I'm buying a bed in the next ~24 hrs. Help me pull the trigger!
Jun 30, 2012 8:02 PM
Joined: Jun 30, 2012
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Hi all,

 

I am a 22-year-old guy who just moved to a new city and has been on an airmattress for the last two weeks.  Long story short, I'm buying a bed this weekend.  I got it down to either bedinabox or a night therapy bed from sams club.  Then I discovered this site, heard about foambymail, and saw I could get a 5.3lb memory foam bed for next to nothing.  Should I do it?  Or would bedinabox / night therapy be better?

I'm wondering if it will "sleep hot" and if there is any quality issue I should be aware of.  I'm also wondering if I making a mistake by not getting an expensive mattress.  Cost is not too much of an issue - I am cheap with most things, but I had allotted up to $1500 for this purchase.  Ive been erring towards the cheaper side (eg Night Therapy) because I'm young and will probably be in and out of apartments / switching cities, etc, and also because I like saving money if the product is still good.

Anyways, thoughts on foambymail, bedinabox, night therapy, or anything else I should know?  This airbed I'm on is driving me insane, I am definitely buying this weekend.

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Re: I'm buying a bed in the next ~24 hrs. Help me pull the trigger!
Reply #1 Jul 1, 2012 12:11 AM
Joined: Oct 2, 2009
Points: 30
Buy Aerus Cool Sleep 4 lbs memory foam from Walmart. 3 " Queen is $179.

I slept on that as my comfort layer for about 3 years loved it.

Added Venus 1" 8lbs memory after that just because I found it really really cheap.

Did not make as big an improvement as I thought.

 

Then buy base from foambymail,ebay,or any other places popular here like mattress.net

I bought cheap 1.8 lbs base foam but if I had to do it again I would get latex for a base.

 

Get the Aerus with latex base.

Don't like it?

Get latex comfort layer.

You are out ~$179 or you can use the Aerus as an intermediate layer between latex base foam and comfort foam.

 

I would not get bed in a box. Seems expensive for what you get.

 

Not familiar with Sams Club stuff but if like Costco just an ok value.

Re: I'm buying a bed in the next ~24 hrs. Help me pull the trigger!
Reply #3 Aug 10, 2012 6:17 PM
Joined: Aug 10, 2012
Points: 2
I would really like to know what you decided on doing?

 

I am KILLING myself over this decision.

 

The Night Therapy 12" Latex mattress seems like a really good value. 7 inches of latex in a Sealy costs $2000. 

The thing that worries me though is that all the Night Therapy latex mattresses say "Firm". I am wondering how firm that is. I weight 240 pounds and my last innerspring mattress broke down and I ended up having lower back pain.