My $1,200 mattress is the worst purchase I have ever made, and I don't care what the sleep experts say

Joel Foster · 2026-09-29T04:15:05.808001+00:00

I know everyone on here loves to ask about mattresses and the answer is always the same, you get what you pay for, spend big or suffer. I dropped $1,200 on a fancy memory foam one about a year ago because my back was aching after long hauls and I figured it would fix me. Six months in, it started sleeping hot and sinking where I lie down, and I wake up stiff as a board now. My old $300 no name spring mattress from a store off I-80 lasted me nine years and never gave me half the trouble. I tried rotating it, I tried a $60 cooling pad, I even put a sheet of plywood under it because someone said my bed frame was the problem. Nothing. So when people tell me to just spend more next time, I kind of want to ask them what exactly I am paying for. Has anyone else gone expensive and gone right back to cheap?

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