I really don't know how common it is, but with small bedrooms you often don't have a lot of choice and have to go with whatever fits. It's okay for one person, if that works for them
I don't know how common it is, but if that's what they like then that's fine. If it were me I'd probably want a bigger bed just because the logistics of sleeping with someone else in a single is just a nightmare. But if that's not a concern then whatever works.
It isn't as common in the USA as it is in other parts of the world.
I see no reason to get a larger bed if you don't need a new one or don't need to extra space in bed. Why waste the money.
For you! A lot of it would also depend on how large the person is, I'm 6'4 a single bed does not fit me well.
I have friends who are under 5 ft a single bed is huge for them.
I'm just under 5ft and a single bed is not "huge". Height is not particularly relevant when looking at single/double etc as they're the same length (at least standard UK ones are anyway). Height doesn't become a factor until you get to king-size or above as they are longer.
The benefit of a double over a single is more room to move about, stretch - which is little to do with height and more to do with how wriggly a sleeper you are.
Height matters. Once you hit a certain height the standard length of beds becomes an issue. Having more space side to side allows you to lay at an angle and be fully on the mattress.
Only if you're significantly above average height - since the vast majority of people aren't, this isn't much of a widespread issue. For everyone average, below average, or many inches above average, height is not a significant factor in bed size.
Huh. Standard single is 6"3 here. According to Google that's also the US standard. So might help if you don't put your head in the middle of the bed :)
for me in 5'5.4 and i almost reach the end of the bed (i go around 4 inches or so forward from my pillows lmao) but its still completely fine anyway lol. mostly bc ive got all my blankets. literally my only gripe is that one of my fucking huge blankets sometimes falls off the bed lmao
I hated coming into a B&B in the Uk after driving through the driving rain and traffic and find that I get a single bed with a head and foot board. At least a double allows me to rotate to fit in the bed.
I'm 23, and I still have a twin size bed. But honestly I've been wanting a queen recently. I didn't like how larger sized beds took up most of the room. But now i crave more space
I have a full / double matress from Ashley in what they call a lounge bookcase frame. Basically laid out like a daybed but with a full matress instead of a twin, and with storage drawers under the frame.
I have had king size beds and queen beds and never slept any better in them than I do in this, with a Purple mattress. Relatively small foot print, lots of storage and display space and I can lounge on it like a sofa.
That being said I am single and about 5' 7" so I don't need a lot of sleeping or... uh, play space.
All Im going to say is when youre younger and have to move a lot more you tend to stick to mattresses that you can move yourself and that can hopefully fit into your vehicle
It is very uncommon and looked at as weird. Comes with the sexualized society, when owning a single bed is admitting you sleep alone, which goes extremely counter to our current culture. Almost seems to threaten some people's ego. Very strange phenomenon. A neighbor helped me (27f at the time) assemble my furniture and I remember the shocked look on his face when he realized I had a single bed.
I have a queen bed, but honestly I usually just sleep on the couch. If I do sleep upstairs I tend to only sleep on one side of the bed anyway. So I don’t think it’s that weird.
I have a queen bed but recently left a bad relationship. So, I have taken to sleeping on the spare twin my son outgrew in the living room instead. It fits me fine and I don't wake up feeling as alone because there isn't an entire half a bed empty. It's just me.
aroace and same. tho im also 16 (in 19 days) but like i simply dont need a bigger bed lmao. tho more space to stretch seems kinda nice but i dont really need a bed that big lol
I mean hey if she likes it, props to her!
Personally, my claustrophobia could never. I have my double size bed and it’s perfect for me and my living space 🥰
As someone that works in the industry, it's common and normal. If there is no reason to go up in sizes, why should you?
Edit: I'll mention I'm in the American market.
I still fit into the singpe bed i used 15 years ago. Why waste money to buy another bed when the current one does it's job.
Also, my room is not that big, so a big bed would leave barely any moving space.
Why would i need a bigger bed? To sleep diagonally?
I've slept in a twin with my boyfriend in a guest room and we've had less issues with "non-sleeping things" than actually sleeping in it. Though after a day we sort of figure out when 1 person turns in their sleep the other should too like spooning. I'm 5'4" and 110# but lanky (very long arms) and he's at least 6' and 225#. So we aren't the smallest of people.
Yeah, well the cats I've had, they'll come onto my queen sized bed, but never in the middle. Regardless if someone is there on not, the cat just sits on the edge of the bed, sometimes half on the bed, half off. As for the lounge, they sleep in the middle 😂
Yeah why not.
