<p>Macy’s.
Enough to find a few you like, great sales, not so slimy salespeople.</p>
<p>Our Sealy queen set was $800 and its perfect.</p>
<p>I always get a good laugh when I see people driving down the road with a mattress tied on roof of car with flimsy twine…and here’s the good part…and the driver always has their left arm out driver’s window trying to hold mattress in place on roof with their little pinky finger…like the little pinky is going to do it. Their other hand has two fingers crossed hoping mattress doesn’t fly into motorcycle gang riding behind them.</p>
<p>We, too, need a new mattress. I find our current memory foam to be too warm. I wake up and toss off the covers. </p>
<p>Lucky you Very Happy. I used to sleep like a log. I’ve camped all over the US, parts of Mexico and Canada. I slept in a sleeping bag on the ground with a very thin mat. THEN I turned 50. Life changes after menopause. </p>
<p>So after reading this thread I still do not have any good ideas for non memory foam mattresses.</p>
<p>BTW, just bought a new car from used car salesman. He was great and very helpful. He did not try to talk us into, or out of a new car. Just did his job.</p>
<p>And as for my buying the cheapest mattress Sleepy’s had --</p>
<p>DH has spinal stenosis and two artificial hips. He is stiff as a board when he wakes up. And he says he sleeps just fine on this mattress. </p>
<p>Again, YMMV, but I’m sticking to my story.</p>
<p>We got a great mattress set a few years ago from Macy’s. It was a sale of odds and ends. Our mattress was is a Serta and our box springs is another name brand that I can’t remember now. It was a really good deal.</p>
<p>That’s funny missypie …my husband and I hated the tempupedic mattress too.
We bought a stearns and foster pillow top. We were going for a higher end mattress until we decided to have a bed custom made and it cost more than we expected.
Our mattress is the best one we have ever had</p>
<p>[The</a> Original Mattress Factory](<a href=“http://www.originalmattress.com/]The”>http://www.originalmattress.com/) Build your mattress to order. Have had ours for years. Love it</p>
<p>Very Happy–not questioning your choice of the cheapest mattress. Just saying I used to be able to sleep anywhere. Not so anymore. Thinking maybe a different mattress would help, ie we basically always bought one of the cheapest. Now both H and I are having trouble sleeping.</p>
<p>I also had to look up what YMMV meant. I learned something.</p>
<p>Do latex mattresses make you warm like memory foam does? I had read about them and am interested because I would love to have my side soft while hubby’s is firm. I haven’t started the hot flashes yet, but I’m sure it will be soon so I should plan accordingly.</p>
<p>How do you know which one are the “hotel” ones? Someone mentioned one in macys’s, but I’m afraid that if I ask I am sure to get a “this is the one that soandso uses” and I’ll never know if that’s true or not, because I don’t trust the stores. Hubby usually is happy after he travels for work so he seems to like hotel mattresses. He thinks he needs a firm mattress for his back. The problem is I can’t convince him that firm doesn’t mean HARD, so we will have a hard time agreeing.</p>
<p>H and I bought a new mattress/box/frame this weekend. We had already purchased 2 beds over the past few year for S and D from the same local manufacturer. The beds are made locally.
I took my pillow with me and just planned on taking time. It was nice that the store was empty–but I still would have spent at least 15 minutes in any bed we were considering.
Parklane is local and been around for decades. No wheeling and dealing. Green.
Any way–not a bad experience at all.
That said–yes any memory foam or even gel sleeps a bit warm. The trade off is that you do not have hips ache and so on. We decided on a bed with 2 layers of Latex and two of memory foam and gel. It arrives next Monday.
