A good quality pillow is the cheapest and easiest way for anyone to increase the amount of sleep they are getting each night. I always say mattresses are the least expensive furniture in your home no matter how much you spend. Well the pillow is the very least expensive sleep-aid you can buy. Having a quality, properly fitted pillow, can save you a bundle on sleep-aid products and massage. To buy a pillow is really quite simple. In other blogs I see writers go on about this type of pillow for side sleepers and this type for back sleepers and another type for ‘floppers’. I can say after twenty-something years in the sleep business there is not one type of pillow for one type of sleeper. It boils down to this.

Like pants, pillows fit, or don’t fit.

The type of pillow you need is determined by how big you are and your neck to shoulder ratio. Next, you consider what’s most comfortable and durable. Then, out of the different types of quality foams and fibers in the market, you decide what feels best to you.

Do these four things when buying a pillow. Save money and sleep better.

1. Buy a good pillow

   If you are a small person, a good pillow will be smaller and softer, but it will still take up the area from your shoulder to your neck, to the mattress. Very few people stay on their side, or back, all night and having your neck lined up straight with your back in all positions will help you sleep better.

2. Take your time choosing your pillow

   There is no 222-2222 for a quick quality pillow like there is for a quality pizza. Take twenty minutes to half an hour and find a bed that feels like yours at home in the store and try different pillows until you find one that fits you. Pulling a $15.00 or $5.00 pillow off the shelf at a grocery store is no way to save money on pillows. Doing this will reward you with a large collection of pillows, but not a good night’s sleep.

3. Size matters

   At Best Sleep Centre we have developed the Hal Anderson pillow. It’s a pillow for big people. For those of us who know Hal; he is Winnipeg’s most popular Morning DJ. Hal is a big guy, 475 lbs to be fair. If you weigh 225 and have folded every pillow you have ever had in two, this pillow is for you. In the last two years we have sold 2500 pillows of various styles. About a year ago we developed our own pillow for larger customers who could not find anything to FIT them. The Hal Anderson pillow is heavy and made of the highest quality five lb SpaceFoam. Don’t hit anyone with it. You’ll be charged with assault. It feels like an uncooked loaf of bread and fits the neck to shoulder ratio of big people perfectly. It starts hard and melts to your shape, relieving all pressure and aligns the neck to the spine of big people correctly.

4. Buy cheap, buy twice, or even thrice

   An expensive pillow costs $20.00. Here’s why; you won’t use it and it won’t stay the way it felt in the store for more than a year. A cheap pillow costs between $50.00 and $120.00 dollars. They will last 3 to 5 years and will help you sleep better. So take your time picking them.

Final Thoughts

I sometimes have to remind people you get what you pay for. I have people tell me things like “I don’t like SpaceFoam pillows or Latex pillows” and when I ask why they tell me they bought a pillow once and did not like it. Whenever I ask where they bought it from, it inevitably was from their favourite place to buy steaks or case-lots of Christmas paper. There are different quality levels for everything and once something is proven to work at $200.00, people then make other versions for a $100.00. If it’s a good company that will work, but if they knock it off for $20.00 nothing is the same as the $200.00 item except the shape and basic ingredient. A TempurPedic TM pillows cost up to $280.00. It’s a great pillow, twenty four hours a day 365 days a year fifteen channels at a time, advertising and research and development makes it cost what it costs. With less advertising costs involved we can get out great quality pillows of the same standard down to between $100.00 and $129.00 . Discount city cannot get it down to $20.00. It is not the same product, not the same weight and not the same composition of the foam. So do yourself a favour and take your time with this purchase and buy quality. We source and design other pillows from $49.00 and up. All of the highest quality. Buying a proper pillow will in the end help you sleep better and that’s what this blog is about.