Like is there some way to get a cheaper mattress without grabbing a shit stained one off the side of the road :agony:

I’m about to get a new place and yeh bro… I just paid 3k as a deposit I don’t have $1500 for a fucken piece of foam

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      14 days ago

      Green Tea is just a branding name lol.

      It is literally just ‘Green Tea is associated with calm serenity, so is this mattress!’

      As for fiber glass?

      Memory foam = polyurethane != fiber glass.

      I… guess its possible they’d throw fiberglass into the giant polyurethane mixing vats that make memory foam… but I don’t see how that would cut costs, or even chemically work to make a good foam mattress.

      My friend used to work for a boutique mattress store almost two decades ago, and when he was bored he did a bunch of research and claimed that in the early days of foam mattresses… very, very rarely, the foam would actually off-gas enough toxic chemicals that it actually may have killed a few people.

      I can’t actually verify that that is true.

      The modern medical consensus seems to be that memory foam off gassing is basically only capable of causing minor headaches, nausea, and rashes in a extremely sensitive people and some children, but this is fairly easily offset by having decent airflow in the room the foam mattress is in for about a week.

      Most people just think it smells kinda weird for a few days, and then its fine.