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A couple of weeks ago we received our new bed frame and got it all setup. The new frame is a platform with drawers under it and perfect for our tiny house as we’re always needing storage. Amusingly of the 6 drawers only a couple have anything in them two weeks later, but that’s another story.

Yesterday (Thursday) FedEx delivered our new mattress which after much reading I ordered the 11 inch PacDown Plus memory foam mattress from BedInABox.com. Reviews where hard to find for the company but there were a couple serious reviews, including one guy who bought it for his RV, and both were positive.

Now this mattress comes in a box roughly 24×24x48 and weighing 100 pounds. How the heck do you get a queen sized mattress, an 11″ one no less, into a box that size! Two words - vacuum compression. The mattress is then only maybe 3 inches thick, folded once, rolled, wrapped in cling wrap and then stuffed into a rather large draw-string bag.

Unpacking is really as simple as reversing that. It is amazing to puncture the bag seal and watch the 3 inch plank turn swell to 11″ thick medium-firm mattress. And it does it rather quickly, not more than 10 minutes and all the creases from packing are gone.

The mattress comes with a waterproof terrycloth cover (memory foam is a bit sensitive to moisture) and we chose to get the down cover (they offer a bamboo microfiber cover as well). Once all of this was figured out and installed came the test. Oh yeah….

While it will be at least a week before I can whole-heartedly endorse our decision any lingering doubt has left. For the price I cannot understand why anyone would spend 4 times the amount to get what amounts to the same thing? But if you walk into a store and look at any of the memory foam mattresses that’s exactly what you’re going to do.

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