You're gonna find that you should go there because buying a mattress is a decision best made horizontally.
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Help The Dude Get A Bed
- Thread starter DudeistMonk
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Look for a place the offers some kind of return policy. I know some mattresses offer a 30 night "sleep guarantee" type of policy. Then again, those may not be the mattresses in your price range.
Some other guys are suggesting you go check it out in person. I agree. Spend an evening or afternoon checking out some mattress stores. Then you can go home and do some research based on the brand names you checked out.
I do know this about mattresses......many times mattress companies will produce a model for a specific retailer. Like Macy's may have the "Alpha" model from Sealy, and only Macy's will sell it. It is quite confusing, I agree.
-Mike
Some other guys are suggesting you go check it out in person. I agree. Spend an evening or afternoon checking out some mattress stores. Then you can go home and do some research based on the brand names you checked out.
I do know this about mattresses......many times mattress companies will produce a model for a specific retailer. Like Macy's may have the "Alpha" model from Sealy, and only Macy's will sell it. It is quite confusing, I agree.
-Mike
Oh yeah definitely - the stuff there varies though from garbage to great. Even the best stuff is fairly cheap in comparison to other places though. The bed I bought my kids has now withstood 4 years of being jumped on, bumped into, scratched and banged around and still going strong.
You have to go and take a look, I'm pretty sure you'd be able to find something.
Don't forget the Swedish fish. The ones from IKEA taste better than anywhere else.
-Mike
Lol and Lingdondrink....I bought a concentrate bottle of that and mixed it with vodka then built all my female friends furniture to prove that even plastered at 1 in the morning a halfway to intelligent could build ikea stuff.
Buying a mattress sucks. I bought one last year from American mattress. Definitely get one from a place with the return policy. I was used to sleeping on a futon, so i thought firm would be right up my ally. I wasnt diggin' it at all, exchanged it for something else no hassle.
i have a mattress that is a few years old but I plopped down a little over 100 bucks I think for a temperpedic mattress topper and it's the most comfortable bed I've ever had now. Consider that as an alternative if the ones you find arent quite up to what you want for how much you have to spend.
