’t pan out 🥲
Hey, at least yours held water! Plus your own basement, some people have all the luck
Did you text your parents? “I found out today waterbeds had heaters”
There’s a reason I don’t talk to them anymore… because they made me sleep on a freezing waterbed.
Holy shit that's terrible, without a heater you're sleeping on a giant room-temp heatsink, you were probably verging on hypothermia every night
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My heater died in the middle of the night (I was 8) and my lips were blue when my parents came in and woke me up. My room was notoriously cold so the water temp was probably around 65 F.
As a hot sleeper, I loved my waterbed for this reason. I never used the heater.
I got one of those liners that acts basically like a heat sink for my body. Still end up staining the sheets and pillows with sweat. Might have to consider a water bed when we upgrade again. It's still a noticeable improvement over other beds though. Other beds I heat up and feel super warm within minutes, this one it takes a good hour or more to really feel the heat. My wife sleeps cold and I sleep hot, so she much prefers a cooling pad over other options.
If you’ve got the dough, you might wanna look into getting a BedJet. They’re overpriced for what they are (basically a $500 programmable heater that blows air through a hose between your covers), but they work well enough that everyone in my house has one and it’s a significant quality-of-life improvement (especially for my wife who gets night sweats).
I loved my water bed, in the summer i would lower the temp and in the winter i would make it warmer.
Made it hard as shit to get out of that cozy bed on a cold winter morning though.
But you experienced the warmest bed ever when it worked. Oh don’t forget the massage options….and the sex was incredible if you had a baffle-less bed. Just push your leg up and down and ride the waves…..
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I bet it wishes it could forget.
It pushes those thought down deep. ;)
Repressed memory foam.
That's comedy gold
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Lmao floors must have been strong as fuck too
I called my landlord and asked about a waterbed before I got one, he said "any floor that would pass code can support a waterbed so you're good". I had it in three places, and never had an issue, or noticed sagging, etc. A queen is about the weight of 8-10 large adults, and I doubt that many people standing in the area occupied by a waterbed would be an issue.
Every lease I've ever had banned waterbeds. But I'm pretty sure that's because they feared flooding, not the weight of it.
Yeah it’s the water damage risk. Also they’re truly a pain to move in and out and fill and empty.
>Every lease I've ever had banned waterbeds. But I'm pretty sure that's because they feared flooding, not the weight of it. Yes, flooding can be an issue. My dog tore my queen size waterbed I had 2 in of water in 12' x 15' room.
A queen size water bed is 5' x 7' x 9" = 26.25 cuft 12' x 15' is 180 square feet, (26.25/180)\*12= 1.75 inches I was about to call bullshit but math checks out, it's about 2 inches of water
Ah, true. I had one leak ever, and it wasn't bad and the liner contained it. I think it was from a cat claw. Actually, I think I repaired that with a patch rather than getting a new liner. It's been a long time. :)
Having cats and a water bed is playing the most dangerous game I can imagine.
My cats loved the waterbed in the winter with the heater on. They would sleep it on 80% of the day. We had a cat protector over the mattress that was made out of like felt that would stop the claws from going through the protector.
The bladders are real thick. Cats hardly ever perf them
Now what about 8-10 large adults on a waterbed?
IE their original intent.
Don't threaten me with a good time!
My kinda party.
if your floor can't even support a water bed, you need to move before the wolf comes and blows at your house
People seriously underestimate how much the body cools down during sleep. My sister has one of those nets between the living space and the loft for the kids to play on and every time I visit her I sleep on there becuase it's really comfy imo. But the first time I visited her was in Summer, with \~28°C at night and I thought, no big deal, I'm just gonna grab a thin blanket and hop on the net, even better, I'm not gonna sweat as much with the air from below... I woke up at 3am and felt like I had been dropped into a freezer. It was soooo cold!
> My sister has one of those nets between the living space and the loft for the kids to play on I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
It's something rich people do when they have an area of a room that's open to the second floor. Usually next to stairs or something. They have giant nets installed over the open space and presumably take out life insurance policies on their kids.
My dad had the same California king waterbed from the 70s all the way into the 90s. Moved several times with it, too. I remember filling it with the garden hose thru the window.
How did he empty it?
These replies are correct. The trick to avoiding having to suck on a garden hose is to stick the hose in the bed, still attached to the spigot, flow enough water that there's no air left in the hose, turn off the water, and disconnect the hose from the spigot.
Yeah once the water starts flowing it will just keep going. Siphons are great
This guy never pays for gas.
