The Ceiling, Duh

I want to ask, are people that damn stupid, but I already know the answer to it. I just chuckle when I think that a person honestly thought this is what they mean and that it was a good idea. These must be the same people who believe in the mattress police. In case you aren’t familiar with the mattress police, they are the super SWAT team of Federal agents that will come to your house, bust down your door and arrest you for removing the tag from your mattress. Once they have arrested you, they will take you to mattress jail, where ironically as a sick twist of fate, while in mattress jail, you will not get a mattress to sleep on.

In all seriousness, there are people who actually believe the above will happen if they remove that silly tag. I’m here to impart some knowledge and inform those individuals that the tag does not apply to you the consumer, but to those that manufacture and sell the mattress.

The actual federal regulation states that it’s unlawful to:

“…remove or mutilate, or cause or participate in the removal or mutilation of, prior to the time any textile fiber product is sold and delivered to the ultimate consumer, any stamp, tag, label, or other identification required by this subchapter to be affixed to such textile fiber product, and any person violating this section shall be guilty of an unfair method of competition, and an unfair or deceptive act or practice, under the Federal Trade Commission Act.”

So what is this all about you ask? There is a great story about this, which you can read here, but the short version is that in the past, some manufacturers and retailers of mattresses would lie about what was in the mattress. They were stuffing mattresses with things like horse hair, corn husks, food waste, old rags, newspaper, and whatever else a manufacturer could come by were regularly shoved inside.

So the government got involved, a regulation was enacted, and out come the little tags on the end of a mattress.