I make hundreds renting out one side of my bed — but ‘hot bedding’ requires boundaries
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She’s living the dream — sleeping with folks and charging them per lay.
Welcoming strangers into her bed every night has become a profitable practice for one sexy singleton, who tucks in an extra $600 a month by renting out the unoccupied side of her mattress — where her ex-boyfriend once slept for two years.
Her hot side hustle is part of the “hot bedding” trend.
“Hot bedding is excellent for people who are able to detach emotionally and sleep next to another person in a completely respectful and non-strings-attached manner,” Monique Jeremiah, 36, an entrepreneur from Queensland, Australia, told CatersNews.
And while hot bedding has yet to achieve viral glory on social media, a popular TikTok clip, which garnered over 762,000 views, detailed the monetary benefits, as well as the potential dangers, of the fad.
But Jeremiah says the trend can be an extremely lucrative move — as long as both parties are clear on the terms.
“It takes two people who respect each other’s space, values, and boundaries to do hot bedding,” continued the brunette. “It is just like sharing a room with two beds; however, you only sleep in the same bed together, so you definitely want a big bed and lots of space in the room to make it worthwhile.”
Jeremiah, the founder of Diversity Models — an agency that specializes in providing curvy, cultural, and mature-aged models for businesses — began leasing out her boudoir at the onset of the pandemic as an effort to supplement her income and enjoy some much-needed companionship.
“At the start of COVID in early 2020, I suddenly found myself single,” said Jeremiah. “My thriving business of an international education agency and student accommodation collapsed overnight, and my teaching career suddenly became unfulfilling as education went online.”
Like millions around the world, she was forced to make quick changes to her professional life in order to survive the global health crisis.
While Jeremiah chose hot bedding as her lifesaver, others like NYC engineer Gautier Coiffard, 32, took up bread baking as a means of making more money during lockdown.
Likewise, other creative New Yorkers, such as Lisa Costa of Queens bakery shop Love, Peace, and Dough, began running small businesses from the comforts of their own homes.
In Jeremiah’s case, with her world fast crumbling, the fast thinker made a humbling call for help to her ex.
“My life was literally imploding beyond my control,” she recalled. “I knew my only option was to innovate and think outside the box, and that’s how I decided to do hot bedding.”
“In a moment’s thought,” continued Jeremiah, “I swallowed my pride, contacted my ex-partner, whom I hadn’t spoken to in a year, and said to him, ‘Do you want to survive COVID together?’ And to my surprise, he said, ‘Yes.’”
The bedtime tycoon says she and her former honey have now bedded down together for money twice — and they’re gearing up to hit the sheets yet again.
“He will be sleeping with me again soon,” said the moneymaker, adding that her platonic sleepover prices are going up due to inflation.
“I will be raising the hot bedding rate [to a little over $160 a week, or $640 a month], when he returns,” Jeremiah revealed. “The cost of living has gone up significantly in Australia and my room is still a beautiful, comfortable room, the size of a five-star hotel suite.”
While she realizes that not everyone would be cool with hot bedding, Jeremiah reveres the stream of passive income as a dream job.
“It is the perfect situation, especially if you are a sapiosexual, like myself, and you prefer companionship over the physical,” raved the mattress magnate.
“Being an entrepreneur is already a lonely journey as you build a company,” said Jeremiah. “So why sleep alone when you can sleep with a companion, with someone with the same discipline and drive, while making money in your sleep?”
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