I just got a couple of rugs for my house and at first I didn’t think I needed rug pads. I figured they were just a way to spend your money. Soon I found out that they are indeed necessary. In fact, my living room area rug kept bunching up, causing me to trip. I’m lucky that I didn’t hurt myself.

So, after I fell I got rug pads for every area rug in my house. The shag rug in my guest bedroom now has one as does the outdoor rug I use in the dining room. I am so sure of the necessity of rug pads now that I insisted my mother and father invest in that for their home.

Rug pads are inexpensive and they come in a lot of sizes. You can even cut them if you have an odd-sized rug. They resist mildew and mold naturally and when it’s time to replace them, you just toss the old one in the trash and you lay down another one.

I wish I would have known how great they are before. I could have saved myself from a couple of falls.

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