Sleeping in Cupboards

Think your sleeping situation is challenging?  In days of yore, people slept in cupboards, as Zuria Gorvett describes in “The Strange Reasons Medieval People Slept in Cupboards (2024, https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240122-the-strange-reasons-medieval-people-slept-in-cupboards): “Otherwise known as a closet bed or close bed, the box bed was surprisingly popular across Europe from the medieval era to the early 20th Century. These heavy pieces of furniture involved exactly what you would expect – a box made of wood that contained a bed. Some were plain and…

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