Hi all, I’m a recent college graduate student about to enter a graduate program on the West Coast. I currently live in western Maryland and therefore am unable to bring any large items with me, including my aging and sagging spring mattress or its accompanying mattress topper. I’m therefore in the market for a new mattress, preferably one that could be delivered before I arrive on June 30th in California.
My conundrum is that while I am being paid for being in graduate school, and my tuition is being waived, money will be very tight for the first few months while I’m getting established. That accompanied with all of the initial moving expenses involved (buying a bike, security deposits and extra rent, etc.), I’m very limited in my budget for furniture. Every other little thing I can probably do without for a while (bookshelves, desk, even bedframe) but I really do need a mattress and even on my limited budget I’d like to get something that is nice and will last the 5-6 years I’ll be in California. With all that backstory I’d like to ask the good people of the Mattress Underground (especially Phoenix) to help me make some decisions.
A little profile of me
- height: 5’9"
- 250 lbs (diet is lowering this slowly and steadily, target weight is 190)
- side sleeper, often with the bottom arm behind me and a little rolled over onto my stomach
- I have a neck injury that bothers me sometimes, I often rearrange a lot during the night to properly support it
- I tend to enjoy some give in my mattress, but hate feeling sunk in to the point where mobility is restricted, it’s also a huge pet peeve for me when my mattress topper migrates off the bed and it feels like I’m sliding off myself, thinking I probably need something of medium firmness
- looking for a queen memory or latex foam bed, a bit confused by the prospect of poly foam
Before I built my budget, I had decided on the medium firm #bestmattressever from Brooklyn Bedding and felt very comfortable with my decision with all four months to try it. Since then, I’ve been trying to consider other options that cost less. My target budget was $450, and my most likely options seem to be DreamFoam Bedding, specifically their 11-inch memory foam mattress and their 12-in-1 Customizable Mattress. My worry with both of these is that they’ll be sagging in three months and they just won’t be as comfortable as I wanted, with a significantly shorter trial period I’m very nervous. My question to any readers who’ve gotten this far is if I should bite the bullet and just spend the extra money (this would probably end up carried over on the new 0% APR for 15 months credit card I’m getting for the move and then freezing at the end of October) or if these are reasonable options for someone like me and I won’t end up buying a new mattress within a year. Other options would be very welcome as well. Thank you.