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Mattress: skip the 40-question quiz

Sleep position, trial length, and who pays return shipping. The rest is foam poetry.

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Quizzes exist to sell one SKU. You need three facts: how you sleep, how long you can send it back, and whether return shipping is yours.

Side sleepers usually want more cushion at the shoulder. Back sleepers want a flatter plane. Stomach sleepers are the picky ones — too soft and the back folds.

Trial: 100 nights is a real trial. 30 nights is a hotel. If the brand makes you roll the mattress into a box to return it, price that labor in.

Certifications (CertiPUR, OEKO-TEX) are table stakes, not a personality. Ignore “NASA foam.”

Home hops wire when programmes join. Do not buy from a site with no address.