When you think about how much time you spend in your mattress, it really just makes sense for you to take a bit of time and make sure it’s up to your personal standards of cleanliness. Your skin and generally your body sloughs off all kinds of nasty things every night, and all sorts of […]

Determining the average life of a mattress is a complicated thing to do.  After all, there are various myths and false assumptions that float around. As we will explore, the average life of a mattress can be very different in each person’s experience. Perhaps this is why many people have a difficult time determining when […]

In the modern world, there’s pretty much nothing you can’t buy online if you look hard enough. Thanks to the free market and lack of overhead, it’s not unusual to find online retailers selling products at a fraction of the price you’d find them in a brick-and-mortar store. One of the fastest-growing online marketplaces out […]

When you think about how much time you spend in your mattress, it really just makes sense for you to take a bit of time and make sure it’s up to your personal standards of cleanliness. Your body sloughs off all kinds of nasty things throughout the night, and all sorts of different problems can […]

If you’re a new parent, you might be wondering: what, exactly, is a toddler’s bed? I don’t blame you! Not so long ago, I didn’t even know toddlers had special beds! But the truth is, friends, toddler’s beds exist, and they can be surprisingly useful. They’re designed to provide a transitional bed between a crib and a […]

Here at Ted & Stacey’s Mattress Guides, we recommend replacing your mattress every 8-10 years. To folks who are overdue for a new sleeping slab, that may not sound like a very long time. But to your trusty mattress, that’s a whole lifetime! It’s a funny truth about human beings that we like to sleep […]

Though you might not always realize it, your mattress is actually a really big part of your life. After all, if you’re getting eight hours of sleep each night, you’re spending a full third of your time here on this earth asleep on your mattress. That’s a lot! You probably spend a fair amount of […]

For a lot of people, the summer months are a rough time for our sleep. Especially if you’re living in some of this country’s hotter states, temperatures at night can still be far too hot for comfort. Our body temperature naturally lowers at night to get us ready for sleep, but if the air around […]

If you’re like a lot of people, there are probably some days when your eyes just don’t want to stay open. Maybe you didn’t get enough sleep the night before. Maybe you’ve just been having an exhausting week, and just feel like you need some rest! You do need that sleep, make no mistake. But […]

So, you’re shopping for a mattress for your kid (or kids—hey, maybe there are multiple!). That’s awesome! In my family, us kids always got hand-me-downs. Now, I turned out fine, but I have to wonder what it would’ve been like if I’d grown up sleeping on a carefully chosen mattress. Really, it’s great that you’re doing research—after all, […]