Ugh......Mattress Shopping.

Holy crap. A $100k bed? It better come with a lifetime supply of hookers 'cuz for that kind of money I'd be working the hell out of it.

mazdeuce wrote: Cheap mattress and a 4 inch memory foam topper. I hate all salesmen. All of them. I don't even want the guy in home depot to help me find the right bolt.

Funny, I am the opposite. I have a cheap 8" memory foam mattress (from amazon.com) with a nice down topper (from sears). the feel is perfect. soft for the first little bit, and them firm all the way down. it is perfect. under that is a flat platform (also from amazon.com... I LOVE that place), giving Huge storage (since I don't need a box spring).

FYI, Memory foam mattresses are cheap to ship as they are actually pretty small when vacuum sealed and rolled up... and that is good for people like me with a king size bed.

Sam's Club. We bought a fancy schmancy mattress from Sears. It was terrible and fell apart after two years. They warrantied it, and it fell apart again. Screw it, went to Sam's Club and got just a normal mattress. Four years later it is still fine.

CR also highly recommends "The Original Mattress Factory."

When my wife was living in Albany there was a place up there called Resnick's mattresses. He bought every late night TV and radio ad. Driving up at night after work it sounded like he was the DJ on half the stations. He was goofier than a used car salesman and gave the impression that his kids and grandkids were toiling away making the damn things, possibly under the threat of violence.

jere wrote: I have a $200 Walmart memory foam/foam rubber combo mattress. I've had it about 4 years now and it is still as great as the first day minus the funky new foam smell. It is bar none the most comfortable man made cushioned thing I have touched. It has no springs to go bad it's all just foam that goes back to it's original shape. I have tried everything from high end mattresses to hammocks to waterbeds, and the discount made for a futon walmart number is where it's at

Happen to have a link for this bad boy? I need a new mattress and i think i'm going to move to a platform bed at the same time.

SCARRMRCC wrote:

mazdeuce wrote: Cheap mattress and a 4 inch memory foam topper. I hate all salesmen. All of them. I don't even want the guy in home depot to help me find the right bolt.

Funny, I am the opposite. I have a cheap 8" memory foam mattress (from amazon.com) with a nice down topper (from sears). the feel is perfect. soft for the first little bit, and them firm all the way down. it is perfect. under that is a flat platform (also from amazon.com... I LOVE that place), giving Huge storage (since I don't need a box spring). FYI, Memory foam mattresses are cheap to ship as they are actually pretty small when vacuum sealed and rolled up... and that is good for people like me with a king size bed.

Links!!!!!

poopshovel wrote: CR also highly recommends "The Original Mattress Factory."

Wifey and I bought out bed there and have been very happy with it, though now (4 years later) it's starting to sag a bit. We do flip it but perhaps not as often as the schedule recommends. It's still very comfy. My only complaint is we basically walked in, said "I want this bed," and the salesman proceeded to spend the next hour and a half telling us why their mattresses were awesome. My wife thought it was interesting, but I kept thinking "why are you trying to sell us something when I'm ready to buy?"

Get a mattress cover, the water resistant one, and the mattress will look like new for ever. You can pull the cover and clean it, hard to do that with the mattress itself.

I bought a Sleep Number bed about two years ago in hopes that it would make it easier to sleep in a position other than on my stomach. Two years later, I'm STILL not convinced that my now nearly 10-year-old 'normal' mattress with a couple inch memory foam topper doesn't give me a better night's sleep than the Sleep Number bed does.

An ex-GF bought a Tempurpedic bed while we were together, and the few times I slept on it I was still unconvinced it was worth the (higher than my Sleep Number bed's) price. The cheap foam mattress with a down topper is an interesting idea though...

In reply to Swank Force One:

Might be this one but as a disclaimer I bought mine in store and they have a few of them listed online. Anything with thicker memory foam in a box with a warranty should be good.

In reply to DeadSkunk:

100K? What the heck? Guess you don't need to put quarters in that sucker!

you guys must be hell on beds.. I am still on the same mattress after 10 years.. Granted, I only weight 170 pounds.. but still

It's all that berkeleyin' us GRMers do.

The only thing I hated more than shopping for a mattress was shopping for carpet.