iComfort : Which Serta Mattress is right for you?

Searching for a mattress that fits how you sleep can be a daunting task!

Here is some great information to help you find the right iComfort Serta Mattress that fits your lifestyle!

Which type of iComfort is right for you?

In a recent study, 93% of people who tried the iComfort® Sleep System by Serta reported improved sleep quality*. Now, you can update the way you sleep with iComfort, featuring Serta’s Cool Action™ gel memory foam. This is the world’s first memory foam infused with Serta’s exclusive MicroSupport™ gel for up to 2x more support and up to 7x more cooling comfort than ordinary memory foam**.

Now through 9/8, with any purchase on Sears of an iComfort or iSeries mattress, you get:

· Free box spring or up to $400 off adjustable base
· Free Delivery with a $499 or more purchase
· Free Haul Away
· 36 month financing with a $1300 or more purchase
· Starting 8/19, you also get 2 free iComfort scrunch memory foam pillows with mail-in rebate
· Week of 8/24-8/31 exclusive coupon code BLOGMATTRESS for double Shop Your Way Rewards bonus points on the iComfort or iSeries purchase

Find out more with my iComfort Savant Review here on MomDot.

*information provided by Sears

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A better sleep requires a better mattress

13 Aug By trisha haas 33 Comments

I am not sure if you have ever put much thought into your mattress. I know it’s a constant discussion around here. My husband has a huge array of knee and back problems and finding the right mattress firmness for him is important to..well..his health and well being. For me, after hauling around a 25 pound baby all day, I am looking for comfort and the ability to fall right asleep.

Without Tylenol PM.

The problem is, he needs a firm mattress and I need something that is more cushion on my body. Now during the course of our marriage, we have gotten plenty of mattresses. From our first pillow top (Sterns and Foster) which caved in the middle, to our temperpedic, we have changed mattresses a few times over the years trying to find the “right” fit.

Regarding Temperpedic: It was a great change from the pillow top to the Temperpedic Celebrity and initially we really enjoyed it. To this day my spouse has very little complaints about it. I, on the other hand, haven’t gotten out of bed in over 3 years without my spine cracking down the middle that makes me sound, and feel, like a 65 year old. I have moved it to my daughters room and she now has it. It’s not a bad mattress, but I don’t think its a GREAT mattress either. You know how the commercials say “ask me about my temperpedic?”. Well ask me now 3 years later. I am not as positive as I once was.

A mattress shopping we go….

Last weekend, courtesy of Sears, we went shopping for a new mattress. I might possibly be the only person in the world that has a camera on me 24/7, so you get to experience it as well.

This is the Haas family freaking people out at Sears.

(yes, I do wear dresses mattress shopping…I am from the South after all, y’all)

(Charlotte said: Can I have this pillow?)

(Chris said: Shhhh…I am testing it out)

Click more to find out which mattress I picked….

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Choosing the Right Mattress for You

26 Jul By trisha haas 19 Comments

For most of us, a mattress is a major purchase, and the comfort you feel, or lack thereof, will have a significant effect on the quality of your sleep. As a parent, the little amount of sleep I get during the week is super important. Right now I have a Temperpedic, I have talked about it before in the past. I bought it in 2009 and loved it to pieces…or the IDEA of it. Three years later, I hate that thing. I started out loving it, but now….if my back could crack any more in the morning, I am not sure I would have a spine.

The problem is finding a mattress that works for your body when you can’t exactly just go pick one up and then take it home and return it in the morning. And I know most companies have return policies, but if you saw my four cats, dog, 2 children, and a husband, I promise you wouldn’t take new products in your home without thinking it was staying.

So if you are stuck in this same dilemma, here are some things to keep in mind when you go shopping for one:

● Think about your physical condition. If you have a back problem (like me), you may need to look for firm support to ensure that your spine will be properly aligned. If your blood circulation needs attention, you may want flexible support that will adjust to the shape of your body. Think about your spouses condition..maybe you have to meet in the middle to find that perfect fit.

● If you have allergies, note that an ordinary mattress can cause an allergic reaction if you are sensitive to dust, dust mites, cotton or lint. Instead, choose a water, latex or foam mattress, along with a hypoallergenic mattress cover.

● Think about getting a foam or latex mattress, rather than one with coils, which will conform to the shape of your body and minimize the pressure points from the hips, head and shoulders.

● If you and your partner have different firmness requirements for a mattress, you may want to opt for an air mattress. It will come equipped with certain mechanical and electronic devices that control the softness or firmness of certain areas of the mattress.

