So I decided to buy a pair of MyPillows!
I must be unusually rough on my pillows. I buy them, they're great for about a month, then they start to lose both their resilience and their shapes! No amount of fluffing and pounding, washing and drying, helps. They just get flatter and flatter, and lumpier and lumpier, and more and more misshapen as time passes.
I finally got fed up a couple of weeks ago and decided to take the MyPillow plunge. I bought the original classic firm pillows. A little pricey, but they're guaranteed for 10 years and are machine washable and dryable. At the price I've usually paid for pillows (CHEAP!), and how often I get tired of messing with bad pillows and then go out and buy new ones, I'd spend the price of the MyPillows after only three years or less, so why not give them a try?
They came really fast, and when the package arrived, I went out on the porch to retrieve it and wondered, "What the heck is in this little box???" Then I saw the return address - "No way!" I had ordered two king-size pillows, and I would have had trouble getting one cheapo standard pillow jammed into this box! Opened it up, and there they were, compressed into cylinders like big sausages in their casings.
When I removed the outside wrappings, the pillows were pitiful looking and lumpy and flatter than flat!
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| (Yes, this IS the dryer featured in the previous post!) |
The included paper instructed me to run them through the dryer at high heat for 15 minutes, and here's the result:
Sleeping on them is a dream (ha! pun intended!) and I have a terrible time in the morning getting out of bed because I'm SO comfortable! ("Oh, well, maybe just another ten minutes!") If they get out of shape, all I've had to do is punch them a few times and they're all plump and beautiful again!
So far, so good! I'm happy with my purchase. I wish I hadn't waited so long, but I'm glad I didn't wait any longer!!!
In fact, I may even buy more of them...!
Return in a month with an update...how do they hold up?
ReplyDeleteAnd, what's the REAL cost of two? They sold them for awhile at Salvation Army but still I couldn't afford them.
Well, it's been NEARLY a month! Just about 4 weeks, though, so...
DeleteSo far, so good. Sometimes I sleep awfully hard, but when they look a little misshapen, I just pound them back into submission, and they're just like new! Not bad at all. I bought king size firm pillows, and they cost me $49 each. They sell standard/queen size medium firmness MyPillows at Walmart for $28 each, and the firm ones for $40 each, at least online. I thought I saw them for less in the store.
I used to have trouble with pillows too, then I found my perfect pillow while shopping for our Sleep Number bed and Hubby found his...they are totally different! Mine is memory foam with and odd profile to it. If you ever get board, go have them help you figure out your sleep number and perfect pillow type. We are on our 9th year with the same pillows, so well worth the expensive price we paid.
ReplyDeleteI've slept on a Sleep Number bed once. It was pretty cool! They didn't have the pillows at that time. I like the idea of the Sleep Number bed - kind of like a waterbed - there's apparently nothing in the support system itself to wear out like you get with traditional mattresses made of foam and springs. I mean, it seems there's no way you'd ever wear a trough into the mattress - it would always keep its shape.
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