liberty wrote:The older you get the more important sleep is.
Hence the OP.
That's a valid point...
When you're in your early 20's you're much more concerned about having somebody else with you on the mattress then you are about the quality of the mattress...
Crackpot wrote:Your back is much more limber when you're younger. Back then a bad bed didn't mean you couldn't walk for the rest of the day.
True, my last two holidays have been made less pleasant than they could be by cheap Spanish mattresses in the villa and apartments we rented. The pain from my hip dysplasia every morning was hideous, I can manage 90% of the time without chugging the painkillers, but was taking them to the max every day.
I'm always glad to get back home to my memory foam mattress.
I think getting a quality model of any mattress is important. My current mattress is an innerspring one, extra firm , and even though it's nine years old it's retained most of that same super firm support. I'm lucky though, because we both like extra firm; if we had different preferences another sort of mattress would have to be used. I forget the name of the manufacturer, but we paid a lot more than I wanted to for it, and it's been worth it.
I've been on memory foam mattresses (in hotels and in showrooms) and didn't like the feeling. I've never tried the sleep number, but I do think the dual control of the sleep number bed can be useful to some. My recommendation is to find what you like and buy the best quality of that type you can afford.
Which incontinence pads are the best guys? Dear god, we're getting old....
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Oh dear. I made the error of supping a black Russian (it's a drink Gob for heaven's sake) during a pub-quiz at the Champagne Castle Hotel in the Drakensberg last Sunday evening - about ten times I made that error. We left the group at about 11pm.
I woke up sometime around 3 in the morning clad only in my boxers (warning: do not try to imagine) from a very comfortable sleep on the carpet in our room - one of those industrial ribbed carpets. Into the bathroom - back out - and back to sleep on the floor. It seemed like a good idea.
On the next four nights, having sworn off any alcohol for the week which I managed without difficulty, I slept on the bed. Only then did my back hurt.
So my hotel choices seem to be - get a mattress with a surface like a giant corduroy cloth nailed to concrete or drink heavily before sleeping.
At home we have an expensive mattress that's got a little sort of a mattressy top above a big mattressy bottom (a common thing in SA) on a bed that's bigger than Rhode Island. Really I suppose it's two 1-1/2 beds side by side. If I reach out to touch my honey, I can't reach her and vice versa. It does avoid those dreaming injuries when the arm is suddenly thrown out to connect with the face of the person next to one. That's how big it is. The bed. The secret for a good sleep (I am certain) is that neither partner should be able to reach the other without using a dogsled team and taking sandwiches for the journey.
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MajGenl.Meade wrote:Oh dear. I made the error of supping a black Russian (it's a drink Gob for heaven's sake) during a pub-quiz at the Champagne Castle Hotel in the Drakensberg last Sunday evening - about ten times I made that error. We left the group at about 11pm.
I woke up sometime around 3 in the morning clad only in my boxers (warning: do not try to imagine) from a very comfortable sleep on the carpet in our room - one of those industrial ribbed carpets. Into the bathroom - back out - and back to sleep on the floor. It seemed like a good idea.
On the next four nights, having sworn off any alcohol for the week which I managed without difficulty, I slept on the bed. Only then did my back hurt.
So my hotel choices seem to be - get a mattress with a surface like a giant corduroy cloth nailed to concrete or drink heavily before sleeping.
At home we have an expensie mattress that's got a little sort of a mattressy top above a big mattressy bottom (a common thing in SA) on a bed that'ss bigger than Rhode Island. Really I suppose it's two 1-1/2 beds side by side. If I reach out to touch my honey, I can't reach her and vice versa. It does avoid those dreaming injuries when the arm is suddenly thrown out to connect with the face of the person next to one. That's how big it is. The bed. The secret for a good sleep (I am certain) is that neither partner should be able to reach the other without using a dogsled team and taking sandwiches for the journey.
I recall fondly the times that Liz and I shared a twin bed.
I'm always glad to get back home to my memory foam mattress.
I know that a lot of people swear by the memory foam, but I slept on one for nearly a week (They had them at a cabin we rented on Lake Tahoe a couple of years ago) and I had trouble falling and staying asleep on them. (I really don't want a mattress to "mold" to my body; I want a firm one that I can sleep on top of.)
They aren't for everyone, and they take some getting used to even for people who eventually do like them. Another thing about them that doesn't work for some people is that they don't allow body heat to disperse as well as an innerspring mattress would. But I used to dog sit a lot for someone who had one, and got to like it so much that I bought one, and find that I fall asleep faster and toss and turn far less that I do on any other mattress.
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I have a congenital hip dysplasia, the "moulding" of memory foam stops the joint from grinding in my sleep as it prevents me moving round too much. I also love a warm bed, I'd rather be warm and shed the duvet than cold and have to add layers.
Daisy wrote: I also love a warm bed, I'd rather be warm and shed the duvet than cold and have to add layers.
You can have mine. Bollocks naked, no sheet nor doona, with a fan blowing over me (don't bother, too obvious,) last night, and I was still too hot to sleep.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
It's going to get down to 12 here one night during the week, may need a sheet that night. Otherwise only 14-16 each night, too farking hot.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Yes, but ours is so bloody noisy it keeps me awake. (And it's in the living room.)
Spending more than £1,000 on a luxury mattress may be a waste of money – much cheaper ones can be more comfortable and durable, a new survey suggests.
In tests, a mattress costing less than £200 did best of all and the most expensive one, costing ten times as much, came out worst.
Consumer champions Which? put 15 of the bestselling mattress brands through their paces with tests under laboratory conditions recreating years of nightly use.
The £199 Silentnight 3 Zone Memory Foam mattress scored 70 out of 100. But the £1,999 Tempur Cloud 22, the most expensive tested, managed only 51 per cent.
A £1,099 mattress – the Dreams Therapur Eden – was seventh in the table, below mattresses at less than half the price.
A Which? spokesman said: ‘We’ve found Best Buy mattresses for £400 or less and have tested expensive mattresses that didn’t make the grade.
‘The Tempur Cloud 22 has some significant flaws which you wouldn’t expect in a mattress from such a trusted brand,’ Which? said.
‘Unfortunately, it gets softer and softer over time – more so than any other mattress we’ve tested.’
But the Silentnight mattress, said a Which? spokesman, was ‘an absolute bargain’.
Tempur’s Tobin James said they were puzzled by the report: ‘Which? criticised the mattress for being soft but they chose the softest mattress we make to test.’
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
