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05-30-2019, 05:58 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Nov 2017
Location: Eastern Washington
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We bought a Tuft & Needle 3 years ago. Love it.
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05-30-2019, 06:03 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Mar 2018
Posts: 364
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I bought one off amazon to replace the crappy one in my RV, 8" i think it was $300 +/- its alot better than i expected i sleep good in it, home mattress is a 20 year old sleep number really comfortable.
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Ever Bought a “Bed in a Box” (Online Only)?
05-30-2019, 06:25 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Bonita (San Diego)
Posts: 1,795
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Ever Bought a “Bed in a Box” (Online Only)?
Bought a Casper. Returned/donated it three weeks later. Went to the store to look at Purples. Ended up with a wonderful Stearns and Foster floor model that’s the best mattress I’ve ever slept on.
The experience with Casper was a positive one, we just didn’t like the mattress. Would recommend trying it if interested. Purples were comfortable and interesting, but we went another direction.
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05-30-2019, 07:10 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jul 2018
Location: in transit
Posts: 318
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RobbieB
We've bought 3, all work great.
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+1 purchased several
(had white glove delivery) no issues at all.
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05-30-2019, 09:04 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 748
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I would be concerned with heat from a foam/purple/bed in a box mattress. I sleep hot. Has the heat bothered anyone with one of those mattresses?
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05-31-2019, 07:32 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: GTA
Posts: 1,728
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronnieboy
I would be concerned with heat from a foam/purple/bed in a box mattress. I sleep hot. Has the heat bothered anyone with one of those mattresses?
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DW thinks our new one sleeps hot. However, this is our first ever memory foam mattress (well, foam and spring hybrid) so we don't have a lot of experience with it yet.
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05-31-2019, 07:42 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: NC
Posts: 21,304
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronnieboy
I would be concerned with heat from a foam/purple/bed in a box mattress. I sleep hot. Has the heat bothered anyone with one of those mattresses?
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I don’t have one, but the Purple reportedly sleeps cooler. The original Purple mattress is not like a foam, latex or mem foam mattress in that it has an open grid elastomer layer near the top. They also sell a hybrid elastomer-innerspring model which should be cooler. FWIW.
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05-31-2019, 07:44 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Flyover country
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When you get 100 nights to sleep on it with no obligation (Casper and others offer this), why wouldn't you give it a try?
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05-31-2019, 07:47 AM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Fargo
Posts: 990
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Can you still buy a waterbed? Laughed when thinking of waterbeds. Like sleeping on a boat on the water....
In fact, all our beds came from a box. Amazon for all 5 mattresses in our house (2 adults, 3 kids). The last 3 have been hybrid inner spring/latex mattresses. Very comfy. Olee Sleep 13" Hybrid is the brand. Very reasonable price.
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05-31-2019, 08:16 AM
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Gone but not forgotten
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Sarasota,fl.
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I bought a mattress online years ago when we were doing an interstate move . It worked out perfectly and I loved the mattress .
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05-31-2019, 08:29 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2010
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DW bought a Zinus from Sam's Club. It came in a tall box about two feet on a side. She got it out and had a note "this mattress knows Kung Fu", hehe! When she cut the plastic, it did suddenly "kick" out to a 10 inch or so thick queen size inner spring. I slept on it once (it's in the guest bedroom) and it seems fine.
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05-31-2019, 10:17 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Nov 2018
Location: Sacramento
Posts: 62
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Quote:
Originally Posted by braumeister
We bought Casper mattresses about three years ago and we love them.
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+1 - We are totally sold on this product.
+1 - Not a reason not to get one, but just be aware. Did not bother DW, but I noticed.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronnieboy
I would be concerned with heat from a foam/purple/bed in a box mattress. I sleep hot. Has the heat bothered anyone with one of those mattresses?
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No issues with sleeping hot with Casper.
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05-31-2019, 11:17 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Aug 2018
Location: YUKON,OK
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Was skeptical but spent $1K on an Amerisleep mattress a little over a year ago. Best mattress I've ever owned; best sleep. Had a really good return policy. Compared just about every "bed in a box" and narrowed it down to Amerisleep. So happy!