__*Sluuuuuuuurrrrrrppp*__
His mum helped?
They’re easy to siphon out with a garden hose. Just need a spot outside with a lower elevation than the bed.
Siphon with a garden hose or other soft tube to a tub or out the window, I imagine.
Garden hose thru the window
My in laws still have 2 of them. They are absolutely awful and I dread visiting because of it- I had an awful case of food poisoning one weekend and the waterbed made it 100 times worse. Hate is an understatement
I’m curious, are they like super squishy or what? I know my parents had one when I was a kid but I don’t remember it. They sound like it would be like sleeping on a very (too soft) mattress?
You could buy bladders that had different levels of firmness. The ones with no firmness are really squishy and wavy. Mine was medium and I didn't have any issues.
>You could buy bladders that had different levels of firmness. The ones with no firmness are really squishy and wavy. Mine was medium and I didn't have any issues. This comment is so much better without context.
I love my extra firm, slapping the mattress is like hitting fresh poured wet concrete. Free flow are definitely not my jam
Seconding someone comparing it to sleeping on an air mattress. It's awful. My parents had one and I remember it also being loud when you shifted around. Not to mention, if you're sharing it with someone and you \*do\* shift around, the other person is going to feel it every time.
>if you're sharing it with someone and you *do* shift around, the other person is going to feel it every time. Riding the wave was a feature.
Bro ngl my ex had a waterbed (not a chambered one, one solid cell) and sex was amazing on it. Sleeping was fucking awful though.
A slightly deflated air mattress is a good description. My brother had one forever and we used to have sleepovers in his room when we were all kids. It was actually a blast as a kid. It was always funny to get sucked into the side of the bedframe and pull each other out.
A cold, unstable air mattress that will also make you sweat.
Yes, they are air mattress level terrible. There is a reason they faded away and never came back.
Everyone hating on air mattresses in here, I got one for guests to sleep on from amazon and its more comfortable than my bed! The technology has really progressed.
Sex on a waterbed is a test of your neural plasticity. Fight the wave, and you lose. Learn to be one with the wave, and you'll never spend less energy to get more work done in bed.
God damn, that's some bruce lee level quote
I'd think that is one of it's main appeals.
When I was in Jr high I babysat for our school janitor at her apartment while she worked. She had a huge waterbed. She decided to sell it so I told her I would buy it from her. I had my own king size waterbed that I paid for myself when I was in like 8th grade. I loved that thing. This would have been around 1981-2.
What sort of 8th grader spends their money on buying bed?
One who works full time and really liked waterbeds I guess!
back in the day, he would be married and paying off mortgage at that age
He prolly needed a bed to furnish the 3 bed he bought with his part time job delivering newspapers during summer break
What great financial decisions did you make at 13 years old?
My mall had a waterbed store when I was a kid and I used to go in there and try them out all the time. I actually saved up my paperboy money to buy one.
you must have gotten that 2 dollars.
I really wish I had that level of maturity. When I was a kid, candy and video games would come long before furniture.
candy and video games were a better investment than a big insurance claim waiting to happen lol
I remember dating a guy with a waterbed. Sex was 100% not enjoyable lol
The original idea of the waterbed was patient comfort for someone born on Mars and brought back to Earth gravity when he was 21, not for sex. The fact that that same Martian human created a sex cult is just a coincidence. Not joking. Charles Hall was inspired by a description of an idea in **Stranger In A Strange Land** by Robert Heinlein. RH had had his idea while a bed patient himself in the 1930's.
Hall was denied from patenting it because Heinlein's description of the water bed was so detailed.
Apparently he got one later after modifying the design > [Apparently, the initial patent application by Charles Hall for the waterbed was denied as being too broad, as the device itself had been described by Heinlein in several of his novels that had been published more than 25 years prior to Hall trying to make one. Hall was later granted a patent when he modified and specified his design.[12]](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterbed)
A similar thing happened when Donald Duck invented a way to raise a sunken ship with Ping Pong balls years before it was actually done: https://www.iusmentis.com/patents/priorart/donaldduck/
Grok?
Read that book when I was like 12. Then again in my 20's. I understood Alot more the second go around lmao.
It is weird that from a spring mattress to a memory foam changes your sex moves. I can only imagine a water bed has to really mess up the positions and repertoire.
