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a slab you replace less often than your phone, despite spending a third of life on it
means a large fabric-covered pad, stuffed or sprung, that you lie on for sleeping, usually atop a bed frame.
from From Arabic 'matrah,' meaning a place where something is thrown down — a mat or cushion to lie on, from a root meaning 'to throw.' The word traveled into Europe via the Crusades and Mediterranean trade, surfacing in medieval Latin as 'matracium' and Old French 'materas,' before settling into English. So a mattress is, quite literally, the thing flung on the floor.
- dust mites
- millions live in an average used mattress
- weight gain
- old mattresses double in mass from dead skin and mites
- flip myth
- modern one-sided designs are never meant to flip
- lifespan
- most should be replaced every seven to eight years
- coin trade
- medieval mattresses stuffed with straw or feathers by class
tempur-pedic — nasa-developed memory foam mattress brand founded in 1992, became the premium mattress market leader
simmons beautyrest — american innerspring mattress brand established in 1870, one of the oldest continuously produced mattress lines
casper — direct-to-consumer foam mattress company founded in 2014, disrupted the mattress industry with online sales