You fucking mattress (or bed)

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This is OUR local mattress salesman, Big Mick the Mattress Man, from whom I bought my futon. He has all the local ads and is a badass bcz he growls his catchphrase like Macho Man Randy Savage. Srsly these ads are insanely entertaining. I want to make a movie of him starring Paul Giamatti as Big Mick. Someone plays me, buying a mattress (cannot figure out who would be cast here), and Anjelica Huston plays my mom-in-law.

Even if the title of this thread was "Your fucking mattress (or bed)" it would still be inaccurate.

sniffle

My talking has gone to a shit for a while, but now it' my typing too. Fudge!

Cate Blanchett plays my mom, on the phone, when I call and tell her about my new mattress, and she tells me I got ripped off.

Changed out mattress of 4 years last month. Totally easy online order, and they carted the old one away. I'm not a total princess over the feel of the mattress, so maybe there's a milage variance in play.

that slate article is pretty stupid - I spend about half of every year sleeping in various hotels, and I sleep on a lot of different beds. anybody who says he can't immediately tell the difference between the bed they give you in a motel 6 and the one you get in a sheraton is lying or an android.

I know, but who to trust in this wide, weird world of mattresses? Your back, I suppose.

1. go to a ritz carlton and ask what kind of mattresses they have
2. buy that kind

all I really know is that mattresses appear to be a real cut-throat marginal business because their ads and storefronts are right up there with used cars in the Fuck You Shut Up stakes

you fucking mattress

I am always jealous of dudes who've been through whatever it is you gotta go through to be able to sleep like a goddamn baby no matter where you lie down

got a king as a wedding present, which is awesome. but it has turned out to be too soft and is much too expensive to replace

the day i switched from futon to mattress was a beautiful beautiful day
sort of like the day i went back to mac
the futon was great and supported me and i didn't have too many complaints about it esp since i'd gotten so used to how it felt, but once the mattress happened, well there's just no going back

i kind of want a memory foam pillow tho

i've been sleeping on one of these (queen size) since august and it's a damn sight more comfortable than any futon mattress i've ever slept on. but i still have a bad back. :-(

i've been sleeping on futons for 20 years and think they're fine if you get a good one. if i made a lot more money i'd probably get a "real" mattress i guess, but that would be well down the list of household purchases

i have a futon with an additional foam mattress on top. looks like a real bed. treats me pretty well, but i'm thinking of possibly a featherbed for added niceness. or, maybe i will buy a big girl bed some day...

Sonnoed in a mattress beef

Dude you should get one of those pillows, rrrobyn, they are like $30.

My gf and I share a twin bed.

We are not dwarves.

It is a tight fit.

there are ways to consolidate

(anal)

jesus, hoos, what??

lol remy

Yeah we both had twins, then we moved in together.

Kept her matress and my frame, didn't have the money at the time to get a bigger bed.

I reckon neither of you kick or shift around much in your sleep. I am a dangerous sleeping partner in my larger-than-full sized bed.

I have a really thick futon on a steel frame loft bed. I love it. Full 6ft wide.

Yeah I have learned to sleep on my side. Not especially well, and I have to pop my back when I get up in the morning, but I sleep.

But then I've always had to pop my back in the morning.

about a year ago i celebrated new job status w/a made-to-order mattress from these people, "litvinoff & fawcett" -

http://www.landf.co.uk

they are about a 15-minute drive down the road. i told them how many centimetres each side of the mattress should be. i had a choice between firm and regular and i said firm. they were like "are you SURE? because 'firm' is really really firm!" i sat on a couple of their floor model mattresses to see, and i was right - i did want firm. i am happier about this purchase than any other i have ever made with the possible exception of my first car. i remember to rotate every two months and flip every six months. i don't have a box spring for it but i do have a bed with slats, and it goes directly on the slats, which gives it a little spring and allows it to breathe, which is apparently important.

someday i would love to be able to afford one of their beds, but i doubt that day will ever come, frankly.

I thought the thread's title was a call to put furniture in its place

"YOU FUCKING MATTRESS!"

there is so much crazy mattress porn.. "pocket sprung" mattresses, exotic words like "coir" (which i think is coconut fiber).. strangely though i think the most expnsive mattresses are stuffed only with cotton

so I've decide to get a new fucking mattress. I've had an decent ikea one for 15 years but this time I want sth more high end. Any tips?

