How much money should you(or did you) pay for a bed ??

[CTrain]

I think I need to spend some money on a bed set but I have never bought one and I don't know what the normal cost is.
I've always had hand me down and thats fine but I should be spending money on a decent set.
Nothing fancy.

Cheapest I found was this:
FRAME + MATTRESS
Comes to about $430 with tax and shipping.

Would this be suffice ??
Kinda a weird question but I never had to shop for a bed before ??

 

[wfbberzerker]

all i'm gonna say is don't skimp on the mattress. you will probably spend more time in bed than anywhere else for the rest of your life, remember that.

 

[fstime]

Easily over 1K.

 

[BigJ]

I sleep on a futon. It cost $200 for everything.

 

[Atlantean]

The mattress I bought recently was $2000, bed is something you should go all out on because you spend a third of your life in bed so might as well be comfortable while there.

 

[sharkeeper]

Could be the most expensive thing ever. (sleeping in another woman's bed) :laugh:

Cheers!

 

[puffff]

$400 sounds about right for something decent.

 

[sdifox]

you have to go and try out the matress, lie in it for at least 10 min before you can tell if you like it. It's going to be around for a long time so may as well make sure you like it. Some retailers will let you exchange matress within 90 days. Sleep Country Canada comes to mind, but I am sure others offer that too. I bought a 1600 dollar (+10% sales tax, shudder) set of pillowtop Serta matress and I have to say, I love them. Wish I could afford Tempur...

 

[JLGatsby]

Some people today (not myself) just buy a mattress and slap it on the floor and sleep on that.

I wouldn't do it, but I can see how it would be sort of cool.

 

[Scarpozzi]

I got a Serta from Sams last year. King Sized matress and box springs......$299.74

 

[Albis]

go cheap on the bed frame but spend enough on a good long term comfortable bed

 

[Vinny N]

My thoughts on this:

Make sure there is a no-questions-asked return policy. If you can't sleep well on it, then it's no good.

If you don't have problems sleeping on a inflatable or a fold-out futon, I would get one of those unless you're not going anywhere anytime soon. I think a full bed purchase is the sort of thing a person does for a real home or at least a fairly permanent residence.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Originally posted by: JLGatsby
Some people today (not myself) just buy a mattress and slap it on the floor and sleep on that.

I wouldn't do it, but I can see how it would be sort of cool.

lol, I used to do that. Being cheap FTW!

 

[badmouse]

I recently bought this bed from Ikea and this mattress from foamdistributing.com.

bed was around $200
mattress was around $450

Good quality bed, awesome memory foam mattress.

 

[krunchykrome]

You never have to pay for a bed if you know how to lay the pipe.

 

[saxophonoia]

Originally posted by: BouZouki
Easily over 1K.

 

[mrrman]

I spend $1K. looked at so many stores I was getting sick of it. I hate shopping for furniture. The last store I was in I said screw it and just bought the bed.

 

[timswim78]

I paid $800 for a full set with frame, stain guard, and delivery from a deoartment store.

My advice is to avoid mattress stores. The set that I bought for $800 was "on sale" for $1150 at the local mattress chains. Plus, the mattress guys were worse than used car salesmen. I heard lines such as, "this sale is only good for another 20 minutes," and ,"anything less than $1200 is junk."

 

[bmacd]

my girlfriend wants a "sleigh bed" and when we priced them, the least expensive sets we found were $800-1500.

-=bmacd=-

 

[mugs]

$400 for mattress + box spring on sale at Costco.

 

[Bryophyte]

If you go cheap, you'll find that it's worthless after a year or so. We just got a $2500 bed (mattress, box springs, and metal frame only) for about $1500 (last year's model, plus they give a discount because of an agreement with my spouse's employer.) Best money we ever spent. We got one of those sub-$500 models years ago and it was trash in less than 2 years.

 

[vi edit]

About $1500 for the matress & box springs & frame. Don't have a head/foot board.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

~$800

 

[Bryophyte]

What I don't get is that people will spend $25,000+ on a car that they drive for an hour or so a day, but cheap out and get a $200-500 bed that they spend 8 hours a day in. You get better quality sleep if you are on a decent bed, and that affects how you feel all day long, every day. I finally convinced my spouse of this after years of sleeping on a hard, hand-me-down futon. Lo and behold, we don't hurt in the morning and don't toss and turn and wake up multiple times in the night. We're not sleepy all day long anymore.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

CDN$425 for mattress & box-spring, Sealy, 25-year warranty, used a wheeled metal frame (size constraints when moving).

- M4H