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Isabella Bannerman's avatar

Very funny story! I know people who have dog hair mattresses and cat hair mattresses who have no complaints.

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Jim Nolan's avatar

Thanks, Isabella. I have never heard of those mattress fillings.

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Isabella Bannerman's avatar

They are mostly mattress toppers.

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Jim Nolan's avatar

Ah. Makes sense.

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Michael Blankenship's avatar

I wonder how one gets to try out the Grand Vividus behind the velvet ropes. Maybe hope for an open house?

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Jim Nolan's avatar

Mike, if you have to try it out, you can't afford it.

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Stephen Autar's avatar

What kind of bedsheets do you put on a million dollar mattress? Hell even a $5240 mattress

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Jim Nolan's avatar

Costco?

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Debra Fried's avatar

Wait. You don't have a Vividus? I see. I'll be stopping my subscription now. Thank you for the many laughs but I now see that they were, for lack of a better word, cheap.

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Jim Nolan's avatar

That's me all over, Debra, cheap!

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Bev Potter's avatar

omg now I have to watch the video. You know I'm obsessed with mattresses. I've heard about these, and I'm so put off by the horse hair thing. Like, surely there are other hairs they could use.

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Jim Nolan's avatar

I think they may use other ones in their “cheaper” mattresses?

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Bev Potter's avatar

I’m afraid to know.

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Roz Warren's avatar

I'm totally going to rope my bed off.

It's a great look and sleeping in a roped-off bed will make me feel special and less the member of the hoi polloi than I actually am.

You get bonus points, by the way, for using the words hoi palloi in a Substack post.

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Jim Nolan's avatar

I love “hoi palloi,” Roz. It sounds like a Mr. Burns word to me.

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Jonathan Cohen's avatar

Knowing about Hastens is not going to help my insomnia.

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Jim Nolan's avatar

Jon you need the grand vividus

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kittynana's avatar

Free delivery? It had also better include free set up, free bedmaking, free lullabies.

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Jim Nolan's avatar

We will never know.

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Polly Walker Blakemore's avatar

I am ever amazed at the ways we will find to spend money. I wonder if the horse hair is first washed? And if horses sleep well, sleeping as they do on their own hair.

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Jim Nolan's avatar

Yes, the horses must sleep well!

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Jim Nolan's avatar

We will never know (or at least I won't).

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