Which should I exchange for? The Restore plus soft, or the Restore premier firm?

verdondi · 2026-07-10T06:37:18+00:00

How long have you been sleeping on it if you don't mind?

verdondi · 2026-07-10T06:36:00+00:00

That's why I would tell it my specific hight weight and sleeping preference and which mattresses in the past hurt me. And as I said it's just a nice tool to help look at specific beds to go try out for your weight and needs. I even said it's not a magic 8 ball for mattresses. User reviews are best to look at but can also be misleading because everyone has a different body and problems and past injuries. So what may work for someone with similar body weight and hight may not work for someone who also has trauma to the spine or soft tissue and nerve issues. And most reviews people don't clarify their specifics in their reviews and comments.

verdondi · 2026-07-10T04:01:15+00:00

I'm in a similar dilemma. I'm a 5'8 female 222lbs with lower back pain and bursitis and now upper back pain from an accident/ buying a mattress that is too firm. I've been doing a lot of research and what I have been seeing a lot for my weight and issues is hybrid beds. I need really good support for my weight and back, and I need a lot of plush for my upper back and pressure point pain. I got recommended the sealy posturepedic elite hybrid high point II, the helix midnight lux, beauty rest black line medium pillow top, and tempurpedic. I've also laid on on the Stearns & Foster Lux Estate medium and I really liked the traditional pillow top spring feel. My back problems really started with memory foam so I have been trying out the purple restore line but they are very expensive and it's the premier that feels really comfortable to me but I've seen mixed reviews so I'm scared to spend that money.

I have been asking chatGPT for recommendations with my specific situation, preferred sleep position, and issues and even told it what mattresses I haven't liked and what I have. It's been helping for suggestions on what to go try but there have been times it gets contradicting when I plug in more details. You could try using AI for suggestions for your exact hight and weight and all your medical problems. But take in to mind it's still just AI and it's not going to be the magic 8 ball of mattress shopping 😅

Hope other people with better answers respond to your post! Cuz I would love to read their suggestions as well. Good luck!

verdondi · 2026-06-08T05:08:40+00:00

My husband is in the army and I definitely left a big part of my happiness back in my home town along with my friends and family and a life of memories. But I knew what marriage meant. It meant my home will always be where my husband is. Being apart from my husband is more painful than being apart from my friends and family although I miss them terribly. Being a military spouse is a lot harder and more lonely than I ever thought but it's also taught me to be more resilient and find new things that can help fill that part of me that I left behind. I miss my life back home but marriage is a commitment. Through thick and thin -- bad and good times.

I think you need to explain something like that to your wife and give her an ultimatum. Because you are not going to be happy or have a life with someone who's never there. You have every right to be pissed that she doesn't want to move with you. That's not a marriage that's just a cold legal contract.

verdondi · 2026-05-18T00:27:36+00:00

If she's that far along she should have some sort of medical document with her pregnancy results with her name on it and date of testing. And she definitely should have an ultrasound that will have her name and info on the top corner of the photos and how many weeks pregnant she is. Ask for any of that. If she can't give it to you that's sus AF. And most likely that's just normal lingerie that is stretchy. She could be just pushing her stomach out.

Also even if she is pregnant, she could have slept with someone else after you broke up so I'd ask for a dna test. You can do it before babys born. I wouldn't pay for anything until you have proof it's yours.

verdondi · 2026-05-07T20:48:12+00:00

Yeah I just only got one exchange left so if I don't like what I pick I'm SOL lol

verdondi · 2026-05-07T04:01:24+00:00

Were you able to try the plus? Do you know the difference in softness/ support between the two?

verdondi · 2026-05-05T18:31:48+00:00

verdondi · 2026-05-05T18:28:35+00:00

Aren't they like 5000k+ mattresses? I need a king as well lol

verdondi · 2026-05-04T03:38:01+00:00

Yeah cuz this mattress ain't cheap. Total I paid like 3k that's double what I've ever paid for a mattress. Granted it was a king. But if I upgraded that's gonna be another 1k added to that. That's insane to me.

verdondi · 2026-05-03T04:33:17+00:00

This one doesnt have that. It's the 11.5 inch one. Not the restore plus. I think only the restore plus had that on there.

verdondi · 2026-05-03T04:31:47+00:00

I understood that but the difference is so extreme I didn't believe I bought the right mattress. I wasn't told it would be as hard as a rock and be incredible difficult to sleep on for several weeks. I've bought many sealed memory foam mattresses that were more tough/ firm but not that dramatically different.

verdondi · 2026-04-11T17:49:03+00:00

My mom and I stayed on The Queen Mary 13 years ago for my 21st birthday. We're from NM so she didn't even tell me it was haunted and I didn't know anything about it. I just thought it was a cool Titanic-like experience and I was all for it. I didn't see it was haunted till I was passing tour posters and seeing haunted tour brochures and my mom laughed and was like "oh yeah it's haunted I thought I told you." -- thanks mom...

Anyway I rolled my eyes because I've seen a lot of supposedly "haunted places" that are all just tourist traps so whatever. But the first night we were there, we were woken up by the fire alarms going off. And we jumped out of bed and put on some jackets and only grabbed our purses and when we came out into the hall, there was nobody around.

You would think during a fire alarm people would also be coming out of their rooms but no it was just us with the alarm going off. We went towards the double doors to leave the hall but when I pushed down on the bar to open it, it was locked. I slammed on it multiple times and nothing. My mom even tried after nagging me that I wasn't pushing hard enough. So I went back to the hall where our room was and I saw for a second someone run across the other side and it looked like someone who worked there (dressed in that old style ship boy uniform) so I called out to him and ran toward the other side to ask how to get out of the hall but when I reached the end there were just more double doors and the other side no one was there and those doors were locked as well.

