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The choices can be bewildering. Maybe don't overanalyze. We bought one a couple of years ago, went into a store, lied down on the display models and picked the firmest one.
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Ours is around 20 years old and I was researching a replacement recently. Don't like these more modern foam or foam toppers or soft.
I actually found our current 3000 pocket sprung firm matress still for sale in one shop, now costing ÂŁ800 for a double.
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Oh boy, do I feel your pain. We keep limping along with what we have.
I bought one of those expandable foam mattresses from Costco a few years ago. It was for a guest room and I as much as I love my friend Pat (who is the only house guest we ever have), I figured that even if it wasn't fabulous, anyone can put up with something less than ideal for a few days.
Turns out she thinks it's fabulous.
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Making a note of the one you chose, CHAS. Your description did it.
Say, have any of you heard of the "purple" mattress? My son got one a few years ago and loved it. Too bad he decided he had to sell it when a first move arose. Turns out that though they seem to be universally comfortable (and expensive), they're just horribly heavy.
(They're one of those odd ones that come in a smallish box, that explodes to much larger after you open the box. Also, stupendous warrantee. and he said it WAS as comfortable as they bragged.
But it turned out moving it (and/or putting it in storage - where it would have taken up an undue amount of space to avoid its becoming deformed leaned on a wall) would not have been cost-effective
Apropos, how often do you flip your mattresses?
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Hard to find a two sided mattress these days. You donât flip the new ones, you rotate them. Every six months is recommended - like resetting clocks.
Finally got a mattress at Macys. The two mattress stores I went couldnât get the job done for under $1K.
Sealy Blue Lagoon (who names these things?) $800 all in, delivery included. Pleasant sales guy, some six mattresses of various firmnesses to choose from. No pressure. 10 yr. Warranty through Macys - could actually be legit.
Might be the last mattress I ever buy. At my age I wonder about buying green bananas!
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Ax - you have a kid old enough to buy a mattress - and move it?
Yikes!
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Ax - you have a kid old enough to buy a mattress - and move it?
Yikes!
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Making a note of the one you chose, CHAS. Your description did it.
Say, have any of you heard of the "purple" mattress? My son got one a few years ago and loved it. Too bad he decided he had to sell it when a first move arose. Turns out that though they seem to be universally comfortable (and expensive), they're just horribly heavy.
(They're one of those odd ones that come in a smallish box, that explodes to much larger after you open the box. Also, stupendous warrantee. and he said it WAS as comfortable as they bragged.
But it turned out moving it (and/or putting it in storage - where it would have taken up an undue amount of space to avoid its becoming deformed leaned on a wall) would not have been cost-effective
Apropos, how often do you flip your mattresses?
Say, have any of you heard of the "purple" mattress?
I have heard of it, from a friend who bought one. She loves it.
The mattress I bought from Costco for our guest room is also one of the expanding memory foam things. It's like wrestling very heavy jello to move the thing, so I am not surprised your son left it behind.
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@Steve-Miller said in Dread:
Ax
It was @Amanda, not @Axtremus.
Full confession: Join the club. I initially thought it was @AndyD ....
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This is our third mattress from Macys in some 40 years.
Much more pleasant than mattress companies. Wish I had thought of them first.
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This is our third mattress from Macys in some 40 years.
Much more pleasant than mattress companies. Wish I had thought of them first.
@Steve-Miller Thanks for the Macys tip. Will check their selection out!
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Sigh. Macys. I have always loved Macys. When I lived in Japan, we would make a big shopping trip there every time I came to visit. Thatâs where I got all my work clothes. Then when we first moved back to the U.S., there was one in our town. After we moved, the closest one was about an hourâs drive. And now, in our current city, also thereâs none here and we have to drive an hour. Even worse there used to be one here but apparently it closed during the pandemic.
We havenât bought furniture from them, but my mother has and sheâs always been happy with it.
