Shopping for the ideal cheap mattress can become very confusing and many people tend to buy the wrong one when confronted with a large array of selections. To help you with your new purchase, we have put together these buying tips to help you streamline your mattress shopping and make sure you get the right one at the right price for your budget. This cheap mattress buying guide offers some general tips but there may be other personal factors that are important to you. These are:
Do not hasten and buy something you will regret. Your new mattress is supposed to ensure you get important rest every night for many years. Say for example, the new one last 5 years. That means 5 times 365 times 8 = 14600 hours of service. Surely you should not be spending less than an hour or 0.007% of the total time to choose the right mattress. Spend at least 10 minutes to try out each one, give it a good squeeze to test its density and weight bearing resilience, and try lying on it in your usual sleep position to test whether the cheap mattress is comfortable.
It is usually better to choose firm mattresses rather than soft ones, unless you have specific back problems and your doctor told you to do so. Anyway, most foam mattresses will go soft eventually even if they are hard as a rock in the beginning (and the initially soft ones will become totally flat faster).
A cheap but firm mattress can better support your joints when you are turning in sleep. A soft mattress may not be able to support your spine's curvature, so the firmness really depends on your weight. Your back should still be retaining its natural curvature when you lie down on the mattress.
If you are buying a double bed and one of you is a light sleeper, you should consider a pocket spring mattress. Consisting of many compartmentalized pocket springs, any movement on one side of the bed is pretty much self contained and will not disturb the other sleeping person. When we get awaken in the middle of the night, usually we find it difficult to get back to sleep or we will still be lethargic in the morning. If you have experienced being woken up by your partner turning in sleep, you will benefit from pocket spring mattresses, or you may have to buy separate beds.
If you suffer from asthma or other allergies, there are hypoallergenic mattresses that allow you to have a better sleep at night. However, these may not be cheap even during sales and discounts so you may need to make do with hypoallergenic bedding and pillows instead.
If you intend to buy a box spring base (even though most beds do not require one), note that this can be simply an additional cost. Yes, it does help absorb our weight and reduce wear to the cheap mattress. Make sure you get a slatted base to help with ventilation of mattresses.
When you have decided on your ideal mattress, negotiate long and hard with the sales people. Always reject the first price you are quoted for and try walking away to see if you can get a better deal. Or look around for a better price offer on the same mattress. Nowadays the same mattress is being sold at many retailers and online shops, so do not rush and pay unnecessarily.
Do not let a price difference of $100 sway you towards the cheaper one when you know deep down that the slightly more expensive one is more comfortable and can last longer. We all want to buy cheaper mattress possible, but a good one is meant to be used for years and that $100 extra becomes only a few cents per day for a more comfortable sleep at night.