I think about beds and bedding all the time! Loved reading this, as we are ready to move on to a king from a queen after 28-1/2 years of marriage. Don't even get me started on pillows and linens! Sleep tight!
I love down pillows, not everyone does! My fav is the Company Store royal down. Pricey but worth it. They last forever. Also, I have been known to stack a tempu-rpedic pillow in the group. I have more pillows on my bed than I should probably admit. -- Mostly, I'm so glad you're sleeping better!
I've been researching mattresses for a while and I'm both too cash poor and a bit paralyzed by all the options to make a move! Was looking at Saatva, but now I may go with SleepEz. Might go for a topper for now and then upgrade to a new mattress when I'm more flush. Natural Dunlop vs Talalay though?? Think the latter really worth the extra $?
Saatva mattress was basically in my shopping cart forEVER. In said Reddit group a lot of people warned me off of it due to quality and durability, BUT also saw raves. I think they're one of the companies that pays a lot of reviewers (but don't hold me to it). I have a hybrid of both dunlop and talalay in my mix. Call the guy at Sleep-Ez. Very nice.
Congrats on your move to an organic king size latex mattress! I bought mine 12 years ago and it is STILL the cosiest bed in the world. I also have solid latex pillows. And your new bed frame is ❤️🔥
I feel this whole thing in the very center of my feels! My husband and I had a really lovely sort of - what do you call it, like we kind of had a renewal moment in our marriage? It's the kind of thing nobody really tells you about marriage, that for all the times when you feel like you hate them you also connect again and it's deeper every time. Anyway that's not the point. The point is that we celebrated by getting a new bed.
I really, really love a good purchase-research project. After creating a large spreadsheet of options, I sent him a foto of a Craigslist post depicting a wild, swooping, shiny, possibly tacky, but also wonderful king-sized bed that had a sort of Art Nouveau vibe. Honestly, I'd never seen anything like it, and he replied with lightning speed: "On what planet do we not get that?"
We hired movers from the track-suit mafia and trundled out to the middle of Nowhere, New Jersey where we viewed it in situ and agreed it was worth spending probably the same amount of $ on moving it as we were paying for the bed and its side-tables and vanity. The couple selling it offered us the mattress as well, but we demurred.
What we didn't realize was that this bed looked unusual because it hailed from Europe, which is awesome, except that the mattress sizes are different there. So when we fell in love with a standard-king-sized mattress, we figured out that it wouldn't actually fit our bed.
This threw us into an agony of despair. We piled our old terrible double-mattresses onto the frame and I began a new spreadsheet of custom-sized mattresses. This was a confusing and terrifying market where mattresses could cost $800 and be "great for an RV," or $5,000 and lined with horse-hair that was extra expensive because it was "ethically sourced," which I absolutely did not believe it was.
My husband is very tall and large all over. I myself am a delicate flower who would definitely feel a pea under 100 mattresses. It took well over a year for me to finally find the courage to commit to a not-very-expensive but seemingly pretty good mattress that would be custom made for us in Utah. It had foam, but it also had coils. And a cooling top layer.
There were delays, this being Covid-time. Many delays. Meanwhile the coils on our old terrible mattresses felt like they were burning holes in my back, as if I were going to an ancient practitioner of cupping to heal my chills and ague.
Last week, it finally arrived, rolled up in a box EVEN THOUGH IT HAS COILS. My 13-year-old son and I dragged it upstairs with sitcom-level difficulty. We sliced open the box, unfurled the mattress, and lo and behold -- a bouncy, stiff, soft-but-not saggy mattress, perfectly aligned with our fency European structure, lay on the bed of my dreams. We opened the window so it could offgass safely and that night, I had dreams of flocks of sheep not jumping over my bed, but cuddled together under my grateful body.
The best part is that I can roll over and be the big spoon to my bigger husband without fear of falling into a chasm. Never underestimate the joy of this small convenience. The end.
I think about beds and bedding all the time! Loved reading this, as we are ready to move on to a king from a queen after 28-1/2 years of marriage. Don't even get me started on pillows and linens! Sleep tight!
