What is on your bedside table?

[Ginger]

Originally Posted by deb_U_taunt

What is on your beside table?

I was looking at mine the other day and I'll be damned, but it made me feel like an old lady.

Kleenex
Vitamins/caltrate, multi, joint relief (wow)
Jewelry
Dog Treats (sad, but true)
Crochet hook and latest project
Water bottle
TV remote
Slippers (dog steals them if I leave them down and above dog treats are bribes to get them back if I do)
a few movies I picked up at the library
Eye glasses
Crossword puzzle book

LOL you made me smile and I'm just waking up so that's a lot!

[Ginger]

I have a table on each side of the bed. Each one has one of my mom's bridge napkins from the sixties (corny floral pattern, yellow and red), and a little Ikea lamp with a paper shade ($9.99!).

In addition, one side has:

Chartreuse candle on white ceramic base
Tiny digital alarm clock (not a radio, real simple)
Box of kleenex in wicker box cover
Little ceramic dish I got in Greece, with a lid
Pencil holder made out of a smooth stone

And the other side has:

Turquoise candle on same white ceramic base
Books
Cell phone
Another little dish from Greece
Multi-colored, striped coaster


This thread is funny, so intimate and yet in my case, not so much

[Sachita]

I'd really like to know what's in those drawers! lol Mine are fun!


ON my nightstands -

The side I sleep on- lamp, bottle of lotion, remote, always water, candle, very large chunk of amethyst with a quartz cut channel stone I've had for many many years.

The otherside - lamp, kindle, few bottles of essential oils and a warm mist humidifier.

[DapperButch]

The 5 people on this short thread who mentioned they have guns next to their bed, are all of you serious?

I guess since the whole "having the gun at the ready", is so far outside of my experience, I sometimes wonder if people are just pulling our legs and I am the only one who doesn't know this.

No judgement, it just really throws me when I read things like this.

So, was anybody kidding (maybe you, Clay?)?

[Sachita]

Originally Posted by DapperButch

The 5 people on this short thread who mentioned they have guns next to their bed, are all of you serious?

I guess since the whole "having the gun at the ready", is so far outside of my experience, I sometimes wonder if people are just pulling our legs and I am the only one who doesn't know this.

No judgement, it just really throws me when I read things like this.

So, was anybody kidding (maybe you, Clay?)?

Kind of scary huh?

I keep a shot gun inside my closet but not next to bed. My dogs would first raise hell and then I would.

[PinkieLee]

Originally Posted by DapperButch

The 5 people on this short thread who mentioned they have guns next to their bed, are all of you serious?

I guess since the whole "having the gun at the ready", is so far outside of my experience, I sometimes wonder if people are just pulling our legs and I am the only one who doesn't know this.

No judgement, it just really throws me when I read things like this.

So, was anybody kidding (maybe you, Clay?)?

Yep, I'm another person that has a gun in the nightstand. Well in the top drawer of D's nightstand.

On my nightstand:
a lamp
a coaster
ice water... every night before bed
Johnson's nighttime lotion
hair ties
jewelry that I wear every day
my glasses
and my phone... it is my alarm clock

[UofMfan]

On one side:

Reading lamp
Saline solution
Glass of water
Phone
Bottle of Zinc tablets


On the other side:

Kindle
Cell phone
Phone charger
Notebook
Pen

No gun(s) here, thank you.

[Zimmeh]

On my night table:

Crabtree & Evelyn's Nantucket Briar dusting powder
Bath & Body Works lavender and vanilla sleep lotion
Loccitane en Provance's mango shea butter hand cream
Two pictures
My iPhone 4S and charger

Zimmeh

[thedivahrrrself]

In/on my nightstand, are the following items:
A lamp
a Kleenex box
a coaster
a copy of Bureaucracy and Democracy, which helps me sleep
usually a glass of water and whatever earrings I've been wearing that day
the only item I've ever owned made of real fur
a headset for sleeping with the phone on
some Burt's Bees for my lips
and a loaded .38 which I hope I'll never have to use.

[clay]

pistol packin' ladies...hawtttttt

[Blade]

I don't have a bedside table I have a bookcase head board. Items include but are not limited to....My Bible, Qtips, kleenex, remote controls, water bottle, fan, lamp, dust, a pistol and my hat

[Ginger]

Oh yeah and I forgot to add ... next to the Ikea lamp with the paper shade on my night table there's my Glock 19, my LadySmith Revolver (it's corny but I like corny), my Baretta 92F, my pretty little Ruger, my 38 Special (that was actually my first), my Taurus Small Frame Revolver, my sweet little S&W M37, my Kahr K9, my heavily customized Kahr E9 (which is starting to bore me), my Taurus PT111 (I just keep it for nostalgic reasons), my EG Makarov, and my good old Glock 27.