I like stearns and foster but only cause I got it on sale at a discount warehouse awhile ago. I like hard/stiff mattresses (pause...)

as soon as you leave the world of ikea/habitat, prices just seem insane.

mine was...$300 iirc? tbh I think everybody would have better posture/no back problems if they just slept on a thin mattress on the floor like japanese people do

Futon mattress.

yeah, that's actually one of my fave things about camping, sleeping on a ridgerest on hard ground. it can be weird and ache-y in the morning, but in kind of a good way?

We have a futon mattress; not a really thin one, but firm nonetheless. I can't imagine sleeping on anything else now.

About £250-£300 from http://www.futoncompany.co.uk/

Hard mattresses KILL MY BACK. I think I have certain spinal alignement/body shape issues, tho. Wd prefer a hammock, I secretly suspect. Someday I will try sleeping in one and report back.

as soon as you leave the world of ikea/habitat, prices just seem insane.

I'm afraid of this. Hear good things about the Macy's warehouse/outlet sale, btw.

I was debating getting a new mattress when I moved to a house since I hadn't slept on mine for a few months after moving out of the ex's place and we'd used mine. Guess what? My decent pillowtop mattress has no emotional baggage and I still sleep like a baby on it.

Only bad thing about pillowtops is you can only rotate 180 degrees and not flip them over, but whatever.

i hate to recommend college freshman libertarian propaganda like this, but the Penn & Teller Bullshit episode on "Sleep, Inc" was entertainin. And pretty much says that even cheap beds could be the right bed for you.

http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/Penn_Teller_Bullsh_t_Season_6_Sleep_Inc./70119562?trkid=921403

when i moved in with my boyfriend, we managed to score a queen size tempurpedic for half price because it was a floor model. totally awesome bed, though I don't know if I would have paid full price.

the frame we have is this totally gigantic 4-poster Balinese teak opium bed that we scored on craigslist for mad cheap. it's all pegged construction so it was literally puzzling to get it all together. and it's huge. as in, the base is about 2.5 feet off the ground, then we have the boxspring on top of that, and then the mattress, so i have to haul my ass up almost 4 feet up into bed. kinda bothersome, tbh.

the bedframe is creaky and possibly haunted.

NSFW furniture vendor

pix elmo!

elmo are you able to bowl on your bed while also using it as a stand for your glasses of red wine?

yeah? how long have you had it? i was looking at them too....

2 years or so

oh wow ok i'm going to look into that again. thank you.

actually yeah we went to the mattress showroom, got a Serta, planned to return it when we got the Saatva, then the deliverymen fucked up the Serta when they brought us the Saatva, and it took forever to get the claim processed since the store wouldn't accept the damaged Serta. Man, this thread in my gmail archives goes on for 2 months.

ohh! v interesting and helpful. you may v well have just helped me avoid going through the same two months.

I've got an Ikea king size bed and a memory foam mattress. Fine if you're sleeping alone, but as soon as two people get in, you find yourselves tipping towards the middle of the bed into each other. Got a feeling that the mattress is too heavy for the bed.

the mattress that has been in my flat since before i moved in (19 years ago) did that thing they do in the cartoons on saturday - there was a pointy spring sticking out of the middle of it.

so, bought a new memory foam mattress from argos (not the argos home brand one, the next one up, silentnight). it's a bit odd, softer than the current one by some way and you can sink into it in a very localised way - my heavy top half sinks in but my legs 'float' so end up higher than my head (at least it feels that way). i will get used to it.

anyway, a question. the bed base is also wrecked and needs replacing. the one i like has slats (the current one is a divan and is, or was, solid). will i feel the slats through the foam? the foam seems to be backed with some stiffer material so i think it'll be ok but...

you don't feel slats through the bed but ime slats are less comfortable than a box spring

i currently sleep on a shitty ikea mattress and slatty base combo and it is shit

I have a Cali King size foam mattress on a platform bed. I love it. It's like an island.

Box springs feel like a foreign concept here - none of the 300+ things I've seen online have them, things either use slats or a flat, hard surface. Maybe it's my price-point.

My bed at university (same halls for 3 years) were just cheap, industrial foam slabs on solid wooden frames and were no trouble at all. This new fangled memory foam still feels wrong, like quicksand.

It was very hard in the US to find a large size platform bed that didn't use slats. Mine has upholstered flat boards and it was pretty decently priced. Box springs just seem like a waste to me.

