pillows??

Thumper7

I use wool pillows from the Wool Room. I will admit they are not cheap but they do have the advantage that you can add more wool or take some out depending on your preferences. The cases are washable too.


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boliston

I have often found it very difficult to get a pillow with the right height and softness but recently found a wool filled pillow made by abaca in south wales http://abacaorganic.co.uk/bedding/pillows-protectors/organic-wool-pillows?zenid=elr8piovqp0r3nkshhdocsede1
it is not the cheapest at £69 (but I was given it as a birthday present luckily!) and is filled with small balls of organic wool about 1cm wide and the nice thing is that you can remove wool if the pillow is too thick - I "customised" mine by removing about 25% of the wool and storing it in a separate bag. I initially removed too much but it only takes a few seconds to add more.

itsanne

Georgiegirl256 wrote: »

Don't talk to me about pillows! :rotfl: The amount of pillows I've got through, too hard, too soft, too this, too that! :mad: I just couldn't get one that suited.

That's me too. I've tried just about everything, from very cheap to very expensive. The best I've found is a down pillow, but the replacement I bought recently (because the original is very old and has lost its original firmness) is too firm, even though it's supposed to be medium.

I can't stand a memory foam pillow and would caution against buying something expensive after just trying it out in a bed shop. I bought a Tempur pillow after we'd been choosing a new bed and it had been wonderful to lie on for ten minutes in the shop, but it was dreadful for a whole night and is now an expensive prop for sitting up in bed.

AprilLady

Oh, the nightmare of finding pillows!! There's a shop that has their pillows on displays at about neck height - might be Dreams, if I remember correctly - so you can try them all out! Doesn't really help for testing the height when you're lying down, but at least you can test the softness/bounciness etc!

Does anyone else find that most pillows just lose their shape and go lumpy far too quickly? Even ones that are meant to 'bounce back'?

Gigervamp

I prefer feather pillows as I can mould them to the shape I want.

Don't memory foam ones make you hot?

-taff

74jax wrote: »

What made you buy them, initially? Was it thickness etc? Or just a random good buy?

I picked them up from the wrong stand, I was intially going for something that was squashier and much cheaper
So um...random mistake

Snakey

I bought some feather pillows and they're lovely, mould perfectly to what you want. They make me a little bit snuffly, but I've decided I'll put up with that for the comfort and shape.

I think that sometimes in life you do have to take a chance and this is one of those times, because the cheapest pillows are also the nastiest in terms of going and staying lumpy, not giving the right support etc. So your choice is between maybe getting something fantastic (but maybe wasting your money) vs always buying the cheapest and never having a good night's sleep after the first couple of weeks once they've lost their shape/bounce/whatever. After many years of doing just that, I decided it was a false economy. I got the cheapest end of feather pillows, can't remember how much but they were just from Argos. Had I bought the usual cheap ones I would have had to replace them by now, so already I'm clawing back the initial outlay!

LameWolf

I've had to change from feather to foam pillows, the feathers made my eyes and nose run something rotten!

It's a tough one for me, as I change position from side to back to other side many times during the night, and I've never really solved the problem of comfy pillows.

Slinky

I've got Dunlopillos. Don't know if they still make them, I've had mine years. Supposed to be hand wash but seem fine to go through the machine.


Don't you find feather pillows rustle?

tomtontom

Slinky wrote: »

I've got Dunlopillos. Don't know if they still make them, I've had mine years. Supposed to be hand wash but seem fine to go through the machine.


Don't you find feather pillows rustle?

The brand still exists but they got bought out, the quality isn't what it was