If your like most Americans, you have pillows from your childhood. Yep, some people just can’t let things go, but really you should. When it comes to your pillows and mattresses you really need to just get rid of them. Pillows should be replace at least once a year, though I recoomend more for anyone with alergyes.

Your mattress, yes that thing you sleep on that you spend $2000 on, needs to be replaced every 5-10 years, depending on the type and how often it’s slept on. Mattresses in guest rooms can probably go 7-12 years while your bed may just make it to five. Yes, this can be expencive, but if you look at what is in your matress you may start to think you need a new one.

• Live Dust mites- They are everywhere and they eat your dead skin cells. Most dust mites multiply rapidly in your mattress and pillows.
• Skin cells- just like snakes we shed our skin, that ends up in your mattress and eventually lunch for that local dust mite
• Dead Dust mites- I don’t know whats worse, dead ones or the ones that still move. Yuck!
• Pet dander- Your beloved pet sheds too and all that fir and dander could end up in your mattress and pillows.

Those are just a few things that are in that mattress of yours, so you thinking about getting a new one yet?

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