Sleep Number Bed
 

Anyone have one? There's a lot of options. I'm 85% gonna get one.... just not quite sure about the details. Still torn between King vs Queen. and then there are upgrade and cost considerations....

But I'd really just like to know if anyone here has one, and how they like it?

KING! As in TV's, always go for the next biggest size.

We have a queen and I am the one who suffers for it and I'm 5'1" at 108lbs.

Yeah. gonna go King..... just debating the classic or performance series now....

As you creep closer toward 50 Jim you may see some performance issues that you hadn't seen previously.

lol. yeah. I ordered the P5 performance King size. I figure you don't go cheap on beds, shoes and helmets.

Getting to the point of turning down a quickie in the back seat of the car? Every time I see the back seat in a '65 mustang, or a '69 Corvette, I think no, I must have imagined that. :haha:

I used to do it in a vw rabbit. unimaginable.

Worst plave evah? A beach. It looks so hot in the movies. September in Skegness not so groovy.

The problem with getting a bed or a mattress is that you really have to sleep in it for a few nights before you know if it's any good.

The sleep number beds, water beds, tempurpedic beds. All of them. I have no idea if they are any good.

But I do know we need a new mattress too, and I'd pay a lot if I knew for sure it would be a good mattress.

/Back to the sex talk.

ever try having coitus on a water bed, btw? that's no fun at all. seems like it would be... it's not.

Water beds are horrible, horrible ideas. Don't ever get one. Ever.

Second that (or third, whatever). Pillow-top for the win! Especially for those of us over 25.

Of course there are other options, but the back seat of any car is no longer one. So many far superior choices ...

guess what I'll be doing after work tonight....

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that's right... making a FORT!

After my car accident (1996) I got a Tempurpedic mattress. My sister called it a "circus peanut" because it has nearly the exact same feeling. When they are new it takes about 2 weeks for them to outgas. They smell sort of like a chocolate milkshake that's been tainted by some type of solvent, sort of attractive and repellant simultaneously.

Enjoy your fort building!

Did you like your tempurpedic?

Oh, it's not so bad as all that. De-wave measures are a good thing. They've gone away from interior baffling and now confine water mattresses inside an armored, watertight anti-flooding envelope, which stiffens up a simple mattress no end; also has zip off tops for laundering about once a year on gentle cycle.

But waterbeds do tend to make moving around on top of that mattress more than a bit draggy; thing likes to hang on to you. Hotel rooms' stiff mattresses let you get around a lot easier when you're frisky.

Ok... Thanks for the visual.


Assembly of this king size bed had taken me 2 solid hours. Excellent instructions... Everything fit as it should. Putting the 12 legs and 24 bolts with washers and wing nuts was the most time consuming part.

As always, I managed to get one part upside down, requiring deconstruction and a do over. The air mattresses have apertures for the hoses which inflate them.... And printed right there on each it says, 'this side down'... So having put them in that side up, I had to disconnect the air hoses, swap and flip both mattresses, and reinflate. Cock. I also managed to put the tag at the foot of the bed where it will be visible. Cock cock. Fuck it. I'll just snip that off....

So as soon as the sweat dries, I'm gonna find out what my sleep number is....

Fuck. It's almost 2 am. Deconstruction of my old bed took far too long because all of my Alan wrenches were out in the garage, but I insisted on rooting through every possible place inside that might be harboring the right size... For like 2o minutes... before I finally relented, put shoes on, and took the 90 second walk out to the garage to get the goddamned alan motherfucking wrenches that were exactly where they should be.

So what is your sleep number?

42

:eek: Nooooo.... Don't try it, Jim... especially on yourself.
I've heard it's much more painful in adulthood than in infancy.

Ert.

I slept at 15 last night, and was comfy. Didn't get to sleep until 3, and up at 9, so not really long enough to get a real feel for whether or not my back would get stiff like it used to do...

Does it feel like a regular mattress, or more like one of those inflatable guest beds?

I was thinking of getting one of these. I am curious to see how you like it and how long it takes to find your 'number'. I am definitely in need of a new mattress.

You weren't doing it right.;)

Mine feels like it was made by The Bungle Bungle Mattress Co.

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^^^Bungle Bungle^^^

Yah, feels like a real mattress. It's got cushions wrapped around the air chambers, and between... Plus a memory foam topper... And all of that is encased in a big mattress shaped bag with a mattress textured top. You can sit on the edge without the other side moving at all.

It's pretty cool.

I do, very much. I especially appreciate it when I am drinking red wine while jumping up and down on the bed.

When Jim's question if anyone had experience with these didn't get much response I went to Consumer reports online. They had good things to say about them in their usual left-handed nit-picky way. The overall ratings were very high.

Yeah, I did some research too and sleep number and tempurpedic are both highly rated while conventional inner coil mattresses are not.

Sleeplikethedead.com has tons of info. Makes me want to buy a cheap foam mattress from Amazon since they are the best value. $450 or so for nearly the highest rated bed. I still need to do more research though.

In Albany there is a foam products wholesaler that carries a hijillion different types of foam, memory foam among them in all dimensions. The price is about half of what a tempurpedic mattress is. I'd bet there must be a similar type store in your area.

You wouldn't get the plushy zippered cover with the tempurpedic logo though. :(

we used to have one, but they closed. :(

Maybe there is another.

One interesting thing that sleeplikethedead.com pointed out is that people who buy their mattresses online without testing them out are more satisfied with their purchases than people who go to a store and try them out.

They gave two reasons for this counter-intuitive point. First, online buyers do more research and are more educated purchasers. And second, the store experience is so useless, the 5 minutes the average buyer spends lying on a mattress doesn't help them choose a mattress with any success.

I just figured that the adjustable nature of the sleep number bed gave it an advantage. I think I'm zeroing in on 50, btw.

There is actually a study of people and their satisfaction with their choices. I think there's a TED talk about it. Essentially, when given too many choices people fear they made the wrong choice and tend to be dissatisfied. Given a limited choice, they tend to be satisfied with their choice.

I wonder if online buying is essentially a limited choice given the impracticality of trying multiple beds.

I choo-choo-choose my bed.

-martin or marvin or whoever that character was who gave out valentines.

I think that was Ralphy. Martin is the genius. Ralphy eats paste.

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