Never buy a mattress that comes in pieces (parts)!

In the beginning...

My marriage was over. While in the throes of desperately wanting to "start over", I needed to buy some new stuff. It would have been nice to have moved out of my "sour" memory filled apartment but that wasn't feasible. So I settled on getting some other comfortable accoutrements. We had bought a really solid wooden foundation the year before and all I needed was a new mattress. 

In one of the many catalogues I used to receive, I found this faux suede, patchwork type of cover that was absolutely gorgeous! Some matching sheets were also placed on the same order. Now all I needed was something to go under the cover (besides for myself). Having been seduced by the many TV adverts, I decided to go with the one where you could select your comfort level at the touch of a button. And when I got the chance to stop into one of their stores I purchased one of their least expensive items.

If I remember correctly, the thing arrived in two large boxes because it was composed of several pieces. Assembling it was a relatively easy task. (Very unlike those boxed book shelves where you're instructed to put part A with part B. But then you find B is actually Z and B is nowhere to be found.) The "air chambers" were filled with air and I was filled with the promise of some very blissful sleep time.

In the intermediate...

For a few years there was a certain amount of contentment. I had absolutely no complaints. The mattress behaved as a mattress should behave...it gave me no trouble whatsoever. And yet, recently I've found a few reasons to become disgruntled. One of the "inner tubes" blew; went completely flat on me. In this sort of circumstance, the company (which shall remain nameless coz I don't need any body threatening me with lawyers...you can figure it out for yourself) does supply replacements but at almost a hundred bucks a pop!

If I was working there really wouldn't be too much of a problem but that's not the case at the moment. At this moment the whole right of my bed has this deep depression. Looks quite lopsided!

Not much more to say

Needless to say, I really don't recommend these sort of a accomodations. That is if you don't want a whole lot of angst like me.