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It's also impossible to comparison shop because most people buy them once a decade, you don't really break them in for weeks, and sleeping is so subjective it's
by blackearl 7y ago
It's also impossible to comparison shop because most people buy them once a decade, you don't really break them in for weeks, and sleeping is so subjective it's impossible to take anyone's word for it.
I bought a queen for around $600. It's fine. Improving sleep has been more about exercising more often, decreasing screen time, and reading/meditating before bed.
- ghaff 7y agoI was doing some research because I'm going to have to buy one for a vacation house later this year. On the one hand, I don't want to just randomly choose an expensive purchase. On the other hand, truth be told, I spend a quarter to a third of nights in various hotel rooms and they're mostly "fine." And I've personally had everything from a waterbed to a (high-end) futon in my own house. So I know I don't want something really crappy but so long as I don't go off in some weird direction or really cheap out, I'm sure I'll be just fine.
- gumby 7y agoI went with ikea for the vacation house. It is perfectly adequate (for us -- I know this is subjective) and realistically we only spend perhaps 50 nights a year there.
- blackearl 7y agoWell according to some of the other comments you can shop around for a "free" mattress because it's not worth returning. Just make you destroy it by leaving it somewhere, maybe like a vacation home.
- ghaff 7y agoI'm not sure I would count on that :-) I'm also not sure how I feel about the foam mattresses. That's one type of mattress I don't have a lot of experience sleeping on and my initial reaction in the store was it was "different" to a degree that I wasn't sure what to make of it. Also, I tend to be hot generally including when sleeping. From what I've read, a foam mattress may not be a great choice given that.
- Stratoscope 7y agoIf you sleep hot, memory foam is what you want to stay away from. You sink down into it and it molds around your body. Non-memory latex foam lets you sleep much cooler because you don't sink into it so much. I also tend to be too warm and have used latex foam mattresses for the last 20 years. They have been fine, unlike memory foam.
- rusticpenn 7y agoI am having heat boils on my back sleeping on an expensive Latex (which is designed to breathe very well). I have no idea what to go for next.
- megablast 7y agoYou can also get free stuff from the shop by putting it in your pocket and leaving.
- Spivak 7y agoThere is I think a little bit of an ethical grey area in buying, trying, and returning a thing in the hope that it’s not worth their effort to ship it back. I can’t really say that taking a company up on a free trial counts as wardrobing.
- bcrosby95 7y agoYeah, I bought an expensive umbrellas for my backyard. It came without a pin in the hinge so it wouldn't open/close properly. I told them, they said to throw it away and they would send me a new one. They sent me a new one but I repaired the other one - it seemed line a terrible waste to toss it. It crossed my mind that I could claim similar things for other objects even when they weren't broken. That said, they both broke within a year. Taught me another lesson: buy cheap, replace yearly. Better than buying expensive and replacing yearly. Now I buy $50 outdoor wooden umbrellas.
- OJFord 7y agoI'm no ecowarrior, but perhaps I am a contradiction-warrior ... You started out saying throwing one away seemed a terrible waste, and now you, by plan and forethought, do so annually?