# Would you buy or use a used mattress?? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 16, 2006, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-buy-or-use-a-used-mattress/361008 "2006-06-16T23:39:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2006, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-buy-or-use-a-used-mattress/361008/21 "2006-06-17T17:20:52Z")
> [@](#): > > We have a lovely solid pine twin bed, we are asking a really low price. You don’t find good solid wood furniture like this at Wal-Mart and the like. Sounds like a deal doesn’t it? A twin mattress is the only kind I would never buy used. Dust mites are impersonal. But kid-pee? Ugh. Twin mattresses imply children, and children imply “accidents.” Count me out. ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2006, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-buy-or-use-a-used-mattress/361008/22 "2006-06-17T17:46:04Z")
**Stillwell** , you’re not the only one. I’m very wary of used mattresses and have only had one in my life, from a relative, which wasn’t that bad in my mind. A random strangers mattress, though? No way! I paid a very decent sum for my brand-new mattress and it’s well worth it to me. ---
**Author:** ![Stillwell\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@Stillwell\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stillwell_Angel)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2006, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-buy-or-use-a-used-mattress/361008/23 "2006-06-17T22:29:54Z")
> [@LunaV](#): > > **Stillwell** , you’re not the only one. Oh thank goodness, I was starting to get a complex. Now I don’t feel so isolated 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2006, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-buy-or-use-a-used-mattress/361008/24 "2006-06-17T23:12:04Z")
It’s nice that you don’t feel isolated any more, but just remember that the rest of us are still here. Judging you. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2006, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-buy-or-use-a-used-mattress/361008/25 "2006-06-17T23:21:16Z")
I slept on the dormitory mattresses, and I sleep in hotels and at other people’s houses. All of that involves an accepted level of discomfort and inconvenience. But when buying a mattress for myself, I would have to be pretty hard up to buy a used one–or to buy any used upholstered thing at all, unless my intention was to redo all the soft parts. Upholstered things pick up smells, if nothing else. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2006, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-buy-or-use-a-used-mattress/361008/26 "2006-06-17T23:26:54Z")
Bedbugs. Fleas. Lice. Nuff said. ---
**Author:** ![Stillwell\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@Stillwell\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stillwell_Angel)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2006, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-buy-or-use-a-used-mattress/361008/27 "2006-06-18T00:44:58Z")
> [@Cardinal](#): > > It’s nice that you don’t feel isolated any more, but just remember that the rest of us are still here. > Judging you. > 😛 :eek: {Runs off to hide under the covers of her one owner mattress} ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2006, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-buy-or-use-a-used-mattress/361008/28 "2006-06-18T01:05:36Z")
I’d have to be pretty desperate to buy a used mattress. I’d rather have your nice twin bed frame minus the mattress–if I were interested at all. That said, I don’t have a problem with sleeping on dorm room mattresses, hotel room mattresses, other people’s guest room mattresses, etc. It’s just that if I were in the market for a mattress, I’d want to postpone needing a new one as much as possible, probably by buying new. Just like I like being the only owner of my car. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-buy-or-use-a-used-mattress/361008.md?page=1)