Like is there some way to get a cheaper mattress without grabbing a shit stained one off the side of the road :agony:
I’m about to get a new place and yeh bro… I just paid 3k as a deposit I don’t have $1500 for a fucken piece of foam
from the two times i bought mattresses and one time I sold one:
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You at least used to be able to get a half-decent memory foam mattress for a few hundred bucks from online retailers. Since they can roll 'em up and vacuum seal them, it’s easy for them to transport them. These are like 3-4 inches of memory foam, no box spring, but still decently comfortable especially if you’re aiming to save up for a better one eventually.
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Look for factory-direct local mattress retailers. May or may not exist near where you are, but in a larger city you’ve got a shot. They’re like half the cost vs mattress firm or similar stores and ime the quality is better too.
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Half a step above the shitstained road mattress: You could check to see if the people moving out of your new place are interested in selling theirs to you — since mattresses are hard to resell they might not plan on keeping it
I got myself a Zinus hybrid mattress for Xmas.
Different from the other one another person has linked, that one isn’t a hybrid, its all memory foam.
The ‘hybrid’ is 1/2 inch layer of cooling foam, on top of 4 inches of memory foam, on top of 6 inch springs.
All rolled up into a box that takes a few minutes to unroll, then you cut off the plastic and it inflates to about 90% of its full size in 10 minutes, then another 6 hours for the other 10%.
No box spring. Just put in on the floor or a metal frame with crossbars or slats.
Queen sized… $130 from Walmart. They get them from China.
You can find them priced similarly on Amazon as well, maybe a bit more expensive (+20 to 40 bucks).
Meanwhile, everything comparable from an actual mattress nearby store is at least 4x more expensive.
The way they do ‘firmness’ is just by varying the thickness of the memory foam. 2 inch is firm, 4 inch is standard, 6 inch is plush.
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Maybe I have just never actually had a decent mattress in my life, but this is the most comfortable thing I’ve ever slept on.
As in, I spent a year homeless, tore and seriously strained a whole bunch of muscles and tendons… and every single day since getting this mattress I feel noticably better, have less pain, and my ranges of motion are inproving.
Went from taking fistfuls of ibuprofen and acetometaphen every day to not be in screaming agony to… not needing to do that, not being in constant excruciating pain.
Depending on where OP lives, I’ve twice now gotten a pretty good memory foam mattress in a box for a few hundred bucks at Fred Meyers during one of their holiday sales
Got the second one because it’s hell to move a mattress to another apartment after it’s been unboxed
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If there’s a Big Lots near you go there immediately. They’re going out of business so everything’s on sale. Might find a deal
Have you considered sleeping in a hammock? I’ve been doing it for years. Hammock+hammock stand was $99 total a few years ago.
Pros:
- take up less space than a traditional bed,
- you can wash the hammock in a washing machine
- cheap
- portable (I’ve brought mine to conventions when I was sharing a hotel room)
Cons:
- hard to sleep with someone else in a hammock
- maybe you can’t sleep in a hammock
- sometimes you’ll need to replace the hammock
This interests me but I think as an addition to a bed and not a replacement. If I can’t sleep on one surface I usually find good luck with another. If Mt bed isn’t working I go to my couch, if that isn’t it I roll.out.my mat and sleeping bag and sleep on the floor. A hammock seems like a nicer 3rd option that could become a second. In many ways, I’m a cat.
what stand are you using pls? how portable is it, re. taking to conference etc. thanks!!
I use the Vivere hammock stand. It bolts together with bolts with big knobs. It came with a bag. When taken apart it’s long, heavy, and awkward to carry, but if you’re traveling by car it’s fine. I can put it together in under 15 minutes without help.
I really like this idea whenever I move again, though that’s a tough downside for not being able to sleep with a partner.
I’ve already been investigating a hammock setup for backpacking because it has so many upsides compared to a tent
The links others have posted for Zinus are good, they’re very affordable and the same as all the other bed in a box foam mattresses. The big legacy brands like Sealy etc. are all scams which will sag in a year, avoid them.
If you live in a bigger city try going to a Chinese furniture store, they’ll have decently priced mattresses that skip the brand markups. East Asians tend to sleep on harder mattresses though so the medium might be more of a firm to Westerners.
