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I think this goes together with the "don't buy cheap" rule. If you spend $100 on a mattress after a year or two it'll be ruined (and probably not very comfortab
by fy20 6y ago
I think this goes together with the "don't buy cheap" rule. If you spend $100 on a mattress after a year or two it'll be ruined (and probably not very comfortable to begin with), so it's better to invest say $500 (random number, I have no idea how much you should spend on a 'good enough' mattress) to get something better quality.
But yeah as you say, after a certain point it's diminishing returns. A Corolla will get you to work just as well as a Porsche, but that's not why people buy Porsches.
- lotsofpulp 6y ago$400 to $600 is the price Hilton/Marriott/Hyatt/IHG negotiated with Tempur Sealy and Simmons for their hotel mattresses. They come with pillow tops and don’t need to be flipped.
- jpetso 6y agoI may, in less experienced earlier years, have bought a needlessly semi-expensive >$1000 mattress. Even then, after sleeping on it for almost 10 years now, it has amortized pretty well. $100 a year isn't really something to worry over much, and saving half of it makes less of a difference than reducing coffee consumption for example. The cost per year still keeps falling. Even a $2000 mattress wouldn't be a giant expense compared to frequent & more expensive discretionary spending that people casually indulge in, such as new flagship smartphones or desktop CPUs/GPUs after 2-3 years, more than a single streaming video service or (God forbid) a car if bike+transit is a viable choice in your area. Nowadays I'd go about mattresses a little different, but in the grand scheme of things? Not even a blip.