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When is the best time to buy a mattress?
Looking for a new mattress? Since a good, restful sleep is a big part of staying healthy, you may not want to wait once you know it’s time to replace that old mattress. The good news is that there are key days throughout the year where you can count on sales, markdowns, and generally low prices in the world of mattresses. One of those times is, Presidents’ Day, but it’s not the only ideal time to shop
Right now, you can find Presidents’ Day deals from brands like Nectar (up to 40% off select mattresses) and Saatva. Customers can currently pick up the Saatva classic luxury innerspring mattress, for example, in queen size for just $1,695 (a $300 discount).
But what about the rest of the year? We outline the best times to shop for a new mattress below.
When is the best time to buy a mattress?
Holiday weekends are an easy (yet easily overlooked) target for anyone hunting down great mattress prices. However, they’re not your only chance to find great deals. Read up on the best times to buy a mattress below.
Circle these holiday weekends on your calendar
There’s just something nice about a four-day holiday weekend. It’s your chance to enjoy an extra day of relaxation, or a chance to plan a fun family getaway — but did you know they’re also the best time to find mattress sales?
In addition to Presidents’ Day on February 19, there are several key holidays hidden in the pages of your calendar (we all still use paper calendars, right?) that are worth marking. If you’re looking to upgrade your sleep with a new mattress this year, here are the best holiday weekends to visit your favorite mattress sellers:
- Monday, February 19 (President’s Day): Many sellers are already rolling out the holiday discounts, such as Amazon’s Presidents’ Day deals on mattresses and bedding. Pick up a 12-inch memory foam mattress now, courtesy of Signature Design by Ashley Chime (10% discount on queen size, with markdowns of more than 30% on other sizes), or dive into the list of best Presidents’ Day sales (so far) first.
- Monday, May 27 (Memorial Day): Start your summer off right by remembering to check for discounts on your favorite memory foam, innerspring, and hybrid mattresses during Memorial Day weekend. Along with Labor Day, this is a big one for deals and discounts on home and patio furniture, mattresses, bedding, and more.
- Thursday, July 4 (Independence Day): The Fourth of July is another summertime opportunity to find sales and all-around good mattress prices. You may not find the biggest discounts in comparison to what pops up in May or September, but if your bedroom upgrade simply cannot wait until Labor Day, this is the weekend to shop mattresses.
- Monday, September 2 (Labor Day): The warm weather may be on its way out by the start of September, but do you know what’s on the way in? Mattress sales! Labor Day is up there with Memorial Day and Presidents’ Day as a time when nearly every one of your favorite mattress brands rolls out the bigtime sales.
- Friday, November 29 (Black Friday): Rounding out our list of the best times for a good mattress sale is possibly the least surprising entry. The weekend after Thanksgiving is a time for brands to put their best and most competitive offers out for customers, so don’t sleep on those blink-and-you-miss-it Black Friday sales. And don’t forget Cyber Monday, which is possibly the best time to find great deals on the best mattresses you can find online.
Is your calendar updated now? These are some of the best times to shop for a new mattress.
One more date to plan for: While not a federal holiday, Prime Day is a growing contender for hosting some of the best deals of the year. While there are some great, high-quality mattresses to be found on Amazon right now, Prime Day promises to be the day to hunt for such deals.
In 2023 and 2022, Amazon Prime Day fell on July 11 and 12, so keep your eyes open for announcements come summer time — although the retailer surprised everyone in 2022 with a second Prime Day event in October.
When to expect discounts on older mattress models
Holiday weekends and special shopping events may be some of the biggest chances to find limited time offers and deep discounts, but they aren’t the only days you can find an affordably priced mattress. Most mattress brands release new models in late winter and early spring, during which time older models get marked down to make room for the new stuff.
Consider checking in with your favorite online retailers and mattress brands in March and April, where you may find some impressive clearance prices.
A passenger successfully landed a small plane on Friday after the pilot had a medical emergency, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
The twin-engine Beechcraft King Air 90 was traveling from Henderson Executive Airport in Las Vegas, Nevada to Monterey Regional Airport in California, with a pilot and one other person on board, the FAA said.
