Review of Our New Mattress

We used to have a queen size lumpy mattress. David had bought it when he moved out of his parent's house and since we figured there was a good chance it would become our mattress after we got married, I helped pick it out. It was on sale for about $500 and in the store, we loved it! After he bought it, it quickly started to shape to his body...and not bounce back. He had it on the free-with-mattress-purchase boxspring but it was still saggy so he put it on the floor. Somehow, it still felt saggy even with the entire thing supported by the floor. 

When we got married, we decided to keep it since it was only a year or two old and mattresses are supposed to last 8+ years. After enduring it through being pregnant with my daughter, I knew we definitely needed a new one sooner rather than later. Ours wasn't going to make it many more years. Then I got pregnant with our son and we looked into getting a new mattress (because the third trimester is unbearable enough, even on a good mattress). They were all too expensive and it was a big decision to make because we didn't want to make the same mistake twice. 

Then (when I was no longer pregnant), David found a PuraSleep mattress for less than $500 on a daily deals site. It was a 10 inch thick, firm, all memory foam mattress. It sounded too good to be true. With the site, we had only four hours to decide if we wanted it. We justified that it wasn't an impulse decision because we had been wanting a new mattress basically since David had bought our old one. We read lots of reviews and they were all positive. Without the daily deal site, this mattress is over $2000. We debated between the king and queen sizes. Finally, we decided on the king.

We did have to rearrange our bedroom furniture to fit the king but it was SO WORTH IT! Just upgrading to a king was better. We had our own space when we wanted it and when our kids play in the bed (they never sleep with us), they can even fit sideways in between us! The extra space is just SO nice. The only downside was having to buy new sheets and build a king size bed frame (they recommend not putting the mattress on a box spring so David and his dad spent a Saturday building a simple bed frame with built in storage). 

The bed itself is AMAZING! It's firm and gives you support but still lets you sink into it. You can move around on your side of the bed as much as you want without disturbing the other person (a problem with our old bed. Every time one of us would roll over, the other person would get rocked). This bed makes it even harder to get out of bed in the morning. I look forward to going to bed (you think that's true when you have a newborn and you're always tired but our old bed sometimes made me consider sleeping on the floor instead). 

I had back pain if I slept on our old bed on my back for more than 20 minutes or so. With this bed, that pain is gone! I can't recommend this bed enough. I'm not sure if I would pay full price for it but every so often, it does come on woot.com (the daily deals site). If you get it for that price, it is SOOOOOO worth it. 

It comes vacuum sealed in a box the size of a kitchen chair and weighs 87 pounds (try lugging that up the stairs!). It takes up to 3 days to fully pop up to life and lose that new memory foam smell but we slept on it from day one anyway. These mattresses are made when you order them so it's not like it's been sitting in the back of a warehouse for years, sad and alone. 

If I haven't implied it enough, buy this mattress if you need a new one (or even if you don't!).