First time buying mattress

[Juked07]

I've never purchased furniture before, no idea how to tell if something is decent.. I'm looking for the best queen size mattress I can get delivered to 10038 for ~$300-350. I can stretch the budget, but only if I'm convinced there's good reason to pay more. Where should I look? What should I look out for? I prefer a firm ish mattress I think.

I'm also walking distance from a Sleepy's that I'll check out tomorrow. Is this a good option in general?

Also looking for a couch (about 80" wide) for less than $500 if possible.

I've searched amazon and overstock, not really sure if I like the offerings. No idea what other sources to look at.

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Go to a mattress store or two
Lay on many mattresses
Note which one feels the most comfortable to you
Make purchase

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Selling mattresses is all about marketing. Go someplace and lay on them, for a good amount of time. Buy the least expensive one that feels good to you. Paying big bucks for Tempurpedic is just nuts. Places like Costco sell memory foam for much less if you decide to go that route. Latex are killer, but they are also high priced. I personally could never buy a mattress online, its too important to me to test them in a store.

 

[Juked07]

Ahh I don't mean that I can't figure out how to do it.. I guess I'm looking more for store recommendations or online vendor recommendations.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Ahh I don't mean that I can't figure out how to do it.. I guess I'm looking more for store recommendations or online vendor recommendations.

Just look them up in your area and go. They should all have one you like, most of them will be the exact same from store to store just with a different name so you cant use price matching.

 

[thedarkwolf]

If you have a Big Lots furniture near you check that for the couch.

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Ahh I don't mean that I can't figure out how to do it.. I guess I'm looking more for store recommendations or online vendor recommendations.

You can't virtually lay down on a mattress... You actually have to go and do it in meat-space.

Leave your house. If that big, bright thing in the sky causes you pain, go at night. Find a mattress store. Lay down on many mattresses. The store doesn't matter. It's a mattress. It's not like you need a warranty or a place to bring it back for service when you break it. (Although... congrats if you manage to break it! Post that shit up in L&R) Find one that works for you. Buy it.

It's not that hard.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

If you have a Big Lots furniture near you check that for the couch.

Big Lots also sells mattresses.

 

[mnewsham]

Go to a store and lay on some, figure out the one you like best and what kind it is, soft, firm, eurotop, pillowtop, etc. Find a similar one online from a reputable brand. Buy.

 

[DrPizza]

You can hunt around for an article, but consumer reports or some such place did a study that revealed that a mattress store is actually one of the worst places to purchase a mattress. (Furniture stores, places like Costco, etc., were all better.)

And, be forewarned, mattress salesmen are merely the flunkies of new car salesmen. They'll lie, etc., about the products to get you to purchase the one that'll give them the biggest commission. Try the mattresses, and do not commit to a purchase at that time. Take time to go home and research those mattresses. i.e. if you found the brand x pillow top at $800 to be the most comfortable, it will save you a boatload to go home and discover that there's a shitload of complaints about that pillow top mattress breaking down after a year, leaving people with uncomfortable coils pushing into their backs.