It always feels good to buy products that are made in America. Yesterday, I got a really nice surprise. My grandparents had a beautiful tiger maple wood bedroom set. Unfortunately, the head board was made for a full bed. My husband and I both love antique furniture and we really wanted to use this heirloom furniture for our bedroom. After doing some research, my husband figured out that you can buy converter kits to adapt a full head board for use with a queen mattress. He ordered the kit and I hired a contractor to assemble the kit(too complicated for us to handle).
Good thing I hired a contractor. The conversion kit was not what was expected and the contractor had to do some major brainstorming to get it to work. Sleepys delivered the new mattress and box spring in the early part of the quoted time frame (nice surprise).
Much to our surprise, when we pulled off the mattress tags (yes, the consumer is allowed to remove the tags), my husband noticed that the tag said -- designed and built in the USA. And, to our greater surprise Simmons manufactures the mattresses in Fredericksburg, VA. So not only was our mattress USA made, it was made locally!
The tag also indicated that the mattress was manufactured on 10/07/11. I don't know anything about mattress manufacturing, but that seems like a really quick turn-a-round, which I guess is possible when there is a local manufacturer.
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