I have come to realize I can now add another least favorite thing to shop for.  I would put this on the list next to toilets or lumber. 

What is it? 

A mattress.

It's not fun, probably the least fun purchase I've ever made.  I've spent weeks looking and researching mattresses and I still feel I don't know all that much.  It's very, very confusing.  There are so many different types, brands, coils, etc.  Do we buy one with memory foam, pillowtop, latex or innerspring?  Which brand is best?  Serta, Sealy, Simmons, Jamison etc? 

I am so sick of lying on mattresses or is that laying?  Not sure actually.  How in the world can you really know which one to bring home by hopping on bed after bed?  After a while they all feel basically the same in the stores. 

I'm not that heavy and neither is my husband so I'm asking myself do we need to spend all that much?  Then I found out the amount of coils wrapped up inside the mattress was important. How important?  I'm not sure but it made sense the higher the count the more expensive the mattress.  I'm thinking you'd really probably want at least an 800 count. Another piece of information along with coil count is what kind of coils are in there?  Are they separately wrapped or not?  Separately wrapped seems to be the better way to go.  If one wakes up in the middle of the night and gets up, the other doesn't move so much if the coils are separately wrapped. 

Then you have the prices, they go from $399-5,000.  Can you imagine paying $5,000 for a mattress?  No way.  What the heck?  And then there's the warranty.  The cheaper the mattress the least amount of warranty.  So usually it's either a 5 year or a 10 year. 

I think I would have been perfectly happy just going to Sams Club and getting a Serta.  The salesman I mentioned this idea to looked horrified.  Don't want to do that he said.  The problem for us going to Sams was delivery.  We don't have a truck and Sams is about 35 minutes away. 

We have been sleeping on a double mattress for about 10 years now and it seems perfectly fine, but it will now go into the guest room.  I always kept it clean and covered and it still looks new.  No noticeable sagging.  I'm pretty sure I got it at Sams Club, so I'm thinking if you have a truck.....go for it. 

So what did we end up with?  A queen latex mattress for $649 complete with bedframe.  I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have gotten that from Sams.  This latex mattress had some sort of pillowtop on it and supposedly (the guy told us) the Chiropractors are giving out prescriptions for latex mattresses. If we had a prescription we would have received another $45 off the price.The hypo-allergetic feature sold me.  I've heard people like their latex pillows so why not try this?   

It comes on Saturday.  I'll let you know how it feels after a few days of sleeping on it.  I hope we like it.