● Be sure that you make the right choice by lying on the beds in the store to find the model that fits your comfort level. And lay. And lay some more!
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● Remember that buying a mattress is a major investment! Prices absolutely vary, based on the mattress’ quality, construction, durability, size and manufacturer’s warranty. For example, Serta mattresses are a well-known, respectable brand, and which you can research and even purchase online at retailers like ShopNBC, H.H. Gregg, or Big Lots. It’s very important to make an educated decision about a major purchase like a mattress and not just buy the first one that you lay your head on!

Which mattress do you have at home and do you love it or hate it?

I need help deciding the NEXT one….and hopefully not one that will require I get a massage once a month.

~trisha

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My New Tempur-pedic Mattress

7 Dec By trisha haas 24 Comments

No sweeter words in the human language then “new mattress”. A million years ago we bought a new mattress. I think it was at our first tour duty, so more like 8.5 years ago, but it feels like a million. It was a standard $800 pillow top. I cannot honestly remember back if it was comfortable or not. All I know is we lost the poor thing in the great Haas fire of 2007 and went on a search for a new one.

DH and I like different kinds of mattresses. I prefer to lay on a cloud of pillows or cotton candy fluff and he is most comfortable on a rock.

Or a slab of concrete.

We ended up coming to an agreement on a mattress back then but now, less than 2 years with it, we are both suffering with creaks and cracks on our bodies. DH’s legs go numb at night and it literally has inverted lumps on both sides.

We have been cranky a lot lately not getting sleep. DH is sleeping in one room and I am in the other because our mattress is too uncomfortable for both of us. The guest room mattress at least allows DH to get to sleep and I then move to the middle of the bed and its less suffering for both of us.

Finally we have had enough.

We started out searching mattresses, which of course led us to that whole Sleep Number Mattress incident and we finally settled on Tempur-pedic being the best solution.

If you have any idea what its like to agree to a mattress that ends with the word “thousand”, it’s scary. VERY scary. This mattress costs as much as I owe on my SVU still. Tempur-pedic is notorious for not offering discounts and all furniture stores carry the same lines at the exact same cost. Its really about finding the best financing, not the best deal.

Here is a tip to get a discount on Tempur-pedic: We learned that if you get a doctors prescription note, you don’t have to pay sales tax. Its very easy to get one when you have bad back and leg problems like my DH, so if you are considering a new mattress purchase, talk to your doctor first.

For the past few weeks, we have been searching nonstop for good financing and going back and forth about this purchase. Finally we found a furniture store in Florida whom is no longer selling Tempur-pedic and were getting rid of all their floor models, including one that was only a week on the floor demo bed. Tempur-pedic gave them permission to get rid of them so they discounted them all. When I called, they had two left at 50% off.

50% off Tempur-pedic is unheard of. When we called to talk to the furniture store, they basically said the price points were too high and they were not going to carry the line anymore. Which translates to “this mattress is too expensive to sell in this crappy economy“.

I feel that.

Not only did we get 50% off, but they are giving us the box spring for FREE because they said they have no use for it now that they are clearing these out.

SCORE!

Tempur-pedic Celebrity + box spring on company website: $4223.00
Our price including Delivery only: $2089

Now its going to be our Christmas-Birthday-Halloween-Easter-Valentines Day-Anniversary-Birthday and Tax return gift, BUT I can’t wait. They let us buy it over the phone and are driving it in town tomorrow from Florida.

I feel like a kid on Christmas. Or an adult ready to throw away the sleeping pills for some REAL sleep finally.

Tomorrow night I will be sleeping on the Temperpedic Celebrity. Do not expect me to show up to work Wednesday Morning.

M’kay?

~trisha

(Look at it, it brings tears to my eyes, sigh)

Filed Under: All About Trisha Tagged With: mattress, Tempur-pedic

Sleep Number Mattress: FAIL!

15 Nov By trisha haas 73 Comments

Today I woke up from another bad night of sleep and decided that’s it. We are going to find a new mattress. The past two mattresses we have purchased have been great in the beginning and then wear out to dips. It basically makes for cracks in your back and tossing and turning.

We knew we were going to have to swallow some credit card debt and I figured it would take about $3000-$4000 to get a mattress that lasted for the next 10+ years. At this point anything that allows me to sleep would be a good fit. I cant exactly take a sleeping pill anytime I want rest, kwim?

So we went to Rooms 2 Go first. They had a pretty good selection and we were able to test out TempurPedic, Sealy, Simmons, BeautyRest, and a ton of others. For the most part all of them felt pretty much like our current mattress except for Temper-pedic. When it comes to Chris and I, he likes a firm mattress and I like to sink into one like a pillow. Its hard to get us to agree.

