keetsa debt
like a good consumer, i was only debt-free for about 36 hours.
jay’s been complaining for months about his back hurting in the morning, presumably from our soft coil mattress, and so on saturday we went to the berkeley Keetsa mattress store to check out their environmentally-friendlier memory foam mattresses - they’re like tempur-pedic, only a bit cheaper, and the company is committed to reducing their carbon footprint and all that. it was a choice between getting another coil mattress with a foam layer on top, or going all out and getting the 100% foam mattress, which is the best. lying on the beds, it seemed obvious that the 100% foam mattress was waaaay more comfortable, didn’t transfer movement between us, and didn’t seem like it was eventually going to do the cave-in-the-middle thing that our current mattress was doing. after some debate and a lot of lying around, we decided to go for the 100% foam, and since it was embarrassingly expensive, we financed it. well, i financed it. 0%, but still - i’m back in debt.
after we had just talked about how awesome it was that my august 15th paycheck would be the first paycheck i’ve had since i was 17 that i didn’t owe anyone anything.
i made jay promise we’d pay it off before the end of the year, ASAP.
as for the mattress, 2 nights sleeping on it and i’m not in love, which sucks. i like that the foam stays warm underneath me, but without the pillow top and coils it seems really….not hard, but SOLID. it’s just weird to have NO movement. she said give it 30 days to get used to it, but if you pay more than a grand for a mattress i kinda want to love it right away. sigh.
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When my mom purchased her all foam matress, she felt the same way….
Turns out, they suck all the air out of the things for shipping (you know like the vacuum seal stuff they sell on as-seen-on-tv)
It’s more that you have to give the matress a few days… a week maybe… to get all that air back in the matress.
I’ll check with her again and see what she says… but i think she loves it now.
^,^
yeah that’s one of the ways they’re more environmentally friendly - all the mattress are compressed into boxes that take up less space, therefore fewer trucks and most people can take them home so they don’t have to be delivered. we fit a queen size mattress in the back seat of our jetta, but it was supposed to be fully expanded in 24 hours. we went and got a pillow-top and now it’s lots better.
My question is, how is Jay’s back feeling as a result of sleeping on the new mattress? has it been helping him? i confess i had WAY too little sympathy for people with “bad backs” until it began happening to me. now i just think to myself, no hurry, Bad Back Person, take all the time you need to climb the stairs out of this subway station. i’m in no hurry.
We went 100% foam a couple of years ago after getting a pretty excellent deal at CostCo. I really like our bed now, especially because it conforms to my body better as my body heat warms it up. Think of the new mattress like a new pair of boots, they need a little wearing before they are just right for you and then you, hopefully, love them to tatters.
steven - yes, jay reports that his back is feeling better by the day, and i know what you mean - i never understood all the groaning about aches and pains either….until i got some.
and erik - yes, i am more and more loving sinking into it every day and how it warms up.