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Aug 15, 2012    |      0 comments

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Jeffrey Strain

Aug 13, 2012    |       7 comments

Mattress commercials

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Do those crazy mattress commercials that talk about sweat and bugs and now obesity run throughout the country?  The push is that we all need to buy a new mattress every 8 years.  That’s not 7 years and not 9 years, but 8. Now I haven’t done any extensive research on this but the entire ad campaign is alarming!  DD heard it the other day and turned into “the mattress police” asking how old our mattresses are.  Thankfully ours are 2.5 years old.  DD was still sure we needed to consider a new one bc of all the gross stuff.  We discussed a mattress cover and crazy advertising tactics and she was satisfied.

I honestly have no idea how frequently my parents bought new mattresses but I do know my mom is VERY germ aware!  She would have gone without a lot of other things in this life to buy a new mattress every 8 years if she heard about the yuck factor!  At 82 years of age she doesn’t care anymore!  As she says, she has survived the germs!

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