How much would you spend on a mattress?

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

What is normal?

I went to alders the other day and they are all like £1000 to £2000
Some nice ones, most are in a half price sale but they are still about £700 or £800 quids and that seems rather steep to me.

I personally don't care about mattresses that much but the wife thinks the one we have had for 10 years is impossible to sleep on. We have already removed it and are sleeping on the fold out chair beds foam mattress (which again is fine for me).

They are all these horrible big bulky things that don't actually seem all that comfy to me for the price.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Remember you spend 1/3 of your life in bed

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I got one from here. I'm thrifty but it was the best money we ever spent.

http://www.norrisbedding.co.uk/

 

[weepiper]

I sleep on an IKEA mattress that costs a hundred quid. The landlord supplied it (new) when I moved in and tbh it's been absolutely fine for the nearly three years since then - starting to get a bit saggy now but that's fair enough

 

[weepiper]

Remember you spend 1/3 of your life in bed

I WISH

 

[Badgers]

Remember you spend 1/3 of your life in bed

Yup. Decent mattress if possible. Say you spend £1000 and get one with a ten year warranty, that is at most £100 a year or 30p a night. Obviously you need the grand up front or ability to get finance but such a good investment.

 

[craigxcraig]

I got one from here. I'm thrifty but it was the best money we ever spent.

http://www.norrisbedding.co.uk/

I bought a norris mattress about ten years ago now and its still going strong, definitely the best mattress I've ever had.

 

[Greebo]

About £500 for the current one (paid for out of a backpayment), but really whatever it costs for the right one is worth it.

 

[19sixtysix]

Alders is expensive.
I got a Blindcraft bed ages ago and it's been good. Found this http://www.highlandblindcraft.co.uk/beds.php there's probably something closer to london.

 

[BigTom]

I spent about £350 on a memory foam topped one a few years back (cant' remember now, 3 maybe 4 years ago), first time I had a new matress since I was a kid, and it's possibly the best thing I've ever bought, certainly in terms of value for money.
I've no idea how much better a £500 or £1000 mattress would be though - I basically spent as much as I could afford. Can't remember where I got it from though.
No warranty though.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I spent about £350 on a memory foam topped one a few years back (cant' remember now, 3 maybe 4 years ago), first time I had a new matress since I was a kid, and it's possibly the best thing I've ever bought, certainly in terms of value for money.
I've no idea how much better a £500 or £1000 mattress would be though - I basically spent as much as I could afford. Can't remember where I got it from though.
No warranty though.

I tried a memory foam one. Super uncomfortable. My back sank in.

 

[stuff_it]

I don't pay for mattresses. I get people to give them me for free.

 

[8115]

I would spend £150-200 personally. My current mattress cost £25 (I know that because when I moved in the label was still on it). You can tell.

 

[sheothebudworths]

Years ago, after a thread here, I was convinced to spend a bit of a wedge on a mattress for the first time ever.
Bought it from Littlewoods, where the prices are usually a little higher, but in the NY sales and with a further 20% off or something discount code (used to be a lot of those about then) so ended up with a £800ish mattress for about £450 iirc...and yeah, DEFO worth every penny

It's not quite as fat and plump as it used to be but still doing fine years on and the difference it makes to the quality of your sleep is massive. You just don't realise quite how much until you have a good one.

I'd defo pay out for a decent one again, as painful as it is (this one was interest free payments over 6 months at least....so a bit less painful then shelling out the whole cost at once, tbf).

My last mattress had springs sticking out of it for the last couple of years of it's life nightmare!

 

[Wolveryeti]

I basically sleep like a log on almost anything, but still I would want something pocket sprung - which means forking out in the region of £200.

 

[Me76]

The mattress we have now is memory foam and cost £700. But it is super king size.

Previously to that I'd never spent more than £200 but they needed changing every 3-4 years. This one is 8 years in and still going strong so when needed I would spend the money again.

 

[sheothebudworths]

Yeah mine is a king...and pocket sprung with a memory foam topper (and then a separate mattress topper on top of that...which protects the mattress from BLOOD AND GORE etc but also makes it a bit too hot for some people to stand ).

 

[maldwyn]

I got one from here. I'm thrifty but it was the best money we ever spent.

http://www.norrisbedding.co.uk/

I remember the last time this came up and was seriously tempted by the link, however, I decided to buy from John Lewis instead and have lived to regret it

I ended up spending £800 on a mattress I later discovered could only be used on one side, what a joke - I used to enjoy a monthly toss.

 

[sheothebudworths]

That'll be memory foam topped,eh? So nothing to do with where you bought it from...just the type of mattress it is!

I just make do with *rotating* mine from time to time

 

[maldwyn]

I just assumed it was some new cheapskate way of mattress construction.

I'm not blaming John lewis I just wish the shop assistant hand mentioned it rather then leaving me to discover the massive "Do Not Use This Side' label.

I bet the one Mrs Magpie has can be tossed and rotated to one's heart's content.

 

[qwertyjjj]

For starters, avoid any big name company that has a high street shop = they are priced about 2 or 3 times what you can get them for elsewhere. Sometimes, there are deals available on demo models at almost a 1/3rd of the retail price = that's the best place to get them eg £600 down to £200 for mattress, base, and headboard.

 

[mr steev]

We have a pocket sprung memory foam topped one. It should've been around £700 but my gf managed to get a whopping discount through her job at the time. Tbh it's worth the full price. I'd spend as much as you can afford.

 

[pinkmonkey]

I get really terrible backache if I sleep on a cheap mattress so if I needed a new one I think I'd spend as much as I could afford.

 

[sheothebudworths]

I think it's fair to say that Mrs Suplex is winning this thread hands down

 

[kittyP]

I got one from here. I'm thrifty but it was the best money we ever spent.

http://www.norrisbedding.co.uk/

When we were getting a new bed and you showed me this I sooooo wanted one.
In fact I still do even though our bed is made of win.

 

[kittyP]

We got ours together with a new bed but worked out to about 400 roughly for the super king many pocket sprung mattress.
I have back problems but memory foam makes me feel trapped and queasy.
This mattress is fucking amazing.
I had not been able to sleep on my back without cushions under my legs for years and now I can

We will be paying the whole thing off for years though.

 

[danny la rouge]

I sleep on a pallet of £100 notes. They're more fluffy than the £50s.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I bet the one Mrs Magpie has can be tossed and rotated to one's heart's content.

It can indeed
It was quite a big expense for us, but one I have never regretted...plus it's made by little old ladies in South London, which makes me happy.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

It's a family firm and they are just great.

 

[Orang Utan]

Nothing.