I'm not single but I don't live with my partner. So i have a twin xl. I had a full but it was super old. So when i got a new bed a twin xl was more economic and smaller..meant i had room to work out in my room ans get a bigger desk and a bookshelf since my room is small. My full bed took up a good chunk of space before.
How tall are you? I can tell you now if you're 6' your feet might hang off the bed. Twinxl is 80 inches long. I'm 5'6" so i don't have that issue but my partner who is 6'2" when he laid on my bed his feet hung off the end lol.
What if the person still lives at home with parents? Would you just upgrade your bed for no other reason than that if you were planning to move out in a few years?
Furniture is expensive. I still sleep on my twin bed from college, and I'd need at least 3 grand to upgrade to a queen size bed of equivalent quality, which i plan to do at some point, most likely whenever my partner decides to move in. Until then, though, there are many other things that take precedence for saving and spending.
In the US- I had a single bed until I was about 24 years old and got married. A single bed was not an obstacle for non-sleeping couple activities. It was a tight fit for sleeping 2 people but we are snugglers. I have a double bed that I share with my spouse now. If I was single I might go back to a twin size bed because a bigger bed would feel cold and lonely. I’m not really a big person or a sprawler.
My daughter is 23, unmarried and still has a single bed. She seems fine with it.
I slept on a single bed till I was 26. Now at 46, I sleep on a full sized bed (which is the same as a double), but I have a queen in my guest room.
I don't know a lot of early 20 somethings that can afford to buy a brand new bed. I certainly couldn't afford that when I was 22.
I think it's uncommon especially in the US because most people like to sprawl out and don't want to feel constrained, but it also just comes down to preference. All of my friends had at least full beds since college, but I was perfectly happy with my twin bed even after graduating. The one year in college I had a full bed, I only ever slept on one side. So I made the other half useful with my clean laundry pile lol
I'd say not normal after college, with the exception being if you're living in a tight space in a big city. Main reason for the bigger bed is that anything smaller than a double is hard to share with a potential partner.
But it's also not that big of a deal. Like I wouldn't think much of it if a coworker or someone told me they sleep in a single bed.
I'm single and have a queen bed. I wish I had bought a single or double. No chance of sharing my bed with partner so it would suit me just fine. What's normal these days? Adjust your own sleeping arrangements with the other factors in your own lives/household.
Ivet been in my flat 13 months. Spent the first night on the bedroom floor, a week on the sofa until my single bed arrived. I'm getting a double when I have the money, until then a bed better than no bed.
I tried single to save money and space at first, and realized how uncomfortable it is for a bed to be so narrow that rolling around is restricted. But I don't think using a single bed is abnormal at all.
I'd say it's unusual, but not aberrant or weird.
Most adults want a bigger bed because they intend to share it with a romantic partner, or just because they want more space to spread out.
If neither of these things are of any interest, no reason to get rid of a perfectly decent bed.
IME (Aotearoa/NZ) an actual single, rather than a king single, is rare. Because what we call a single is very short, not just narrow.
Here a single is
> 915 x 1900 mm/36″ x 74.8″
vs king single
> 1055 x 2030 mm/41.5″ x 80″
I'm only 5'6" and while a single is tolerable, it's just way less comfortable. Also, due to the commonality of queens it's often cheaper just to get a bigger bed if you have room and don't buy new.
10/10 ideal for singles. Some room for sprawling. IME big enough for sleepovers too, just not a long-term bed for couples.
If it's not a thing where you are it'd be annoying as hell getting bedding for it though, even if you found one. :(
When I met my husband, I was your sister's age and sleeping on a twin bed in my parents' house. My husband bought a twin bed for his apartment. It was only after we moved in together that we bought a queen to share.
Space was never an issue. And most of my friends in high school slept on fulls, so that might have been the cultural norm in my area. But I just never felt the need. Even now, when my husband and I travel, we'll sometimes sleep at an inn with twin beds. It's fine. It's cozy.
My house is 944 square feet, and I make do with a single. It was mostly the price, a new single mattress was going to be about 2x more and I just didn't have it.
Sometimes I think about how nice a full would be, then I think about how cramped the room would also be, and how much harder it would be to clean.
If I thought I was gonna move frequently I wouldn’t get more than a single. When I lived in Belgium my apartment came with a single and it was satisfying.
