Pillow shopping

[TowelKing]

I need a new pillow. But I hate buying them. I'm like the Goldillcks of pillows. It can't be too soft or too firm, can't be too thick or too thin, can't be one of those funky memory foam pillows.
Would it be a little sucky to go into a syore and say (mattress store, not department store):
I need a pillow, and someone patient enough to help me. This is my criteria.

Help soon please, I'm going pillow shopping when I get up.

[AdminAssistant]

That wouldn't be sucky at all, especially at a bed/mattress store where the salespeople are probably highly trained and informed about their products.

[Kogarashi]

If you're polite and up-front about it, I'm sure you'll be fine and not sucky.

I'm a picky pillow person too. I've found that I need two pillows. Not one, not three (though I've made do with overly-thin pillows before). The bottom one has to be big and squishy, the top one thinner and firmer so I don't sink completely into the bottom pillow. I honestly get headaches if I try to sleep on less than that.

[HYHYBT]

How do you get a pillow to *last*? My current one was about the most comfortable thing I've ever laid my head on when I got it just this past April... but for weeks now I've been having to turn it on end or fold it double to make it usable. It was originally thick and firm, with just the right amount of squishiness, but is now mostly flat and limp. (No, I haven't tried giving it Cialis.) Surely, SURELY pillows are supposed to last longer than that? Surely everybody else doesn't either sleep on a dead pillow or else replace it six times a year?

[BookstoreEscapee]

(No, I haven't tried giving it Cialis.)

Viagra, then?

I got my pillows about 3+ years ago when I bought my bed. I got them on sale at Kohls for about 11 bucks each. I sleep on my side so I looked for ones that were labeled for side sleepers; they're just regular fiber-fill, and still in pretty good shape, though the corners on one end are kind of empty cuz the filling bunches up in the middle. My only problem really is that they are stained from laying on them with wet hair so they look kind of gross when I change my pillow cases.

I used to have foam-rubber pillows (not memory foam, just regular foam rubber and they always snapped back into shape). They were really old and the foam was starting to break down so I finally had to replace them. Those are hard to find, though, and tend to be a bit pricey (like $30 each last time I found them at Bed, Bath & Beyond) and at the time I had just spent almost a grand on my bed, and splurged on a nice bedspread and sheets, so I didn't want to spend another $60 right then.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I have a Sobakawa pillow. It's smaller than the average bed pillow, but it gives me better head and neck support than any other pillow I've tried.

[monolayth]

I sleep with about 6 pillows. My dear husband gets three and he usually ends up throwing two of his pillows on the floor as he sleeps.

[BookstoreEscapee]

I technically have 3 pillows. I have one of those body pillows across the top of my bed, then one regular pillow behind my head, and the other regular pillow lengthwise next to me (like how you're supposed to sleep with the body pillow. I'm weird like that ). I actually put the body pillow where it is because I don't really like to sleep with it, especially in the summer, and I didn't have any other place to put it.

[TowelKing]

Well I got a new one! Ended up spending over $100, but totally worth it. Looking forward to using it tonight.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Well I got a new one! Ended up spending over $100, but totally worth it. Looking forward to using it tonight.

That pillow had better sleep real good for that price.

I bought new ones last year for my bed and didn't spend quite that much for all of them.

IIRC, I'd say I spent around $60 total between Garden Ridge and Wallyworld. Two of them were for shams, so it really didn't matter how soft they were . . they just needed to be fluffy enough to fill out the shams.

The other 4 are firm . . . and that's what I find most comfortable. I have one that I sleep on just about every night that's now squished down toward the middle. I guess that happens when you go to bed at night with rollers in your hair.

[Kogarashi]

How do you get a pillow to *last*?

Mine might actually be ten years old, from when I bought them from Walmart to take to college with me. They're still pretty good, if kind of stained under the pillow case just from years of sleeping on them. I figure, though, that's what the pillow cases are for, right?

What are you doing that's abusing your pillows so much?

[TowelKing]

That pillow had better sleep real good for that price.

I hope so. I forgot it in my truck, so I'll update you guys tomorrow (Tuesday) how it is.