I last bought pillows back in 2012, they’re shot. I bought inexpensive memory foam pillows from either Groupon or one of the other close out sites.
I’m planning on doing same thing again and if I can get 8 years out of them, great! Is there any advantage to spending more money on pillows? I’m a side sleeper if it matters.
My current ones probably would have given me a bit longer life, but I had a horrible bug last year. I had awful night sweats for about 5 days and would wake up in the middle of the night soaking wet like I’d just showered. The sweat soaked the pillows cases like I’d poured water on them.
I wanted a goose down pillow after using one in a hotel room. I went to Bed Bath & Beyond and could not bring myself to spend $200 on a pillow, but I did spend $100 on a different one that has turned out to be perfect for me. I figure if it lasts only 5 years, that’s five cents a night for a comfortable sleep. Compare that to your cell phone and internet bill.
Bedding and linens are one of those areas where yeah, one person’s luxury is someone else’s cheap, over an incredible range. We have these threads and there’s always someone who is like “call me cheap, but you can do just fine with $20 towels”.
I’m on the cheap end. In the last few years I traded up to $30 pillows and I’ve been really happy.
As with a lot of things,. the return on investment is there in general but it’s all about the specifics. A $200 pillow might be of very high quality but if it’s not suitable for YOU, it doesn’t matter. If the memory foam pillows you had before worked well for you, go get more.
I will say this though; if you are going to spend a lot of money on any one item of furniture in your entire house, it should be your bed. Never feel bad for spending money there. It is the one item of furniture you send the most time on and it directly affects your health.
Because sleep is so important, and you spend over one-third of your life in bed, it is very important that your pillows are made of solid gold to reflect this emphasis.
I’ve noticed that different people enjoy sleeping on different types of pillows. The pillow I use is highly important for me. I would rather use no pillow at all than sleep on the “wrong” type of pillow. I have military training and I can sleep without a pillow anywhere out in the field, but as a civilian I carry my own pillow wherever I travel. I’m almost never satisfied with the pillows I find at the hotel, and I don’t sleep in cheap ones.
It is not the price of the pillow that matters, but its ability to ensure a comfortable position during sleep is all.
Yes, that would be a question to ask – I mean, there for everyone is a threshold at which even if there are quality increases the marginal cost does not justify them. If OP got 8 years out of theirs they got a good deal, I say.
I once paid over $20 for a [bottle of wine, pair of reading glasses, set of earbuds]. It wasn’t any better than the $10 [bottle of wine, pair of reading glasses, set of earbuds]. But then I tried a [bottle of wine, pair of reading glasses, set of earbuds] for $150. It was definitely better, but I’m not sure it was worth it to me.
I use a Tempurpedic pillow which was ridiculously expensive but I don’t think I’d be as happy with anything else. When you’re shelling out a few thousand dollars for a mattress, adding in a couple hundred dollars for pillows seems like no big deal. I’m serious about my sleep furniture.
I have a pair of Lands End memory foam pillows that are priced at $70 each but I bought them during the Black Friday sale for half off. (And the nice thing about shopping online during Black Friday is I didn’t have to go to a store, and deal with the parking, crowds and so forth.) And actually I use one of the memory foam pillows above a regular, cheap foam pillow (probably from Target), because two memory foam pillows were too high and two of the cheap ones were too low.
I’ve gotten $60 pillows that are so comfy argued over 5 years later, but hard to come up with that again to buy another 2 to stop the ‘pillow fights’ ove rwho gets what pillow.
I looked at a Tempurpedic pillow in a shop and wondered what all the fuss was about. It was just a hard, unyielding lump to me. And I had gone into the shop hoping I could find a better pillow. I use shaped ones, and they make a huge difference. Even the cheaper models.
For some reason most mainland European countries use pillows that are very large, square and very soft. I Especially in hotels. I find these pillows almost useless.
I really like my “My Pillow” even though the guy that owns the company is clearly bonkers. They’ve come down in price now so they’re not really expensive. They feel lumpy at first, which takes a little getting used to, but they do hold their shape all night and they’re not hot like memory foam pillows (IMO).
I use IKEA down pillows–excellent and inexpensive and easy to replace. I don’t think I could go back to any other filling than down having experienced the difference. That poly crap turns to a flat mat in milliseconds and memory foam makes me sweat and itch. I’m a side sleeper with a touchy neck and need easily configured support and down is it for me.
.
I don’t “repeat” when I shampoo, either.