An overnight snowfall capped autumn’s golden leaves this morning in Colorado, where our company was born. Even as the snow sparkled in the sunshine, dripping and sliding in slushy clumps to the ground, it reminded us that winter is coming. Forgive the Game of Thrones reference. The point is that time is limited, and the…
A Good Mattress: Structure and Softness
Most people know that any decent mattress needs two major things to be comfy and stand the test of time: Structure and softness. Nobody these days wants to sleep on a hard couch like the ancient Egyptians. And nobody wants to suffocate amid a pile of feathers, either. The happy medium is a plush, luxurious…
Vacation, Shmacation: Why Don’t We Take Time Off?
Apparently, the Brits think we Americans have a national vacation problem. A recent article in the Guardian testifies to this, questioning why so many Americans fail to take all—or any—of their vacation days each year, working significantly more days than their counterparts in other countries. This summer, the BBC reported that 40 percent of American…
Why Mattresses Are Kinda Like Parents
Parenting ain’t easy—common knowledge, folks. Surely finding the perfect bed, difficult as it may be, is rather a tad easier than being a parent. But did you know that, when you do find a great mattress, there are a few fun similarities? Mattresses come in firm, medium and soft, just like parents and parenting styles.…
Managing Time for a Better Life, Part 3
We all have the same amount of hours in a day. Are yours quality hours? Do they look and feel the way you want them to? We don’t always have control over that. It’s tough to live simply in America these days—we can’t be the way people used to before cars and computers and cell…
Managing Time for a Better Life, Part 2
Last week we suggested that it might be more useful to think of managing energy instead of managing time in this jam-packed age of doing-more-with-every-minute. The key to human performance is energy, not time. We all have the same number of hours in each day, but we achieve very different things in those hours. We can’t…
Managing Time for a Better Life, Part 1
What is it about time? Some moments last forever while others pass so quickly it’s like they didn’t even happen. And as we grow older, time seems to fly … whether we’re having fun or not, heh. “Time is an illusion,” Albert Einstein said. He was right. And yet time is one of the most…
A New Urban Mattress Store! Leesburg, VA
Our family of super awesome stores keeps growing! This time, our newest store is in the Washington, DC area. Nathaniel Hoelk and his wife, Amanda, have owned their store in Vienna, Virginia since 2013. That store, the first Urban Mattress on the East Coast, has been so successful that this summer, they opened a second…
Building a Healthy Relationship with Food
So we talk a lot about sleep in this blog. But what about other aspects of living well? Food, for example, is a big one for a lot of us. Recently, one of us had a conversation with his wife about this. It was randomly sparked by the sudden, unfortunate need to replace the radiator…
Why Americans Have So Much Trouble Sleeping
Tired of not getting enough sleep? (The pun is old and exhausted, yes. But puns are fun so bear with us.) We want to help you fix that. But this blog is not about sleep. This blog is about the reasons why we see so many people so tired in our society. Arianna Huffington, a…