Go to the Mattresses

Twice a year, in mid-Spring and Fall, we flip our mattress.

It shouldn’t be a big deal, but it always gets me thinking, mainly because the first night sleeping on that wonky mattress reminds me of all the other areas in my life that stay the same out of habit.

I didn’t think I’d be getting into the physics of a mattress flip today, but let’s dig into it. We flip our mattresses once or twice a year because we don’t want them to warp permanently, weighed down from the one third of our liv...