Okay just kidding. I don't have a gun, though I grew up visiting my grandparents' farms and ranches where everyone had rifles, because they needed them for taking care of wild things that might menace the chickens or calves. And then my parents had guns, and I think my sister does, but I'm not sure. Oh and I had a lover who had a rifle, and she kept it on the floor by the mattress in a cabin we slept in sometimes upstate.

I think I'm processing how it feels to learn so many people here on the Planet say they have guns.

So I tried saying it too to see how it felt, and kind of rolled the gun talk around in my mouth and played with it, which is of course a silly thing to do. I'll never get a gun, but I do like the vocabulary of small arms.

[Lady Pamela]

Lamp, TAO Oricle Cards, Coffee, Phone, Computer monitor, Blood Presure cuff

[Bard]

well add me to the gun club.. my off duty is in my night stand second shelf
40 cal S&W
on the night stand ..
alarm clock
small lamp
stack of books about 5 right now
jar that Desd put my pens change and chapstick in
bottle of water
crumpled recipets
glasses and cell phone

and a special love note from Desd

[laruss]

My bedside table (keep in mind I am not in my own home)
Kobo
Book
Cell phone plugged into charger
Floss picks
Home phone
Phone case (not on phone??)
Box of Makeup (which is all my dressup make up, not my day to day make up)
Hand lotion
Foot lotion
Body lotion
4 perfumes
Water bottle
Coffee cup
Case for my splint (I'm wearing said splint as I grind my teeth)
Muscle relaxants
Tums
Cold FX
Pen
Lamp
Stereo
Kobo cord
Vibrator
Batteries
Box of kleenex
Nail file x 2
A whole bunch of stuff that doesnt belong to me on the bottom shelf (there are 3 shelves)

In my bed
My Mac laptop
My PC laptop
2 Magazines
Oh my god can you tell I am single??

I have to say I do not have a gun, I am a Canadian, we don't need guns. I know some Canadians who have them, but we also have laws about gun cases and such so they would never (legally) be beside the bed.
I would also never be in a bed that had one in or on the nightstand, In fact I don't even like the idea of being in a home that has guns in a a gun case. I guess having one put in your face when younger and being threatened with death will do that to you.

[Rockinonahigh]

Originally Posted by DapperButch

The 5 people on this short thread who mentioned they have guns next to their bed, are all of you serious?

I guess since the whole "having the gun at the ready", is so far outside of my experience, I sometimes wonder if people are just pulling our legs and I am the only one who doesn't know this.

No judgement, it just really throws me when I read things like this.

So, was anybody kidding (maybe you, Clay?)?

I ashure you I wasn't kidding.I moved into a new place ten years ago but didnt think it was one of the worst parts of my town.My house was broken into with me on the phone calling to cops and the perp laughing at the whole thing while he was trying to got the door open,if it hadnt been I shot a hole in the door a foot oever his head I most likely wouldnt be hear to type this plus the house across the street was a crack house..no joke.I had no place else to go so I stayed untill I had enough cash to move.Now I take no chances.

[dixie]

Top Tier:
- reading lamp
- glasses
- Motorola Xoom
- LG Intuition and bluetooth, with chargers
- bottle of water
- acid reflux meds (freakin 2am heartburn from hell)

Bottom Tier:
- subwoofer thingy for the surround sound (yes, I have surround sound in my bedroom as well as the living room)
- antique glass urn (full of coins)
- Hitachi (no, I do not listen to porn in surround sound)
- remotes for tv, dvd, surround sound, PS3 controller (so I'm a gamer, ok)
- wireless keyboard and mouse (because my pc is hooked up to the 32" flat screen on the wall)
- .38 special (cause I'm that kinda girl)

[dixie]

Hmm....never really thought about the gun thing. I grew up with a grandma who wore a garter gun. I also have 2 guns on top of the china cabinet in the dining room, another revolver in my closet (which I usually forget about and falls on my head when I'm trying to reach for stuff), and a gun safe with rifles and shotguns, along with the antique weaponry that has been passed down to me. For me, I think it's just how I was raised. *shrug*

[jules5041]

On my bedside table is my kindle fire, my pill box, my lamp, Hello Kitty IPod dock alarm, Blistex, a Dr. Pepper and at this moment some Kleenex.

Jules

[Bleu]

Originally Posted by dixie

Hmm....never really thought about the gun thing. I grew up with a grandma who wore a garter gun. I also have 2 guns on top of the china cabinet in the dining room, another revolver in my closet (which I usually forget about and falls on my head when I'm trying to reach for stuff), and a gun safe with rifles and shotguns, along with the antique weaponry that has been passed down to me. For me, I think it's just how I was raised. *shrug*

Ditto, pretty much, except the grandma with a garter gun. My grandma had hers in her purse. She had fire engine red hair. Her name was Dolly Clements who came from hearty pioneer stock.