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Title: New Mattress or a Topper?
Post by: 4Campers on Sep 13, 2009, 08:47 PM
I bet there have been many similar threads here, but a search found nothing for me. What I'm looking for is any advice on the use of a foam topper vs buying a new mattress for our pup.
Been looking at prices, and a topper made of memory foam runs about $150 to 200. I see a replacement mattress can run up to $300-400+. A foam/memory foam layered topper is cheapest at under $100. Anything has to be better than what we're sleeping on, which is just a 4" piece of dense foam in a cloth bag. Has anyone had experience using a topper to replace the foam piece in their pup bed? Should we go memory foam, a foam/memory foam mix, or should we just put out the bucks and get a mattress?
Thanks in advance for any help!
Title: memory foam
Post by: jkhomes on Sep 15, 2009, 12:46 AM
I bought a memory foam topper from Overstock.com and trimmed it down to fit my almost king size pop up mattress.  It was the best thing I ever did and I sure don't need a new mattress.
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Post by: austinado16 on Sep 15, 2009, 12:54 AM
I bought a Costco "nova-foam" brand 2" thick topper for our almost King sized bunk...scored it brand new on Craigslist for $50.  Bought a 1-1/2" thick one for the DD's bunk from Target for $19.  We put the toppers right on top of the original mattresses and sleep fantastic.  We leave the mattresses in place when closing up the camper.
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Post by: Gracy on Sep 15, 2009, 01:57 PM
They had the egg crate (yellow) kind on clearance at Walmart (at least at my walmart they did) over the weekend.... I think for like $20 - $25 each.  I've heard peeps say they use those.
Title: Matress Toppers Rock!!!
Post by: jpcjtrtj on Sep 15, 2009, 10:08 PM
We went to Tuesday Morning and bought a memory foam matress topper.  Best investment ever.  It came with a bag that keeps it clean.  We used to take the one off the bed every weekend, but  buying a second one and  leaving this in the camper has been awesome.

jps
Title: egg crate
Post by: jkhomes on Sep 16, 2009, 02:11 AM
Egg crate foam is not the same.  Definitely pay the extra for the memory foam.  I just gave all our egg crate foam to Goodwill.