Driving to the city last night we passed about a dozen mini-malls along the way. Strip malls right along the road. Looking out the window it occurred to me that at least half of these shopping areas featured a large mattress store.
I've been married almost 47 years and began to think about just how often we'd purchased a new mattress and how many people in Milwaukee or in the US or the world for that matter are buying new mattresses on a regular basis. Buying them frequently enough for these large stores to pay their rent, pay their employees and make a decent profit.
Since we took two years out to live on a boat and sold everything, including the mattress we had at the time, the way I add it up I think we may be on our forth mattress. Maybe our third. I don't know if that's typical?? But somehow buying 3 or 4 mattresses over a 47 year period doesn't seem to justify all the stores that specialize in this item alone. Never mind the fact that you can buy a new mattress at most furniture stores, big box stores and right off the truck delivered from North Carolina. I googled "how long to keep a mattress" and got some guidelines. No hard and fast rules.
Maybe I better go check ours. It still seems comfortable and we do rotate it once in a while. But still…it's probably about 8 years old now. Hmmmmm…….ah well, we sleep at night. I think we'll keep it for a while and just keep driving past all those specialty stores.
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