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Seems similar to a japanese futon, though they are usually filled with cotton rather than wool. Sleeping on a wool blanket seems dreadful in hot temperatures,
by icebraining 6y ago
Seems similar to a japanese futon, though they are usually filled with cotton rather than wool.
Sleeping on a wool blanket seems dreadful in hot temperatures, though. Does it ever get to high 70s or more where you live?
- war1025 6y ago> Does it ever get to high 70s or more where you live? We live in Iowa. A quick look at the weather suggests that the high for this week is 86F. 90s aren't uncommon during the summer. It usually cools off fairly significantly at night. We don't use our AC except on the very hottest four or five days of the year, and always open the windows back up after supper if we did use the AC that day. Wool is basically a miracle material in my opinion. The bed doesn't get hot. If you put a wool blanket on top of you, yes you will get too hot. But if you sleep either without a blanket or with a thin cotton on, it's really not bad. Part of it might be that we are stubborn and counter-cultural, but also it's just a really comfortable bed and you can adjust to heat much easier than people accustomed to AC assume.
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- Giorgi 6y agoUnfortunately lots of people have wool allergy
- war1025 6y agoPeople have a lanolin allergy, not a wool allergy. Lanolin can be washed out.
- ghaff 6y agoYou probably need to be comfortable with harder mattresses. But I use a higher-end futon on a platform bed that is about 20 years old at this point. (I do also have a featherbed on top of that but TBH I actually fluff it and redistribute so seldom I'm not sure it makes a lot of difference.) In Massachusetts, I don't have AC except (sometimes) in my office. I sleep on a pad downstairs a few days a year--I'm in the country--but usually the bedroom with a fan is fine by the time I'm going to bed.
- objektif 6y agoDo you know where we can buy a wool mattress?
- war1025 6y agoWe made ours, but Shepherds Dream is one place that I know of. https://shepherdsdream.com/ https://shepherdsdream.com/
- newen 6y agoWas when the covid lockdown started, but I had to resort to credit card chargeback with them after ordering, not getting the item after expected delivery period, and getting no response at all from customer service after calling them multiple times over multiple weeks.
- war1025 6y agoI think they must have gotten caught in the "not allowed to do business" category for a while. We ordered and didn't hear anything back for a while, but then once we got an email saying they "accepted" our order, it shipped very quickly. My wife had a question because they packaged things different than what we expected and they got back to us within an hour. Which is to say, yes we also had slow service from them at the start of lockdown, but after things eased up a bit, they were very responsive.
- icebraining 6y ago> It usually cools off fairly significantly at night. Ah, yes; I meant at night. We had summers of high 80s around midnight, and high 70s are reasonably common. We also don't have AC, but frankly despite being born and raised here, I could never adjust to the heat. I've been meaning to try a futon when I replace my current mattress; I will consider wool, thanks!
- hanniabu 6y ago> Part of it might be that we are stubborn and counter-cultural Since you said "we" I'm going to assume you have a SO, which begs the question of how's this setup with sex? If thought of making this transition before, but while this seems nice for sleeping it doesn't seem like it'd be that nice for sexy time.