Hellsbells
World's best procrastinator
That's the pillow you can have when you come to visit
buying a new pillow
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That's the pillow you can have when you come to visit
Frank Merton
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Now here is something I really notice when I visit the States -- how stingy the hotels are with pillows.
In Vietnam babies are started out with a body-length pillow to wrap themselves around plus something for their feet and something for their head plus a couple more for good measure.
I grew up that way and have always had a dozen or so pillows on my bed, plus a couple towels. We don't use blankets much (don't need them) but pillows are another thing. We use each other for pillows if nothing else, and no one sleeps alone.
In Vietnam babies are started out with a body-length pillow to wrap themselves around plus something for their feet and something for their head plus a couple more for good measure.
I grew up that way and have always had a dozen or so pillows on my bed, plus a couple towels. We don't use blankets much (don't need them) but pillows are another thing. We use each other for pillows if nothing else, and no one sleeps alone.
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
I approve!
Hellsbells
World's best procrastinator
I got some duck feather ones from Argos. Haven't slept on them yet - just got them home - they stink a bit! I expect an amazing nights sleep tonight though.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Feathers clump up and need to be constantly shook. They give me a pain in the neck
Hellsbells
World's best procrastinator
Lucky i only spent £10 then.I did go to John Lewis yesterday though and rested my head on a £150 goose feather pillow. Wow is all i can say. I've never felt such luxury under my head before. And probably never will. Even if i had the money, just don't think i could ever justify spending that kind of money on a pillow.
Hellsbells
World's best procrastinator
btw - why are people telling me all this now after i've bought the pillow?!?
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
I did go to John Lewis yesterday though and rested my head on a £150 goose feather pillow. Wow is all i can say. I've never felt such luxury under my head before. And probably never will. Even if i had the money, just don't think i could ever justify spending that kind of money on a pillow.
You can sometimes find goosedown pillows on ebay but you're never sure of the quality or fill power and percentage of down to feathers, but for four pillows, this seems incredibly cheap
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Goose-fea...en_Duvets_Pillows_Toppers&hash=item337e5fca3a
This single one is probably better though
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HUNGARIAN...en_Duvets_Pillows_Toppers&hash=item20b3790072
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Hellsbells
World's best procrastinator
well it's 85% duck feather, 15% down...
Tbh, you should see what i've been sleeping on for the last 10 years of my life - i think these pillows are going to feel like total luxury to me in comparison! I actually think one of my current pillows is stuffed with left over beans i was using to make a bean bag with
Tbh, you should see what i've been sleeping on for the last 10 years of my life - i think these pillows are going to feel like total luxury to me in comparison! I actually think one of my current pillows is stuffed with left over beans i was using to make a bean bag with
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
well it's 85% duck feather, 15% down...
Tbh, you should see what i've been sleeping on for the last 10 years of my life - i think these pillows are going to feel like total luxury to me in comparison! I actually think one of my current pillows is stuffed with left over beans i was using to make a bean bag with
Too much feather, not enough down
Frank Merton
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I like that kinda pillow.Tbh, you should see what i've been sleeping on for the last 10 years of my life - i think these pillows are going to feel like total luxury to me in comparison! I actually think one of my current pillows is stuffed with left over beans i was using to make a bean bag with
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
I had one of the original Tempur ones like that. Far too low unless you sleep on your back. Even then it was pushing it and I have practically no neck.
Frank Merton
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Have a dozen or so pillows of every conceivable shape and size and material on your bed and toss them around wedge them here and there. Sooner or later you will get what you want.
Hellsbells
World's best procrastinator
well, first night on new pillows.....when i first lay down and put my head on them, it felt amazing and i was lying in bed muttering oh my GOD to myself for about an hour But then half way through the night, my neck started hurting and i started getting annoyed 
Probably because i had 2 pillows rather than 1 - which is the equivalent of probably 4 of my normal pillows. Will try with 1 tonight.
But then half way through the night, my neck started hurting and i started getting annoyed Probably because i had 2 pillows rather than 1 - which is the equivalent of probably 4 of my normal pillows. Will try with 1 tonight.
miss direct
misfungled
Two pillows is too many in my opinion. It doesn't seem like a natural position to lie in. One is enough, especially if they're new.
Hellsbells
World's best procrastinator
You'd think any normal person would, wouldn't you
Instead i just lay there suffering.
Thimble Queen
Called away to another place
I bought two £10 pillows from John Lewis early December. They're doing pretty well. We intended them to be underneath pillows but we are actually quite liking them and they have become our on top pillows 
Frank Merton
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The thing about Americans and their pillows is that you are allowed only one. I wonder if its that way in Britain -- from the messages I gather otherwise but not usually. Americans, as far as I can tell, think it babyish to have more than one pillow, and getting extra pillows in hotels there is a real pain.
I grew up with a body-pillow, and have always had one. Not all Vietnamese do -- but most do. This is a long down pillow that you wrap yourself around. Then we also often have an assortment of other pillows, one or two more down for our head and various other materials (what are called bean-bags) to wedge in wherever. I think all this makes for a happier population.
Until recently most Vietnamese slept on sleeping mats (weaved straw on the floor) so these pillows helped. The Western foam mattresses have now taken over, but I think that, regardless, the pillows will stay.
I grew up with a body-pillow, and have always had one. Not all Vietnamese do -- but most do. This is a long down pillow that you wrap yourself around. Then we also often have an assortment of other pillows, one or two more down for our head and various other materials (what are called bean-bags) to wedge in wherever. I think all this makes for a happier population.
Until recently most Vietnamese slept on sleeping mats (weaved straw on the floor) so these pillows helped. The Western foam mattresses have now taken over, but I think that, regardless, the pillows will stay.
In my family, two feather pillows were the norm. Although it'd be more accurate to say "two pillowcases", since really old pillows ended up being stuffed two at a time into one pillowcase, with a newer pillow in the other pillowcase. And if anyone got a bad cold or chest infection, there'd be a third pillow added to form a /-\ shape in order to make breathing easier.
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