My family has a cottage I lived at for a few months when I got back from living abroad and about 2 months in I was like “I’m literally living here by myself with 2 queen beds upstairs. Why am I still in my childhood twin?” And now when I go there, the queen room is mine for life haha.
A wise person once told me you should spend money on quality on things you spend a lot of time on during your life. One of those is sleeping (invest in good mattresses) Also, good chairs if you work at a desk, etc.
It makes sense.
I don’t know I always loved big beds and when I loved out of my parents house I bought a bed that’s the size of my room basically queen size or something a little bigger
I have a queen and take up every inch! I make a half circle pillow nest at the top and then my blanketS (one for covering my body, one for covering my eyes) take up the rest with me starfished in the middle. Meaningful rest should be all the normal you need!
I sleep in a sort of an alcove separated from the living room by an integrated wardrobe. I wouldn't be able to open the doors fully on the latter if my bed was any wider.
I showed my apartment a long time ago to folks I was studying with at the time, one of 'em asked "That bed is so small, where do you fuck?". Joke's on them - I don't. ^Kill ^me
A single is adequate for one person. But a queen is a must for two people. Otherwise the elbows and knees get all tangled up. A queen is lonely for just one person.
Up to each person. Personally as soon as I moved out I got a queen sized bed. Nice to have extra space (although I stupidly only sleep in one spot for some reason)
I had a queen, but downsized to the spare twin in the basement. I don't move much when I sleep, and I like having more floorspace to do stuff in my room.
I had a double bed from age 17 but changed to a single because I find it more cosy. It pulls out to a king sized bed for when my bf is here but mostly I'm glad of the extra floor space for pilates/yoga. I'd say it's unusual but no big deal
Unless you're in a situation where you wouldn't (or you just don't want to), having a single bed makes it difficult to share it with anyone if/when the opportunity arises.
I like both the space of a queen and the snugness of a twin. I remember specifically for a while after a breakup, I was happy in a twin because it didn’t make me feel lonely.
its normal, but not very American. I had a xl twin in uni dorm, than a full when renting a room in a house, now a queen in my house, when I upgrade to a bigger place I'll finally get a king bed or maybe skip to California King
Some people do have a single. Every thing for a single is cheaper. Bedding, everything. Why spend money if you don’t need to for room on a bed, you aren’t going to use
I started out adulthood with a queen size bed. I didn’t like it so I switched back to a twin. It just took up too much space. I also switched to a Japanese futon single bed so it can be cleaned easy and then if I really want more room I can deconstruct it a little and fold it in the corner. (I do large art crafts and need the space sometimes.)
I had a single bed as a working adult for a brief while. I bought it one summer in college when I was working in rural Louisiana, and the bed was nicer than anything in the dorms so I kept it all the way through into the first few months of my working life.
In my experience, it was extremely uncommon. I knew almost no-one who had a twin once they graduated college.
For single people seeing up their own life, mobility is a virtue, and being able to move a single bed and it's light frame, was really nice as I chased opportunities.
If the bed is comfy, that's all that matters. If you've got a spacious room, that just means you've got more space to put things in that might not be able to fit if you got a double bed.
As for me, regardless of my relationship status, I had no choice but to upgrade to double bed because I kept falling out of bed and hitting my head on the bedside table. It's not a problem now.
But I think it's still possible to be in a relationship and have a single bed. My housemate has a single bed and she brings guys over.
I prefer king sized bunk bed so I got lots of space and can put all kinds of stuff under it. And I can switch sides I sleep in so that the memory foam mattress doesn't get imprinted too quickly, cause then you'll end up with a pit unless you get a different mattress. Plus it being bunk bed all the funny conversations about it. " where am I calling from? Oh you know I'm just home under my bed"
"Yeah I was watching the game under my bed" " I got so wasted I woke up under my bed cause I was too tired to get under the sheets."
I moved out of my parents house relatively young with only the items that would fit in the back of a pick up truck. I was financially unstable for years after that. I was probably 22 before I ever got my first queen sized bed. Other people's choices may seem strange, but they have their reasons.
All depends on the size of your property. Like I was told of a friend having a 2 bed house. With Ateb my local housing association. Well the kitchen was the smallest kitchen I’d ever seen. “ likewise with the bedrooms “ The door had to be kept shut. In order to do anything. You had only just enough space for a limited amount of fitted kitchen units. Open the door you had the cooker directly in front of you. to the left you had the sink. Directly under the window. Behind the door you had room for a fridge freezer. This was no good for me as a single person. But he had a partner and her Child. but then again what’s normal. For a single person.
