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Journal nizo's Journal: Bring out your dead 19

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Your dead pillows that is. Ok in the article the researchers studied pillows in regular use between several months and 20 years.... Are you kidding me? Using the same pillow for 20 freaking years??? I mean damn, after 5 years most pillows are as fluffy as a brick. Do people really form some kind of unholy attachment to their pillows? And assuming you could find someone with a 20 year old pillow, how would you pry it away from them, since they obviously have some kind of freakish attachment to their pillow? Or do you just hang around the morgue all day, waiting for a "death by groady pillow" case to come in???

So how old is your pillow?

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  • Once upon a time, my parents bought a new bed. The new bed came with new pillows. My nasty old pillows were replaced with their former pillows.

    Still own them.

  • Allergists suggest you change mattresses every 5 years or so, because of dust mite infestations. Ick!
    • Who the hell can afford to? A decent mattress with box spring start around $1000 for a Queen (the size bed I have) and going upwards of $4000. My current mattress is 7 years old, and we're considering replacing it, but only because we're looking to possibly get one of those newfangled select comfort ones with the numbers and stuff.
    • In either case (pillows or mattresses), there are other options. We've got a mattress cover and pillow covers from gazoontite.com that are dust-mite proof (but still fabric-like and not plastic-like -- haven't found anywhere else that has something that strikes that balance).
      • I didn't know they made dust mite proof covers like that, thanks :)
        I think I'm going to consider pillows as disposable after a while, anyway.
        I had some for over 20 years, from when I was a little kid, but I just decided, with new pillows so cheap and fluffy, it's just better for me to do that.
        Oh yes, I also throw out all my old underwear, too :)
    • I think when the pillow is more than half dust mites by volume it is time to get a new pillow.

      I wish I could afford to get a new mattress every five years :-(

  • "Pillows Dangerous for Your Health " by Roland Piquepaille ..
    I was about to say ever seen "One flew over the Cuckoos nest " , I am sure many here would want to let RPiq know why pillows were dangerous to your health Chief style .. then I noticed that he did not link to his Journal (refuse to call them blogs hate that word )

  • ...my mother does have some old throw pillows on a couch up at the cottage which are as old as I can recall. So while I agree that it seems odd to have a bed pillow that is 20 years old, I can see more decorative pillows getting up to that age.

    Mind you, my grandmother has a guest bed which must be at least 50 years old, if not older. It still has its original mattress on it, and it probably has the original pillow on it as well. And to be honest, it's the most uncomfortable, lumpy thing to sleep on. I'

  • I personally like to go for the cheapest pillows that are literally $2.99 and toss them after a couple of months. Of my current pillows, my oldest is one from about last Christmas (almost a year old... and it's going in the trash tomorrow morning).
  • If you get a good-quality one and take care of it (such as the old trick of washing and fluffing them in the tumble dryer with a tennis ball or balled up socks), yeah, pillows can last a long time. Depends on what they're made of, of course -- goose-down ones tend to go limp after a year or two IME, cotton ones get hard, but some synthetic-cotton mix ones hold up a good long while.

    Usual thing -- you get what you pay for.

    BoE and I have Beautyrest pillows we bought in the States the in IIRC 1996, squished

  • Current pillows are brand spaking new, and we don't like 'em.

    Our pillow regime is quite rediculous. IN addition to a pillow case, they also get a zip-up "pillow protector" which also gets changed every week. So thats a decent amount of layering. As such, I'm not too concerened with dust mites (trust me, wife is all over Home Comforts [amazon.com] and its insane house-science).
  • I've been using the same pillow for as long as I can remember.

    I don't like my pillows to be too big and fluffy - it strains my neck. I need 'em packed down and relatively flat to be comfortable. And since new pillows don't come like that, only an old pillow can do.
  • I change my keyboard.

    Darn, spilled another coffee ...

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