So, a few years ago, my mom got me a brand new futon for Christmas. Due to general laziness, I didn't start actually using it until maybe a year and a half or two years ago. I've only been using the mattress, and never actually set up the bottom frame, which I didn't mind. For reference this futon has a wooden frame built inside the mattress, which also has a locking hinge. Basically, the mattress itself is the main part of the couch/bed, not the wooden base frame.
One of the fucking springs broke last night (zig zag springs, not coil springs).
I told my grandma about it this morning, and her verdict was that the spring breaking was somehow caused by the mattress being on the floor (I think it always pissed her off that I never built the frame and was fine on the floor). She scoffed at my suggestion that it might have something to do with all the padding inside the mattress getting smushed down so the springs don't have as much support (did I mention I'm overweight?).
It just pisses me off. Does she think I just throw myself onto the mattress? I was literally just crawling into bed, I pushed down on a spring, and it broke. And guess what? Even if I had set up the frame, it's still a low lying bed. I still would've gotten into it the exact same way, so the spring probably would've still broke.
You think I don't feel like shit that this probably expensive bed broke not even two years after use, added to the fact that I never actually built the base? This is the exact fucking reason I didn't want the bed to have springs in it (the bed I had before this one didn't last long, either, though I know I had a more active cause in that than this).
I looked online, and zig zag springs are pretty cheap and more easily replaced than coil springs due to being attached with clamps. I could always go with replacing the spring, I guess, though that doesn't fix the problem of my weight being put directly on the springs. All I know is that the next time I get a bed, it's gonna be a traditional Japanese floor futon. No springs.
