Farewell, Old Friend

Mattress Firm has been on an advertising rampage about when to buy a new mattress. I'm sure you've heard it..."If it's over 8, it's time to replace!" Well, I bought my mattress in 2000, so guess what?

In reality, my mattress wasn't really 12 years old. It was just me for most of that time, and I rotated and flipped it on a fairly regular basis. And it was comfy, comfy, comfy... until I moved it downtown. I swear, the moving of it did something to the springs, because ever since it was set up downtown, I could feel it's age. So sad.

Eric and I realized awhile ago a new mattress was in our future. When we first started talking about buying one, we thought about the Sleep Number bed since we like different firmnesses. We even wandered into one of the stores once, long before we were ready to thin about buying. We liked what we felt, but the one we would have liked was nearly the priciest they had! It's the standard bait and up sell - the one they advertise is not the one you want!

Naturally, we progressed to the Temperpedic option. One of the nice things about traveling a lot (I used to, he still does) it that a lot of hotels have these beds, so you do get to test drive them. But it's also a hotel room, which never has the same climate conditions as your home, or even your desired sleeping conditions. So it's still a bit off. But more importantly, we learned from people who had them or looked at them. HUGE factor in us NOT going that direction was the fact that it can get hot! I'm a VERY hot sleeper, so this would not work well!

So finally, we figured a standard, inner spring mattress would have to work. We needed something new and the other options just weren't panning out. So, (surprise surprise) off to Mattress Firm we went!

If you haven't bought a mattress in awhile, you'll be surprised at some of the new 'technology' that is out there. The biggest is the fact that they've finally figured out a way to construct the mattress so you don't have to flip it. Yay! Plus, there's all sorts of innovative foams and padding that help keep you cool, have 'memory', and have denseness zones for support. We were both pleasantly surprised by the customer service, too... from entering the store through delivery (they gave us pillow mints when they left!). Even the post delivery phone call! The salesman wasn't pushy, but was full of knowledge (not just a sales pitch, but actual knowledge). It was worth going there just to become more informed.

So Saturday, we finally did it - we bought a new mattress. Ended up with a Simmons Beautyrest, if anyone cares. And it was delivered yesterday and my old mattress was hauled off. It was a good mattress. But I can't wait to get this new mattress broken in with some non-back aching sleep!