How Old Is Your Pillow?

DS1119

Just realized that mine has to be at least 15 years old if not longer. We've traveled all over the country together. Is this unusually long to have a pillow?

mikalina

DS1119 wrote:

Just realized that mine has to be at least 15 years old if not longer. We've traveled all over the country together. Is this unusually long to have a pillow?

Do you realize how much dust mites are inside youre pillow !!...

eeriepadave

mikalina wrote:

DS1119 wrote:

Just realized that mine has to be at least 15 years old if not longer. We've traveled all over the country together. Is this unusually long to have a pillow?

Do you realize how much dust mites are inside youre pillow !!...

Mine are a few years old. I sleep on two pillows though (feels more comfortable)

hedonist

Ooof...reminds me of the hero sandwich Homer J. refused to give up


We replace ours every few months...worth it!

Now, our mattress? ugh...that's older than your damned pillow.

So really I have no room to talk.

rival.

mikalina wrote:

DS1119 wrote:

Just realized that mine has to be at least 15 years old if not longer. We've traveled all over the country together. Is this unusually long to have a pillow?

Do you realize how much dust mites are inside youre pillow !!...

new pillows every year!

shep

DS1119 wrote:

Just realized that mine has to be at least 15 years old if not longer. We've traveled all over the country together. Is this unusually long to have a pillow?

that is so gross man!

I try to replace my pillow at least once a year...

Think about how much sweat, saliva, and mucus comes out of your head/face over the run of that time period and gets absorbed by you pillow! ugh!

Though most people don't know that they drool all night... but they do! I promise you...

Go change your pillow gross man! :nono:

DS1119

I didn't realize it was gross. It's goose down and it's one of those three foot fuckers and it's so comfy. I mean I wash/replace the cover thing weekly...but yeah the "inards"are that old. Might have to go buy a pillow then.

rafie

I bought a really good pillow (around $100) the same day I bought Backspacer, so just under 3 years now.

Constant Recoil...

I'd say my pillow is at least 10 years old :? I think I might feel bad replacing it now. Does it matter if you have a clean pillow case though? You never actually lay on the pillow, and usually I use 2 pillow cases anyway.

Lizard

DS1119 wrote:

Just realized that mine has to be at least 15 years old if not longer. We've traveled all over the country together. Is this unusually long to have a pillow?

:sick:

The Juggler

NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS

:x

bionicamy

DS1119 wrote:

I didn't realize it was gross. It's goose down and it's one of those three foot fuckers and it's so comfy. I mean I wash/replace the cover thing weekly...but yeah the "inards"are that old. Might have to go buy a pillow then.

You can throw the inards of the pillow in the washer... But being it has that many years I'm not sure how well the seams would hold. With down pillows remember to put tennis balls or something in the dryer to kick around the down if you do wash it.

Simply putting it in a dryer on high heat will refresh the whole thing and make it nice and fluffy and more sanitary


I love bedding so my pillows are just a few months old.

Green Circle

No idea how old..but its O L D ! !

81

every year? crazy talk

rick1zoo2

i dunno. I have a lot of stuff that's older than my oldest son who is 17. like my car.

rollings

I believe my pillow was once a dog bed used in the civil war era.
I've never met a more comfortable pillow.
maybe the mite population and cemetary is what gives it its comfortable perfection.

I don't know

ZiggyStar

Aren't your really old pillows yellowing though?! Ewww!!

15 years is gross.

moemoe

I can top 15 years.

I got my first pillow when I was 2 and moved to a "big bed"........... it was heavy and lovely and full of goose down. Over the years, my mother would sew another pillow case over it as the stitching wore out on the old ones. Into adulthood, I would do the same every couple of years. By the time I reached 39 though, it was clearly more old pillow cases than goose down and it literally fell apart. Massive adjustment getting used to a new pillow after having the same one my whole life. I took that pillow to the other side of the world with me, all over the country with me, into hospital when my babies were born.................. sigh...

hedonist

moemoe wrote:

I can top 15 years.

I got my first pillow when I was 2 and moved to a "big bed"........... it was heavy and lovely and full of goose down. Over the years, my mother would sew another pillow case over it as the stitching wore out on the old ones. Into adulthood, I would do the same every couple of years. By the time I reached 39 though, it was clearly more old pillow cases than goose down and it literally fell apart. Massive adjustment getting used to a new pillow after having the same one my whole life. I took that pillow to the other side of the world with me, all over the country with me, into hospital when my babies were born.................. sigh...

Well that's not gross...that's just sweet.

(long time no see, moemoe! :wave: )

DS1119

ZiggyStar wrote:

Aren't your really old pillows yellowing though?! Ewww!!

15 years is gross.

I don't think of it as yellowing. I prefer aging...like a fine wine.

iamica

I usually keep pillows much longer than I should. Think the longest I had one was 2 or 3 years. My husband gets grossed out and throws them out after about 6 months.