<p>We love our Englander latex mattress!</p>
<p>I bought some Hotel brand (can’t remember if it was ‘Hotel Suite’ or ‘Hotel Collection’) at Marshall’s last year that are fabulous. 100% cotton 400 ct and were about $60 for a King set. I bought some Hotel Suite 400 ct from BB&B that are fabulous, too, and cost about $99. Our family is tactile-sensitive - ha.</p>
<p>We have memory foam pillow top mattresses (paid $3600), H loves it and never wakes up with a backache like before. Only thing, though, is they hold in the body heat, so you have to get used to the warmth.</p>
<p>Indulging an idiosyncracy of my H, we usually go all out to celebrate events such as birthdays and anniversaries that are numerically interesting but which are not multiples of 5! ( very number-ist). We are approaching our 24th anniversary and I believe I will propose this as the -expensive and slightly self-indulgent given that there are 2 kids in college sheets and mattress- anniversary. I am sure Hallmark will take it on as well. </p>
<p>The in-laws rave about Tempurepedic. Are these also heat sustaining? Wouldn’t work so well for us if so…when the AC goes out here(often) you need a ‘cool bed’ or you just don’t sleep.</p>
<p>Frette sheets at overstock.com 529.99 you save 960 dollars. I think my husband would go into shock if I spent 500 dollars on sheets. If you like Sateen they have some good deals though.
I have a tempurepedic type pillow. I like it in winter but find when it is hot I get overheated.</p>
<p>Tuesday Morning–sometimes great hotel sheets there. check the ads.
also used Overstock for sheets, but never touched Frette. Where does one go ust to feel them?
I get my S the BB&B jersey sheets that Susan mentioned. Its worth the extra $, because the cheaper ones rip easily</p>
<p>mom60, try Bed Bath and Beyond’s Nautica Egyptian cotton sheets.</p>
<p>I too have decided that good sheets are worth the price. DS asked for good sheets for Christmas. My sister-in-law lives near a Tuesday Mornings and got DS 800 thread count sheets for a double bed for $69.99. I have also purchased sheets at overstocks.com and smartbargains.com</p>
<p>I don’t feel any heat effect from Tempurpedic, using the pillows and mattress both. And I am also one who particularly needs “cool” for sleeping, both as to room temperature and feel against skin. Obviously, YMMV as others seem to have a different experience. Tempurpedic does not give off heat, or especially retain it, as I see it. Rather, it responds to the heat of your body to mold itself into shape.</p>
<p>Bookworm, both the Ritz and the Four Seasons hotels use Frette sheets (the hotel sheets, which are not quite as finely decorated as the “personal” ones). This web site sells the hotel line: <a href=“http://www.veryfinelinens.com/fthotelclassic.htm[/url]”>http://www.veryfinelinens.com/fthotelclassic.htm</a></p>
<p>If you’re in NYC, you can go to the Frette store: <a href=“http://www.newyorkmetro.com/pages/details/476.htm[/url]”>http://www.newyorkmetro.com/pages/details/476.htm</a>
but don’t buy there, lots of places discount them.</p>
<p>As for thread count, I’ve found the quality of the cotton makes more difference to me. The Frette sheets are “only” 200-count but the Egyptian cotton seems to be way softer.</p>
<p>These days I dream of old <em>linen</em> sheets, the very soft ones, and someone to iron them for me! Kind of like lusting after a Lamborghini–and a private mechanic to care for it.</p>
<p>Ours also is the Englander latex mattress. Right now we are looking to change out the pillows as they are a mix of too soft down and older ???.</p>
<p>I just won a bid on ebay for 600 ct Egyptian cotton queen sheets, under $50! I hope they are good - ha.</p>
<p>If you can’t get Fred’s, get Parchesi’s. ;)</p>
<p>Another reccommendation for the Frette hotel sheets. Excerpt from speech given at the UW commencement.</p>
<p>"At our 50th wedding anniversary, I gave my wife, who is also my best friend, a set of Ritz-Carlton sheets at a cost of $275. Foolishness, you say. Wrong! Even at 70-plus, we find a certain exhilaration in jumping between those mercerized Egyptian cotton, 291 thread count sheets every night. Stay foolish. Go Badgers! Thank you. "</p>
<p>John P. Morgridge is chairman of the board of Cisco Systems, a leading supplier of networking equipment and network management for the Internet. He also serves on the boards of a number of nonprofit organizations, including the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), the Nature Conservancy, and the technical advisory board for the Milwaukee Public School System. He and his wife Tashia are the driving force behind UW-Madison’s Morgridge Center for Public Service, a central clearinghouse for those wishing to volunteer their time and expertise in the community and to a broad array of organizations seeking volunteers. The center has been instrumental in making UW-Madison one of the nation’s premier institutions in the area of service learning.</p>