I love my Ikea pillow & am happy I wasn't afraid to buy it!

I just bought a Ikea pillow about 2 months ago and I love it! It's a memory foam one for back sleepers and it's just as good as my $100 Tempurpedic pillow which my boyfriend stole for himself.

Don't go low-end with Ikea pillows though.. I bought a couple of cheap ones a few months ago and they now feel like they are filled with balled up socks.

"And, the feathers and down are never taken from living birds."
what a strange way to word that.
Don't get me wrong - I eat meat, wear leather, own down comforters, etc.
But when I found out that down came from dead birds... (before I worked at Pacific Coast Feather, I hadn't really thought about it). I am glad that the feathers come from countries where people actually eat the fowl too.

Now, why vegan people are anti-wool, I don't understand.
You shear the sheep, and their wool grows back.

I do want to check out those pillows though!

My Ikea pillows are now dedicated to the guests. Not the most comfortable pillow.

I love my IKEA memory foam pillow...cheaper and 500% better than the one I got at WalMart.

i have to say that my $150 ikea hogbo mattress has been the mooost comfortable one i can remember. my mom even loves it - it'll be the guest bed when she visits! so i would try their pillows any day.

apdesigngirl - i would say that one reason might be the way in which many sheep are sheared in large commercial wool production, i have read that it can be painful and bloody if they are sheared too close and many other problems such as pretty bad disease and parasite issues. not a vegan here, just a knitter! and i do use wool products. but i guess the wool industry is a lot like any other animal product industry, unfortunately.

whoops, didn't mean to write such a long off-topic comment, sorry!

apdesigngirl:

the shearing often cuts and wounds the animals. they don't all do it with the tenderness of the farmer in Babe.

AND their living conditions aren't so wonderful, either.

$100 for a pillow is still kinda steep...I'd get one if it went on sale for sure...

"We're a side sleeper..."

The royal "WE" has GOT TO STOP!!! it is so awkward to read and masks the actual content in every AT post. Everyone in agreement say I. "I."

Thank you. Meeting adjourned.

though not as vehemently, i must say

"i"

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Aye. "We're a side sleeper"? Come on. That's just awkward writing.

To apdesigngirl:
The difference between shearing a sheep roughly - and man, have I been on that end! It's ugly! - and taking feathers from live birds is night and day. Feathers often go straight into veins, and unlike shearing - which just clips off surface keratin - pulled feathers can result in the bird bleeding out. It's best to kill the bird first, then sear/boil, then pluck the results than boil the critter alive for its clothing.

Shearing sure can be ugly, but feathers from living birds is downright cruel.

.... er, great site, really love the articles.

magazines always write in "we" unless specifying "this reporter."

I am also over the royal we. I love you AT, but come ooooon. Perez Hilton writes in the royal we. You don't need to, unless you mean AT editors on the whole.

And how much are these pillows? I think evamae misinterpreted the $100 thing, but I'd like to know how much Ikea charges.

My Ikea pillows started out great and soon were quite flat. I now use the Martha Stewart Everyday ones from KMart - awesome, and when they're on sale they're about 8 bucks.

Also, not exactly related, but the reason vegans I know don't want to use wool (or silk) is because they believe animals don't exist as a commodity for humans, so they need to keep their wool, etc. to themselves.

I can get a much better price on comparable pillows at TJ Maxx, Costco, and a couple of other places. Who pays 100 for a pillow? These aren't family heirlooms.

GOSA NÄVA/KÄRNA Pillow, back sleeper $99.99
GOSA NÄVA/KÄRNA Pillow, side sleeper $79.99

The we annoys me. "We had a neighbor growing up blah blah..." it drives me crazy. I feel like an idiot because for a while I was wondering if the writer just lives with his/her sibling.

In this post it's easy to ignore until the "we're a side sleeper." That's just wrong unless the "we" in question are siamese twins... presuming they share the same side.

Oh, and I'm really excited about Ikea pillows, btw!!!!

thank you everyone, for voluntarily participating in our meeting and shouting I!!!!!

Now if only the individual authors (so as to step away from their collectiveness) would step up to the podium and explain themselves to their bewildered, beloved audience....

I agree, the use of the "editorial we" is so silly on this site. Because the posts are credited to individual bloggers, and when their content is so often very personal rather than stating a collective opinion, it's totally awkward.

Mark Twain said it best: "Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we'."

I just wanted to add that regular foam and memory foam outgas like crazy. Please be informed before sleeping 8hrs a night, every night, on these.

Here's my post on that topic:
http://canuckoutofwater.blogspot.com/2007/12/formaldehyde-yum.html

And my source (one of many):
http://www.chem-tox.com/guest/guestbook.html

Though all products come with life cycle pros and cons, here are a few alternatives that are readily available at a variety of price points: feather, down, wool, corn fibre, polyester fibre, bamboo fibre, latex and kapok. Most are treated in one way or another so label-reading is good here too if you're sensitive or allergic.
Happy slumber!

I really like my canopy living pillows from walmart, of all places.

There are too many grammar nazis on this site...

Of course, as with many things loved by white people, simple often means expensive and these haircuts usually cost upwards of $100.

Being a truly advanced white person means being able to speak with authority about pretty much any field of conversation- especially politics. In order for white people to streamline the process of knowing everything, all human beings can be neatly filed into one of two categories: People I Agree With, and People Who are Just Like Adolf Hitler.

It is the duty of every white person to correct typos. It is worth the risk of banishment to deliver proper grammar to those who need it.

Straight from: stuffwhitepeoplelike.com

ha- I didn't realize people commented to me till just now.
For the record - I grew up right next door to a sheep shearing facility. It was disgusting, but I don't remember too many bleeding sheep.
Of course the fowl should be dead to pluck it! Plucking it alive would be wrong (although I'm sure it's done). It's just that I never thought about where the feathers came from before I worked in the feather industry...