Buckwheat Pillows

Why Buckwheat Pillows?

I would like to know exactly what is the most often used reason that causes people to buy their buckwheat pillows. What caused you to buy yours? Was it comfort, economics, health - what?  Send me your answer, please.

Any one of those three reasons would be a perfectly valid reason, or do you have another reason? Of course, giving just a single reason may be difficult, I know, but which reason do you consider to be the primary one?

It really doesn’t matter which one influenced you the most, because you still get all of them, anyway. I originally bought my first buckwheat pillow purely for the comfort, because I was so naive and uninformed about buckwheat pillows, that I wasn’t even aware of their other, really more important, benefits. I would wager that comfort is still the reason for which more people buy buckwheat pillows than for any other reason, and I’d also bet it’s because most people still are not aware of the economic and healthful benefits with which buckwheat pillows are endowed.

I hope you do your part to help me educate those who are still living in their blissful ignorance regarding the many benefits of buckwheat pillows, as I will take all the help I can get.

Don’t forget to send to me your response as to what motivated you to buy your very first buckwheat pillow. I have an inquisitive mind. I’m sorry.

You might be familiar with a few of the beneficial properties of buckwheat, but did you know it’s a bit of a misnomer? While it has some grain-like qualities and applications, buckwheat is actually a fruit. It can be husked and milled into breakfast cereals such as grits. Those discarded hulls are sometimes saved and stuffed into pillows.

The Japanese have rested their heads on organic buckwheat pillows for centuries; more recently, their secret has been shared with the rest of the world. Buckwheat grows easily in many parts of the United States, so these pillows can be obtained without going through the trouble of importing materials. Find out all you can about buckwheat and take advantage of its many uses.

Don't Leave Home Without One

It’s that time of year again, when people take their summer vacations and travel. That means it’s the time of year that buckwheat travel pillows are really appreciated.

If your vacation plans include long distances, you usually have some areas that you travel through which are so interesting that they command your full attention, and you wouldn”t even think of closing your eyes for a nap.

But then there are the dull areas of monotonous boredom, and that’s when your buckwheat travel pillow really shines. When you try to curl into a comfortable resting position, the corner of the seat back and the edge of the door window frame never seem to afford a comfortable headrest. But the buckwheat travel pillow conforms to the window frame - seat back corner on one side, and to your head and neck on the other side, making you very comfortable indeed. 

So, as the old credit card company add said, “Don’t leave home without one.”- a buckwheat travel pillow, that is.

Great for All Occasions

Buckwheat pillows again become my focus since vacation is now over, but the vacation trip provides me with another post subject to write about.

My wife gets pretty tired getting everything ready to go on a trip, so she usually ends up napping through a good portion of the drive to our destination. Riding in a car seems to put her to sleep under most any circumstance.

She loves my buckwheat bed pillow to use as a travel pillow because I like a very minimal amount of buckwheat hulls in my bed pillow. I have a rather short neck, which is nearly the same diameter as my head, so I really like a very low volume of hulls in my bed pillows. She holds my pillow up by one end, and all the hulls fall to the bottom. She then folds the pillow in half, which forms the equivalent of a travel pillow, which is how she uses it. It saves us the bother of taking along a separate travel pillow. So she uses it as her travel pillow, and it is, of course, my bed pillow.

Just another example of the great versatility of buckwheat pillows. I’m glad I learned about buckwheat pillows. If ignorance is bliss, knowledge is heavenly. Find out what I mean relative to buckwheat pillows, by investing in them for you and your family.

I Love My Buckwheat Pillow

I’m packing up to go to the mountains of northern Pa. for a few days to relax over the 4th. The first things to go on the pile by the front door to take along to camp are the 2 buckwheat pillows - mine and my wife’s.

That got me to thinking about the difference between the transition from sleeping on a regular feather pillow to my first night sleeping on a buckwheat pillow, as compared to the near panic I experience now at the thought of transitioning for just a few nights back to a feather pillow.

I’ve thought of an analogy, although this probably won’t mean much to the younger (under 60) generation. I’ll have to think of another for those youngsters.

When I was young, most people living in rural Pennsylvania didn’t have indoor toilets (called bathrooms now). You went outside to the old two-holer. No one thought much about it, as that’s what everyone was used to. However, the day eventually came for many when they modernized by installing indoor plumbing, including an indoor toilet. You had to keep up with the Joneses, you know.

Now, fast forward (you notice I’m even getting used to this modern slang) about 20 years, and those same people just dreaded going to visit overnight a few days at the grandparents house, who hadn’t seen any reason to install one of those new fangled water closets. Those soft, spoiled brats just dreaded shoveling their way through a foot of snow at 10 degrees below zero just to go to the toilet.

Well, that’s my analogy - for the older generation anyway. I’ll have to think of another one for the younger set. Hmmm. Maybe going from a stick shift to an automatic transmission. What? That’s still an analogy for old folks? Boy, I must be getting old.

But for me, the big deal is still the thought of having to go back and sleep on a feather pillow. I’ve got to have my buckwheat pillow. I couldn’t handle going back to one of those old fashioned feather pillows. No way.

Few things satisfy like a good night’s sleep. In a perfect world, we would all get our eight uninterrupted hours and wake up refreshed the next day. Unfortunately, pesky obstacles can get in the way of that peaceful slumber. A lumpy, unforgiving pillow impedes your ability to wake up alert and prepared to seize the day.

When beginning the search for a more suitable pillow, keep in mind that not all options will mold to your body’s unique shape. Contour pillows conform to the line of your neck, giving you a decided advantage in the quest to sleep soundly through the night. Most people would go to any lengths to stop tossing and turning at night, but sometimes the answer is as simple as switching pillows.

Sublime Serenity-Explainable?

I have had a revelation. Ever since I started providing buckwheat pillows I’ve been trying to explain exactly how and why buckwheat hulls used as a pillow filling produce a pillow that provides such unexplainable sublime sleeping comfort. The operative word here is “unexplainable”.

In this blog I have tried repeatedly to explain how buckwheat pillows are able to provide total sleeping comfort because of the ventilating qualities keeping your head cool and dry. How the ridges on the hulls produce malleability, meaning they will conform to and support the exact cervical curvature of your head and neck in any given position, and yet allow you to change that position, and then conform and support that new position. I also explain how those ridges wear and actually improve with use.

I am not a professional writer by any means, as I have never taken a course in writing, but I always thought I was able to convey my ideas fairly well in writing, and I still do. But in buckwheat pillows I have met my match.

I hereby publicly admit that I can not adequately explain how a buckwheat pillow provides the quality of sleeping comfort that they do. Realization of this fact, at first, somewhat demoralized and discouraged me. But then, upon some reflection, it dawned on me that neither can anyone else that I know of, so I’m not alone.

Besides, can anyone adequately explain how water droplets and sunshine can provide the beautiful serenity of a rainbow to someone who has never seen one, to the point where that person could say that they completely and adequately now realize exactly what a rainbow looks like and can visualize it? I think not.

This would be analogous to me being able to explain how a buckwheat pillow functions to provide the sublime sleeping comfort that it does to someone who had never slept on one. There is , however, a solution as to how this person can actually acquire this knowledge. And that is for that person (you) to invest in their own buckwheat pillow, adjust the volume of hulls to their own particular liking, and experience for themselves the “sublime sleeping comfort” of their very own buckwheat pillow. Then I challenge you to write a definitive explanation of just how those buckwheat hulls in that pillow accomplished that. Good luck!