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We're trying to choose a matress at the moment - we tried a number in John Lewis (Isaac thought it was great fun lying on beds in a shop) but OH rejected them all as too soft....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0
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we have a pocket spring mattress with a foam top. The only downside is that it's no turn. But as we have our own side of the mattress, it's sort of comfortable for one and not the other.
Memory foam is too soft (i hate to sink into a bed) and the other spring types weren't that comfortable. Pocket spring is useful for a restless sleeper, I move a lot and OH doesn't feel it.0 -
186 pages of [STRIKE]pillow[/STRIKE] mattress talk:
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I really ought to get a new mattress soon, but it'll have to wait until after I've paid for the latest round of building work. Mine was bought in 1999, quite a decent one at the time, Sealy I think. But I haven't done as well as I hoped at persuading my kids not to jump on it, and there are now lots of places along the sides where there are springs trying to stick out, not quite breaking through the fabric yet, but nevertheless painful if one jabs you in the thigh when you are going past. :eek:
I have marked lots of A-level papers today (not real ones, just my class practising on old ones) and am tired but still have domestic stuff to do here that needs to be done before tomorrow.
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Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.
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lostinrates wrote: »Our matress is not in a good state, but the fear of getting a be that makes us less comfortable is significant.
We had the same problem.....
Just got rid of our old and seriously worn out box spring mattress and replaced with one of those huge thick things with a box spring topped with memory foam. So thick we had to buy new oversized sheets, which was a pain.
Hated it for the first few nights, I think my body had got used to the old broken one, but it's now really comfortable and I couldn't imaging going back to anything else.
I'm usually too hot at night, whereas Mrs McT is always cold, so the foam part did make me nervous, but it's been absolutely fine.
It's a hell of a decision though, buying a mattress. They're NOT cheap, and if you get it wrong it's a disaster. I usually spend 4-5 nights a month in hotels, and hate a lot of the ones I sleep on. Sometimes even the expensive ones in top hotels. I think a lot of it is down to what your body is used to.
We went to the shops and spent a couple of hours lying around on mattresses. Ended up buying one in the middle of the range, not the cheap few hundred quid ones and not the stupidly expensive ones either. It does seem there is a clear difference in quality/comfort once you get above £500 or £600. But not very much difference at all between say £600 and £1200. Which is not what I expected. Maybe it's just more a durability thing at the higher prices, rather than an initial comfort thing...
But buying a mattress was a nightmare, much scarier experience than buying couches, cars, even dare I say it a house!!!“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »We're trying to choose a matress at the moment - we tried a number in John Lewis (Isaac thought it was great fun lying on beds in a shop) but OH rejected them all as too soft.
Is OH perhaps a tad heavier than you?No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
186 pages of [STRIKE]pillow[/STRIKE] mattress talk:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/1026667
Crikey!
Who'd have thought a bed thread could get so catty!!!
And I thought the debate house prices posters were nuts....“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »I usually spend 4-5 nights a month in hotels, and hate a lot of the ones I sleep on. Sometimes even the expensive ones in top hotels. I think a lot of it is down to what your body is used to.
I still hurt from travelling and the hotel bed. last week
Bed is more important. where ever you live in a normal ish house it won't have something that an exacerbate or prevent day to day pain.:D0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »And I thought the debate house prices posters were nuts....
this is one of the more tempered boards IME. Mention organics on the greenfingered board for a shock. Or raw feeding on the pets board.....0 -
Is OH perhaps a tad heavier than you?
He is - a couple of stone, I think. Except he told me his weight in kg and I know mine in stone, so I'm not sure. But he also seems to want to sleep on bricks or something similar (-:...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0
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