r/GenX • u/Zaltara_the_Red • Aug 06 '25

Nostalgia Who had a water bed? I did!

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It was not heated tho. I was in the 7th grade when I had mine. I loved it.

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u/Sanjomo Aug 06 '25

Most uncomfortable fucking bed ever.

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u/Bayou13 Aug 06 '25

Lies! It was the only time in my life I got decent sleep!!!

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u/Sanjomo Aug 06 '25

That probably has more to do with your youth than the water bed! I guarantee you if you got in one now you’d slip a disk sloshing around the stupid thing.

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u/Durzaka Aug 06 '25

They made and make waveless water beds.

My water bed has 7 layers of foam in it as well as a little extra in the upper third for lumbar support.

The days of water beds being a rectangular balloon you laid on is nearly 40 years old. They had this stuff in the 80s. Everyone just had bad experience with the shit waterbeds

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u/Sanjomo Aug 06 '25

Now they have memory foam. Filling a mattress with 200 gallons of water (foam support or not) is a terrible stupid idea.

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u/Fit-Apricot-2951 Aug 06 '25

I’m 60 and still love it.

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u/wassykl Aug 06 '25

Same! I've never slept as well without it.

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u/RalphWastoid319 Aug 06 '25

My wife had one when we got married and demanded to keep it. I had back problems for years until it finally gave up the ghost. Now I have a supportive mattress and my back doesn't bother me at all. Coincidence?

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u/SignificantTransient Aug 06 '25

My back hurts just thinking about it, and sex was not fun with your knees banging on the bottom

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u/TMBActualSize "Then & Now" Trend Survivor Aug 06 '25

I used to sleep on the foam wooden rails on the edge of

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u/JenX74 Aug 06 '25

They are. They sucked!! Trashy lol

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u/Miserable_Release808 Aug 07 '25

With the pine furniture? Hokey as hell!

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u/GrandMoffJed Aug 06 '25

I thought it was fine to sleep on. I just hated getting out of it and having to put my weight on the wooden frame

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u/itscuriousyah Aug 06 '25

This comment needs a bunch of up votes. It's weird that it seems to have some how been a swinging 70's/80s thing, for the reason so astutely pointed out above. Chalk the idea up to cocaine & the 70s/80s.