The pilot suffered an unspecified medical emergency while flying, the FAA said, forcing the passenger to take the controls and make an emergency landing at Meadows Field Airport in Bakersfield, California.
The Kern Fire Department told CBS News affiliate KBAX that firefighters were called to a report of a medical emergency on the plane. The pilot was reported to be “incapacitated,” the fire department said. Firefighters saw the plane approach and land safely, then “chased” the plane down the runway in emergency vehicles to meet it.
The FAA did not release the passenger or pilot’s identities nor give an update on the pilot’s condition. The pilot was taken to an area hospital by ambulance. The passenger did not report any injuries.
The FAA and the National Transportation Security Board will investigate the incident, the FAA said.
Congolese authorities began vaccination against mpox on Saturday, nearly two months after the disease outbreak that spread from Congo to several African countries and beyond was declared a global emergency by the World Health Organization.
The 265,000 doses donated to Congo by the European Union and the U.S. were rolled out in the eastern city of Goma in North Kivu province, where hospitals and health workers have been overstretched, struggling to contain the new and possibly more infectious strain of mpox.
Congo, with about 30,000 suspected mpox cases and 859 deaths, accounts for more than 80% of all the cases and 99% of all the deaths reported in Africa this year. All of the Central African nation’s 26 provinces have recorded mpox cases. Officials in Congo previously told CBS News that they’ve struggled to diagnose patients and provide basic care in the vast country of 100 million people, where a fragile, under-resourced healthcare system is also burdened by the stigma associated with the virus.
Although most mpox infections and deaths recorded in Congo are in children under age 15, the doses being administered are only meant for adults and will be given to at-risk populations and front-line workers, Health Minister Roger Kamba said this week.
“Strategies have been put in place by the services in order to vaccinate all targeted personnel,” Muboyayi ChikayaI, the minister’s chief of staff, said as he kicked off the vaccination.
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At least 3 million doses of the vaccine approved for use in children are expected from Japan in the coming days, Kamba said.
Mpox, also known as monkeypox, had been spreading mostly undetected for years in Africa before the disease prompted the 2022 global outbreak that saw wealthy countries quickly respond with vaccines from their stockpiles while Africa received only a few doses despite pleas from its governments.
However, unlike the global outbreak in 2022 that was overwhelmingly focused on gay and bisexual men, mpox in Africa is now being spread via sexual transmission as well as through close contact among children, pregnant women and other vulnerable groups, Dr. Dimie Ogoina, the chair of WHO’s mpox emergency committee, recently told reporters.
More than 34,000 suspected cases and 866 deaths from the virus have been recorded across 16 countries in Africa this year. That is a 200% increase compared to the same period last year, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
A lack of diagnostic materials and basic medicines to treat the virus, which can improve survival rates, have also hampered efforts to contain the outbreak, and access to vaccines remains a challenge.
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The continent of 1.4 billion people has only secured a commitment for 5.9 million doses of mpox vaccines, expected to be available from October through December, Dr. Jean Kaseya, head of the Africa CDC, told reporters last week. Congo remains a priority, he said.
At the vaccination drive in Goma, Dr Jean Bruno Kibunda, the WHO representative, warned that North Kivu province is at a risk of a major outbreak due to the “promiscuity observed in the camps” for displaced people, as one of the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis caused by armed violence unfolds there.
The news of the vaccination program brought relief to many in Congo, especially in hospitals that had been struggling to manage the outbreak. Doctors with several charities working in the country have told CBS News they’re overstretched and short on supplies, even having to use tents and mattresses on the floor of makeshift isolation wards to treat a constant influx of patients.
“If everyone could be vaccinated, it would be even better to stop the spread of the disease,” said Dr. Musole Mulambamunva Robert, the medical director of Kavumu Hospital, one of the mpox treatment centers in eastern Congo.
Eastern Congo has been beset by conflict for years, with more than 100 armed groups vying for a foothold in the mineral-rich area near the border with Rwanda. Some have been accused of carrying out mass killings.
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