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A New Place to Rest My Head
July 4, 2005 at 5:26 pm AST by Rodney MacLeod

I bought a new bed.

I have needed a new bed for quite some time. I have been sleeping on a $100 Sears continuous coil mattress and a free discarded box spring for the last eight years or so. After 8 years of sleeping on the same cheap mattress, and rarely flipping it, my mattress looked like a giant bowl. Everything sloped to the centre and the springs were starting to protrude.

I shopped around. I learned a lot of things about mattresses. Mostly that I do not like shopping for them. The people who talk about car salesmen being lying crooks have not bought a bed lately. Almost every place I went to had the best mattresses at the best price and according to the sales men you don’t need what the other guys are offering and you need not look elsewhere because they are too expensive. I went to pretty near every store that sold mattresses and ended up buying a Sear-O-Pedic mattress box spring set with 712 individual pocket coils with pillow top on both sides. They even threw in a frame for nothing. I bought from Sears mostly because I thought it was the best mattress for the money, but partly because it was the last place I looked and I did not want to go back to any of the other salesmen.

Now I am sleeping better. Although I do wake up in the morning and my back is a little stiff, but I am told that is because by old mattress had no support and it just takes a little getting used to.