Maybe if you left your home and actually went to stores you'd realize that good mattresses are expensive. Sure, you can order a $120 6" foam mattress-in-a-box or stop at your local Goodwill to pick up a mattress for about $150, but you get what you pay for.
You can pay $150 and get a basic box spring mattress brand new.
It feels weird having to explain this to an alleged adult who presumably has been alive at least 25 years now, but a box spring isn't a mattress, it's a foundation you put under your mattress. >_>
If I gave you the benefit of the doubt, I might assume that you meant an innerspring/coil mattress, but I'm really getting the impression that you've never had to shop for a new mattress because salesmen run through this shit with you.
Kyuubi4269 posted...
Zeus posted...
A reasonably good mattress is usually going to run you around $1800 at least. There are some decent-quality memory foams out there that you can get for less than $1500, but when you start to look at quality, you're going to be paying around $3k. And $3k isn't even the really expensive stuff. I take it you've never gone mattress or furniture shopping before, though.
You can get a bed frame with a tv coming out of the footboard for $1800 lol
A decent mattress is only going to cost you $600, beyond that you're basically wasting your money, I know this from experience of kitting out my entire flat, not your mothers basement.
$600 is a low-end mattress. There are some serviceable mattresses for $600, but I'd hesitate to call them decent. Of course, if you're buying bargain $150 innerspring mattresses -- which, by the way, is less than some people pay for a good PILLOW --- I'm sure a $600 mattress is going to look just awesome to you. Meanwhile even the lowest-end Tempur-Pedic is more than $1800 (which isn't to say that there aren't some nice mattresses you can get for $1800)
While there's a lot of stuff you can skimp on while furnishing a home, I wouldn't cut corners on a mattress.
LinkPizza posted...
$3K is a lot for a mattress. That's like the expensive stuff. There are more expensive ones, sure. But $3K is still a lot. When I went mattress shopping, there were plenty of decent ones for less than $1K. Maybe not as many memory foam ones, but still really good ones. I couldn't imagine ever wasting $3K on a mattress...
Most of the $3k mattresses are ones with insane lifespans. They last much longer than the cheaper models so it's less a matter of a $3k mattress vs a $800 one, but instead a $3k vs two or three $800 ones. My uncle had a Tempur-Pedic for at least 25 years and it still seemed to be in excellent shape when he had to downsize because he was going into a nursing home.
Depends on the person. My grandad for whatever reason preferred beds that where hard as a rock imo. Would literally bitch about a bed being too soft when it was a typical mattress. So his mattresses where pretty cheap but its what he wanted. ---
Cid- "looks like that overgrown lobster just got served!" Bartz-"with cheese biscuts AND mashed potatoes!"