We try to flip it once a month, though sometimes we don’t and we flip it when it starts getting uncomfortable.
How often do you flip yours?
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How often do you flip your bed?
April 29, 2020 — nicoleandmaggie15 Responses to “How often do you flip your bed?”
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Grumpy Rumblings (of the formerly untenured) 
April 29, 2020 at 1:53 am
We got a new mattress that came w instructions: flip in a defined top-bottom & left-right sequence once per month for six months & then once every six months going forward. We took abt nine months to complete the initial six-month sequence, and now will flip every six months.
April 29, 2020 at 5:38 am
We’ve got a pillow top mattress, so we can’t flip top to bottom, but we rotate the mattress head to toe every three months.
April 29, 2020 at 6:11 am
I once heard the mantra “spin in spring; flip in fall” to help with even wear.
April 29, 2020 at 12:18 pm
I just do it sometimes, randomly, definitely less often than once a month. Miser Mom, I love this mantra and may adopt it now.
April 30, 2020 at 5:39 pm
Wow this is the best saying to remember this! I think I need to spin my bed.
April 29, 2020 at 7:45 am
Ours is super heavy and memory foam pillowtop. We should probably rotate it one of these days . . .
April 29, 2020 at 9:04 am
We were told we didn’t have to flip (super heavy & tall) mattress when we bought it over 10 years ago so….never? I don’t know if it was true or now but its been 14 years now and is still doing well so I guess I don’t care either way.
April 29, 2020 at 9:07 am
Yeah, if your collective backs aren’t hurting, then why do extra work?
Back when I was a kid I had an ancient queen size mattress and box springs and whenever it got too soft I’d just sleep on the other side, giving the first side a chance to decompress.
Come to think of it, we have never flipped the kids’ beds. DC1 is so big now maybe we ought to.
April 29, 2020 at 10:19 am
I used to flip my mattress every six months, but… somehow we never did it when we bought our last new mattress over ten years ago and it has been ok. I think it has some top layer that can’t be on the bottom, so we would really just have to turn it. Whoops.
April 29, 2020 at 10:32 am
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!
April 29, 2020 at 10:33 am
Probably once a year…and we can’t remember if we are supposed to flip or just rotate. We do flip sometimes and it hasn’t seemed to cause us problems. We have an IKEA natural latex mattress that’s 10 years old and still going strong. I’ll never go back to springs! Never!
April 29, 2020 at 10:44 am
I’m a fan of the natural latex… though some of the foam mattresses give me hot flashes, which is super uncomfortable. We got a mattress pad for the top that’s supposed to be cooling and that helped.
April 29, 2020 at 10:35 am
Ours is memory foam and it’s a bit weird to me to see a bit of a permanent dent in the mattress where I tend to lay but I’m not at all motivated to do anything about flipping it because it’s so heavy. I don’t recall if we were supposed to, TBH.
April 30, 2020 at 1:01 pm
Errrrrr, very rarely…
May 2, 2020 at 12:47 am
We flip it on summer and winter solstice and rotate it on spring and fall equinox.