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A careful balancing act (sub.wetshaving.social)
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[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 30 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Yeah… human body variation is a bitch to design for.

Even if you have it adjustable, it’s very hard to accommodate everybody. Its usually for 5-95 percentile so even the designers know they are leaving out 10% or less of the population.

There’s also bed firmness. A person with broad shoulders but a soft bed might need a smaller pillow than someone with smaller shoulders and a rock hard bed.

[-] gerryflap@feddit.nl 2 points 5 days ago

This explains why most pillows are way too flat for me. Relatively broad shoulders and a firm bed. I have a pile of pillows that are just too low/flat.

[-] AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca 21 points 5 days ago

And then there's me, using the same ancient, flat, worn out pillow since 2007. You can only have it by prying it from my cold dead body. I fuckin love that thing, I've tried many pillows since then but I always go back to my good old faithful.

[-] entwine413@lemm.ee 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Is it yellow? I bet it's yellow.

No judgement, though. I get the comfort pillow. I had one of those before I gave the stupid expensive free pillow my dad got from the mattress store a solid try.

[-] AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Nah, it's more of a grey-ish when it used to be white. Only better pillow I've ever used is one of those fancy ones with memory foam and cooling gel on the top that my ex had. That was an amazing pillow.

I have a feather pillow, a regular thick pillow that you would find in most hotels, and a body pillow but I always go back to my ancient thin pillow for my head. Everything else gives me a sore neck and I can't stomach paying 150+ CAD for a fancy pillow when my old faithful works just fine to this day.

The rest of my pillows are hugging pillows, and that's the best use I've found for thicker pillows.

[-] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago

Get a pregnancy pillow, even if you aren’t pregnant, even if you are a guy. You can thank me later.

[-] TheFrirish@jlai.lu 9 points 5 days ago

Hey! Mom said it was my turn to post it this time!

[-] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago

Ohhhh, they mean like, thickness. My dumbass was thinking total pillows for the bed.

[-] hzl 3 points 4 days ago

I don't know what planet you're living on, but I like 3 pillows.

[-] Hope@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

Is there a solution to this? It's been bothering me more recently since my wife bought me a nice pillow

[-] puppycat 15 points 5 days ago

get those pillows that have a bunch of memory foam bits! i love our bamboo pillows since you can take out however much foam you want, and if you take too much out you can just add more fluff back in

100% recommend, it easily solved my pillow issues

[-] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 4 points 5 days ago

Yes, 2 different pillows of different firmness. Firm thick pillow for bottom. Softer medium size pillow for top.

Or two Goldilocks medium pillows depending on your preference.

2 small pillows or two large pillows doesn't work. Hotel pillows are usually excellent. So check the firmness when at a hotel to see what you like best. Often there are former or softer in the cupboard.

[-] lone_faerie 4 points 5 days ago

I tried so many pillows and then I discovered the Coop pillow. It's shredded memory foam and comes with a bag of extra filling so you can remove or add to your liking

[-] Veedem@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Absolutely love the COOP pillow too!

[-] inmatarian@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Find the oldest, flattest pillow you have. Fold it in half.

[-] Enekk@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

How about slim pillows? I usually put two in a pillowcase. Example: https://a.co/d/drT0UwS

[-] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

Order 2 and remove some filling from each, been doing it for years now.

[-] FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 6 points 5 days ago

What? Two is perfect

[-] Corn@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 days ago

Best pillow Ive used was full of like uncooked rice or ball bearings or something. It wasnt very soft, but you could make it conform to the back of your head perfectly.

[-] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

A buckwheat pillow, perhaps? They're neat!

[-] Corn@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago

Idk, it was in a cheap hotel in Osaka or Nagoya whose walls were yellow from smoke and had barely been remodeled since the 80s.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Sounds like the Sobokawa Pillow.

Those infomercials ran all the time back in the day.

[-] Corn@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago

I dont think so, the material in this pillow was physically hard

[-] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

He can't keep getting away with it

[-] scytale@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 days ago

I use a thick pillow to hug and a folded blanket for my head. The blanket’s thickness can be customized to fit. The real problem is in hotels were both pillows are usually huge, so it’s literally a pain in the neck.

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 3 points 5 days ago

Sounds like OP is cheaping out on pillows.

[-] oppy1984@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago

I dealt with this for years, then I developed GERD and had to get a wedge pillow to angle myself up. That wedge pillow with a medium firmness regular pillow is perfect.

[-] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Helluva job

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