Pillow Shopping: Why so hard?

I wouldn’t have thought it was so hard. But we’ve been through three different pillows at this point, and I think that these latest ones are going back as well. It looks like we’ll be sticking with our old pillows instead.

Which I find amusing. Because The Girl was very adamant that we get rid of them in favor of new ones, as the oldies-but-goodies are more like oldies-but-grossies, as far as she’s concerned. She’s partly right, of course. They’re probably older than she is (so, what? 2 days? BA-DA-BING!).

But they’re so damned comfortable!

She didn’t even know that until she tried a bunch of other pillows (at Bed Bath & Beyond’s expense). Goose Down, cotton fill, she even had an eye on one of those foam ones. All just too thick. And it seems that we can’t find pillows that are like ours anywhere: thinner, but don’t sink into nothingness, and slightly supple. They’re either overly-fluffy, or when you lay your head down they just disappear, and all the pillow ends up on both sides of your ears instead of under your head.

They’re ear muffs, basically.

And I can’t find any old-fashioned feather pillows, which is what I think we want. Booooh.