When did they stop putting handles on mattresses?
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April 28th, 2016
I seem to recall that during my college years, when moving was a frequent occurrence, most mattresses had two handles sewn into each side; not the box spring (or box I guess it is now), just the mattress.
I am in the process of a move and this question came to the forefront while moving the bedroom furniture. As you can probably tell from the question, it has been a while since I moved.
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Gosh…you’re right. I didn’t really realize that.
With the most recent mattress that I bought I was told I should not be turning it for some reason. Maybe it started when they stopped recommending that?
You don’t want to flip a mattress that has a “pillow top” or a memory foam top. It probably stopped being standard when the deeper mattresses became common.
When they finally realized the the handles are largely useless!
Handles were seldom if ever sturdy enough and/or anchored enough to bear the weight of the mattress. Perhaps they were fine for helping turn a mattress, but you couldn’t depend on them to carry one, and that invariably happens.
Mattress handles tore out before the mattress was used up.
Hmm. So that means the government must have made manufacturers stop building that little bit of functional obsolescence into mattresses.
As @zenvelo said.
@ibstubro I had a mattress that lasted me 15 years and I use to flip the mattress regularly using the handle. It never tore out. The mattress still looked great but I had to get rid of it and go for something firmer when it started to give me and my husband back aches.
I love my new mattress but I hate that it is hard to rotate Especially without handles. We put the foot bottom towards the head and vise versa and it’s so much heavier than my old mattress. Even though it’s guarantee to last I believe 15 year or more without sinking dramatically, I find by rotating it we keep both sides of the bed at the same level. My husbands side starts to sink in a little because he’s a bit heavier than I am.
Funny. I saw a matress in a dumpster…and it had the handles on it! It didn’t look that old, either.
maybe I am not shopping at the right places.
Hell, I dragged lots of mattresses around by the handles! They’re hard to move by yourself other wise. Upstairs, downstairs, inside, outside. I never had one pull out.
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