You have moved to a new location: New Mattress World

Thanks to Amazon (woo free shipping!), we've managed to get a brand-new mattress delivered to our door for about half of what it would have cost to buy one from a shop and rent a truck to get it here. Three cheers for a new mattress with no crater in the middle!

I'm still kicking myself for not getting the unpacking process on video - it's seriously entertaining. They ship them vacuum-packed, see, so the box that arrives at your door (while good-sized) neither seems big enough nor the proper shape. But once you slit open the plastic cover, it expands with comical alacrity to nearly the right size, and slowly settles into the typical mattress shape.

Initial impressions are good. Obviously, given the shipping method, it's memory foam. Our last mattress was memory-foam as well, but was a couple years old when we bought it, and quickly developed the aforementioned crater. There's certainly no crater now - I keep looking at it and thinking something looks weird until I realize that there's no dip in the covers. This one comes with a 20-year warranty against cratering, but I'm hoping that won't be an issue, given that warranty returns are almost inevitably a pain in the butt.

I'd also forgotten how strange memory foam feels - you sit on it and think "Huh, this is stiffer than I expected," just before you sink comfortably down into it. (The other one was old/worn enough that it just kind of sank when you sat on it, without the initial resistance.) I remember Consumer Reports saying that memory foam was fairly polarizing, so I guess it's fortunate that Brian and I both like the feel of it.

Of course, the real test is yet to come, but I've been sitting on it for a good fifteen minutes now and my butt hasn't gone numb, which is a pretty good indicator that it should be comfortable. So as of now my thoughts are that it's $380 well-spent.

(Also, just a question - has anybody else ever had the UPS guy come by at 8 at night? Until today the latest I'd ever seen them was 6:30 or so. Seemed a bit strange, but maybe they were overloaded and doing overtime to compensate - especially as there's no local UPS station, so the guy drove out from Sierra Vista.)

You have moved to a new location: New Mattress World

Thanks to Amazon (woo free shipping!), we've managed to get a brand-new mattress delivered to our door for about half of what it would have cost to buy one from a shop and rent a truck to get it here. Three cheers for a new mattress with no crater in the middle!

I'm still kicking myself for not getting the unpacking process on video - it's seriously entertaining. They ship them vacuum-packed, see, so the box that arrives at your door (while good-sized) neither seems big enough nor the proper shape. But once you slit open the plastic cover, it expands with comical alacrity to nearly the right size, and slowly settles into the typical mattress shape.

Initial impressions are good. Obviously, given the shipping method, it's memory foam. Our last mattress was memory-foam as well, but was a couple years old when we bought it, and quickly developed the aforementioned crater. There's certainly no crater now - I keep looking at it and thinking something looks weird until I realize that there's no dip in the covers. This one comes with a 20-year warranty against cratering, but I'm hoping that won't be an issue, given that warranty returns are almost inevitably a pain in the butt.

I'd also forgotten how strange memory foam feels - you sit on it and think "Huh, this is stiffer than I expected," just before you sink comfortably down into it. (The other one was old/worn enough that it just kind of sank when you sat on it, without the initial resistance.) I remember Consumer Reports saying that memory foam was fairly polarizing, so I guess it's fortunate that Brian and I both like the feel of it.

Of course, the real test is yet to come, but I've been sitting on it for a good fifteen minutes now and my butt hasn't gone numb, which is a pretty good indicator that it should be comfortable. So as of now my thoughts are that it's $380 well-spent.

(Also, just a question - has anybody else ever had the UPS guy come by at 8 at night? Until today the latest I'd ever seen them was 6:30 or so. Seemed a bit strange, but maybe they were overloaded and doing overtime to compensate - especially as there's no local UPS station, so the guy drove out from Sierra Vista.)