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Once Upon A Mattress. The Tempur-Pedic Giveaway

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Once upon a time there was a very sleepy Bossy who couldn’t get a good night’s sleep. This made her very, how do you say, sleepy. It wasn’t the falling asleep that was difficult, it was the staying asleep. This problem became so critical Bossy renamed her bedroom The Torture Chamber.

The following video explains everything, along with an announcement, so please watch:

Everything changed when Bossy married a Cloud Supreme mattress by Tempur-Pedic.

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The Tempur-Pedic Cloud Supreme sidesteps the issues associated with traditional pillow-top mattresses, which can bunch and sag over time. That’s because Tempur-Pedic’s Cloud Supreme technology combines firm mattress support with a two-inch layer of lusciousness which conforms to your body in a way that produces a feeling of weightlessness.

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It’s like sleeping in a flotation tank minus the warm questionable 1979 floatation tank water!

This type of body-contouring support while sleeping prevents the usual aches and pains which tend to wake you up in the middle of the night with, uh, aches and pains.

In addition to providing spine-alignment support, the Tempur-Pedic Cloud Supreme mattress isolates your movements, so there are no motion disturbances while you sleep — which is a technical way of saying, You no longer need to flick your husband upside the head because he’s flailing about.

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Without these issues to awaken Bossy, she’s been sleeping much sounder, where sounder equals Tempur-Pedic still needs to invent something for the snoring.

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To summarize, in the words of Bossy’s Jewish grandmother, What’s not to love?

If you don’t believe Bossy’s rave review, feel for yourself! Bossy is thrilled to announce that her friends at Tempur-Pedic are giving away a Cloud Supreme mattress to one lucky Bossy reader!

The rules for entry are simple, where simple equals sister mercy bring a pillow and blanket while reading these, the War and Peace of entry rules. Click here if you want to view the contest rules in full.

Basically stated, here’s how to enter to win a Tempur-Pedic Cloud Supreme mattress:

  1. Make a video no longer than 60 seconds explaining the connection between sleep and overall well-being, and/or what you would achieve by getting a better night’s sleep.
  2. Upload your video to YouTube and tag it with the following list of tags: Tempur-Pedic, TEMPUR-Cloud, Sleep, Mattress, Health.
  3. Post a link to your video in the comments section of this post.
  4. Videos will be judged by Bossy and others based on alignment with the theme, creativity, use of contest tags, and entertainment value.
  5. Must live in the 50 U.S. states or D.C.

Contest entires accepted through midnight on July 25, 2010.

Good luck, council! Bossy wishes she could hand-deliver a mattress to each and every one of you!

Oh, and for the sake of disclosure for anyone out there who is still confused — Bossy’s friend Bobo we’re looking at you — and because there isn’t enough legalese in the world:

Bossy has partnered with Tempur-Pedic to help promote the Tempur-Cloud-Supreme mattress. Bossy has been compensated for her time commitment to the program, which includes writing about her own experiences regarding sleep and its relation to overall well being, and hosting a giveaway where the prize has been provided by Tempur-Pedic. However, Bossy’s opinions are entirely her own and she has not been paid to publish positive comments.

Contest is closed. Thanks for playing along.

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  1. Bummer. First I have to win a video camera. That might happen before pigs start flying overhead. Who knows? Glad you are getting a good nights sleep. Good luck, everyone.

  4. Can you divorce your daughter and move to a different state, change your name, whatever it takes?
    I’ve tryed this mattress at Bossys’ and I’d do just about anything to own one.

  5. Reading those incredible contest rules, all I can say is: Bossy has a real name? The universe just got a little less magical.

  7. I laughed at KP’s comment, but actually believe Bossy’s real name is awesome, too.

    I don’t need a new mattress, but I WOULD like to be compensated. For anything, at this unemployed time in my life…

  8. Back from a three week vacation, wherein I took FOUR pillows with me to Croatia, the queen of comfy sleep is happy to be back in BossyLand! And I’m happy for Bossy that she finally has wangled a free mattress from somebody for good night’s sleep. What will you rename the Torture Chamber too now? And does BH like it? the bed I mean.