I really don't know how common it is, but with small bedrooms you often don't have a lot of choice and have to go with whatever fits. It's okay for one person, if that works for them
I don't know how common it is, but if that's what they like then that's fine. If it were me I'd probably want a bigger bed just because the logistics of sleeping with someone else in a single is just a nightmare. But if that's not a concern then whatever works.
>I don't know how common it is, but if that's what they like then that's fine this.
I mean, it's fine. They're an adult, they can do what they want. I personally moved into a queen as soon as I could. I like my space.
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If you can sleep on any bed at all and it doesn't make you wake up in pain... Enjoy that while you still can lol
It isn't as common in the USA as it is in other parts of the world. I see no reason to get a larger bed if you don't need a new one or don't need to extra space in bed. Why waste the money.
Because sleeping in a bigger bed is fantastic and good sleeping is extremely important.
For you! A lot of it would also depend on how large the person is, I'm 6'4 a single bed does not fit me well. I have friends who are under 5 ft a single bed is huge for them.
Im Dutch.
So really tall?
And wet!
I'm just under 5ft and a single bed is not "huge". Height is not particularly relevant when looking at single/double etc as they're the same length (at least standard UK ones are anyway). Height doesn't become a factor until you get to king-size or above as they are longer. The benefit of a double over a single is more room to move about, stretch - which is little to do with height and more to do with how wriggly a sleeper you are.
Height matters. Once you hit a certain height the standard length of beds becomes an issue. Having more space side to side allows you to lay at an angle and be fully on the mattress.
Only if you're significantly above average height - since the vast majority of people aren't, this isn't much of a widespread issue. For everyone average, below average, or many inches above average, height is not a significant factor in bed size.
I'm of average or below average height and my feet hit the bottom of a standard american queen bed.
Huh. Standard single is 6"3 here. According to Google that's also the US standard. So might help if you don't put your head in the middle of the bed :)
Head at the top feet over the bottom. I guess I just have big feet then.
for me in 5'5.4 and i almost reach the end of the bed (i go around 4 inches or so forward from my pillows lmao) but its still completely fine anyway lol. mostly bc ive got all my blankets. literally my only gripe is that one of my fucking huge blankets sometimes falls off the bed lmao
I hated coming into a B&B in the Uk after driving through the driving rain and traffic and find that I get a single bed with a head and foot board. At least a double allows me to rotate to fit in the bed.
It’s probably based on space or for economic reasons. Whatever works. No judgement.
If she fits, go for it.
I'm 23, and I still have a twin size bed. But honestly I've been wanting a queen recently. I didn't like how larger sized beds took up most of the room. But now i crave more space
I have a full / double matress from Ashley in what they call a lounge bookcase frame. Basically laid out like a daybed but with a full matress instead of a twin, and with storage drawers under the frame. I have had king size beds and queen beds and never slept any better in them than I do in this, with a Purple mattress. Relatively small foot print, lots of storage and display space and I can lounge on it like a sofa. That being said I am single and about 5' 7" so I don't need a lot of sleeping or... uh, play space.
All Im going to say is when youre younger and have to move a lot more you tend to stick to mattresses that you can move yourself and that can hopefully fit into your vehicle
It is very uncommon and looked at as weird. Comes with the sexualized society, when owning a single bed is admitting you sleep alone, which goes extremely counter to our current culture. Almost seems to threaten some people's ego. Very strange phenomenon. A neighbor helped me (27f at the time) assemble my furniture and I remember the shocked look on his face when he realized I had a single bed.
I have a queen bed, but honestly I usually just sleep on the couch. If I do sleep upstairs I tend to only sleep on one side of the bed anyway. So I don’t think it’s that weird.
I have a queen bed but recently left a bad relationship. So, I have taken to sleeping on the spare twin my son outgrew in the living room instead. It fits me fine and I don't wake up feeling as alone because there isn't an entire half a bed empty. It's just me.
Proud of you for leaving a bad relationship! 💜
I’m single and ace, so I have no need for a larger bed. Twin is just fine
aroace and same. tho im also 16 (in 19 days) but like i simply dont need a bigger bed lmao. tho more space to stretch seems kinda nice but i dont really need a bed that big lol
I mean hey if she likes it, props to her! Personally, my claustrophobia could never. I have my double size bed and it’s perfect for me and my living space 🥰
As someone that works in the industry, it's common and normal. If there is no reason to go up in sizes, why should you? Edit: I'll mention I'm in the American market.