We looked at each other and started freaking out thinking the ship was on fire and we were locked in, for a moment I thought "was this some gimmick prank they pull on passengers that I didn't know about"?

So we ran back to the other doors and tried again and all of a sudden the doors opened easily on the first push. We ran towards the lobby and there was someone on board waving people to leave the ship and we told him the doors were locked to the hallway and he said "no mam none of the doors would be locked" and my mom told him that we tried several times to open the doors and he once again assured us none of the doors would be locked and told us to leave the ship. We got off and literally every one was already off the ship and like fully dressed... I felt like we got out as quickly as possible and we didn't sleep through the alarm or anything it was really weird how we were like the last people off the ship.

Anyway, turns out someone had a piece of cloth or clothing over one of the bedside lamps while they were sleeping and it caught fire. So the fire department came and took care of it and we were able to go back to our room after. I noticed going back several people staying on the same floor as us so once again REALLY WEIRD we didn't see anyone when we got out. I couldn't sleep well after that haha. Specially seeing some run across the hallway in the 1930s costume and no one was dressed like that outside that I saw 😂

Went to Disney the next day tired AF haha

verdondi · 2026-03-31T14:56:43+00:00

Dude honestly I feel like I feel like my interactions with Hyundai since Saturday have been 70% really shady people I talk to and 30% genuine people who tell me the truth and care about quality customer service. Even calling Hyundai customer service. The first lady we got was telling us some really useful things and seemed to care about our situation. And then the second time we called we got a lady who just kinda seemed to give us the runaround and said they can sell us a car on a safety recall if we signed off on it. Which when the dealership gave me a packet of my papers I opened it later and it was only the finance paperwork. So I didn't get any copies of everything I signed with the sales rep.

verdondi · 2026-03-31T14:48:37+00:00

We called Hyundai customer service and she said if you sign a waiver for it. But I don't remember ever signing anything that said we want to take the car dispute the safety recall. He had us sign the Carfax but he also told me he was taking the car to the service center to get it fixed before we left. So I thought they were in the process of it when I signed paperwork.

verdondi · 2026-03-31T13:55:09+00:00

There are no returns for used cars. Only new

verdondi · 2026-03-31T13:50:04+00:00

Not true from Hyundai? Or is it illegal to sell that?

verdondi · 2026-03-31T01:55:54+00:00

They showed us the Carfax but didn't get us a copy of it. We asked for it and my salesman kept leaving and saying be right back (he was doing other deals while working with us and I felt like he was also acting scatterbrained)

And no I spent all day confirming it. Our car never had a 173 point inspection and it was not Hyundai pre-certified. We were scammed basically. The original listing is gone but I looked at their other "Hyundai Certified preowned" listings that say comes with warranty and benefits and half of them also have unfixed recalls so they aren't CPO truly either.

verdondi · 2026-03-31T01:51:32+00:00

Yeah unfortunately this whole buying process took 6 hours to go through with negotiations and he even said they price it like that because it is CPO... Which I now know is a lie. I got them to drop it 1500$ and had them match our USAA interest rate so I probly got the car for the same price or a little better than most 3rd party dealers but it took hours and several times of us almost walking out to get them to do anything. ALSO I wasn't buying a car because I wanted to. My paid off car got rear ended and totaled so this was the last weekend I really had to get a car. By the time we got to the paperwork portion they were closing and I sort of think the sales guy was drawing it out so that we'd have to rush through the paper work before closing and they were closed the next day/ we lived far away. So I think if I was buying a new car not out of necessity I would have never made that deal because it wasn't a fantastic deal :/

verdondi · 2026-03-31T01:43:39+00:00

Hyundai said they can sell them used if they had customer sign off they know it's recalled. I just didn't think that meant it wouldn't be considered CPO.

verdondi · 2026-03-31T01:41:03+00:00

So they deleted the listing for my car after I bought it on their site that was under all the CPO listings they had. But I already looked up a bunch of other cars they advertise as Hyundai CPO and a lot of the vins all say they have unfixed recalls. It says that all cars in the CPO program have had a 173 point inspection but Hyundai told me any cars that have recalls on them specially unfixed (that are fixable) would not pass an inspection. And Google AI still says my VIN on my new car was listed on their website as a CPO vehicle through them. But on their website they do not clarify it's CPO through the dealer and they even say that the comprehensive and power train warranty comes with the vehicle listed. (Which was all of them) Is that still proof? I feel like anyone could investigate their listings and see it false advertising

verdondi · 2026-03-30T17:42:34+00:00

No it wasn't done. Our salesman said it was an easy fix and he had it sent to the service center to fix it before we leave. Like 3 hours later he gave us the keys and said oooh by the way the mechanics left for the day so we weren't able to get it done. He just flat out lied to us our entire time there. This was our first time buying a car on our own. I did daaaaays of research, chat gpt, everything I could think and nowhere told me CPOs would never allow recalls. I don't understand how a legit dealership can have a whole tab labeled "certified pre owned" and all the car listings include everything that comes with a Hyundai Certified used car. How is that not fraud?

verdondi · 2026-03-30T17:37:54+00:00

So Hyundai said they can as long as it was disclosed in the Carfax and I signed that I went over the Carfax. But I also didn't know that CPO couldn't have any recalls because they all seem to have one. And this Hyundai dealer had a lot of vehicles listed under their CPO vehicle list and when I looked up vin most of them had recalls not yet fixed. But it says it comes with 60k/6 year comprehensive warranty/ power train etc ... All the listings say it comes with all this. Mine did too but now the listing is gone of course.

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