Bed Bleg
May 23rd, 2007 at 7:31 am by Preston Taylor HolmesMrs. Holmes and I are in the market for a new bed. We’re actually planning on spending real money on this one. The problem is, we’re having trouble deciding between the Tempurpedic memory-foam-type bed and the Select Comfort sleep number bed.
The Tempurpedic would be a departure since it’s such a different material, which makes us hesitant. Any advice/experience with either of these beds would be much appreciated.
UPDATE: We went with the Tempurpedic. It arrives next week. I’ll post a daily sleep report because I know that’s what you would all want to read in lieu of actual content.
May 23rd, 2007 at 8:58 am
This might be a little pricey, but the half dozen or so couples that I know who have one swear by them.
Personally, I don’t need that much comfort. I got mine for $500 at Jerome’s…
May 23rd, 2007 at 9:23 am
Go stay the night at a Radisson hotel, they have Select Comfort beds. I can’t stand that Tempurpedic stuff, it feels like your bed is trying to swallow you.
Here’s the link to the Radisson special offer.
http://www.radisson.com/offers/displayDetail.do?offerId=1291844
May 23rd, 2007 at 9:31 am
Is there something the matter with a regular high-quality mattress? I personally recommend Kingsdown mattresses. I’ve owned one for a decade now and it is wonderful. You might check one out:
http://www.kingsdown.com/
May 23rd, 2007 at 9:36 am
Bed Bleg? Sounds like how I spent my college years.
May 23rd, 2007 at 9:41 am
A regular, high-quality mattress? Where’s the gimmick? Where’s the unnecessary gadgetry?
But seriously, we’ve been sleeping on a Kingsdown for most of this decade. We have the need for more firmness/support in our old age. Plus we like to fall for sales gimmicks.
May 23rd, 2007 at 9:45 am
The wife and I are very pleased with our comfortaire mattress. I’d let you stop by an try it out, but well, the missus got kind of pissed when I invited that squad of cheerleaders over last week and I ain’t pushing my luck…
May 23rd, 2007 at 10:43 am
My wife and I have slept on both – the tempurpedic wins. My son-in-law has spent the last 16 years jarring his legs and back jumping out of planes for the Army – says that the tempurpedic is perfect for those with muscle and bone truama issues.
May 23rd, 2007 at 10:45 am
We have a Tempurpedic that we swear by, but if you are looking for more support, not less, you should probably go with the Select Comfort. The bed we had before was a Sealy Posturpedic and it was horrible! Way too firm.
May 23rd, 2007 at 10:48 am
My wife and I were seriously looking at the Select Comfort mattresses. After a lot of research, I found a history of customer service issues relating to mold issues in the air bag.
We ended up getting a top of the line Stearns & Foster with a memory foam top. Got it on sale and it was somewhere between the 5000 & 7000 Select Comfort. We liked it better than the best Select Comfort mattresses.
YMMV
May 23rd, 2007 at 11:15 am
This is good stuff – thanks all!
May 23rd, 2007 at 11:16 am
If the electricty goes out, the select comfort will loose air. Consider that angle as well.
May 23rd, 2007 at 12:57 pm
I hate the sleep matic beds! They have a divider like thing in the middle. Makes for hell when your, well you know. Unless you stick to one side of the bed and don’t move much lol.
Max is right, Kingsdown is top of the line in comfort. That will be my choice.
May 23rd, 2007 at 1:52 pm
Is your mattress failing or are you in need of a firmer foundation? Do you have platform bed or a frame with box springs? Sometimes upgrading your foundation or replacing those weak wooden slats makes all the difference in the world.
May 23rd, 2007 at 3:03 pm
Hey, I’m STILL trashing Sadly, No for their unrequested assault on 6mb. Have you received any backlash from my attack on hippiedom?
No matter, I’m still doing it. As I emailed PTH, wouldn’t it be funny if we gangb*nged a hippie liberal site, but not with facts. With fiction.
Ex.
“90% of all liberals are hippies.”
“Cheese kills more people than weapons.”
“The number One cause of death in America is leaves.”
I’m currently bombing them with facts, but am fully willing to switch to ridiculosity. After all, they’re hippies! What do they know? Honestly, I don’t expect much help from you guys. But I DO expect some kudos.
I”m 6MB’ing the masses!
May 23rd, 2007 at 4:16 pm
Kevin,
You clearly have your facts wrong. If you had done any research, you would know that only 73.7% of all liberals are hippies.
Of those hippies, 89% voted Democrat in the 2006 election…the other 11% voted “Green” party.
16% of all hippies are Jewish…they all voted Democrat.
May 23rd, 2007 at 6:25 pm
Whatever you do, don’t get a damn “pillowtop” style!
May 23rd, 2007 at 6:58 pm
I have herniated disks in C5 and C6 due to a misunderstanding with a few “Eastern” men in Prague, and I swear by my Tempurpedic, which we’ve had for 5 years. You can save significant dough by checking out what’s available at Overstock or Costco by way of a topper. Mine’s 4″, I think. If you plan on spawning more monsters, just go ahead and buy the King size. They’ll insist on sleeping with you, and it will save trips to the sofa.
May 23rd, 2007 at 7:09 pm
I like the Tempurpedic. Plus, they know how to sell it. Give big breasted, nightgowned “Christy” three bumps of Colombian sniffy and have her jump up and down on it trying to knock over the wine glass.
Take that Serta sheep.
May 23rd, 2007 at 8:53 pm
I, for one, like the direction this blog has taken. A nice, civil discussion on home furnishings…not too confrontational, no snarky name-calling.
