Thursday
Jan042007
Like a cloud
Thursday, January 4, 2007 at 10:17AM
Anybody who has a $100 pillow is spoiled beyond comprehension. I mean come on, a pillow is just something that elevates your head while you sleep to keep your skeleton from getting bent out of shape. As humans, we're still animals. We should be able to sleep just fine with a pile of leaves or a crumpled sweatshirt under our heads. There is no need for pillows stuffed with down or super high-tech NASA-inspired foam. When stores sell perfectly good pillows for under $10, who in their right mind would own a pillow sold for ten times that much?
Well... us apparently. As in, last night I fell asleep with my head resting on a pillow worth more than my couch. Much more. And so did Brad.
This is not a result of a sudden need for better sleep, nor the outcome of recent wealth. We're still poor and we still sleep on an old mattress we got for free. Rather, this is a demonstration of motherly love via Christmas gifts. B's mom knew we had been sleeping on five dollar bargain pillows from WalMart for over a year, and she was determined to improve our sleep for us.
Very kindly, she bought us each a down pillow, which was extremely generous. But after one night on those things, we were ready to look for something else. With down, things may look all nice and fluffy, but feathers really aren't enough to support human heads. We sunk right in until we were practically sleeping on the floor.
It wasn't until we returned them that we realized we had been given $100 pillows! Granted, she can bargain shop with the best and therefore got them for half price. But still, I've never known such luxury! So we figured, hell, we each have 50 bucks to spend on a stellar pillow, let's look around:
We tested pillow after pillow, trying them out in the store's demo bed and giving them the can-it-withstand-the-full-weight-of-a-human-head test. After quickly discarding many pillows, most of which cost a measly 10 dollars or so, we determined that since we are now pillow connoisseurs, of course only the perfect pillow would do. In fact, we couldn't even be satisfied until we found pillows that were beyond perfect. Indeed, we'd settle for nothing less than a Beyond Perfect Pillow.
Where we were shopping, the original price for these was also $100, but to our good fortune, they were 50% off. Even that may seem steep for a pillow, but look closely: these pillows are half super high-tech NASA-inspired foam and half down alternative. No more heads falling through to the floor, no more crooked necks!
Yes, we probably could have taken the money and had a crazy night on the town, or maybe stashed it away responsibly. But every time I lay down and this pillow "reacts to [my] body's temperature" and "literally molds to the contours of [my] head and neck," I know that being spoiled beyond comprehension was the way to go. Bon soir!
Well... us apparently. As in, last night I fell asleep with my head resting on a pillow worth more than my couch. Much more. And so did Brad.
This is not a result of a sudden need for better sleep, nor the outcome of recent wealth. We're still poor and we still sleep on an old mattress we got for free. Rather, this is a demonstration of motherly love via Christmas gifts. B's mom knew we had been sleeping on five dollar bargain pillows from WalMart for over a year, and she was determined to improve our sleep for us.
Very kindly, she bought us each a down pillow, which was extremely generous. But after one night on those things, we were ready to look for something else. With down, things may look all nice and fluffy, but feathers really aren't enough to support human heads. We sunk right in until we were practically sleeping on the floor.
It wasn't until we returned them that we realized we had been given $100 pillows! Granted, she can bargain shop with the best and therefore got them for half price. But still, I've never known such luxury! So we figured, hell, we each have 50 bucks to spend on a stellar pillow, let's look around:
We tested pillow after pillow, trying them out in the store's demo bed and giving them the can-it-withstand-the-full-weight-of-a-human-head test. After quickly discarding many pillows, most of which cost a measly 10 dollars or so, we determined that since we are now pillow connoisseurs, of course only the perfect pillow would do. In fact, we couldn't even be satisfied until we found pillows that were beyond perfect. Indeed, we'd settle for nothing less than a Beyond Perfect Pillow.
Where we were shopping, the original price for these was also $100, but to our good fortune, they were 50% off. Even that may seem steep for a pillow, but look closely: these pillows are half super high-tech NASA-inspired foam and half down alternative. No more heads falling through to the floor, no more crooked necks!Yes, we probably could have taken the money and had a crazy night on the town, or maybe stashed it away responsibly. But every time I lay down and this pillow "reacts to [my] body's temperature" and "literally molds to the contours of [my] head and neck," I know that being spoiled beyond comprehension was the way to go. Bon soir!
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Reader Comments (3)
Hey! I have that pillow too!! It's heaven!
Of course, I didn't buy it for myself...it was a birthday present. My now boyfriend bought it for me before we were seeing each other. He also got me 1000 thread count pillowcases to go on it.
Hmmm. Guess he looooved me before I realized it. INTERESTING!
oh yah ~ those nasa inspired foam pillows are so awesome, we have a couple and my neck has never felt better!! i would love to have a gazillion dollars so i could buy the actual mattress, droooool!! happy sleeping : )
sidenote: i never did find out about the bullet hole if that is indeed what it was ~ i figure i'm better off not knowing given i live in one of the highest murder cities in canada : /
My ex bought me the most amazing $50 pillow a year ago. It's pretty fluff-less since I sleep on my stomach, but I absolutely adore it. I never realized how life altering pricey pillows can be.