Mattress buying advice?

[BonerBoy]

Yo, we need a new mattress. Well, actually we don't need one, wife just thinks so.

Anyway we're gonna get one. What kind of price range am I looking at? What mattress purchases sucked 4 u?

What ones turned out 2 B really good?

I don't really care other than I like 'em firm like the body on that teenage girl from George Lopez! AYAYAYAYAY!

 

[Devastation]

say hi to white boy for me maing

 

[GoldenDelicious]

the mattress game is all hype. when you walk in, you get bombed with a bunch of bullshit like how many coils per square foot, how many support bands there are, how many struts there are, whether or not the struts are electroplated blah blah blah...its a load of crap. the bottom line is to avoid the cheapest of the cheap because theyre flimsy and there are so few springs that you feel the spring structure like a bed of stones, and avoid the top of the line because theyre hyped bullshit and you will happily burn thousands for nothing. watch the pillowtop stuff if your back sucks as the lack of support may worsen it, make sure its mostly synthetic if you have allergies (they mostly are anyway) be aware that the posturepaedic/orthopaedic stuff is all marketing spin so dont get sucked in, aaaand....that about it

(one of my gym buddies is the manager of the bedding section in one of the larger bedding stores (largest?), and i recently bought a mattress for my dad, so i just went through this)

imo if you spend over a grand youre a massive putz (i say spend less and change the damn thing more frequently) and/or need more friends in bedding store managerial positions

cheers

 

[musclemom]

With all due respect to Golden ... husband and I both have back and neck problems, the last time we bought bedding we bought the best in the store, after having spent $500 on bedding less than 2 years before and that essentially new bed was now killing us. Second time around we basically bought the best in the store, nearly $1,000 for a queen sized pillow topped, a Serta Perfect Night. I like this bed but regret not having gone to even better, but the better ones were squishier, and I really need firmer.

You get on the bed, you lay on it no less than 15 minutes, oh, and bounce on it WITH your head on the mattress ... hear any jingling or rattling, yeah, you don't want that bed, imagine listening to that every night ...

Every good hotel I've stayed in seemed to use either Sertas or Sealy's, reasonably firm ones, good quality. Personally, I trust a name ...

Oh, don't buy bedding in a department store, you pay an appalling markup, go TO a bedding store.

 

[JarheadChiro]

Buy a firm one...

They lose that over time.


But what do I know, I'm just a stupid chiropractor.

 

[silverfish]

With all due respect to Golden ... husband and I both have back and neck problems, the last time we bought bedding we bought the best in the store, after having spent $500 on bedding less than 2 years before and that essentially new bed was now killing us. Second time around we basically bought the best in the store, nearly $1,000 for a queen sized pillow topped, a Serta Perfect Night. I like this bed but regret not having gone to even better, but the better ones were squishier, and I really need firmer.

You get on the bed, you lay on it no less than 15 minutes, oh, and bounce on it WITH your head on the mattress ... hear any jingling or rattling, yeah, you don't want that bed, imagine listening to that every night ...

Every good hotel I've stayed in seemed to use either Sertas or Sealy's, reasonably firm ones, good quality. Personally, I trust a name ...

Oh, don't buy bedding in a department store, you pay an appalling markup, go TO a bedding store.

You should have got a Simmons mega coil matt. Very firm and reasonably priced, even in the stores. When I worked for an un-named matt company, I knew what went into the matts and how well, or poorly, they were constructed. I can honestly say that the bottom of the barrel matt got the same treatment as the top of the line matt. Only difference was in who closed the matt. A "better" closer would do the job because the more shit you stuff in there the harder it is to close.

Do not get a pillow top matt if you have back problems. Many people confuse that nice big fluffy pillow top with relieving back pain. It only aggravates the problem. Firmer is better when you have back problems.

You're gonna pay a disgusting mark-up no matter where you buy. If there is a matt manufacturer close to you, make friends and get one dirt cheap. Employees pay pretty much nothing to take out overstocks and cost for new matts.

 

[H_T_]

i would ask Frisky about that. she goes thru about one a month. seriously...

 

[Creepusmaximus]

The thing is firm and support are two different things. I slept on a piece of pile wood under my mattress for a long time to firm it up so when i bought a mattress i went for very firm. Slept at the inlaws house and had the best sleep on a mattress that wasn't as nearly as firm. It just supported better, hard to explain.

 

[saint808]

i would ask Frisky about that. she goes thru about one a month. seriously...

yeah but she might ty to sell him the one strapped on her back that month.

 

[Lestat]

I like stay at a few high end hotels and if I like the bed I ask what the specifics are on it.

