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When Is The Best Time To Flip My Mattress?
Is your bed starting to feel a little lumpy? Are there indentations where you sleep? If so, I feel your pain. I slept on a 15 year old mattress for the longest time before I realized that I should have probably flipped it over the years. I was waking up sore, stiff, and not feeling like I slept at all. It was then that I began to read about flipping mattresses and how it can help you sleep better and potentially be healthier for your body.
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Effects of a Crummy Mattress
Believe it or not, your mattress plays a huge role in your health. If you are subjected to a hard, lumpy, dented mattress, it could be stressing you out without you even knowing it. In 2009, a study was performed that included 59 healthy men and women who slept for 28 nights on their old mattresses and then another 28 on a new one.
After this was done, they were asked to evaluate their stress levels. According to the study, the new bed decreased their stress levels. Now, I am not saying that you need a new bed for this, you just need to flip your mattress over. Doing so can reduce your stress level because it’ll feel like a new bed without those lumps and indentations. But what else can a crummy mattress effect?
Finances
?When we think about money, a lot of us get stressed out. The last thing we need to do is buy something unnecessary that could have been avoided by taking the necessary precautions. In this case, flipping your mattress can increase its lifespan. Most mattress makers recommend that you flip your bed once a year to make it last 5-7 years longer.
If you fail to listen to your salesman and don’t flip it, you may find yourself needing to buy a new one when you just can’t afford it, causing you to stress out and spend money you don’t have.?
Back Pain
If you are experiencin???g pain when you first wake up in the morning, especially in your back, this is a good indication that your mattress may be ready to flip. Laying in the indentations that our bodies put in the mattress over time is terrible for your spine. This is because if your body is sinking into the bed, it causes bad posture while you are sleeping, leading to the pain we feel in the morning.
Warranty
Guess what your mattress warranty probably doesn’t cover? You guessed it, impressions. Most of the time, a mattress company won’t honor their warranty if there is are impressions in it, usually around 1” deep. This is why flipping your mattress is beneficial for more than just your health.
Flipping your mattress gives it even wear, resulting in less to no indentations. So, if anything were to happen to your mattress and there aren’t any body marks, you have a better chance of your warranty being honored.?
Hygiene
On average, the typical used mattresses contains 100,000 to 10 million mites, that’s nasty. On top of that, we shed about a pound and a half of dead skin cells per year. So essentially, if we don’t rotate out mattresses, we’re sleeping on 3 pounds of dead skin cells if we don’t use a sheet, and who knows how many if we do, over a period of 2 years.
If you flip your mattress and give it a quick sanitizing, you may see skin issues and allergies decrease once you aren’t sleeping on dead cells and mites anymore. You will still have the mites inside of your mattress, but if you give it a good steam cleaning, it may help.?
My Mattress Says "Do Not Flip"
If you have a mattress that tells you not to flip it, all you have to do is rotate it. Some mattresses today are made to not have to be flipped, but there is still the risk for indentations that can cause that pesky back pain.
On average, it is best to rotate it from head to foot every three months for the first year and every 6 months after that. This is to make sure there is even wear throughout the entire mattress.
How To Flip A Mattress
It may not seem like the hardest thing to do, but you may actually be doing it wrong. The proper way to flip a mattress is to rotate the mattress over the end of the base, raise it up on the edge, lower it over, and align it with the base. While you do this, you want to make sure you rotate it as well. So if your tag was in the back of the bed, it should not be at the bottom.
So How Often Do I Do It?
To answer the question in short, you should flip your mattress once every 3 months for the first year and once every 6 months after. If you want, you can do it every 3 months, even after the first year has passed. Also make sure you are rotating it as you are flipping to ensure even wear.
To Sum It Up
Flipping your mattress can change the way you sleep and feel. By doing so, you are decreasing your stress, improving your sleep health, avoiding unnecessary mattress purchasing, and keeping your body healthy.
If you thought this was a good read or if you have any comments or questions, please feel free to reach out to us. We love to hear from our readers.?
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