I'm content with a $200 mattress set purchased 17 years ago. Before that, I was content with a hand me down 1960s era mattress. There's a 50% chance that I rotate the mattress when moving house.

Most modern mattresses are too firm for me, and ridiculously thick. I mean, these hip-height beds I see in showrooms and when visiting relatives are all about sex positions, aren't they?

love a firm mattress. my back would kill for one

i guess i have used box springs in the past because my mattresses were shitty and i required the extra support

I was just looking up a mattress and have to report that review sites include whether the mattress is suitable for sex

fucking mattress indeed

I think I got the firmest foam mattress that was listed. I never realized how hard my childhood bed was growing up until I had to sleep in it again after several years and I was like wtf mom? Even my spouse was amazed how hard that bed is. I like the foam because I wake up very quickly so it's nice not to feel someone shifting around beside you.

And totally rotate our mattress every 6 months.

It never occurred to me that hip height beds may be a sex thing. I just thought it was a princessy thing.

dated someone who had her bed elevated a little further (mattress, box springs, then little extenders on the bed frame legs) to store stuff under it and that theory has some merit

We got an eluxury foam mattress a few years ago, with some trepidation because we weren't familiar with the name, and it's been great.

on average mattresses are supposed to last about 10 years apparently.

the one i talked about wayy upthread ^ developed a musty smell a couple of years ago that we couldn't get rid of. dunno what happened. went back to exactly the same people, got exactly the same mattress, exactly as happy as we were to get our new mattress now as we were then: very. firmest we could get. though we have a futon in the spare room which i almost prefer because it is so goddamn firm.

We have a futon on a slatted bed base. I would have it on the floor if we could but that has been ruled too firm.

I live in a shithole that is a major bed manufacturing hub of the UK these days. Many of them are diabolical zero-hours minimum wage companies and at least one of them (Kozee Sleep) got into slight trouble for using imported slave labour doing 16 hour shifts! It makes me feel better about only being able to afford charity shop furniture these days... I couldn't care less if last owner expired in the damned thing, will still sleep on it :p

"dated someone who had her bed elevated a little further to store stuff under it and that theory has some merit"

sure she did

I have an Avocado natural mattress. It came in a box. It's a king size and is absurdly comfortable. I've gotten arthritis in my spine, hips, knees, etc and our 20 year old queen with a box spring was killing me even though my wife thought it was fine.

And totally rotate our mattress every 6 months.

guy who sold me my foam mattress advised to rotate every 3 mos. said foam ones need to be rotated more often than spring ones.

ohhh, good to know. I sleep like a starfish and spouse still sleeps diagonal despite having a longer bed now so I figure maybe that helps a little

New mattress time! Anyone have any experience with Leesa Sapira hybrids? That's the one that's most caught my eye.

I got one of those Casper mattresses from Costco and it’s so cozy

keeping an eye on this thread because it also needs to be new mattress time in this house. I think I want a hybrid one again? hrrrm.

Yeah I think I'm settling (har har) on the Leesa Sapira, after reading lots of things about it and other competitors. Saatvas (recommended upthread) seem like the top-rated brand overall, but they're $1,000+ more in the categories and size I'm looking at. Only question now is whether to spring an extra $300-$400 for the Sapira "Chill" option, which has extra cooling. Just not sure how necessary it might be. But the mattress comes with like a 4-month trial period, so if we don't like it we can trade in or up.

please check that out asap!

not that I’m using you for review purposes and really want to buy a new mattress asap or anything 😉

Tipsy have you checked out these local dudes?

https://brothersbedding.com/product/stability-firm/

UK recommendations also appreciated

dl my last two mattresses (which lasted 10 years each respectively) were handmade by these guys - https://www.landf.co.uk and they have been great.

Though i believe LocalGarda also bought one and he says it was not robust enough for his, er requirements?

lol, it ripped at the side after two/three years of one careful owner. i left it in my flat when i moved as decided it had done its time and moving a mattress not worth it for a ripped one.

my current one is john lewis, i spent circa £900 on it but it's the best one i've had and no problems after five years or so.

I live in a shithole that is a major bed manufacturing hub of the UK these days. Many of them are diabolical zero-hours minimum wage companies and at least one of them (Kozee Sleep) got into slight trouble for using imported slave labour doing 16 hour shifts! It makes me feel better about only being able to afford charity shop furniture these days... I couldn't care less if last owner expired in the damned thing, will still sleep on it :p

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About a decade ago a friend of mine who worked in a Government agency tackling national crime, told me that the shadowy world of mattress sellers in London was a major hotspot for organised crime, featuring: mattress companies being a major part of the money laundering system , firms going bankrupt overnight and starting up again the next day, warehouse torching, and mattress delivery people being targeted by rival firms. One upside was that the 'informal economy' had led to a wide range of firms in London competing to get a mattress delivered to your door in a matter of a few hours ...