Coz
No smell/gassing
no hot spots
no nesting to this point
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05-31-2019, 01:17 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: May 2013
Location: Sarasota
Posts: 259
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My son recommended tuft and needle. We tried it and then bought a second for another home. Luv them. Jmho
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05-31-2019, 01:51 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 10,252
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We must be outliers when it comes to mattresses. We have the same mattress purchased 25 years ago after our previous (and first) mattress was lost by movers. The mattress is essentially just like new. No sags, not even around the edges. No stains. Just like new.
We've slept on many many other mattresses in hotels and at friends' when on vacation, so I don't think we are missing out on anything. Our mattresses are something we just don't think about at all.
Are we just weird? Anybody else like us?
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05-31-2019, 03:17 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
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Both of my kids have and they turned out well. I don’t remember what brands they are however. They were purchased off of Amazon...
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05-31-2019, 03:26 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Eastern WV Panhandle
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Quote:
Originally Posted by LOL!
Are we just weird? Anybody else like us?
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At least two more anyway. We still have the same mattress for oh, 25 years or so, I forget exactly when we bought it. No complaints with it.
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05-31-2019, 03:50 PM
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Administrator
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Pacific NW
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I am a fan of natural latex mattresses and after a 20 year relationship with a beloved Englander I replaced it with a Sleep On Latex model ordered online and shipped on a truck. Love it. It's worth noting that these can be heavy... depending on the size, you might need some help getting it off your front porch and into your bedroom.
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05-31-2019, 10:04 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Washington State
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I bought a Leesa memory foam mattress about three years ago as a Christmas present. It was fascinating how a box that fit under our tree could expand into a King size mattress. The low price was also a big bonus.
Unfortunately, after giving it a few weeks I was not impressed.
First, the smell was unbearable. Even after three weeks it was still enough to burn my eyes and nose. That made sleeping difficult and it couldn't have been healthy.
Second, sleeping on memory foam was like sleeping in quicksand. It was comfortable until we tried to move. The bed sucked in around us, making it difficult to turn over or push off to get out of bed.
It was also warm to sleep on, even in the middle of winter.
And let's just say it added complications to whoopie.
I really tried to like it, but after three weeks I couldn't take it anymore. I called the company and asked for a refund. I expected this brand new mattress to be donated to charity or something, but they sent out the 800-Got-Junk folks to haul it away as garbage. It was clear from the way they threw it around in the dirt and gravel they had no intention of donating it. I appreciated the refund, but that seemed like a huge environmental waste.
Also, the memory foam mattress had no structure inside. So trying to move it was like wrestling a 60 pound silly putty snake.
I know memory foam mattresses are the new "thing" these days, but I would never buy one again. Perhaps it was just a bad model, but my first impression was not a good one.
For what it's worth, my mom bought a top of the line Tempurpedic memory foam mattress (thousands of dollars) and has all the same complaints I had with ours.
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05-31-2019, 11:47 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 14,328
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pb4uski
I'm interested in this too as we are due for a new matress and have little competition locally. I saw an ad for one recently and am curious about it.
I can relate a good experience with Costco. A couple years ago we bought a king-sized foam mattress in a box from Costco. They had a small sample about the size of a kitchen table in the store. We both laid on it and DW likes it... I can sleep on just about anything... so DW decided that she wanted it.
It comes in a sturdy box that was about the size of a narrow washing machine... fairly heavy but the box has wheels for easier transport. So we buy it, put it in the Outback and take it to the condo. I wheel/drag it up to the second floor (no elevators) and into the condo.
You open the box and cut the banding and it flops out into the size of a king size mattress... many times the original size... in 1/2 hour or so it fluffs up and is all set to go.
We sleep on it a couple nights and DW decides that she doesn't like it... too firm.
So I call Costco and explain it to them and they say bring it back. I say that there is no way for me to stuff it back into the box. They laugh and say no need to just bring it back.
So now I wait until a Sunday morning in the hopes of lighter traffic. I can't get it down the stairs... but I can flop it over the railing to the ground below. It barely fits on the Outback roof rack but we get it up there and tie it down. A slow drive in light traffic to Costco... load it on a flat dolly and wheel it in the store.
I insisted that DW finish the return... too embarassing for me.
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Had the same experience, only I got the toothpaste back into the tube. The new mattress we bought came in a huge plastic bag, so I stuck the old Costco mattress in the bag and hooked a vacuum cleaner to it. It sucked right back down to the packed size. I tied a couple of ropes around it and hustled it back to Costco before it re-expanded. The old mattress was a lot easier to handle when it was compressed - I just rolled it to my SUV and flipped it into the back.
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