How does the IRS sleep at night? Well, they don’t spend too much on mattresses for one thing.

Andrew, apparently an IRS operative, points us to to an old Slate article on buying mattresses. Essentially, buy the cheapest the thing you can stand because you’re sleeping on a bed of 99% marketing and lies anyway.

Going to the Mattresses. [Slate]

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