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Originally Posted by Table 5
Do you remember the brand of the mattress?
My wife (interior designer) used to sell Vispring mattresses at the store she worked at a long time ago. UK made, with natural horse hair, history of furnishing the Titanic and Royalty. At the time the starting price for the cheapest one was around $10K, which was still too rich for my blood, but I tried one once and man was it comfortable.
Meanwhile I still sleep on a mattress from the 90s. Gotta upgrade one of these decades.
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I used to think the same, but when it comes to spending a few thousand a year on fixing issues at physio, medicating for pain and exhaustion and the incremental cost of $3-5K over 5-10 years... it's honestly not that huge of a price difference over years/days but a major difference in QOL.
I recently spent about $3K on a split king adjustable bed. It's baffling to me that a twin XL can go into the $3-6K range vs I used to be too cheap to do a full King set plus bed frame/headboards etc. all in for over $2K. But I am trying my hardest to fix that mindset for mattresses and pillows. I'm just stuck in between a rock and hard place when it comes to the wife because results have to come before convincing... and I can't guarantee results on a a multi K dollar mattress. My wife was frothing when I pulled off that purchase, but she's starting to warm up to it. The memory foam it came with is very meh, but it's far better than what we had before by a long shot, so after this past year ish, she's warming up to the idea of a quality bed. The current set up is OK. Far more comfort on hotel beds even though those are also not perfect, so I know there's room for improvement.
I'm hoping to get her a hybrid coil next (she likes mattresses that are quite firm and the memory foam is a medium/soft at best). Last I checked, a Casper was like $1200-1400. I might as well go up a few levels. But she's also acutely aware of beds, so I can't secretly swap out the mattress and say, "Ta da!". She's like the princess and the pea. She automatically notices things like thickness/comfort of different mattress covers/water proof covers when those are swapped out. Not sure if I can afford to go with something like the Vispring, but I'd like to go with something a bit more premium that doesn't obvious budget line mattresses. I regret all of the last 3 <$1500 purchases.
Regularly hearing clicking noises that sounds like cracking knuckles when I turn my head and the migraines and body pain that comes with it sucks.
Side note, I am loving the application of the split king more and more. When the kids grow up (and they can sleep on basically anything), our older mattresses can go to them when we upgrade. And in theory, a 5+ year premium twin XL mattress would still be better than a brand new <$800 twin XL mattress for them. And although I can still lift them, as mentioned, those premium mattresses in a box can get really dang heavy and expand into a pretty significantly large space.