Harder mattresses are secretly better tho. Don’t be fooled by Big Soft. I’m a fan of having 2 or more sleeping places. Got a harder bed, a softer couch, a floor mat and this thread is making me think of a hammock. Even as a lil kid when I couldn’t sleep I found thar just going to a different surface worked wonders so I try to have a few viable sleep surface options. I didn’t even think this was weird until typing it and it’s amazing that partners I’ve had have never remarked on it. I have gotten out of bed with people mid sleep said ‘I can’t do bed with other person, i gotta do couch with thin blanket.’. Sleep is weird and I’ve learned trying to power through not sleeping is foolishness. Change venues.
Yeah trying to sleep in those super plush hotel mattresses just makes me feel like im about to cave in on myself, also spinal misalignment hurts.
Same. I don’t wanna be in a crevasse when I sleep. I already need a fan on for noise and blowing air, an open window even if it’s freezing out, my normal blanket and my weighted blanket and a very specific pillow arrangement. My cat is nice to have too
I got a £50 mattress from a second hand furniture store and put a £60 memory foam topper on it. Best sleep I’ve ever had.
Yeah get this bad boy
Wait, how many mattresses contain fiberglass? What is the green tea for?
Green Tea is just a branding name lol.
It is literally just ‘Green Tea is associated with calm serenity, so is this mattress!’
As for fiber glass?
Memory foam = polyurethane != fiber glass.
I… guess its possible they’d throw fiberglass into the giant polyurethane mixing vats that make memory foam… but I don’t see how that would cut costs, or even chemically work to make a good foam mattress.
My friend used to work for a boutique mattress store almost two decades ago, and when he was bored he did a bunch of research and claimed that in the early days of foam mattresses… very, very rarely, the foam would actually off-gas enough toxic chemicals that it actually may have killed a few people.
I can’t actually verify that that is true.
The modern medical consensus seems to be that memory foam off gassing is basically only capable of causing minor headaches, nausea, and rashes in a extremely sensitive people and some children, but this is fairly easily offset by having decent airflow in the room the foam mattress is in for about a week.
Most people just think it smells kinda weird for a few days, and then its fine.
I’m gonna start selling Chamomile mattresses with Absolutely Zero Asbestos
oh yeah that looks like a better, less expensive version of what I was talking about in my post, would def recommend going that route
I used to work for a data broker who would sell to clients to try to convince you to buy retail.
BUY IT FROM COSTCO or Sam’s club if you must
Just sleep on a tatami mat. They’re cheap, small you can roll them up and put it away and their better then dropping a grand on something you sleep on. I’m weird though I also like hammocks. I have a big king size bed I sleep with a couple of other people in and it’s hard, big, expensive and moving it is such a problem.
Are tatamis good for side sleepers? I’ve always wanted one but feel like my pelvis would be screaming in the morning and not in a good way.
I had a friend that would bring his over to sleep at my place. When I stayed at his place I slept on the guest mat. Good ones are build like a bowl with a firm center and fluffy outer edges. Idk if that sounds cozy but most the mats I’ve slept on have been cozy.
Oh I didn’t know they were a bowl shape, do you have any first hand feedback from someone side sleeping on a tatami?
Sadly naw I’m a back sleeper.
Ah no worries
Maybe try some sort of mat made for sleeping on instead (like a mahjong mat). Harder surfaces like those are better for your back than soft mattresses
A cheap mattress would probably fuck up your back, I’ve never seen a cheap one that had a good firmness to it
buy it on labor day and tell em uncle snoop sent ya
Do you have a couch and if so, is it comfy? If sleeping on it is an option for a fee months I’d do that while trying out some of @[email protected] 's advice. That advice should still be a stop gap on the way to a good mattress tho, it is one of the few things in life that it’s worth paying more for the best quality possible. You use it 8 hours a day ish. My back is an absolute place of devastation and I’m in my early 30s and it’s for sure partially due to sleeping pretty much wherever I landed for a good 15 years. Bad couches, air mattresses, ditches, bushes, shitty cushions tsken from old futons in a pile. If you gotta slum it a bit until then it’s probably worthwhile and if half decently cared for you should get a solid decade or so out of one.
If you want more time to make up your mind on a mattress, you can probably get a decent self-inflating twin size air mattress. You can sleep on that while deciding on something bigger, and then once you get the bigger one, you can continue to use the air mattress for guests and camping and stuff.
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