I was just talking about mattresses last night! Apparently all the brands are made in the same factory and just have different labels and pricetags. Also, my friend's husband bought a $1200 mattress and boxspring 8 years ago, which already is super saggy in the middle. I, OTOH, bought a second-hand (but less than a year old) relatively cheap mattress and boxspring for $100 ten years ago, and it's still awesome.

Seems like a crap shoot.

I guess the answer with mattresses is to buy the cheapest one that you like? I need a mattress bad; we got ours from my mother 10 years ago, and it sure weren't new at the time. But one is not in the cards for us any time soon.

I guess the answer with mattresses is to buy the cheapest one that you like?

That's always been my strategy and so far it has worked well.

I was just talking about mattresses last night! Apparently all the brands are made in the same factory and just have different labels and pricetags.

They also make it hard to comparison shop. Every big brand seems to have an "exclusive" line for every store, which I am sure are all the same mattress renamed.

I currently have a very cheap mattress from Sears that's about 10 years old and is only comfortable with two foamies on top. So I'd like to get something more comfortable, and I'm willing to go higher end, but I don't really want to pay a lot of dollars if I don't have to.

I currently have a very cheap mattress from Sears that's about 10 years old and is only comfortable with two foamies on top.

You sleep on buffistas?

I would totally say, "ha ha ha, we're having Spring and you're not" except that we're possibly getting snow sometime this weekend. . . although I don't think we're expecting a snowpacalypse.

Really not worth saying twice.

Has anyone here seen Blood Ties the series? I saw an ad for it in a magazine and want to know if it's worth checking out.

I liked the first one. Took some serious liberties with the book, but basically good. I didn’t like the characterization of Henry, and one of the big characters has been swapped out for a pretty goth girl, but I’ll keep watching.

i I've been forced to consider my wedding because my mother thinks about it often. If I don't shut down an idea immediately, she takes it as gospel.

You're totally going to do the naked-in-the-surf-at-sunset hippie wedding just to see how high her blood pressure can go, aren't you?

Nah, I want a traditional wedding. Although that would be fun :)

My foolproof method of mattress-buying is to go to the store in comfy clothes and lie down on each mattress, starting on the super-duper most-expensive model and working my way down until I can tell the difference. Then I buy the next-to-last mattress I've tried.

The reason for the existence of firm/extra-firm is that they'll last longer before getting saggy BUT you'll sleep better on softer ones. So it's a tradeoff of $$$ for comfort. As I've gotten older, I'm much more in favor of comfort.

My paralegal just made me laugh so hard just now: he always accuses me of never doing any work, and today he came into my office as I was halfway under my desk, taking off my socks. I sheepishly said, "this is what I do all day." He couldn't see what I was doing so he replied, "is there a ball of string under there?!"