Have you ever shopped for a pillow? I mean, being a guy, and as unrelated to Martha Stewart as you can possibly be, I've never really considered what it meant to shop for a pillow. Until yesterday I'd only ever bought one pillow before, and that's because when I moved up to Timmins I discovered that I had forgotten to bring one from home. The process was simple: go to local softgoods store, walk in just far enough to see a box labelled "Pillows! Sale!", pay my $3.99 and get out of there.
Yesterday I decided I needed new pillows...indeed there comes a time when even a guy says to himself, "Ewww...my head is not going anywhere close to there." (Usually this realization occurs when you didn't drink enough before coming home...but I digress.) Suffice it to say, new pillows were needed. Off to Sears I go.
Upon arrival in the bedding department, I'm greeted with nothing short of a wall of pillows and the price of the first one I see...$189.99!! (note to all of the Sears executives that frequent my blog...apparently most of you skipped the day about merchandising at management ass-kissing school....never, ever, put your most expensive products in the first 8 feet of a >16 foot display) Seriously, who pays $189.99 for a pillow? That pillow costs a quarter the price of my second car...my second car which was a V6...and had air conditioning!
Apparently there are many choices to be made in the selection of a pillow: fill (I've usually thought 'soft and fluffy' was sufficient), firmness, sleeping pattern (it intrigues me that they sell pillows specifically for people who sleep on their stomach, or their back, or their side). Do people actually sleep on their stomach? I've never met anyone who does (regularly anyway). Anyway, most of the pillows seemed to be in the $30-$70 range, which I still consider ridiculous, but I did eventually find one there to buy: the grandpa pillow from the Martha Stewart line. $7.99 each. Where the grandpa name came in, I'm not sure...either the Martha line wants to embarass you into not buying it, or they're implying that "grandpa" will sleep on anything...even something that only sells for $7.99. Whatever, good enough for me.
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Helena says "I sleep on my stomach!" I say $7.99 is too much. I'd ball up a sweater. Or tuck my hands under my head. Worked in high school :D
- Evil
Yeah, normally I would have gone for that too...but when you get older you do value pillows. Trust me. ;)
Melanie always sleeps on her stomach. I recently bought some cheap pillows at Zellers as well, they didn't have any outrageously priced ones like Sears.
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