Buying a new mattress was harder than anticipated. First there’s the fact that lying on a mattress for five minutes in no way predicts whether it will be comfortable to sleep on. And then there’s the issue that we wanted two completely separate things in a bed.<\/p>\n
My husband likes a hard mattress. I do not. We stumbled into a Sleepy’s one afternoon and spent 30 minutes being schooled by a floor saleswoman about the kind of bed we should purchase.<\/p>\n
My husband, who is overly susceptible to advertising and sales pitches, almost convinced me to buy a $2500 bed, exclusively for having “wasted this woman’s time.”<\/p>\n
Within minutes of entering the store we learned that we had luckily stumbled upon a “huge” mattress sale that was set to end at 6P that night. We were then warned that if we stepped out of the store, we would never get such a good deal again. So we stepped out of that store.<\/p>\n
I felt no guilt, but I did learn that my husband cannot be trusted in front of a salesperson of any kind.<\/p>\n
Seriously, offer him a product and he will try to purchase it from you. He is the perfect audience for advertisers using shiny graphics and cartoon animals to sell sugar laden cereals.<\/p>\n
I had to DRAG him out of that store and basically learned that the next time I brought him to a bed shop we’d be leaving with one. So I decided that I’d need to do a lot of online research and figure out what bed I wanted BEFORE I did that.<\/p>\n
But that is easier said than done. Many bed shops offer similar mattress models, but change the names so that consumers can’t price shop. (Great!) I also learned that many companies say they have great returns policies, but if you send your mattress back, you only get a credit that you still have to spend in their shop.<\/p>\n
It all started to become too much for me. When I got pregnant, the bed became impossible. Soon I was sleeping with a duvet cover underneath me and a pregnancy pillow and a fort of other pillows around me. Everything hurt when I slept, so I decided to hold off until after the baby came to get a new bed.<\/p>\n
Don’t Buy Brand Names 1. Avoid buying a mattress made by any of the major national brands such as Sealy, Simmons, Serta, Tempurpedic. Great. Basically the only things I knew about mattresses were the names Sleepy<\/em>, Serta<\/em> and Tempurpedic<\/em>. Until I got an email from Novosbed.com<\/a> asking if I wanted to try out one of their mattresses. Novosbed offered to send me a bed free of charge if I’d write an article about the process.<\/p>\n I was soon on their website and reading all of their reviews. I got nervous that they had paid for them, because I only saw positive reviews. But when I looked them up on Mattress Underground<\/a>, it seemed like a real company. And their mattresses looked startlingly like the $2500 bed I almost purchased at Sleepy’s.<\/p>\n Look For A Good Return Policy
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\nAfter I had the baby, I stumbled on a mattress shopping message board that warned me off of purchasing the only brands that I knew.The first two items on Mattress Underground’s list of shopping guidelines are very specific on that<\/a>:<\/p>\n
\n2. Buy a mattress based on the quality of materials that are in it and how it is constructed … never by the brand.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n<\/strong>Then I noticed their 120 day returns policy: No catches. I was sold. If I didn’t like the mattress, it would go back, no harm no foul. Within a few days, a mattress box was sitting outside my apartment door. My husband could not have been more skeptical about my bed acquisition shenanigans. Especially when the box arrived and was almost absurdly tiny.<\/p>\n![\"NOvosbed](\"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Screen-Shot-2014-05-30-at-10.15.51-AM.png\" "\\"NOvosbed")