<p>DS1 is moving to a house. I know he could get a used mattress but that gives me chills - ick! Any ideas where we can get a decent inexpensive mattress set?</p>
<p>His roommate has a truck so we wouldn’t need delivery.</p>
<p>If there is an IKEA any where near you…that’s where I would go.</p>
<p>Agree. Ikea with a memory foam topper. My daughter raves about hers.</p>
<p>No IKEA in his town, but there is one in mine (< 2 hours away). That’s a great idea! Zeebamom, Do you know which one she has?</p>
<p>Walmart online with free site to store pick-up has mattresses. Also Big Lots and they have a rewards system which gives 20% off after a certain number of purchases or sometimes just randomly 20% off days (usually on weekends).</p>
<p>overstock.com We have ordered a few of the memory foam mattress and have been very happy with each of them, goo prices and low cost shipping!</p>
<p>I don’t know. It’s not terribly thick and I’m guessing mid-range. She bought a $50 mattress topper at Macy’s and it was like night and day comfort-wise</p>
<p>DS is looking for a cheap queen bed to replace his futon now that he has a real room in a shared house.
He’s thinking about getting the Walmart online free ship to store thing.
Advantage for his situation is that the mattress comes compressed in a box and will fit through narrow hallway into his room and it doesn’t require a box spring.
I think less than 300 dollars for mattress and frame.
EXCELLENT reviews.</p>
<p>Yes! The ones from walmart in those little boxes are excellent.</p>
<p>The foam mattresses don’t need box springs?</p>
<p>Memory foam mattresses (not ‘toppers’) don’t need a box spring.</p>
<p>My D also bought an Ikea mattress and topped it with a memory foam topper and says it’s fine. </p>
<p>The advantage to the Ikea one is that it’s compacted when purchased so it fit in the vehicle well and then unfurled at her apartment. The bed platform as well comes in ‘kit form’ and is easy to fit in the vehicle (SUV) but needs to be put together once home.</p>
<p>It looked like it would be uncomfortable without the topper so be sure to get one of those.</p>
<p>Many college towns have (multiple) cheap mattress stores. Of course, sometimes you get what you pay for.</p>
<p>We bought an inexpensive Ikea bed for my son with one of those relatively thin, compacted, rolled-up mattresses that are very easy to transport. No mattress topper or anything. It was perfectly fine, comfort wise…but then he’s never been picky.</p>
<p>However, somebody gave him some risers and he decided to put the bed on those. This caused the legs to break off the bed after some weeks or months of use! (Ikea stuff tends not to be super sturdy.) But then he just placed the bed frame on the floor and used it that way.</p>
<p>I think the type of Ikea mattress in question only really works with the model of Ikea bed it’s designed for…</p>
<p>AllThisIsNewToMe, the memory foam mattresses should never be put on a box spring. They are meant to go on a platform. If you are using it over a box spring to get the height, I have heard you can put a piece of plywood over the box spring and then add the mattress.</p>
<p>Bedinabox delivers vacuum packed mattresses and they are made in america and don’t stink of chemicals. We’ve had one for several years and really like it!</p>
<p>Is this the mattress from Walmart that you recommend? <a href=“http://www.walmart.com/ip/Slumber-1-8-Mattress-In-a-Box-Multiple-Sizes/14225185[/url]”>http://www.walmart.com/ip/Slumber-1-8-Mattress-In-a-Box-Multiple-Sizes/14225185</a> My son is another one who’s moving to a non-furnished apartment off campus his senior year of college and needs a mattress (but only for one year). So, while we’d want a decent one to sleep on, it’s only temporary as he won’t be moving it with him in a year.</p>
<p>Wow I wish I had seen this thread a week ago while trying to get D set up for grad school in new city apartment!</p>
<p>I slept on a futon for years and years. It was really cheap.</p>
<p>Thanks blackeyedsusan! I wasn’t able to figure out which one she meant but I bet that’s it. Seems like you have to buy that frame that goes with it OR use a box spring, right?</p>
<p>I think it is meant to be used on a platform bed or the frame that they sell. If it was meant to be used with a box spring there would probably be a matching/companion box spring. You don’t usually mix one mattress with a box spring from a different set. I don’t know why but I have always been told they are meant to be in sets.</p>