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- noun Any of a set of
spiral springs set into abox spring .
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Purchase mattress, box-spring and pillowcase encasements
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Purchase mattress, box-spring and pillowcase encasements
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Purchase mattress, box-spring and pillowcase encasements
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Purchase mattress, box-spring and pillowcase encasements
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Here's a smart way to cope with the mountain of books beside the bed: easy-sew pockets that slip between the box-spring and the mattress and hang down on the side of the bed.
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A queen-size bedbug-proof fabric encasement can cost $45 to $120 or more; box-spring covers -- generally made out of cheaper material -- costs about half as much.
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Turned out it was not the frame, but the box-spring that was doing all the complaining.
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When I recently replaced my mattress and box-spring, my noisy bed went silent.
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Taped inside the hollow underbelly of her box-spring mattress, I liberated and took as my inheritance her plastic baggie of Oxys and Percs and Vikes, some purchased illicitly, but most procured blatantly, from prescriptions left behind by aching houseguests or depressed live-in maids.
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Taped inside the hollow underbelly of her box-spring mattress, I liberated and took as my inheritance her plastic baggie of Oxys and Percs and Vikes, some purchased illicitly, but most procured blatantly, from prescriptions left behind by aching houseguests or depressed live-in maids.
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