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Tips, Advice, and Things to Consider When Choosing a Mattress
by DeRango | Jan 21 '07
Be Wise: Spend some time shopping around and considering your options. You will spend one third of your day using this purchase.

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I agree, Nature's Bed is a bad choice (Reply to this comment)
by dixieno14
I had mine for 4 years and it's already shot. We both roll to the middle of the bed. Plus, I paid $500 for a one-sided mattress. That was a bad decision. They said that it was a non-flip mattress, which translated means, sorry we're too cheap to make it double sided.
Oct 04 '07
1:49 pm PDT

Flat Sheet pulls out? (Reply to this comment)
by danno2much
You have given me a lot of good info about mattresses. You said you hog the sheets, so, please comment on the following item if you would. Does your flat sheet stay tucked in at the end of the bed at night? (I am talking about the flat sheet - the sheet that covers you - not the fitted sheet)
Aug 26 '07
9:10 am PDT

A mattress is one of the most significant purchases (Reply to this comment)
by Howard_Creech
most couples make. Thanks for providing a super primer on everything important for the consumer to know before buying a mattress.

Howard

Jan 25 '07
12:11 am PST

We paid (Reply to this comment)
by elzora, elzora is an Advisor on Epinions in Home and Garden
$4500 for our Simmons Beautyrest pillow top - and it was a torture chamber after a few months. The store did replace it with another Simmons, and this time we got a firmer mattress (also valued at over $4000!!), and it has held up for over a year and we are now getting the valleys again. Simmons did not stand behind their products. We found the sales people in our area to be either untruthful, or uneducated.
Jan 22 '07
11:06 pm PST

Well (Reply to this comment)
by northeastgal
my Sealy was acceptable by the warranty but it's not to me. I was told the cushioning is what gives the dips. Also, I would go with the warranty. The longer the warranty the better the mattress would be I think.

It's good your doing research.
Nice review.
NEG
Jan 22 '07
8:00 pm PST

Good advice! (Reply to this comment)
by dad-daughters
and well written. But I would also suggest buying from a store that allows returns. THe first two beds we got from Sealy factory in Arizona smelled sooo bad (we got headaches, had bad dreams during the night, felt dizzy and nauseous) that we had to return them... even after airing out in our garage for 4 days each. When they first opened the plastic, it was practically toxic. We are now considering Simmons beautyrest as the next alternative. Without a return privilege, the stores would have said there was nothing wrong with them...There is extensive information about the dangers of off gassing from some of the newer fireproofing materials and foams being used in mattresses... Thanks again.

-Dan
Jan 21 '07
11:25 pm PST

Simmons (Reply to this comment)
by Mrsfitts
It has been my extensive & expensive experience that Simmons has some of the most comfortable mattresses -in the beginning. The dips that happnen and the warranty are both jokes. They send a "Technician" out, and even if you have a dip the size of a black hole within 6 months, they report that is still of acceptable tolerance. Just for fun, we kept having "techs" come out, and even if the mattress had a dip the depth of the mattress, it still was within tolerance.
FYI
Mrsfitts
Jan 21 '07
6:47 pm PST

Hi!! (Reply to this comment)
by coops32
Great info - great piece - thank you - it helps to have a nice road map. We are about to go on the mattress journey:)

Courtney
Jan 21 '07
5:55 pm PST