 

[musclemom]

You should have got a Simmons mega coil matt. Very firm and reasonably priced, even in the stores. When I worked for an un-named matt company, I knew what went into the matts and how well, or poorly, they were constructed. I can honestly say that the bottom of the barrel matt got the same treatment as the top of the line matt. Only difference was in who closed the matt. A "better" closer would do the job because the more shit you stuff in there the harder it is to close.

Do not get a pillow top matt if you have back problems. Many people confuse that nice big fluffy pillow top with relieving back pain. It only aggravates the problem. Firmer is better when you have back problems.

You're gonna pay a disgusting mark-up no matter where you buy. If there is a matt manufacturer close to you, make friends and get one dirt cheap. Employees pay pretty much nothing to take out overstocks and cost for new matts.

You know what I REALLY wanted to try, one of those memory foam jobs ... then I started hearing about people having weird allergic reactions, and trust me, if there's a weird allergy, I'm gonna have it.

Then I was thinking about one of those sleep by numbers beds, but they have one major problem, if they fail, they literally FAIL, and you're out of a bed until they get out to replace it.

I know people who swear by waterbeds, but I only laid on ONE in my life and it did very bad things to my back, definitely not for me.

I guess it's all a matter of make friends in the business or hope for a closeout sale, then just lay on them, find the one that feels good, hope for the best

 

[saint808]

Waterbeds suck for anything except fat people sex.

 

[The Shadow]

dont go cheap....its something that will spend at least 30-35% of your time relaxing on.

 

[The Shadow]

btw - Kingsdown is a solid choice

 

[GoldenDelicious]

With all due respect to Golden ... husband and I both have back and neck problems, the last time we bought bedding we bought the best in the store, after having spent $500 on bedding less than 2 years before and that essentially new bed was now killing us. Second time around we basically bought the best in the store, nearly $1,000 for a queen sized pillow topped, a Serta Perfect Night. I like this bed but regret not having gone to even better, but the better ones were squishier, and I really need firmer.

You get on the bed, you lay on it no less than 15 minutes, oh, and bounce on it WITH your head on the mattress ... hear any jingling or rattling, yeah, you don't want that bed, imagine listening to that every night ...

Every good hotel I've stayed in seemed to use either Sertas or Sealy's, reasonably firm ones, good quality. Personally, I trust a name ...

Oh, don't buy bedding in a department store, you pay an appalling markup, go TO a bedding store.

$1000 was best in store?

where i went, best in store = $6000US

(yes i laughed)

anyway. i heard it from a guy who eats, craps and sleeps (hehe) bedding, with something to lose by telling me. take it as you will. itll always be subjective, but after you hit a pricepoint where the springbase starts to suffer from diminishing returns on $ invested, it all turns to spin - which in the aussie market, is about at the $800US mark

 

[starfish]

I really like my Sterns and Foster Mattress


Love it actually

 

[chewyxrage]

Do not get a pillow top matt if you have back problems. Many people confuse that nice big fluffy pillow top with relieving back pain. It only aggravates the problem. Firmer is better when you have back problems.

Guilty


My lower back should be better by now

 

[BonerBoy]

I'm off to a store now. Thanks for the advice.

The only piece of advice I didn't hear was, be prepared to walk out of the store having boughten nothing if you don't like what you see or don't like the vibe or whatever.

I can live another week w/o a brand new mattress if I think the salesperson is a douche.

 

[Lestat]

I'm off to a store now. Thanks for the advice.

The only piece of advice I didn't hear was, be prepared to walk out of the store having boughten nothing if you don't like what you see or don't like the vibe or whatever.

I can live another week w/o a brand new mattress if I think the salesperson is a douche.

good luck bro

 

[silverfish]

I'm off to a store now. Thanks for the advice.

The only piece of advice I didn't hear was, be prepared to walk out of the store having boughten nothing if you don't like what you see or don't like the vibe or whatever.

I can live another week w/o a brand new mattress if I think the salesperson is a douche.

Try to find some dirt on the matt or strings hanging off. Then give the salesman a hard time about quality. It'll really irk them. It'll trickle down to the factory where the matt was made. Especially if you go to Sleepy's or Rockaway.

 

[SoKlueles]

HI boner boy

 

[BonerBoy]

Ok so I went to ROckaway, Mattress Discounters, and Mattress Wearhouse.

ROckaway was OK and I thought Razil offered me a pretty good price on a Simmons, but I wanted to wait.

I went to mattress Discounters, and WOW. Not a discount store at all.

Then the Wearhouse. Got a much better mattress than the Simmons (a Lazio from Serta) for $800, delivered, tax, w/ box spring and with the old stuff taken away.

I know it's not the best deal but it's done. Over. It's a 10 year mattres. June 10th.

 

[bran987]

sleep number!

 

[BonerBoy]

k to you all thanks for the help.