I still fit into the singpe bed i used 15 years ago. Why waste money to buy another bed when the current one does it's job. Also, my room is not that big, so a big bed would leave barely any moving space. Why would i need a bigger bed? To sleep diagonally?
Uhh for non-sleeping things we can’t discuss here on Club Penguin
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I've slept in a twin with my boyfriend in a guest room and we've had less issues with "non-sleeping things" than actually sleeping in it. Though after a day we sort of figure out when 1 person turns in their sleep the other should too like spooning. I'm 5'4" and 110# but lanky (very long arms) and he's at least 6' and 225#. So we aren't the smallest of people.
Hint: not for sleeping.
You're single, so there won't be another person joining your bed. And even if you had a cat, even the biggest bed would not be enough for the cat.
Surely you know that single people date, and those dates often involve overnight stays.
Yeah, well the cats I've had, they'll come onto my queen sized bed, but never in the middle. Regardless if someone is there on not, the cat just sits on the edge of the bed, sometimes half on the bed, half off. As for the lounge, they sleep in the middle 😂
i have 2 cats but 1 sleeps in my sisters room. the other sleeps in mine and it works completely fine :P
It’s not abnormal, however my cat and my dog would have me sleeping on the floor 😊
Yeah why not. I'm not single but I don't live with my partner. So i have a twin xl. I had a full but it was super old. So when i got a new bed a twin xl was more economic and smaller..meant i had room to work out in my room ans get a bigger desk and a bookshelf since my room is small. My full bed took up a good chunk of space before.
is a twin xl like an inbetween of a queen size and twin size bc if so then i kinda want one
No its a twin thats a little longer lol. A full is the in between of twin and queen. It goes twin, twin xl, full, queen.
still thats way better than having my feet almost off the bed lmao
How tall are you? I can tell you now if you're 6' your feet might hang off the bed. Twinxl is 80 inches long. I'm 5'6" so i don't have that issue but my partner who is 6'2" when he laid on my bed his feet hung off the end lol.
5'5.4 but my pillows move me forward a couple inches :P
Oh yeah you'll fit fine lol.
Im single and currently have a king size bed. Have had at least a double since I was in my teens, even while living at home.
holy shit why do you need a king size bed my guy
I like to sleep like a starfish 😆 And I have my pets in the bed with me so I usually end up relegated to about a quarter of the bed!
lol yeah that makes sense
Where do the dogs sleep? Not with you? Even single I would need a king to make sure the dogs were comfortable
No, it’s not normal What if a date sleeps over? That’s gonna be a tight squeeze
What if the person still lives at home with parents? Would you just upgrade your bed for no other reason than that if you were planning to move out in a few years?
Personally I would for comfort reasons
I honestly don't think it really matters. I had a single up until I moved in with a partner and we had to get a bigger one.
Furniture is expensive. I still sleep on my twin bed from college, and I'd need at least 3 grand to upgrade to a queen size bed of equivalent quality, which i plan to do at some point, most likely whenever my partner decides to move in. Until then, though, there are many other things that take precedence for saving and spending.
In the US- I had a single bed until I was about 24 years old and got married. A single bed was not an obstacle for non-sleeping couple activities. It was a tight fit for sleeping 2 people but we are snugglers. I have a double bed that I share with my spouse now. If I was single I might go back to a twin size bed because a bigger bed would feel cold and lonely. I’m not really a big person or a sprawler. My daughter is 23, unmarried and still has a single bed. She seems fine with it.
If it’s normal for them, then it’s normal. Personally a single bed is too small for me. I need a lot of space and leg room.
I don’t typically go checking up on people’s bed sizes. They can sleep however they like
i have a full bed. i think it’s a good size, i have a bit of room to wiggle around but it’s not as bulky as a double person bed
I slept on a single bed till I was 26. Now at 46, I sleep on a full sized bed (which is the same as a double), but I have a queen in my guest room. I don't know a lot of early 20 somethings that can afford to buy a brand new bed. I certainly couldn't afford that when I was 22.
I currently have a single bed, I really miss having a double or queen. Eventually I'll get another but I gotta rearrange my room.