  9. O hellz, I’m on me iTouch and it’s not opening the Google doc with the rules. The Big Question: Is this awesome contest open to residents of all 50 states, or only the lower 48? Chubby Hubby and I (err, Chunky Monkey?) bought our bed at Costco. Nine loooong years and manymany nights ago. It’s really horrible. THANKS, Bossy! THANKS, Tempur-Pedic!

  11. This is SO cool, bossy! I’m not gonna enter because we’re happy sleepers and oy, I can’t figure out how to email much less post a vid on youtube!

    I do have one quesion however: “Jaggie Fox Way?? Really?? For reals?? or do they mean Jiggie Fox Way??”

  12. Happy sleeper. I find that benadryl is a good combatant for snoring: I take the benadryl and he snores. Of course the fact that I live with perpetual allergies and a couple of big cats makes it a logical choice.

    Glad you no longer sleep in the Torture Chamber, Bossy. Somebody will be very happy to win the mattress. My sister bought just a mattress topper thing from Tempur – Pedic and coos. I’ll let her know about the contest.

  13. No video camera. Nine years of documented insomnia. I would have loved to win this mattress more than I want to find a husband. And I only need a full size, not even a queen or king. I can’t afford one. I am so depressed over this.

  14. Not entering from Australia. Just wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed this. We are looking for a new bed and will defintiely check it out if they are available here.

  15. Whoa….After reading those rules, I feel a “Force Majeure Event” coming on…my eyes were spinning like the numbers on an old slot machine. I’m glad you’re enjoying it, Ma’am, but I’ll sleep on the floor before getting in bed with those TemperPeedick people and their lawyers.

  17. (Sigh)

    Just the other day I was rooting around in Bossy’s archives trying to unearth the string of comments relating to Bossy’s search for a new mattress. I was one of a horde of commenters who despise their pricey Sleep Number bed, and would give anything for a free replacement because, you know, we just spent all that money on a mattress we despise and aren’t about to spend *more* money on another new one (thrift schmift!) Our widely-traveled daughter-in-law called home from a fancy hotel the other day to tell our beloved son that she now knows “why Mom and Dad despise that Sleep Number bed of theirs. I can’t wait to get home to our Tempurpedic — oh, and to you too, Sweetie! ” 🙂

    But (sigh)…

    I can’t enter the contest either, Bossy. Don’t have video capability here.

    Hey, Bossy’s Mom…could we maybe work together on this. You make the clever video, posing as me, and I supply the necessary non-relative credentials?

    Oh, but wait…we’d have to share the mattress. Not going to work between CA & PA.

    (Sigh)

    🙁

    Some clever video-enabled reader is going to be one happy lucky winner, though. Go, Bossy’s fellow-readers!

  22. OK, fine. So I had an idea last night as I was tossing and turning on my not-Tempurpedic mattress, and thought “Hmm…ten days? I can figure out how to do this in ten days.”

    But then I read those terms and conditions and whoa!

    “…as submitted or as edited/modified in any way by the Sponsor, in its sole discretion.”??

    Aieee.

    Maybe I’ve been watching too much “reality” TV, but that’s just a teensy bit uncomfortable for most folks to agree to (IMO)

    Good luck, brave contestants. And Bossy, I’m looking forward to hearing more deets (as they say 😉 about your hopefully-less-torturous sleep situation. Yay for that, for sure!

  23. I bought a Natural Comfort 10″ latex foam mattress from Costco for less than 1/2 the Price of the tempur-pedic. It has the top “pillow” layer and I have not woken up with a kinked neck since I got it.

  24. My wife and I both have our own Tempur-pedic. Couldn’t live without it. They say it was invented by NASA, which is hard to imagine. How would you know in zero gravity whether the thing is comfy or not? My wife named hers The Dream Machine, mine is the – well I don’t have a name for it yet.

  26. Clarification question:

    Because the rules are opening in Google Docs for me, I’m not seeing the contest tags or the share links in the doc. Can you share them somewhere?

  36. Hey Bossy, I’ve been reading and enjoying your blog for several years now. I prefer to enjoy the writing rather than comment upon it- hence no comments from me in the past. But…my kids and I had fun creating this video, so we are throwing our hat into the ring. I am posting two videos: one contains music (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1_eoUTPzQo) and is our favorite, but due to copyright/public domain laws, we are entering the second one without the music (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHvb-JB6hTE). Enjoy! Thanks for the opportunity and for your blog humor and insights!