I feel like Goldilocks searching for a comfy mattress.
Long story short: Had a Duxiana bed that was comfy. When the cotton topper was old & compressed & needed replacing, discovered that Duxiana weren’t selling the cotton topper in the U.S. anymore, only memory foam toppers. Memory foam would have been too hot for Mrs. Goldilocks, so I got a wool topper to replace the compressed cotton, which was OK for a couple years
I gave myself a back injury pulling weeds. I had acute sciatica, did PT, but still had numbness in one foot. Sleeping on the Dux bed made the numbness worse; sleeping on the double futon in our son’s room usually resulted in less numbness, which led us to conclude that the underlying support on the Duxiana bed is too soft for me now & so we went mattress shopping.
Our pocketbook & bank accounts had already been depleted this year due to: new kitchen, deck, walkway, & downstairs paint – all in preparation for son’s wedding in our backyard. Then the rentals for the wedding. Then a new car because when we took the 10-year-old Murano in for an oil change, we were told “don’t even bother; the frame’s gone”. So, the green and organic mattresses at The Clean Bedroom in Wellesley were all too pricey for us. Plus, our experience with buying a very spendy mattress that was supposed to last didn’t work out so well. I can’t see spending $3k - $4k for a mattress that will last 8 - 10 years if we’re lucky. (We’ve been married 35 years, and we are now on our 5th mattress and shopping for our 6th)
Mr. Goldilocks is not the most patient shopper in the world. After the sticker shock at The Clean Bedroom (where we went because I have allergies & like to buy “green” and organic when I can, and don’t want to spend 8 hours a night breathing chemicals), we went to BedWorks in Cambridge, where we’ve bought 2 futons & frames, including the one in our son’s room I had been sleeping on.
I’m 5’ 8" and 190 lbs. Mr. Goldilocks is 6’ and 210 lbs. We’re in our upper 50s & have both had some physical issues making it sometimes difficult for both of us to be able to sleep well in our Queen bed, so we decided to upsize to a King, which meant we’d need a new bed frame, too.
After spending a LOT of time trying to figure out whether a futon, memory foam, or latex foam mattress (and which firmness of the foam mattresses) was more comfortable, we finally decided that at 1/3 the price, the futon was as comfortable as the foam mattresses. We also bought a floating platform bed frame & headboard from BedWorks.
The firmer futon on the platform bed is too hard for me. Mr. Goldilocks can sleep on it; he does notice that it is firm, but he’s still asleep seconds after his head hits the pillow. I have issues with getting and staying asleep, which this mattress exacerbates.
We were about to pull the trigger on ordering a Casper mattress – we can just about afford it even without waiting to see if we get a tax refund for the past year. I’m leery of ordering without trying, but the mattress we bought locally after trying it in the store didn’t work out, so why not? But then I was “wasting time” by still stooging around on the internet (with Mr. Goldilocks telling me to just order it already) & found this website. Gah!! Mr. Goldilocks will NEVER put in as much time shopping as Phoenix suggests.
I am now thinking about the 10" Spindle Abscond mattress – natural latex with organic cotton cover & wool batting. I figure the wool batting should help me with temperature regulation on the latex mattress. And, luckily for us, Acton MA (where Spindle is) is just a few towns away, so we can go and try out the mattresses in person. Slightly more spendy than the Casper, but it comes in 3 different firmnesses of natural latex, has the wool batting, and organic cotton covering.
I’d welcome thoughts from folks who’ve purchased the Casper or the Spindle Abscond
Mrs. Goldilocks