Tempurpedic

As reported by Seattle Times recycling and disposing of used mattresses takes more than the usual effort. For one thing, no one likes to purchase a mattress that someone else has already slept on for years. Even charitable organizations, according to the article, do not encourage used mattress donations. And when waste management companies do recycle them, they would need some time to tear the mattresses apart. Mattresses are constructed tightly precisely so that it won’t easily come apart. Waste management companies would have to make use of really expensive equipment to do so.

Did you know that you can avail of a mattress protection plan from Macy’s?

When buying a new mattress, sign up for their worrynomore® Mattress and Bedgard™ Protection Plan and avail of a Bedgard™ Mattress Pad which carries a 10 year warranty. Coverage for Bedgard includes accidental staining. And if the stain doesn’t come out, you will get a replacement Bedgard or a new mattress (under its terms and conditions).

Designed for more than simply sleeping, your Mattress is the perfect place for late-night snacks, breakfast in bed and lazy Sundays spent snuggling with the kids and the dog. No wonder accidents happen!

Despite new mattress standards, mattresses today are made of several chemical-based products proven to be very harmful to the individual. Research conducted by several entities have documented that chemicals from mattresses evaporate and mutate to carcinogenic compounds. While these may contain low chemical levels, eventually, it can lead to persons becoming repeatedly sick, on account of prolonged exposure and contact.

Chemicals in mattresses weaken our immune system. Before you set to buy a mattress, make sure you know it’s components. If you suspect your mattress is inducing your health’s deterioration, it’s high time to find other mattress alternatives, such as an organic mattress.

The New York Times sits with H. Thomas Bryant, chief executive of today’s most profitable mattress manufacturing company, Tempure-Pedic. Below are some excerpts to the interview:

Q. Your company is not even 20 years old?

A. That’s true; we’ve been in the U.S. now for 13 years. It’s taken us quite a while to establish a business and a brand and start growing. About six years ago, when we started our distribution into furniture and bedding stores, we started advertising more aggressively.

While the federal government pushes through with its new mandate for mattress safety standards effective July 1, there are those that say the safety precautions set may actually be more dangerous. The chemicals to achieve a flame-proof mattress are said to cause more harm than good, ten years down the line. Below are the points People for Cleaner Beds Org have made regarding this:

The chemicals used to flameproof mattresses have never been studied for human exposure risk in this application. (Except now the CPSC has released a limited study.)

We know almost all the chemicals to flameproof mattresses are acutely toxic and many also cause cancer.

New mattress standards will go in effect today, July 1st, in the USA. Will neighboring Canada follow suit? Exporters from that area are complying with the current USA laws but locally, the move to amend it remains unchanged:

Business leader Mattress Discounters recently gave fifteen new mattresses to the homeless institution, Focus House. The shelter has to contend with intermittent bed bug infestation that instead of helping the homeless find refuge and avoid sleeping in the streets, they end up getting bitten by the pests in the comforts of the shelter.

The shelter has been established to help the homeless become productive citizens. Normally, people don’t have a lot of sympathy for them but  hopefully, this gesture by the mattress company will inspire others to do the same.

If you would like to donate anything, you can go to Focal House’s parent organization www.fishcarson.org.

Some of you may be in the process of preparing your summer house for those visitors you are expecting to come in. And as a good host, you would perhaps like to provide them with everything they need, with appropriate set-ups for sleeping that also includes comfortable mattresses.

If you had to prepare three beds for three guests, it may cost you a lot to get new mattresses for each. But actually, you don’t have to spend too much on this.  Check out Sealy Posture Premier. It retails for $469.00. It’s perfect for those looking for quality mattresses on a tight budget. And here is what satisfied customers have said about the product.

The Mattress Outlet Inc., of Spokane, has opened its fourth store here in a building on north Division Street formerly occupied by Sylvan Furniture Co.

The store opened last weekend in the 22,000-square-foot leased structure, at 1233 N. Division, says owner Ken Mullinax. Sylvan Furniture, which had occupied the building since 2001, lost its lease there earlier this year and couldn’t be reached for comment about its plans.

Clark Pacific Real Estate Co., of Spokane, handled Mattress Outlet’s lease of the building.

New York Times published a very thorough article on the complexities of sleep, which deals with one’s prefence, habits, lifestyle, disorders, the mattress industry and a whole other factors. The article is extensive and loaded with facts and stipulations and here are some excerpts:

Furniture Today’s David Perry: “the mattress is not nearly as sexy a part of the equation as drugs or sleep-disorder centers. It just kind of lies there.” For generations many consumers perceived the innerspring beds of the three dominant “S-brands” — Sealy, Serta and Simmons — to be interchangeable. A Gallup poll 10 years ago found that nearly half of Americans didn’t know what brand of mattress they slept on. The industry blamed itself, often ruthlessly.