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Ask HN: What's your sleeping setup(bed/pillows/sheets)?

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Re: Ask HN: What's your sleeping setup(bed/pillows/sheets)?

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Post by a9h74j »

sydd wrote: post #18

IKEA frame, IKEA Matrand mattress (around $250 for a 200cm^2 size), IKEA pillows. The whole setup is like $500 and perfectly fine for us. I dont really get the obsession in the US with those >$1000 mattresses. I think the whole thing is artificially inflated via marketing, where I live people dont make a big thing about matresses and and fine :)

I have the sense that for people increasingly unable to afford a house or an automobile, an expensive mattress is being presented as the next-more-affordable luxury.

To me, an old R&D principle applies: If you are going to spend so much on a piece of custom hardware that you will be afraid to admit it was a mistake or lacked essential features, better to experiment a little with something simpler first.

Re: Ask HN: What's your sleeping setup(bed/pillows/sheets)?

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dpeck wrote: post #39

Adding my own question, great topic, have any of you hackers figured out a great bed cooling system to buy or build? It seems like there are a lot of options, but not reviewed particularly well. Bedjet probably the best example but there seem to be a lot of them. Basically anything that can move some heat away from me while going to sleep, but still being able to enjoy the weight of a sheet or light blanket would be…

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Re: Ask HN: What's your sleeping setup(bed/pillows/sheets)?

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Post by totalZero »

lizdax wrote: post #28
totalZero wrote: post #2

Consider a heated mattress pad. It's like a heated blanket, but underneath you.

Do you have any recommendations for where to buy or brand? My biggest fear with these is that the build quality can be all over the place and the last thing I want is to burn down the place!

I suppose there's an inherent risk, but the Sunbeam ones have an auto-off mechanism in case you forget to turn them off in the morning.

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Post by bckygldstn »

Here's my carefully honed bedding system

* Fitted bottom sheet.

* No top sheet.

* Duvet in a washable cover, a size larger than the bed.

* No blankets.

There's nothing to come untucked or get tangled in, and making the bed takes 3 seconds. It's ruined me for other beds though, getting wound up in all the layers and loosing blankets.

Re: Ask HN: What's your sleeping setup(bed/pillows/sheets)?

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Post by thrower123 »

I've slept on couches for most of the past fifteen years. Usually with just an army surplus wool blanket. It's a little weird, but it's what I'm most comfortable with; I get wicked cramps and back spasms trying to sleep on high-quality mattresses, it's just awful and doesn't work for me.

Re: Ask HN: What's your sleeping setup(bed/pillows/sheets)?

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Post by cannam »

femto113 wrote: post #30

Just leaving this here in case it saves someone else a little suffering: it was life changing to start sleeping with a pillow between my knees. I used to wake up with debilitating lower back pain every morning, which I worked through with stretching and yoga and such but then I saw a commercial for one of those bowtie shaped foam pillows that go between your knees and figured "what the heck" and ordered one. It was w…

If anyone else is as baffled as I was by why you would put a pillow between your knees: the idea is apparently to improve your alignment if you happen to sleep on your side.

(I do sleep on my side, but this idea has never occurred to me, and I tend to picture other people lying tidily on their backs - so I was picturing someone sleeping on their back with a pillow placed in an unaccountable position.)

Will be trying this tonight.

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