Everyone always says: “Don’t wake up the sleepwalker.” Does anyone have any real, hard evidence that this will actually do anything harmful? It seems almost like an old wives tale. Besides, have you ever seen anyone sleepwalk on a Beautyrest?

So what’s the deal with plants? Sometimes they have their flowers open for business. Other times, no dice.   What is it? Are they protecting themselves from the elements? Are they taking a little breather?   If humans sleep, animals sleep, why wouldn’t plants sleep? It makes sense. It’s a chance for them tot shut [...]

Sooner or later, if you have a blog about mattresses, you are going to mention Brian Wilson. The guy was a genius. He wrote dozens of chart-topping songs. He started the Beach Boys. He was an icon in pop and surf cutlture. However, for a while there, he didn’t get out of his bed. He [...]

In Argentina, it’s hot. This last week it has been 34-38 degrees every day. In the early afternoon, the sun is directly overhead and there is nowhere to hide. Walking across the street can be a sweat-summoning, unpleasant experience. So you won’t find many stores open between noon and 4. Instead, most of the people [...]

  Men prefer a firm mattress. Girls like a softer one. Pregnant girls like really soft beds.   Keep this in mind when you are mattress shopping in Vancouver. Bring your spouse. While you may fall in love with the softest pillowtop in the showroom, he might not be as excited to toss and turn [...]

Melatonin – Found in animals and plants it is a natural solution to addictive chemical remedies.   Warm Milk – more than an old wives tale   Valerian – root used since Greek and Roman times for insomnia, stress, hysteria and stress.   Ginseng – This gnarly root helps with Type II Diabetes, sexual dysfunction [...]

With the advent of social media, businesses are looking for new ways to promote themselves online, bring traffic to their websites, and, hopefully, generate more sales. There have been a fair share of social media disasters, such as Kenneth Cole running with every trending topic on Twitter, including the Egypt Riots last year. And more [...]

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes is a great new(ish) band out of the California. They are kind of a mix of folk and rock with a little country thrown in, and they are getting the hits. You would probably recognize Home and 40-Day Dream if you were to hear them on the radio (most [...]

We are lucky enough to have one of our writers scoping out Argentina for us.   He’s down there checking out what mattress stores in South America look like. Here are a few pictures. As you can see, they are a bit smaller than mattress stores in Victoria.   He’s also keeping rather detailed notes [...]

Education is always a wise investment. The money you put in, ideally, pays off down the road when you and your children get better jobs thanks to the training and specialization they gain at university or college. People also invest in minerals. Look at gold prices these days. An investment ten years ago is looking [...]

You can dial a mattress. You can buy one off the side of a telephone pole. There are auction houses that sell used beds. Friends give them away when they move. You can even back your pickup up to a warehouse and skid one across a concrete floor for rock bottom prices. Then there are [...]

There are two major theories on sleep and how humans need it. The Restorative Theory speculates that people need to recover the sleep lost over time if they do not get 6-8 hours per night. For instance, if you were to stay up for several days in a row, you would need to catch up [...]