Bencosme and her husband were living on Mr. Bencosme�s disability benefits of $710 a month, her Social Security payments of $163, and about $400 in food stamps.
Pablo de Jesus returned to the Dominican Republic last year, taking a daughter who missed her mother.
But at first, the adults and four children � Pablo Ovidio, 15, Martin, 10, Yasmin, 9, and Shaylin, 8 � slept on a bunk bed and a queen-size bed. When the bunk bed broke, Mrs. Bencosme and her son Pablo Martin took turns sleeping on a mattress on the floor for three months.
Mrs. Bencosme still complains that her back aches
Source link: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/26/nyregion/26neediest.html?ref=nyregion
In the 1960s and 1970s, it was waterbeds. Today, comfort, health and renewal are the industry's buzzwords.
The hot specialty bedding items are Select Comfort, which is an air mattress, and Tempur-Pedic, which is a slow-response foam, said Ron Trzcinski, president of The Original Mattress Factory. Tempur-Pedic advertising tries to tie it to aspirations. They claim that using their products will make you healthier.
Larger, more luxurious mattresses are selling well, too, as new houses get bigger.
Fifty percent of U.S
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