Simply not true. A bed was often the first, and most expensive, piece of furniture that a family would own. As firefighting at the time mostly consisted of ge

Simply not true. A bed was often the first, and most expensive, piece of furniture that a family would own. As firefighting at the time mostly consisted of getting the things that can burn out of a building, and the bed was big and valuable, firefighters of the late 1700s would carry a "bed key" for quickly disassembling the family bed to get it out of the burning building. A bed was more than just a bunch of rough-hewn sticks at this time, and a well-made bed would have metal supports and fasteners as well as crafted ornementation and design. No one who could possibly afford to buy a decent bed was walking out into the woods and cutting down trees for that purpose...