Re: Buying a new mattress and Ikea

 

I agree that 'memory foam' is not a comfortable mattress.  I enjoy a good foam
mattress.  I really find innerspring mattresses uncomfortable and noisy (they
tend to ping when you move, okay most folks can't hear it, I can).  I have an
old 'high density' foam mattress purchased back in 1984.  It is starting to give
out so I keep it for camping use.  It is good for two or three nights before it
started forming valleys.

I made the mistake of purchasing a 'memory foam' mattress to replace the 'high
density' foam.  Tried to use it camping.  In the hot months, 'memory foam' curls
up around you holding too much heat.  In the cold months, 'memory foam'
remembers every bit of pressure for ever and is much like attempting to sleep on
a sack of half shelled walnuts.

Some where here on the farm I have several bags of wool from my sheep.  This
wool has been clipped and held too long to make for easy spinning.  I am
considering washing it all out and making a futon type mattress to replace the
'memory foam' I now use in the house.  Real futons can become very heavy if the
wool used to make them becomes wet or heavily soiled.  My homemade variety will
be bags of combed wool rollags that can be dismantled to wash once a year.  This
washing should reduce collected soil and restore the fluff factor.

Another idea from a friend for a home made mattress was to watch the discount
stores for feather pillows.  Sew the pillows together for a feather mattress.
If you used Velcro instead of sewing them together, then you could pull them
apart to wash once a year.  Yes, you can machine wash and dry feather pillows.
The end result is clean pillows and some feather loss.