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Cheating Ourselves of Sleep

Think you do just fine on five or six hours of shut-eye? Chances are, you are among the many millions who unwittingly shortchange themselves on sleep. Research shows that most people require seven or eight hours of sleep to function optimally. Failing to get enough sleep night after night can compromise your health and may…

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Helping Parent’s Choose Quality Mattresses for Their Kids

“I’m an experienced pro in retail mattress sales, but the one area I would like to improve is how to gently take parents looking at the cheapest mattress they can find and reorient them toward the importance of the quality of their child’s sleep.”  If you have found yourself in this dilemma time in time…

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10 Things RSA’s Should Always Say

In today’s world, mattress shoppers are emboldened because of the proliferation of choices of products and retailers, the abundance of online information and the influence of social media. Shoppers are paying less attention to what retailers and manufacturers say, and instead, are consulting more with their peer networks and consumer review sites to determine what…

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How to Buy the Best Mattress for You

When it comes to buying a mattress, how do you cut through the confusion and buy the one that will get you the best rest? To start, consider the most affordable mattress lines from the top brands like Sealy, Serta, and Simmons. And make sure you test-rest each mattress for at least 15 minutes – spending 5 minutes on…

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Trouble Sleeping? Paint the Bedroom Blue.

People who paint their bedrooms blue get the most sleep, according to a study released in May by Travelodge. The United Kingdom-based hotel chain surveyed 2,000 men and women across the England and found that Brits who sleep in blue rooms, reported the best shut-eye patterns, banking an impressive average of 7 hours and 52…

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BedBug Bytes: 10 Remedies that DO NOT Work

Itchy and frustrated, people dealing with a bedbug infestation are willing to try just about anything to get rid of the insects. At best, most of these are ineffective – some downright dangerous. Brian Hirsch, director of Protect-A-Bed’s Pest Control Division, has compiled a list of the 10 least effective home remedies he’s heard of people are using: 1) Gasoline…

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Want to slash your health care costs, boost your brainpower and increase your financial smarts? Get some sleep. Too little sleep can bring on costly health problems. A 2011 study by the University of California at San Diego and Harvard University concluded that men who most missed out on deep sleep were 83% more likely…

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Common Dreams Part 6: “I’m falling”

Is it true that if you have a falling dream and don’t wake up before you hit the ground you will die? Find out below in this week’s blog post – the last installment to our common dream analysis! “I’m Falling” Falling dreams are another theme that is quite common in the world of dreams….

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A Positive Spin on Local Skagit Valley Businesses

Here is a recent article about our sign spinners from the Skagit Valley Herald in recent news! Check out our “sign guys” in action! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfCJ6hTTxWs&w=560&h=315]  Positive spin Sign spinners put ads in motion By Mark Stayton @Mark_SVH BURLINGTON — In the traffic-packed aftermath of the Interstate 5 Skagit River Bridge collapse, when commuters and tractor-trailers…

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Seattle is known in the music industry as the inventor of the “grunge” era, but let’s not forget our friends in the rap community and one man put Seattle on the map.  Recently at Mattress Depot USA, we were asked our employees to share sales stories with fellow co-workers about how they took that sale…

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“I find out a lot about myself by sleeping. Dreams, they are who I am when I’m to tired to be me.” – Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale.

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1.  Innerspring Coil – Most common and usually the least expensive but has the most motion transfer and pressure points causing tossing.  This interrupts our sleep cycle.  Queen sets range from $299 to $699. 2.  Pocket Coil – Becoming more common as they are generally more comfortable than innerspring with less motion transfer and pressure…

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