Thursday, April 3rd, 2008...3:56 pm
#20: Organic Mattresses
Best Parents love the word “organic,” and will pay extravagant amounts for anything prefaced by this increasingly-suspicious marketing gimmick. That’s why we live in a world suddenly filled with organic food, organic clothing, organic toys, and now, the organic mattress. Truth is, organic mattresses have been around for centuries. But they used to be called “sleeping on the ground.” And where do you think they put Baby Jesus after birth, a Sealy Posturepedic?
But now the Best Parent is besieged with word that the traditional foam and spring mattresses they’ve been sleeping on for the past century are actually cesspools of toxic fumes and harmful petro-chemicals. Putting your child in traditional crib bedding? Ha! Might as well float little Moses in a plastic bucket across the Exxon Valdez oil spill. If you’re a proper Best Parent, you have probably already seen the names Dax and Greenforbaby on your Amex cards. As for everyone else? Good luck with the mattress cancer.
So take that, non-best parents putting your child on Tempur-pedics, futons, and memory foam! Best Parent children are sleeping easy tonight on organic wool and cotton, as they hear this latest Best Parent lullaby: “Rock a bye baby, in the treetop…which was grown pesticide-free and certified organic to the strictest USDA standards, thank you very much.”
11 Comments
April 3rd, 2008 at 5:33 pm
[...] Ring wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptGood luck with the mattress cancer. (organic mattress). So take that, non-white parents putting your child on Tempur-pedics, futons, and memory foam! White parent children are sleeping easy tonight on organic wool and cotton, … [...]
April 3rd, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Lol!!!!! Good post. I sleep in oil spill
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April 3rd, 2008 at 11:31 pm
OMG, you guys are so freaking funny!
April 4th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
This blog lacks the originality and wit of stuff white people love. Where that blog joyfully wileded unsaid racist banter like a surgen wields a scaple, this blog uses it like a chain saw.
“So take that, non-white parents putting your child on Tempur-pedics, futons, and memory foam!” SWPL always poked fun at itself and not others. Take that white blog writter.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Josh - this blog just has a bigger chip on its shoulder. nbd
April 5th, 2008 at 2:38 am
Eff Josh. Your blog is funny, too.
April 5th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
This is hysterical!
April 5th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
Love. it.
Are there organic sheets to go on my baby’s organic mattress? If I use the organic sheets without said organic mattress, will the toxic evil chemicals still find their way through?
April 6th, 2008 at 4:05 am
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April 18th, 2008 at 4:15 am
Shut up Josh, you’re just jealous ’cause you can’t write with as much wit as is found in here.
Sure this blog is following the “let’s make fun of whitey” trend, but it has excellent humor value and adds originality in the fact that it focuses on parenting, PLUS, you can tell that the writer has a more direct and intimate experience with these topics; the entries aren’t as generalized as the SWPL blog.
May 5th, 2008 at 5:20 am
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psst… this is the only site you need:
http://www.earthsake.com
Organic Mattresses - check
Organic Bedding - check
Organic Sheets - check
Organic Beds and Bedroom Furniture - check
Organic Towels - check
Organic Bathroom accessories - check
Organic Robes, Slippers, Clothing, Loungewear, Gifts, BodyWraps, Candles, Personal Body Care, Blankets, Baby Clothes, Baby Toys, Books, Fountains, Lighting, etc. —- ummm — check
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