I see mattress fraud and organised crime links still seems to be a thing though - caveat emptor: Organised Crime and Reporting Project:UK Bed Makers Warn of Mattress Fraud

I got one of those Casper mattresses from Costco and it’s so cozy

We just did too! Although we got a foam, not hybrid. I've never owned a foam mattress so there was some hesitation, but we decided to go for it and I find it extremely comfortable. Great price too, compared to everything else we were looking at

I can and do sleep on anything, but my bf is a choosy sleeper and we oddly lucked into the greatest mattress situation imaginable.

I found a local mattress dealer, after weeks of “the same fucking mattresses” at all the chains. He ordered his mattresses custom made from mattress factories in Surrey BC. I went in and said “I’m looking for a pocket spring mattress with absolutely no memory foam” and got an extra firm one with the springs going right to the edge— which is great when it’s my bf and I in a queen with our large dog between us taking up a lot of space.

I’m unclear as to how much the mattress dealer was “being a crank” and was speaking the truth, but he said that Sealy and Serra et al were all purchased by hedge funds and were no longer worthwhile mattress manufacturers. All I know is this mattress cost 2000 CAD and is the most exquisitely comfortable thing I’ve ever slept on, lied on, spent the day working on. It never overheats, the extra firm is great for sleep and sex, and if my body grows tired of the firmness level it’s as simple as adding a mattress pad on my side of the bed.

In short: find your local cranky mattress dealer and shell out— or, if you’re like me, and can actually sleep on anything, save some money and get a Casper or whatever

Update as a follow-up: Our Leesa Sapira arrived, and one week in we are favorably impressed. You can feel the hybrid construction, in the sense that the foam top has some comfortable give to it, but there's a solid foundation so there's no sense of sinking in — to the degree that I've returned to sleeping with a second thin pillow under my regular pillow, because my body is staying more aloft and so my neck can use the extra support. There's a 120-day return window for it, but I don't foresee us needing that. My spouse reports that some persistent shoulder pain appears to be greatly alleviated.

(And Tracer, I totally forgot about the Brothers Bedding folks, so yeah I did not go look at theirs.)

I'm glad I kept my patience instead of prompting for an update yesterday! Did you end up opting for the chill hybrid feature?

We didn't — after reading about it we decided it probably wasn't necessary. I mean, I'm sure it would be nice! But so far anyway not noticing any problems with it being too hot. We already had had a Tempurpedic pad on top of our old mattress (that's how we got a few more years out of it), so pretty used to sleeping on foam.

one more question: did you go for medium-firm? I'm taking expansive notes here :D

never mind on that question -- I hadn't noticed it's only the Chill option that has a firmness option

Yeah that was one of the reasons we were looking at the Chill, because of the "firm" option. But after reading enough reviews of the regular Sapira it sounded to us like it would be sufficiently "medium firm" for our tastes, and so far that is indeed the case. I don't know that I personally would want something a lot firmer — but that's a very individual thing obv.

I think I'd be good with any new medium-to-firm mattress. It wasn't until a couple hotel and family stays that I realized my mattress is just worn out. The presumably cheap twin bed mattress at a family member's house wasn't good by any means but it clued me into the fact mine's not really holding up.

(I have now ordered the Leesa Sapira and will report back in later)

Our Sleep Number bed dates back to the tail end of 1999 and it is only barely tolerable because of the force of habit. In reality it is past 'bad'. After literally years of talking about getting a new bed I am lobbying hard to replace ours before the end of February. I think we can finally pull it off.

I am not in the pocket of big mattress but their 10 year lifespan seems reasonable. I'm at more like 15 years right now and while not busted, it's a consumed consumable

Ours was at 15 years too, would have been really bad the last few years except for tossing a $200 Tempurpedic pad on top of it the last 3-4 years.

Hope yr Sapira works for you mh! I will say it was a bit of a bear to get unpacked and onto the frame in the small space of our bedroom, but my son and I wrangled it.

my cat and I wrangled it. he quizzically paced around the room and got in the way a few times, as a cat does