How to lower inflation

Try reading ‘Tossed and’Turned’ on buying a mattress by Patricia Marx in the New Yorker’s June 27th issue.

“ Before we can talk about buying a mattress you’ll need a PHD in chemistry and another in mechanical engineering.” Ms Marx.

Inner spring is the most old fashioned and most popular invented in 1871 in Berlin though the water bed has been around since1600 BC.  Nowadays water beds are used by dairy cows including Queen Elizabeth’s 165 dairy cows. Tempur-Pedics are generally regarded as superior but $2,399-$5,399. You could try the Zinus Green Tea Cooling Swirl Memory Foam Hybrid $379, Denver’s mattress Doctor’s Choice Plush $799, Nova Foam Comfort Grande $599, Allswell Bed In A Box Hybrid $349,  or Hesstun Medium Firm Innerspring $549.  There’s Avocado Green, No. 1 by Consumer Reports $24,000.  Good news, Mattresses are always on sale, due probably to their 40 to 50% markup.

You can always follow Drake and go to Hastens. He bought the Grande Vivius $400,000.  Included in the price: a “pair of “sleep doctors” will come to your house twice a year for 25 years to flip, rotate, and massage your mattress.”, Ms. Marx.

Memory foam is the biggest thing in bedding. Memory foam tends to feel hotter than a spring mattress which is airier.  To compensate  memory foam is sometimes infused with gel in capsules or swirls.  Does this work, not really?  And many are not biodegradable. Go for the Latex foam; made from the sap of the rubber tree. The manufacturer promises no trees were harmed.  It’s like giving blood. They say.

How will reading this fight inflation? Perhaps shopping now won’t seem so attractive.  Give it a rest.