2025-01-12 – Health – www.theguardian.com
In search of bedroom bliss, Andrew Herrick and his wife lay on every mattress in the showroom. But could they find one that was just right?
A chiropractor once told me that anyone who pays more than $1,000 for a mattress is wasting their money. So with that in mind, in 2023 my wife and I scoured bedding outlets and factories as well as websites offering reviews and advice on how to replace our ageing queen-size slab with the “perfect” mattress. One Melbourne store suggested we buy a mattress “purpose designed to grant you your best night’s sleep, every night”, with pillows “to help you sleep like a baby”.
This was mattress land, where massive margins, perpetual sales and the fanciful hype of retail predators make the sleep-deprived easy meat. “Grant” suggested charity when the thing cost $8,599, and (spoiler alert) nobody sleeps like a baby except a baby. I scoffed at the “best night’s sleep” claim due to the wistful memory of the best I ever had – on a…