Comments on: New for the Home

By: Ciellä

Ciellä — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:12:15 +0000

Vittu…water mattresses…those hurt your back !

By: Jari

Jari — Fri, 29 May 2009 16:55:41 +0000

I just wonder how well that bladder mattress breathe… wait… that doesn’t sound quite right after the “field of bosoms” comments…

Nomen, sounds like you grew up over here at late eighties. I’m from Finland and I’d say it’s more than a half are springs and the rest are foam these days, when looking from ads. Water beds are long gone, they were a kind of fun

By: carlm

carlm — Fri, 29 May 2009 07:45:52 +0000

The big seller today is the sleep number bed. It really is similar to the above bed. You can change how much the air bladder is inflated. I guess you can set your “Field of Bosoms” sleep number to 42D

By: Nomen Nescio

Nomen Nescio — Fri, 29 May 2009 00:10:08 +0000

spring-loaded bedding seem to be an American thing these days, one of those odd archaisms that live on in the USA for some reason. in the part of Scandinavia where i grew up, folks sleep on foam mattresses or water beds — sometimes air beds, but that was a bit of a fad — laid on top of plywood frames.

American-style bedding might be a slight bit more comfortable, when it’s working just right. when none of the springs have come loose and nothing’s worn out or broken, that is. but it’s also (IMHO) bulkier, heavier, noisier and less durable.

By: Eli

Eli — Thu, 28 May 2009 23:21:54 +0000

If that laundry bag holds two full machine loads of laundry, they must have really had small washing machines then. It’d barely have room for one load from my modern machine.

By: fred

fred — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:58:09 +0000

“sleeping on a field of bosoms”…what a pleasant thought …yeah

By: Al

Al — Thu, 28 May 2009 11:05:04 +0000

Re: Oven:

One thing that was not uncommon was a stove-top oven – a folding metal box that parked over a burner. Temperature with one was regulated by dialing the burner up and down while watching the built-in thermometer.

I have one I use when camping – I’ve turned out roasts, apple and pumpkin pies and biscuits with no problems whatsoever.

In tight spaces that would work nicely, and could easily be folded away and stored when not in use.

Re: mattress: Must have been like sleeping on a field of bosoms…

Alan

By: kriemer

kriemer — Thu, 28 May 2009 10:32:13 +0000

Just came back from a vacation in Japan. We visited several friends and noticed that most of them had a stove top with a small toaster oven underneath, but no oven. So this idea would not be an inconvienence at all.

Their refrigerators were also different; divided into 4 compartments. At the push of a button up to 3 of the compartments could be used as either a refrigerator or freezer depending on the households needs (the 4th compartment was reserved as a freezer for ice making).

My wife wanted to bring one home.

By: Al Bear

Al Bear — Thu, 28 May 2009 05:04:17 +0000

The stove refrigerator is an interesting concept, if you don’t mind having an oven.