Search for a better nights sleep

Shopping for a new mattress is not an exciting event by a long shot. I think I've found saleman that are worses than used car salesmen. Our mattress isn't really old but it is dented in two very pronounced areas and after watching Oprah's show some time ago about getting a new one every 8-10 years because of the creepy crawly things that lie in wait for you every night we figured it was time to check out new ones. One of the better known mattress stores has been advertising "buy one, get one free" for a week or more now so since my daughter and her family are in need of some new mattresses for the new house we decided to go together and reap the benefits of the savings. Well, of course, they only mattresses available for the "deal" were the ones that were low on the list of desirables. The higher end mattresses were discounted but not half price. There was Serta and Sealy and they felt good but you're lured to try the new Tempur-pedic because they're the only way your going to get the rest you need for your old achy body, plus they have a 90 day "try us out" offer so that if you don't like it you can return it with a restocking fee of $250. (Wonder who gets the used mattresses that people return????) We loaded into the van and drove to the next strip mall a few blocks away and checked out the Tempur-pedics and yes, they are wonderful. You sink in and it fills in all the places that a larger body doesn't conform to anymore. Then you look at the price and you're shell shocked! Our dream mattress would be the split king sized that has dual controls for sitting up or raising the legs. That was priced at $6500! No discounts on Tempur-pedic. The regular king sized (without the split) run over $4000. I'm liking my sagging mattress with bed bugs more and more. Heck with Oprah and her scare tactics. We came home and snuggled into our worn out bed and off to sleep we went. About 3:00 am I was awakened with hip pain and remembered why we wanted a new mattress. Sleep was over for the night so I went online to discover in my email an offer from Brookstone for last minute gifts. In the corner of the ad was a Tempur-pedic ad and I clicked on it to discover (with free shipping) all of the mattresses we had tried out last night at prices far below the store large markup. The split mattress was $4200 and the king size regular was as low as $2100. That's just slightly over the deal that was offered on the Sealy Posterpedic. I emailed the information to my daughter so she could see how we'd been lied to and now she has options when she goes back to see them. We'll think about it a while longer since Christmas probably isn't the best time to be shopping for something that expensive. There are so many other things on our list that it's hard to decide which to get. Paved driveway, insulated garage doors, new front door, storms doors, finished basement, etc.