Another page from Internet’s bizarre trends this week is hot bedding. Queensland based, Monique Jeremiah has earned over $50,000 with this trend. As cost of living skyrockets and cities are surged immigration contenders, people have found unique ways of sustaining the financial burden. Jeremiah, a 37 year old woman from Canada shared her off-beat earning source – hot bedding.
What is hot bedding?
Hot-bedding is a practice where people share the same bed in shifts, often due to high living costs or limited housing. It originated in overcrowded environments like military barracks, ships, or industrial cities, where workers with opposite shifts would use the same bed at different times to save space and money.
By renting out one side of her bed for as high as 600 AUD a month, the Queensland entrepreneur innovated the concept. Finding herself jobless during the COVID-19 pandemic, she came up with the idea in the times of necessity. Losing her teaching job to online learning, she was eager to sustain herself.
While hot-bedding hasn’t fully become the newest buzz-word on social media, TikTok caught on. Jeremiah spoke with Caters News mentioning how the arrangements works like “sharing a room with two beds where you just happen to sleep in the same bed”. Expressing the rationale behind her unorthodox business idea, she said, “it’s great for people who value companionship but aren’t looking for anything physical.”
Monique Jeremiah is currently runs a modelling agency called Diversity Models. Her social media presence shows her work with specially abled peopled and giving them a platform. Her agency exclusively represents disability models and heads other initiatives like production, fashion and events.