We both settled on a Tempur-Pedic and with a 20 year warranty and a 90 day trial period, we figured it just might be worth the $3100 price tag that followed it. I swear I owe that much on my SUV though. It’s a big chunk of change and I don’t take the purchase lightly or quickly.

Before we made the decision, we really wanted to test out a Sleep Number mattress. They advertise that one side can be hard and one side soft, so if we found the right overall feel, it may be a good decision for us as a couple. We went over to the mall where I knew for sure they had a Sleep Number store.

When we walked in, the employee on duty (later to learn the manager) said hi but walked off. He did not ask us what we were looking for, attempt to give us any information, and left us basically blind at the front door. Its not that I needed help, but since these mattresses are supposedly better than other ones out there, a little customer service would have been a nice start .

Nonetheless, we laid down on the first bed and Charlotte hopped on the bed next to us. She loves to test out mattresses and we had been doing it all day so she knew the drill. On the bed that she was on, it had a very very large stuffed dog laying on the entire bed. Charlotte crawled up and laid on it hugging it and was giggling. She was not upset, yelling, jumping, or being inappropriate. Just hugging the big stuffed animal dog and giggling.

Dh looked over and made the comment that Charlotte found the mattress she wanted.

As I am standing up from the 1st mattress, the employee walked by and told me to tell her to get off. I was pretty taken by surprise by the sense of attitude. I said Charlotte, get off the bed. She started to protest for a minute and I told her to get up and that we were leaving. She got off immediately and walked over to me and we left and went to the Disney store.

Standing in the Disney store I started to get a little heated. We came all the way to the mall just to test out Sleep Number. Charlotte was NOT doing anything wrong. She was hugging the stuffed animal dog on the bed. SMILING. She was being quiet.

HELLO. That’s not exactly easy to say about a 4 year old.

I decided to walk back to Sleep Number to get the managers business card. I really wanted to express how I felt about my negative experience. I go back (alone) and the guy was sitting at his computer. I could just tell he knew why I was walking back in. I asked him for the managers card. He said “I am the manager”.

What? You cannot be serious.

What exactly are the qualifications now a days? Speaking English?

I sat down at the table in front of him, explained to him we came in to attempt to purchase and I wanted to know exactly what Charlotte was doing wrong that she had to get up.

He said “She was laying on the display”.

I said “It was a stuffed animal. On the bed. She was not jumping up and down. She was laying there.”

He said “She was on the display”.

I said “It was a STUFFED ANIMAL.”

Then he said something that really pissed me off.

He said “You didn’t care what she was doing.“

EXCUSE ME. YOU SAID WHAT?

Oh, now you done pissed off a mom.

I think it made me so mad I started to shake. I said “That is not true. We were testing the mattress RIGHT NEXT To her and she was laying on the bed there. She was not doing anything inappropriate and the SECOND you said something to me I asked her to get up and she did.”

The guy just shrugged. I seriously could have smacked him.

Sales people like him drive Kias. Till they die.

Now let me ask you, should a company be held responsible for its employees actions? I know I am held responsible for mine on the blog. If I blast someone or something or use some sort of language that a company judges me over, I lose my business with them. If I have an opinion on something that a visitor doesn’t like, I run the risk of them never visiting me again.

I say yes, they are indeed responsible.

I was not only disappointed, I was irritated that this asshole could have the audacity to make those statements when they were not even close to being true. I would challenge Sleep Number to pull the security tapes to find a well behaved child hugging their “display” but I mostly challenge them to start training their employees on the art of basic customer service and courtesy.

If I would have been “shopping” the store, he would have failed miserably. Hell, it was worse then shopping the store. I was looking to PURCHASE and he failed miserably.

If you really think about it, what would a stuffed animal, a LARGE stuffed animal, be laying on a bed that you are supposed to test period. Since it was the 2nd in line of the mattresses, clearly our next test would have been on that one and we would have had to throw it on the floor. If it was such an important “display”, it seems to me it wouldn’t be where anyone could touch it at all.

It was a $50 stuffed dog. In the mall.

This wasn’t exactly Tiffanys.

If you want to know the truth, what I think really happened was that we walked in wearing jeans, T-shirts and sandals and the guy thought we were not worth his time. Surely we couldn’t afford a mattress. Too bad behind the jeans and t-shirts was a perfect credit history and ability to pay cash if we wanted.

I would say Sleep Numbers $3000 mistake, was Tempurpedics $3000 gain.

Here is the store you go to if you are willing to be insulted, talked down too, and helped worth a crap.

And bring all the neighborhood kids.

~Trisha

Filed Under: All About Trisha Tagged With: mattress, shopping, sleep number, tempurpedic