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Welcome to how to's quick fix. I'm Carvel Wallace. Quickfix is a corner of the how to empire, a place where we've been doing a bunch of different things, extended conversations, recommendations, recommendations for interesting stuff, and of course, advice. It's exclusive to our Slate Plus members, and since you are one of them, I want to say thank you on behalf of my co-host Courtney and the rest of the how-to team.

And speaking of the how to team, joining me today is one of our producers, Sarah McCrae.

Hey, Sarah.

Hi there.

So what are we here to quick fix with you?

Okay.

So I am in the process of moving.

And one of the things I gave away was the mattress I had been sleeping on for the previous two years.

Okay.

When I moved to New York City, I moved into a closet-sized room in a three-bedroom apartment that already had a mattress and a bed from the previous tenant.

It was a completely memory foam mattress, but I didn't want to be picky.

It was free.

And it was pretty soft.

And so when my dad helped me move in, I was like, you know, this mattress, I wish it was

a bit more firm.

And he took all the cardboard boxes I moved in with and shoved them under the mattress

above the

bed frame just to firm it up. And I was like, yeah, this seems like a good short-term solution.

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