What mattress people are buying

My Attempts at Frugal Mattress Shopping is a guy’s account on buying a mattress. He runs a site that deals with finances, some practical spending and investing advice, but says he is not a guru on it. On mattress shopping, he checked out a lot of deals to finally decided on NovaForm Queen Fresh Dreams Memory Foam Mattress which he bought at Costco, on sale for $550.

After reading a couple of online reviews, it seems like a solid bet. Older models had a certain smell to them, but the newer ones apparently don’t. Also, there have been scattered comments about the mattress not expanding properly into a perfect box shape. Since it doesn’t come with a platform, I know that I’ll have to make my own or just buy a piece of plywood to put on top of our current boxspring since foam mattresses need to be on a solid surface.

On to another mattress shopper… here is one

, who wisely knows what to do with her money and where to spend it best. On her mattress shopping experience, she says:

Shopping for these big items is tough. It took me a long time to commit myself to a bed frame. And then it’s just been sitting there– I did put the inflatable air mattress on it, and actually slept on it like that a couple of times, but I didn’t find the air mattress very comfortable. The rest of the time, I’d continued to sleep on my old futon. Partially, the delay was due to not finding the time to go shopping for a mattress. But I was also just procrastinating because I couldn’t get my head around how to shop for a mattress. I don’t think there is any foolproof way– ultimately you just have to try different mattresses and find one that feels comfortable for you. You can read about what coil counts and wire guages mean, but it still doesn’t tell you much about whether you’ll feel comfortable, and I find this kind of subjective shopping to be very frustrating!

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