One question that should have been asked during last week’s Spring Cleaning theme, without question is, “what’s under your bed?” It took this morning’s article from Sky.com to bring the matter to my attention.

Long the haven for all things forgotten, hidden, unsavory, or in any other way unacceptable for casual observance, the realm under the bed is no place for monsters, as we once believed in our childhoods. It’s more the place for sex toys and dirty magazines, dirty clothes, dirty dishes in some slovenly cases, and all manner of things we don’t use but can’t bring ourselves to throw away.

We sleep in a Captain’s Bed, which has three large drawers on either side of it. Xtine keeps some of her clothes in there, as well as her magazine article tear sheets, a lot of vintage pulp, her leather gear, and one whole drawer of nothing but backup hair and skin products. There’s a division between the sides of drawers where the cats sometimes hide amidst the dust balls. And that’s usually it. Today’s inspection revealed only one errant item: a rubber monster finger puppet, so I guess they do live under there after all!

I double dare you to inspect and report back on what you’ll find under your own bed. Honor code applies, but if the findings are truly embarrassing, aliases are very easy here, of course.

Strange Things Under Beds [news.sky.com]