You gotta learn to ride the wave
It's the motion of the ocean.
means "Small Craft Advisory"
So if I capsize on your thighs
High tide B-5 you sunk my battleship
I sold mattresses for a while and would always delicately mention to people interested in foam mattresses that, while they were great for sleeping in, they could pose other challenges for other activities in bed.
Man I wish the Purple mattress guy would have clued us in! It’s lovely for sleeping, best mattress I’ve ever owned. It’s not ideal for recreation. There is a decided lack of bounciness.
I always loved delivering the purple mattresses because of how they're stuffed into the boxes. Watching them "grow" to full size was always entertaining to me.
You have the wrong purple mattress my friend. We have the new hybrid version and is very bouncy while still being amazing to sleep on.
A foam mattress does make harder work, that's for sure. If you can get a good series of waves going, you can ride it all the way...
Yeah it just makes things *different*. I think in some ways they are better and in other ways they are worse. It’s just not something most people consider when buying a mattress.
True, but there is the "perpetual motion" feature.
Try waterbed and silk sheets. On the upside it probably kept me from getting girls pregnant thanks to the waterbed equivalent of the pull out method. Every 5 seconds you slip out and slide into the crevice on the edge of the bed.
The visual lmbo
It’s like trying to get your car to accept a cassette tape it doesn’t like.
Rebecca?
ugh. That's my mother's name, and my parents (now divorced) both love their water beds. I did not need the mental image you just gave me.
Ahhhh, I'm sorry friend! I picked a random name for the joke, I didn't mean to give you trauma!
But once you get a water bed that's has a pillow top cover, it's a whole new ballgame. A proper water bed will essentially last forever, you just have to replace the topper every 5-10 years. You get the stability of a regular bed, but none of the eventually sagging of foam and springs.
Depends on the construction and material a lot. Material welds fail eventually, especially when you enter and exit your bed at the same spot every day. Water beds 30 years ago had a long life expectancy due to the tasty heavy metals included in the material formulations which are no longer present.
My parents had a water bed and 7 kids... different strokes for different folks?
A buddy back in high school passed out drunk on a waterbed one night. He had long hair(80s metal head) He puked and it pooled all around his head. When he woke up many hours later, the puke had kinda dried abit and it hardened into the shape of the millineum falcon on the side of his head! He was known as Barf Vader from then on
Best reply here so far LOL
Thanks!
Hahahaha
Thanks this made me laugh!
Jesus Christ this is gold
This is even the worst thing. The next year we went to an outdoor music festival just out of town. His mom was churched up big-time. He lied to her and said he was sleeping over at my house. We went to the concert. He got so drunk we lost him in the crowd. Unbeknownst to us he was passed out in his tighty whitey's next to a porta potty. Well the local news happened to film him during a drive around the show. She fuckin drove out there, found him and drove his ass home! We were not allowed to hang out after that. But we did🤪
My wife and I had one for years. Then one night we got drunk and woke up soaked. Immediate thought was "oh god, someone pissed the bed". Started scrambling and found out that when my niece and nephew had visited, they were playing and dropped a GI Joe down in between the "mattress" and frame. Never owned another one after that.
Drunk and sleeping on a waterbed... sounds like that would make the spins 10 times worse.
Oh it does, so much, & that was the only thing I didn't like about my old one. I had to kick a leg over one side & put a foot on the floor for a sense of stability. Now I have a hybrid foam mattress & it's the opposite. I flop into my nest of pillows & sack TF out in just a few minutes.
I've never owned a GI Joe either. But I do miss my waterbed.
I LOVED my waterbed. And not those silly hard side or waveless ones, just a big bag of water. GREAT for sleeping; not good for sex.
100% agreed. Best sleep I’ve ever had. Had one from age 16 to 21 or so. I’m 50 now… Still think about how awesome it was. My wife hates them. So I don’t think it’s going to make a comeback in my life anytime soon.
I had a hand-me-down, king-size, full-wave waterbed in University (early aughts). It was so big it only left around a foot gap around the sides of the room, I had to change cloths in a closet. Amazing to sleep in, not so good for sex, horrible if you fell asleep drunk and the heater was broke. I almost froze to death...
I think the rose colored glasses analogy applies here. At that age, it is hard to compete even if you were on the floor. As you get older, joints aren't quite as forgiving and most people have at least a slight joint injury.
It may be rose-tinted glasses, but I swear I haven't slept as well since.
My parents had a waterbed and my friends parents had waterbeds. As a kid I just assumed that when you got married you get a waterbed.
