The Sleep Number Bed Sucks

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Sleep Number Bed

At least once a week I see a commercial for the Sleep Number bed. Each time it goes on and on about how fabulous it is. I hate to admit it, but I fell for the marketing hype and actually bought one of these beds.

The first thing that stuck out to me was what the bed was made of … inside was nothing more than two air mattresses (side by side) covered in a lining. If you add more air the mattress is firmer and if you let out some of the air, the mattress is softer.

Only it’s not really a bed mattress, you are in fact sleeping on an air mattress, not unlike the $2 ones you pick up at your local Walmart to play with during the summer.

The top mattress has a problem staying on top of the bed frame. When you wake up you can find it has moved as much as a full foot down.

This slippage is a commonly reported problem among several of the models but most often among the lower end scales, those which sale for less than $1,000.

Because of the way the bed is made, if one side has a low number, the other side a higher (or firmer) number, and you happen to move over in the middle of the night and get half way on your side, halfway on the other side, you can wake up with a severe pinch or sharp pain in your back. It is reported by people to feel like a “horribly painful muscle spasm”. When I first heard about this I didn’t personally experience it. However one night my husband was out of town and I did move over onto his side while he was away, during my sleep and woke up in the most horrible pain in my life. I couldn’t breath. I thought someone had punched me in the ribs. It was beyond painful.

Let me just make it simple for you and say do yourself a huge favor and avoid buying a bed like this at all costs. It’s the worst investment in furniture I ever made.

The commercials flat out lie. It will not be the best night’s sleep you’ve ever got and the longer you own this piece of crap bed, the more you realize your mistake for buying it in the first place.

 

 

The Magic Jack is Whack

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As Seen on TV, Internet Phone, MagicJack

For years now I’ve been hearing about this great little device called the MagicJack.  I’m not normally one to be tricked into buying products I see on TV but this one has been around so long I couldn’t help but be convinced it works just by its staying power.

You pay $40 for a little box that you connect to your regular phone line and then $19.95 a year thereafter and you now have a second phone line, for a a fraction of a fraction of what the phone company would charge you.  Of course I knew that you had to have high speed internet access for this device to work, but I figured, who doesn’t have that these days?

The whole thing sounded easy enough and it really was a simple setup process, but what I didn’t know is that the little magical phone box must be connected to your computer and it must be on at all times that you want your phone to work.

The sound quality was nothing short of a joke and I only received calls when my computer was on.

Before throwing it away my friend decided she wanted to try it.  Since I was just going to ditch it, I gave her my little attachment and account and she set it up at her house.

I have high speed internet from the phone company and she is convinced that is the problem.  She thinks that having her kind of high speed internet is better because it comes from the cable company.

So she hooked up MagicJack to her computer and it worked just as badly for her as it did for me.

The call quality was nothing short of atrocious.

So save yourself the money my friends.  There is nothing magical about Magic Jack except how they trick you into giving them your hard earned money.