Moving House - Family Assistance
Moving House - Family Assistance
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Pferdestarke

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7,192 posts

205 months

Friday 10th April 2009
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So we're moving house on Friday. Our families have offered to help and we need it so we're grateful.

Question: How do you hide a stained matress from your parents and gf's parents? I know it sounds horrible but surely most of us have a few questionable stains on them?

Other 'private' items are in a sealed brown envelope so the gf's Mum doesn't expire when she helpfully carries a drawer carcass out to the delivery van.

N.B. I'm not buying a new matress. Yet.

paperbag

Twincharged

1,851 posts

223 months

Friday 10th April 2009
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I'd go for:


Must be good if the army use it. There's a Land Rover under there by the way!

HTH.


Twincharged

1,851 posts

223 months

Friday 10th April 2009
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Being serious now, maybe the best thing to go for would be a mattress cover? Your could buy a decent one that will wrap round. If any one asks, just say it's to stop the mattress getting dirty in transit, or that it's hypoallergenic and stops the mattress stuffing giving you allergy problems.

sday12

5,064 posts

229 months

Friday 10th April 2009
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Pferdestarke said:
So we're moving house on Friday. Our families have offered to help and we need it so we're grateful.

Question: How do you hide a stained matress from your parents and gf's parents? I know it sounds horrible but surely most of us have a few questionable stains on them?

Other 'private' items are in a sealed brown envelope so the gf's Mum doesn't expire when she helpfully carries a drawer carcass out to the delivery van.

N.B. I'm not buying a new matress. Yet.

paperbag
Buy a new matress you pikey (unless you are a student)

Jasandjules

71,412 posts

247 months

Friday 10th April 2009
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Wrap it in bubble wrap?

Or do that one yourself before anyone else arrives? Same goes with the brown envelope which I assume contains something decidely dodgy (in terms of not a family matter) - surely that's something you move yourself?

Edited by Jasandjules on Friday 10th April 08:48

lost in espace

6,414 posts

225 months

Friday 10th April 2009
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The family member will be so chuffed at carrying something fairly light, they won't even see it!

Don

28,378 posts

302 months

Friday 10th April 2009
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Pferdestarke said:
Question: How do you hide a stained matress from your parents and gf's parents? I know it sounds horrible but surely most of us have a few questionable stains on them?
You don't.

If her Dad hasn't worked out you've been banging her senseless thrice nightly since you moved in together then he isn't MALE!

It's not like it's unwashed pillow cases now is it!

If you're really concerned you can have the mattress professionally cleaned before they come to pick it up. Bloke comes around with a thing like a carpet cleaner and vacuums the crap right out of it.

ARH

1,256 posts

257 months

Friday 10th April 2009
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just to ruin your day with thoughts you never wanted. Even your parents will have stained a matress before. dont worry about it, just think of daddy taking mummy up the oxo tower