Please help me choose a Costco Memory Foam Mattress

[phoenix]

Hi Betsy80,

One of the things that I’ve learned over many years of posting on forums is to make sure I highlight and copy a post before I click submit. If you have been writing for some time and your internet connection is temporarily lost … your session will time out and if you click submit you will lose what you’ve written. This has happened to me many times on many forums and highlighting a post and copying it is a habit now … even though it always seems to be the times that I don’t do it that i get caught and lose an hours work.

Well the Sleep Innovations Nova Foam is apparently made in the U.S. and also Certi Pur certified, but it’s only 4 pounds memory foam. Do you know how many pounds the memory foam for the Aspen is at Parklane? I don’t think I see it: Explore Our Portland Mattress Stores | BedMart…-mattress-sets-aspen

Yes … Sleep Innovations is both an American manufacturer and CertiPur certified. I don’t know the details of the mattresses at Parklane other than what is on their site so you would need to talk with them to find out the specifics although another member here indicated it was 4 lbs.

I may go back to test it again, it’s listed as firm which isn’t ideal, wonder how it compares to the Novafoam, but I don’t think I can really afford a true medium feel.

Softness and firmness is relative to each individual so your personal testing will tell you much more than a “rating” that may not apply to you. There is no such thing as a 'true medium feel" except what you may consider it to be. There would be no way to compare it with the Novaform in terms of “feel” except with side by side testing. The only comparisons you could make outside of that would be comparing materials … but not how it felt or performed.

I thought denser meant softer because more memory foam is added but not all seem to be like that. I may need to add a topper for these firmer mattresses. But the topper I bought from Costco, a Novafoam I think, is sooo soft.

With memory foam and polyfoam … density has little to nothing to do with softness or firmness. Both higher and lower density foam can be made softer or firmer and with many variations in how they feel and perform. There are also many properties of memory foam that can be changed with different chemical formulas. Post #9 here talks about some of the many types of memory foam and how very different they can be … even in the same density.

Based on my conversation with you, someone knowledgeable and unbiased, I think I should go back to Parklane and/or go to the other locally made stores you referred me to. I just wish Parklane didn’t close it’s outlet store last summer and wish I realized then that a 20 year old mattress is bad news so I could have gotten a floor model or slightly irregular for a discount, they don’t do that anymore.

If there is good value available locally (and in your case there certainly is) … I would tend to lean in that direction before I considered an online purchase … even if it was only to establish a reference point of the type of mattress that works well for me. A mattress purchase is one of the most important purchases you can make and has more effect on your overall well being than almost anything you can buy. Years from now you will remember much more about how long a mattress lasted and how well you slept on it (or not) and its effect on your overall health and well being than you will how much you paid for it. The “value” of a mattress purchase includes much more than the “raw material value” of the materials in the mattress.

Phoenix