Ahhhhhh…can you all feel the stress melting away?
As long as we don’t get into the controversial topic of down comforters, I think 6MB is on the right track again (wouldn’t want those PETA folk coming in here).
May 23rd, 2007 at 8:55 pm
I’m just waiting for it to be discovered that Tempurpedic mattresses cause cancer.
May 23rd, 2007 at 9:26 pm
My wife and I have has a Select Comfort for over five years, it is still wonderful and 80% of my back problems are gone….Two thumbs up.
May 23rd, 2007 at 9:56 pm
Temperpedic has caused 75% more honor killings than posturepedic. Well, that’s what I heard.
May 23rd, 2007 at 10:55 pm
Serta kills people who don’t fall asleep in the allotted time, just to make their numbers look better. Again, it’s what I heard.
May 23rd, 2007 at 10:59 pm
If you are stranded in the woods, it’s better to spend extra time to find a posturepedic mattress than to lie down on the first pile of leaves you find. Sleeping on piles of leaves has killed 8 hundred million people. This and other ‘facts’ can be found in my new book, “Nature Sucks”. Buy a copy today!
May 23rd, 2007 at 11:01 pm
Why do I get the feeling that Kevin has been hittin’ the bottle tonight?
May 23rd, 2007 at 11:21 pm
Naw Preston, methinks that’s Kevin’s normal personality.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that. You go, Kevin!
May 24th, 2007 at 1:01 am
Oh dear. My (super extra very cool) neighbor gave us a fifth of Glenlevit yesterday. So while what Billy said is entirely true, I am, according to my wife, quite drunk.
I hope someone takes the time to visit the sadly no site and see whast I’ve done ovver there san then you will think its like the waaay that tese ppl … EIGHT DOLLARS? Gimme a break. Mebbe it’s the booze talkin’, but I love you guys.
Heh.
May 24th, 2007 at 5:34 am
If this is the same Kevin from Annika’s Journal, I can vouch for the fact that he is one weird little weenie.
But, he is funny, and easily tolerated. He just has some weird fanatasies, but, what the Hell, don’t we all?
May 24th, 2007 at 5:45 am
Bite me, Billy.
May 24th, 2007 at 7:35 am
That’s more like it, Dan.
And Kevin, glad you got toasted on high quality stuff.
May 24th, 2007 at 7:45 am
I recommend the Tempurpedic, since I make the foam for some of the beds.
In China!
Evil.
I think they’re comfortable, but I haven’t used them much, and I have no idea how you knock boots in them.
May 24th, 2007 at 7:47 am
It’s rumored that both Tempurpedic and Select Comfort have links to Al Qaeda.
Suggest you go with the top-of-the-line Stearns and Foster for that reason alone.
May 24th, 2007 at 10:19 am
Dan,
You are typical moronic Tempurpedic supporter. But the truth is you wouldn’t know an Allergen-resistant mattress if it bit you in the ass.
Go ahead and keep spewing your “Swedish-mattress” filth. My made-in-America Select-Comfort sleep system can kick your sleep-system’s ass anytime…
May 24th, 2007 at 10:47 am
Ophelia goes to rehab? Wonder what kind of mattresses they have?
May 24th, 2007 at 11:23 am
Ouch! Not only do I have to wake up to this horrible headache, but I now find that Shelly has told everyone I have a weird little weenie!
The world is too cruel.
May 24th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
Yeah? Well what’s your comfort number, pantywaist? They don’t make a number high enough for me.
Besides, this stuff was developed for NASA, to help cushion astronauts when they’re pulling serious Gs. Sort of like I do, when I cum.
May 24th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
Dan…
Yow! You win. I’m not getting into a smakdown with you, pardner!
May 24th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
WOW! Dan has lowered the bar even more than we’re used to.
May 24th, 2007 at 5:51 pm
I dunno…I like my mattresses stupid. Mattresses with memories are a little threatening.
May 24th, 2007 at 7:54 pm
The Sleep Number bed for sure. No contest.
May 24th, 2007 at 8:16 pm
“…when they’re pulling serious Gs. Sort of like I do, when I cum.
Wow. This is…geeez…a little awkward.
I insist on being the only G getting pulled on in my bed.
May 24th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
Beds? You’re talking to the expert. The tempurpedic is excellent. I just fall asleep on those and don’t wake up until it’s time or the client’s wife shows up at the door, whichever comes frist.
May 24th, 2007 at 10:29 pm
Well, if awkwardness is your thing, I’m your guy. Wholesale only.
May 25th, 2007 at 11:06 pm
I have a blue bed. It seems to be quilted. I recommend it. BTW it comes with a section below it that is much harder. Don’t sleep on that one.
(aside: I’m going for the other half of that bottle tonight. Vacation is over in about 50 hrs. So don’t bother reading other comments I make tonight. Or this one, for that matter. Also, I’m pretty sure I didn’t drink half a bottle of scotch the other night. I think my wife poured out some of it while I wasn’t looking. You know how women are.)
May 25th, 2007 at 11:51 pm
Holy crap! I’m going to scare you guys straight. It turns out when you drink scotch, you are forced to go to liberal websites and poke fun at them (and sadly receive pokes back)! I don’t know all the mechanics, but don’t do it! If you have a bottle of scotch that is worth more than $25, don’t risk it! Send it to P.T. Holmes so he can send it to me to dispose of it.
It’s not worth it my friends. If it’s a cheap bottle of scotch, go ahead and drink it. That stuff never made anyone spam a liberal site, as far as I know. Might make you toss though
.
May 26th, 2007 at 5:25 am
Select comfort=over-rated