Bedding for humans

http://www.duxbed.com/north-america_home.html

Bam! Best bed in the world. Of course they are ridiculously expensive but its a fun site to check out.

I have a queen mattress, pillowtop on both sides, from Denver Mattress Co., and it is NOT a good one. I also wake up sore every morning. (and this was a $600 + mattress...)

alot of my relatives have that memory foam matress it like 2000 bucks but they swear by them. they are ultra comfy too. it takes a little getting us to bacause if you turn in the middle of the night it takes a second for the matress to comform to your position. but they claim that with this matress it elimiates restless sleeping.

An adjustable would so rock but its not going to happen due to price. I remember last year my wife and I tried one in the store...OMG! Even only laying there a couple minutes when the sales lady lifted the leg end it was so comfy. It released so much tension from my lower back I was amazed.

i too have a back problem from a horse incident, and i have this mattress that is just great. unfortunatley, i just had to put it into the garage because i needed more room (i made an animal room, and got rid of my bed. :rolleyes: ). If you were closer, i would give it to you, it is barely used, but, oh well. best of luck to you both.

Amy,

Thanks for the thoughtful gesture! Now I have heard of "hardcore" herpers, but removing your own human sleeping space is just to much!


;)

Ours is a pillowtop, and very cozy, although we do want to get one of those memory foam toppers for it rather than a whole expensive memory foam mattress. The toppers are expensive enough! We picked out ours though by going in, trying them out, and asking the staff about the cozy ones.

A warning though, skip the Sleep Number Bed! They're great for a year or two, but then develop an unfixable "pit" in the middle that you both fall into and it's incredibly uncomfortable. You end up spending half the night adjusting the dang thing rather than sleeping. Total rip.

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Originally Posted by TekWarren

Amy,

Thanks for the thoughtful gesture! Now I have heard of "hardcore" herpers, but removing your own human sleeping space is just to much!


;)

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lol. i have a second bedroom that i can sleep in, so i'm not stuck on the couch. lol. But when i do sleep in there, i can always crash on the floor :)

Well we went in tonight and checked some out again. I layed on the "deluxe" model tempurpedic for like 15 minutes...I always feel weird when someone I don't know is looking at me while laying in a bed, but dang was it nice! The prices are awfully high but we are still considering it. Its looking like at least 2k rather than 1k I had for some reason invisioned...and that's JUST for the mattress. We are looking at our options and have some ways we can save some money, she hasn't said it yet but I think the wife already has her mind made up! Her dad can build us a "foundation" so all we would end up needing is the mattress itself but still that's the majority of the price.


...I could buy a couple nice snakes for 2k...however a happy wife and a relieved back just might be worth it.

For what it's worth, almost everyone I know with a pillow top mattress loved them the first year and then hated them increasingly after that (me included). You talk about sinking; think about the practical aspects on that one - there is absolutely nothing to stop a pillow top from sinking in, and even that small inch or two makes a HUGE difference.

You're going for the right bed with the TempurPedic, but don't skimp on the frame and foundation. Just like good carpeting isn't good carpeting without a good pad, the same is true for a bed and its base.

I will say though... one note about memory foam that no one in the stores will tell you; once it gets dirty, it's dirty. If you get odors in it, they're NOT coming out. That stuff is too dense to clean the way you can clean a standard mattress. Because it needs to 'breathe', protecting it with a plastic pad won't work, so make sure your mattress pads are good and keep them washed. I'm not trying to scare you there, but 2k for a mattress is a lot of money, so keep that in mind.

If you can't do the TempurPedic in the end, buy the best non memory foam mattress (not a pillow top) your money can buy and then top it with one of the better memory foam toppers. Another plus on that one is if you have the memory foam on top, the topper will absorb most of the wear and tear and the mattress itself will last longer. If you take the cleanliness of the memory foam into consideration, too, I would rather replace a $500.00 topper every 3-4 years than the whole mattress.

(By the way I'm new here and I'm laughing because my first post is about a bed, but hey, I know they're mega important!)