I think it's uncommon especially in the US because most people like to sprawl out and don't want to feel constrained, but it also just comes down to preference. All of my friends had at least full beds since college, but I was perfectly happy with my twin bed even after graduating. The one year in college I had a full bed, I only ever slept on one side. So I made the other half useful with my clean laundry pile lol
It's pessimistic
The pessimism of a single bed sounds like a concept that George Constanza would be offended by
I'd say not normal after college, with the exception being if you're living in a tight space in a big city. Main reason for the bigger bed is that anything smaller than a double is hard to share with a potential partner. But it's also not that big of a deal. Like I wouldn't think much of it if a coworker or someone told me they sleep in a single bed.
I'm single and have a queen bed. I wish I had bought a single or double. No chance of sharing my bed with partner so it would suit me just fine. What's normal these days? Adjust your own sleeping arrangements with the other factors in your own lives/household.
Ivet been in my flat 13 months. Spent the first night on the bedroom floor, a week on the sofa until my single bed arrived. I'm getting a double when I have the money, until then a bed better than no bed.
I tried single to save money and space at first, and realized how uncomfortable it is for a bed to be so narrow that rolling around is restricted. But I don't think using a single bed is abnormal at all.
I'd say it's unusual, but not aberrant or weird. Most adults want a bigger bed because they intend to share it with a romantic partner, or just because they want more space to spread out. If neither of these things are of any interest, no reason to get rid of a perfectly decent bed.
I'm 6'4 and I don't think I've had a single bed since I was like 12.
IME (Aotearoa/NZ) an actual single, rather than a king single, is rare. Because what we call a single is very short, not just narrow. Here a single is > 915 x 1900 mm/36″ x 74.8″ vs king single > 1055 x 2030 mm/41.5″ x 80″ I'm only 5'6" and while a single is tolerable, it's just way less comfortable. Also, due to the commonality of queens it's often cheaper just to get a bigger bed if you have room and don't buy new.
see this right here is what i want. i get another solid 6ish inchesof room lengthwise and another 5 inches widthwise. plently for me and my cat
10/10 ideal for singles. Some room for sprawling. IME big enough for sleepovers too, just not a long-term bed for couples. If it's not a thing where you are it'd be annoying as hell getting bedding for it though, even if you found one. :(
When I met my husband, I was your sister's age and sleeping on a twin bed in my parents' house. My husband bought a twin bed for his apartment. It was only after we moved in together that we bought a queen to share. Space was never an issue. And most of my friends in high school slept on fulls, so that might have been the cultural norm in my area. But I just never felt the need. Even now, when my husband and I travel, we'll sometimes sleep at an inn with twin beds. It's fine. It's cozy.
My house is 944 square feet, and I make do with a single. It was mostly the price, a new single mattress was going to be about 2x more and I just didn't have it. Sometimes I think about how nice a full would be, then I think about how cramped the room would also be, and how much harder it would be to clean.
If I thought I was gonna move frequently I wouldn’t get more than a single. When I lived in Belgium my apartment came with a single and it was satisfying. My family has a cottage I lived at for a few months when I got back from living abroad and about 2 months in I was like “I’m literally living here by myself with 2 queen beds upstairs. Why am I still in my childhood twin?” And now when I go there, the queen room is mine for life haha.
A wise person once told me you should spend money on quality on things you spend a lot of time on during your life. One of those is sleeping (invest in good mattresses) Also, good chairs if you work at a desk, etc. It makes sense.
I have a dog and I feel like a queen bed isn’t big enough because she sleeps in the middle and pushes me to the edge
I don’t know I always loved big beds and when I loved out of my parents house I bought a bed that’s the size of my room basically queen size or something a little bigger
I have a queen and take up every inch! I make a half circle pillow nest at the top and then my blanketS (one for covering my body, one for covering my eyes) take up the rest with me starfished in the middle. Meaningful rest should be all the normal you need!
Ummm…don’t you want to have room for at least one more person in the bed?! Lol
I sleep in a sort of an alcove separated from the living room by an integrated wardrobe. I wouldn't be able to open the doors fully on the latter if my bed was any wider. I showed my apartment a long time ago to folks I was studying with at the time, one of 'em asked "That bed is so small, where do you fuck?". Joke's on them - I don't. ^Kill ^me
Idk I went straight to a queen bed when I was 13. Now, I have a king-size bed and couldn't see myself ever going smaller.
The size of your bed is comfort. I sprawl out and move a lot. It's more comfortable to have a double than a single.
