http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/23/garden/23roadtest.html

For $50K it should come with room service and entertainment. Or, at the very least, be an exceedingly fine and functional unit.

This kind of thing is obscene.

Expensive beds and mattresses are all well and good, but at 8 hours per day you are spending 1/3 of you life in bed. These mattresses should last 30 years. The more cost effective i.e. cheaper models cost around $12,000 or just over $1-2 a night for the useful life of the mattress. Probably no more extravagant than a couple of mugs of VIA instant coffee every day or a plastic bottle of so called 'mineral' water or a packet of 20 fags or coffin nails. A good quality mattress is definitely an investment just like high quality shoes are.

This is what you call really obscene.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/...-poisoning.html



The old saying 'a fool and his money are soon parted' is probably appropriate and I suspect that the folks who can afford the No1 Mattress (such as Enron traders, Goldman Sachs bankers and land mine salesmen etc ) wouldn't have a problem getting to sleep even if they had to sleep on a old army cot.

I really feel bad for Heston. From all I've managed to learn the oysters were already contaminated before they were delivered. Yet he's taking all the heat for it. I recall a summer or two ago a local taco chain had some patrons sickened by lettuce that came in already contaminated with Salmonella right from the grower. As a professional cook nothing is more nerve racking than hearing a patron has taken ill and wondering if your food caused it. It's doubly scary when you're dealing with items that are already tainted when you purchase them. I can deal with Salmonella or E-Coli in meat; just cook it properly and there'll be no problem. Ditto for eggs. But you can't do anything about lettuce- it's not like you can cook someone's salad and washing it isn't effective.

$50K for a bed, here is one for 1.6 million. Don't think that i will be sleeping on either one of them.

http://dornob.com/for-real-1-6-million-dollar-magnetic-hover-bed-floats-on-air/

A good mattress should be more comfortable and longer lasting than a cheap one, but only up to a point.
I would expect a £200 mattress to be better than a £50 one, but I doubt that spending £1,000 would produce much more improvement, let alone more than £1,000.

I've had a $1000 mattress and a $2000 mattress as well as a slew of cheaper ones. The $1000 mattress was very nice and lasted for about eight years before it needed to be replaced. The $2000 mattress is far and away the best sleep I've ever had, and now after eight years I can just perceive that it isn't new.

With my back problems, getting a good night's sleep isn't always easy. For me, the $2000 mattress was an easy decision to make. When this one needs to be replaced, believe me that I'll buy another one.

I did the same thing. A king size matress+box spring set is about $1300 for a reputable brand. I went with a $2000 set (Serta) and it's really a $2000 matress. Estimated lifespan is 20 years vs 10, so it's a good deal.

When we were shopping for it the saleman told us about $30,000 boutique matresses that are being ordered by the celebrity set. Hand assembled from top quality materials like the Savior. I can't see dropping that much on a bed, but I also can't see dropping 40K on a BMW when a Toyota will fit the bill for half that. Go figure.

"Harrods are selling about two a month".

Quality.