"His clothes are dirty, but his hands are clean
And you're the best thing that he's ever seen
Lay, lady, lay
Lay across my big brass bed"
(Bob Dylan)
Here's a bedroom confession. The last time we bought our bedroom bed was 30+ years ago. It had a no frills generic King sized mattress, two generic box springs, and a simple interlocking metal frame.
That frame had recently started falling apart with increasing frequency, and the process of lifting a king-sized mattress and two box springs from the frame, figuring out how to re-lock the frame, then pile everything back was getting both tedious and tiring.
So since that bed dates to the Bill Clinton presidency, we decided it was time to move ahead and get a new one.
Beds, especially Kings, can be crazy expensive and hit three grand or more pretty easily. There are lots of mattress quality options, mattress "toppers", and frame and platform options. It can be as complicated as buying a vehicle.
So, bearing all this in mind, we checked out two competitive stores yesterday.
Connecticut Mattress was our second visit and we purchased our replacement bed there.
We ditched the old metal frame for a sturdier platform, eliminating the need for box springs, and we splurged a bit by having the platform "tilt" at the head to make watching TV and reading a bit more comfortable. We went with a "firm" mattress we both test drove and liked.
I want to acknowledge how helpful our Sleep Consultant (that's the title on her business card!) Joanne Wholley was. She was super knowledgeable, very patient, and had a great personality.
She was the reason we chose Connecticut Mattresss over the competition. Pricing for the bed, platform, delivery, and removal were similar. But Joanne's counterpart at the store that will not be named was pushy to the point of aggressive, and miraculously dropped her quote by $100 as we told her we needed to discuss things and were leaving.
So maybe instead of being in Avon, I was in Lourdes and unknowingly made a pilgrimage to The Miracle of the Mattress? read more