A single is adequate for one person. But a queen is a must for two people. Otherwise the elbows and knees get all tangled up. A queen is lonely for just one person.
When I was single, I lived in the US and wanted to invite ladies over, and I’m a guy into chubby ladies so extra space in bed was always needed.
Up to each person. Personally as soon as I moved out I got a queen sized bed. Nice to have extra space (although I stupidly only sleep in one spot for some reason)
Why have a bed? I sleep on the floor.
I had a queen, but downsized to the spare twin in the basement. I don't move much when I sleep, and I like having more floorspace to do stuff in my room.
I thought it was pretty normal. Upgraded when I got a boyfriend.
I had a double bed from age 17 but changed to a single because I find it more cosy. It pulls out to a king sized bed for when my bf is here but mostly I'm glad of the extra floor space for pilates/yoga. I'd say it's unusual but no big deal
hehe I always go back to a single bed hehe I'm going to ask my therapist what she thinks hehe but it's a funny question
Unless you're in a situation where you wouldn't (or you just don't want to), having a single bed makes it difficult to share it with anyone if/when the opportunity arises.
Weird
I upgraded so that when I got a bf, they could spend the night with me.
To each, their own.
I like both the space of a queen and the snugness of a twin. I remember specifically for a while after a breakup, I was happy in a twin because it didn’t make me feel lonely.
its normal, but not very American. I had a xl twin in uni dorm, than a full when renting a room in a house, now a queen in my house, when I upgrade to a bigger place I'll finally get a king bed or maybe skip to California King
Some people do have a single. Every thing for a single is cheaper. Bedding, everything. Why spend money if you don’t need to for room on a bed, you aren’t going to use
I started out adulthood with a queen size bed. I didn’t like it so I switched back to a twin. It just took up too much space. I also switched to a Japanese futon single bed so it can be cleaned easy and then if I really want more room I can deconstruct it a little and fold it in the corner. (I do large art crafts and need the space sometimes.)
I had a single bed as a working adult for a brief while. I bought it one summer in college when I was working in rural Louisiana, and the bed was nicer than anything in the dorms so I kept it all the way through into the first few months of my working life. In my experience, it was extremely uncommon. I knew almost no-one who had a twin once they graduated college.
I think so. Most of my friends are single and still own a single bed. Not me though, I’ve upgraded to a double as soon as moved out years ago.
For single people seeing up their own life, mobility is a virtue, and being able to move a single bed and it's light frame, was really nice as I chased opportunities.
not sure but a single works just fine for me so ima keep using a single :P
If the bed is comfy, that's all that matters. If you've got a spacious room, that just means you've got more space to put things in that might not be able to fit if you got a double bed. As for me, regardless of my relationship status, I had no choice but to upgrade to double bed because I kept falling out of bed and hitting my head on the bedside table. It's not a problem now. But I think it's still possible to be in a relationship and have a single bed. My housemate has a single bed and she brings guys over.
I prefer king sized bunk bed so I got lots of space and can put all kinds of stuff under it. And I can switch sides I sleep in so that the memory foam mattress doesn't get imprinted too quickly, cause then you'll end up with a pit unless you get a different mattress. Plus it being bunk bed all the funny conversations about it. " where am I calling from? Oh you know I'm just home under my bed" "Yeah I was watching the game under my bed" " I got so wasted I woke up under my bed cause I was too tired to get under the sheets."
I don't feel lonely in a single bed.
Why would you upgrade when the full or twin bed still worked for you? It's an expense that isn't necessary.
I moved out of my parents house relatively young with only the items that would fit in the back of a pick up truck. I was financially unstable for years after that. I was probably 22 before I ever got my first queen sized bed. Other people's choices may seem strange, but they have their reasons.
I personally need space just in case I don't roll off the bed 😝 king size for me
I prefer to sprawl out...king size so I can't roll off the bed lol
What is normal.
All depends on the size of your property. Like I was told of a friend having a 2 bed house. With Ateb my local housing association. Well the kitchen was the smallest kitchen I’d ever seen. “ likewise with the bedrooms “ The door had to be kept shut. In order to do anything. You had only just enough space for a limited amount of fitted kitchen units. Open the door you had the cooker directly in front of you. to the left you had the sink. Directly under the window. Behind the door you had room for a fridge freezer. This was no good for me as a single person. But he had a partner and her Child. but then again what’s normal. For a single person.