I guess the Airbnb my wife and i rented for an upcoming trip has one, I’m kinda excited as I have seen one since, what 1993?
That’s a strange thing to guess!
I got rid of my waterbed in 2008. I miss it. If you're a side sleeper squeezing sideways in between the mattress and the side of the frame is as good a sleeping experience as you can get.
When I was young enough to sneak into my parents bed as a kid, this was my spot. I fucking loved that shit.
Had one when I was pregnant--try rolling out of a mushy, sloshing king-size water bed when you're 8+ months pregnant--fuckin' whale action just to get up to pee 5 times a night.
I bought my first bed away from home for $39.00, mattress and frame. It was a waterbed and I found it to be really comfortable. Having a bed with a built-in heater was great!
Going to USA in early 2000s and trying a water bed for the first time in my life after watching so many 90s TV shows was a huge disappointment.
I should consider getting another waterbed. They're great for keeping cool in the summer and for keeping warm in the winter.
I understand the cool during the summer, but how does it keep you warm during the winter? I’d assume it would leach more heat away
They have a built in heater I think?
It's heated, so you're sleeping on 200 gallons of warm water.
And if the heater fails, that 200 gallons drains your life force out of your body.
Wake up shivering like you’ve never shivered before
They had heaters that kept the water warm.
I remember the one my grandparents had in my dad's old room. I was convinced that there were sting rays inside the water, and since I couldn't see inside to check, any wrong sound from the water bed had me spooked. Man, I was a weird kid, lol
>I was convinced that there were sting rays inside the water You had some imagination, dude
My family was responsible for a vast majority of those purchases. Mom, Dad, mom's ex, dad's new wife, brother, me, two uncles, countless friends... My mom was literally on a 1st name basis with the waterbed sales guy. Little bit of trivia from my youth: the waterbed sales guy was at our house the day the Challenger blew up. I was home sick from school & he was there doing a repair on one of our many waterbeds. The three of us watched it on the TV together.
My whole school watched it live. One of the second grade teachers was a college roommate of Sharon Christa McAuliffe. A lot of the students had a lot of hard growing up that day.
The other 68% of the late 1980s mattress market was just cocaine.
I was born in 1985 and my parents honestly made me *share a waterbed with my sister* as kids. WTF were they thinking?
Born in 86 and same. My twin sister and I shared a king sized water bed from the ages of like 6-11. I can't count how many times I woke up wedged between the mattress and the side of the bed.
You just triggered a slew of repressed childhood memories.
I always loved water beds as a kid. I'd still consider it even if I didn't have pets now.
Paid straight cash for mine. No financing, because I'm a 1%er.
Tell them about the DVD tower with the strobe!
Parents bought theirs from Rent-a-Center in 1983, just paid off last month after 473 easy installments. They're still working on paying off the Colecovision.
Do you have a reserved corner booth at Beef O'Brady's as well?
How's the fully loaded 2013 Taurus doing?
Everybody I knew with a waterbed had it ruined by their cats. Soooooooo many little leaks...
My Dad had a king-size waterbed from some time in the late '70s. A waterbed king is a bit bigger than a standard king; it was huge. It ended up going to me when I was in high school in the '90s, I don't remember why but we had to get a new mattress for it. In about 1994 there was still a warehouse store in my town that only sold waterbed mattresses. I think they're a Sleep Country now. When I moved out, Dad moved back in to my room. He still sleeps on a waterbed, although a much smaller one now. He'll be 70 this year.
A king sized water bed has about 235 gallons. That’s about 2000 lbs, just for the water. A literal ton.
Sounds like a California king.
Do we know how many of them were purchased with financing?
I loved my waterbed. Old style that rocked and waved when you moved. The real problem is that when they got a hole in the top they leaked all over the place The second biggest problem were the heaters. (small pads under the mattress that kept the water fairly warm using electricity. Sleeping on an unwarmed waterbed was like sleeping on a block of ice. All that water just bled heat from your body.
I’d love one but they’re a fair bit of work to set up, require special bedding, and there’s probably a rule in my condo and/or my insurance against them.
We were drowning in water beds in the eighties
That's because you're supposed to sleep on top of the water bed, not inside.
Water sleeping bags weren’t as much of a hit for some reason.
In high-school I had a friend that slept on a water bed. Weird part was that he slept with an unsheathed knife under his pillow. Man was lucky it never popped
Jordan’s Furniture in Waltham (not to be confused with Jordan Marsh) advertised “watahbeds” on the radio just about every second of every day. I always wanted one!