Of Mattresses and Pillows


Contoured pillows have been around in the world for a long time, yet they arrived on recently in India. I always wondered why they took so long to produce in the first place. ... one of life's eternal mysteries. Didn't anyone in India pay a modicum of scientific attention to what a pillow should be shaped as all these years history? I bought one of these (Sleepwell Curves) ... I've had trouble with pillows in the past, thanks to my reading habit before dozing off and thankfully, the pillow works. Woke up this morning quite refreshed and with no neck ache.


Also did my share of R&D on mattresses.
In the past I've used both locally made cotton stuffed mattresses and Kurl-on coir-foam combinations. The Kurl on sagged in the middle exactly an year or so after the purchase date, conveniently just after the warranty expired (way to go, Kurl on).

All things aside. A single mattress, locally made and cotton stuffed will cost you about INR 1,000-1,500.

A decent matress (factory made - Sleepwell, KurlOn) etc these days will cost you approximately INR 10,000. Sleepwell gives the longest warranties and I'm not sure why Kurl On is so uncompetitive on the warranty front and still in business (awesome marketing perhaps).

Nothing lasts forever and every mattress is going to sag, so I'm going with the locally made one for now. Ordered one, with specially dense stuffing so we'll see how that goes. If it goes bad, all I've lost if INR 1K instead of 10K on a factory made one.

BTW, just went online and realised that Overstock.com now ships to India. And they have memory foam pillows for a fraction of what it costs to buy them here. Awesome. I'm ordering one today.