Thanks Wendy! Sleeping much much better. I will take your pillow recs though... 👀
I love down pillows, not everyone does! My fav is the Company Store royal down. Pricey but worth it. They last forever. Also, I have been known to stack a tempu-rpedic pillow in the group. I have more pillows on my bed than I should probably admit. -- Mostly, I'm so glad you're sleeping better!
Awesomes, great tips and thank you :-)
Aways love the TueDo list. However was kind of a bummer to run into a gross transphobic slur at the end of the “words men don’t know link.”
UGH just saw that at the end of their list — thanks for calling that out. In hindsight, sorry we shared that.
I've been researching mattresses for a while and I'm both too cash poor and a bit paralyzed by all the options to make a move! Was looking at Saatva, but now I may go with SleepEz. Might go for a topper for now and then upgrade to a new mattress when I'm more flush. Natural Dunlop vs Talalay though?? Think the latter really worth the extra $?
Saatva mattress was basically in my shopping cart forEVER. In said Reddit group a lot of people warned me off of it due to quality and durability, BUT also saw raves. I think they're one of the companies that pays a lot of reviewers (but don't hold me to it). I have a hybrid of both dunlop and talalay in my mix. Call the guy at Sleep-Ez. Very nice.
Congrats on your move to an organic king size latex mattress! I bought mine 12 years ago and it is STILL the cosiest bed in the world. I also have solid latex pillows. And your new bed frame is ❤️🔥
This is great to hear - I'm still in my honeymoon phase with the bed and great to know they hold up.
I feel this whole thing in the very center of my feels! My husband and I had a really lovely sort of - what do you call it, like we kind of had a renewal moment in our marriage? It's the kind of thing nobody really tells you about marriage, that for all the times when you feel like you hate them you also connect again and it's deeper every time. Anyway that's not the point. The point is that we celebrated by getting a new bed.
I really, really love a good purchase-research project. After creating a large spreadsheet of options, I sent him a foto of a Craigslist post depicting a wild, swooping, shiny, possibly tacky, but also wonderful king-sized bed that had a sort of Art Nouveau vibe. Honestly, I'd never seen anything like it, and he replied with lightning speed: "On what planet do we not get that?"
We hired movers from the track-suit mafia and trundled out to the middle of Nowhere, New Jersey where we viewed it in situ and agreed it was worth spending probably the same amount of $ on moving it as we were paying for the bed and its side-tables and vanity. The couple selling it offered us the mattress as well, but we demurred.
What we didn't realize was that this bed looked unusual because it hailed from Europe, which is awesome, except that the mattress sizes are different there. So when we fell in love with a standard-king-sized mattress, we figured out that it wouldn't actually fit our bed.
This threw us into an agony of despair. We piled our old terrible double-mattresses onto the frame and I began a new spreadsheet of custom-sized mattresses. This was a confusing and terrifying market where mattresses could cost $800 and be "great for an RV," or $5,000 and lined with horse-hair that was extra expensive because it was "ethically sourced," which I absolutely did not believe it was.
My husband is very tall and large all over. I myself am a delicate flower who would definitely feel a pea under 100 mattresses. It took well over a year for me to finally find the courage to commit to a not-very-expensive but seemingly pretty good mattress that would be custom made for us in Utah. It had foam, but it also had coils. And a cooling top layer.
There were delays, this being Covid-time. Many delays. Meanwhile the coils on our old terrible mattresses felt like they were burning holes in my back, as if I were going to an ancient practitioner of cupping to heal my chills and ague.
Last week, it finally arrived, rolled up in a box EVEN THOUGH IT HAS COILS. My 13-year-old son and I dragged it upstairs with sitcom-level difficulty. We sliced open the box, unfurled the mattress, and lo and behold -- a bouncy, stiff, soft-but-not saggy mattress, perfectly aligned with our fency European structure, lay on the bed of my dreams. We opened the window so it could offgass safely and that night, I had dreams of flocks of sheep not jumping over my bed, but cuddled together under my grateful body.
The best part is that I can roll over and be the big spoon to my bigger husband without fear of falling into a chasm. Never underestimate the joy of this small convenience. The end.
THIS THIS THIS. I'm so glad you understand the massive impact of this "small convenience" Amy :-)
it changes EVERYTHING!