Make sure there is a good return deal. In our case, they ask that we give the new bed 3 weeks. If we are not happy we pay $150 for a trade and get back $ if we choose something cheaper or pay $ if we buy something higher.</p>
<p>I’ve posted this before on another mattress thread a while back, but I think it bears repeating as a caution. I hate, hate, hate our very expensive pillowtop mattress. Here’s why: The pillowtop kind of snugs up around one’s body (or, I guess I could say one’s body sinks into it), and lordy is it WARM! I haven’t thrown off covers that much since the days of hot flashes. The pillowtop has also gotten somewhat lumpy over the years. And fitted sheets never fit nicely because there is no standard pillowtop height that sheets are made to fit–the bottom sheet either barely reaches corner to corner or has extra fabric that has to be tucked under the mattress but never stays put. I can’t wait to go back to a standard height, smooth-top firm mattress. They’re cheaper, too. </p>
<p>For those who are interested in a locally manufactured mattress and live in southwestern Connecticut, this place has been around forever and the salespeople aren’t a bit sleazy: <a href=“http://www.norwalkmattress.com/[/url]”>http://www.norwalkmattress.com/</a></p>
<p>njfootballmom - Latex foam does not sleep warm. They are just expensive and often hard to find. I would love to find a local manufacturer. I’ve found dealers for this company [Organic</a> mattresses, bedding, and fine bedroom furniture | Savvy Rest](<a href=“http://www.savvyrest.com/]Organic”>http://www.savvyrest.com/) which seems to have what I want but too expensive for me to decide to pull the plug and buy it. It is 3 layers that are customizable for both sides of a King or Queen. The latex beds at the Original Mattress factory are way too soft for me.</p>
<p>Just a word about pillowtops, most of what I hear is that they are made with a lot of memory foam and don’t last as MommaJ was saying. It’s better to buy a topper if wanted.</p>
<p>i got a topper for my S & F bed, at costco’s. I feel like I extended the use of my bed for years.</p>
<p>Not long ago, my cousin asked for help buying a bed for her husband, with cancer. I recommended a local shop, coincidentally very near to her home. I spent an hour trying all the beds, knowing her wonderful husband was hurting in every part of his body. Salesman very helpful. He recommended, regardless of mattress, getting the adjustable frame. End result, the mid-priced Tempuapedic (at half price), with the frame, and an $180 waterproof top, fully guaranteed that if anything leaks onto bed, they will replace mattress.</p>
<p>So, what does he love best? The adjustable frame.</p>
<p>Adjustable as in “you can lower and raise the too of the bed?” That osunds cool. We got a “bedinabox” memory foam matress and really like it-plus it is MADE IN AMERICA, shipped to home in vacuum pack, and literally had next to no odor, and was WAY cheaper than other options. DH is very bony, so after several years we added a blue gel memory foam topper from Costco, for another hundred or so bucks. it doesn’t make DH too warm, but when I have a hotflash, it generate the heat back to me a little. Doesn’t bother me, as I just throw the covers back and wait for the overhead fan to work its magic.<a href=“http://www.bedinabox.com/[/url]mI”>http://www.bedinabox.com/mI</a> believe I paid 850 or so for a kingsize 11" deep with goosedown removable cover. (this was quite a few years ago…prices look higher now).</p>
<p>With our costco topper and a MEDIWEDGE foam, I feel like the princess, from Princess and the PEA. (BTW, if you have acid reflux and need to prop your bed up, the Mediwedge foam is great. It is a triangular piece of foam that you put underneath your mattress and goes all the way from the top to the bottom, thus raising you up so your stomach contents stay down. We have the 6" one, which is probaby overkill, but a 4" would work, too. No heartburn and no need for prilosec… :-)</p>
<p>We’ve been living with an overly soft, sagging pillowtop mattress for 6 years and we both hate it. I’ve found a lot of great information at mattressunderground and urge you all to check out their forum. I was nearly sold on a memory foam “cool” mattress and then, when testing one of the models, discovered that I really love one of the organicpedic latex mattresses. Unfortunately, the cost puts it out of reach. So we’ve done nothing…</p>
<p>If your bed is too hard, a topper really helps. We extended the life of our old, firm to the point that it felt more like a boxspring than a mattress, mattress by putting a tempurpedic type topper on it. We’d probably still be using it if we hadn’t changed from a queen bed to a king.</p>
<p>Yeah, it was my mattress thread from a few years ago. Still sleeping in pain. I know that it’s not the mattress, it’s me. But if every mattress is going to make me hurt, I want something less expensive than the Tempurpedic. And I echo the comment about the full sized mattresses…more and more difficult to find.</p>
<p>Full-size is probably functionally obsolete unless bedroom is smaller and a larger bed won’t fit. Full is okay for one person, but full-size is too small for two people to sleep in comfortably–just not enough room in my opinion.</p>
<p>IF you get a spring and coil mattress, the big question is individual pocketed springs versus ones that are combined. I go for the former: you can roll around and the other person barely feels it because the movement doesn’t really transfer across the bed. </p>
<p>As for foam, a 3" topper from Costco is as good as a mattress. My kid has one because of a hip injury. But I find it’s too hot for me.</p>
<p>A bit about mattress stores from someone who dealt with them as a landlord: it’s all about the net price. The saying in their business is you buy from the last store you visit so their real job is to get you to buy, which means convincing you you’re getting a deal by taking a high list price and chopping it. They also get slightly different models from manufacturers so you can’t take this price and compare it exactly. </p>
<p>Other than that, they have 2 relatively newer models for making sales: high end presentation and technical presentation. High end is when they have the mattresses bare and they look elegant - see Sleepy’s - as though you’re going to leave your mattress uncovered in your living room not made up in a bedroom. They want to convey the impression you’re getting a luxury item … that they knock down in price for you. The other model is the “sleep specialist” nonsense. I don’t think I need to explain. If you really think your mattress is why you can’t sleep, then you are believing TV commercials … so ask yourself, do those McDonald’s burgers actually look that way in real life? As my brother, who deals with sleep issue patients, might say, it’s you, not your mattress.</p>
<p>be careful most new mattresses are coated in toxic chemicals.
google toxic mattresses before you buy one.</p>
<p>^^Same thing for Days Inn mattresses. I’d hate to see a lab report for most motel mattresses!</p>