Buckwheat Pillows

A UNIQUE CHRISTMAS PRESENT

     Are you looking for the most unique Christmas present? If you could give a gift that was a real surprise, maybe even something the recipient never heard of, and yet something they would use and cherish every day (night) for years and years, wouldn’t that be just special?

     Every year so many people receive the same tired old gifts that they don’t really want, and they wish their friends would just use some imagination and put some real thought into choosing a gift for them. They know their friends’ hearts are in the right place, but it’s just such a letdown to keep getting all that stuff they really don’t want.

     Well, here’s your chance to be the hero of the family Christmas Get-To-Gather. Get each of them a buckwheatglory.com pillow. Be sure to explain to them how to use the concealed nylon zipper to customize the volume of filling to their own unique comfort level - that’s important. Otherwise they may think it’s just an ordinary bed pillow, and an overstuffed one at that. Once they’ve found their perfect volume comfort level, and actually slept on it, they’ll love you forever. You may find some of them, after having eaten that “too hard to resist overeating turkey”, making use of those pillows while taking their after Christmas dinner nap.

     There is a problem. But I offer a solution for that as well. The problem is “How do I top that gift next year?”. The solution? Buy them a different buckwheat pillow style each year. One year get them a travel pillow, another year, a bed pillow, and then a neck pillow etc.

      Eventually you’ll run out of pillow styles, but at least you’ll have lots of time to ponder the answer to that. To make it more interesting, get each different person a different style. If you have friends whom you won’t get to actually visit with, no problem. We’ll drop ship them right to their house.

     This is a win, win, win, situation. You don’t find those too often. You’ll be so happy you were able to  give your friends a really unique gift they’re so happy with, your friends will be so happy they finally received a unique gift that they just love, and I’ll be so happy that you bought some buckwheat pillows from me. Don’t you just love a happy ending?

     I don’t want to scare anyone, but in most cases, if you decide to try sleeping on a buckwheat pillow, there’s no going back. You’re hooked for life. I’ve seen it happen time after time. That’s what happened to me. I decided to try one, and I’ve never looked back.

     But that’s a good thing. When I think of the money I’ve saved, the countless hours of blissful sleep I’ve enjoyed, and the enhanced health I’ve been endowed with, I just thank my lucky stars that I had the good fortune to somehow become aware of buckwheat pillows.

     I’ve always had a penchant for investigating and trying things just a little out of the ordinary, or in today’s lingo “out of the box”. That’s really the only thing that caught my attention when I heard of buckwheat pillows the first time. I really didn’t know exactly what they were or what their advantages were, and they weren’t easy to find.

     Fortunately, I had just gotten my first computer. That was another thing I really didn’t know quite what to do with, but it was something not a lot of people in my neck of the woods had, and I looked at it as a sort of useless novelty. However, one of the first things I used it for, was to look for buckwheat pillows. They seemed to me to be rather expensive at the time, costing more then, than they do now, so I opted to buy buckwheat hulls and some material, and have a friend sew together the pillow covers.

     That was the beginning of a great love affair, between me and buckwheat pillows, not the friend who sewed them up, although we’re still friends. So that’s my explanation for the title of today’s blog post. One night’s experience was all it took to get me hooked on buckwheat pillows. That was twenty-some years ago, and I’m still sleeping on that same handmade buckwheat pillow. It’s an understatement when I advertise my buckwheat pillows as lasting 10 to 15 years. I’m sure mine will easily double that claim.

     So, now you’ve been warned. If you decide to try sleeping on a buckwheat pillow, be prepared to spend the rest of your life enjoying the most comfortable, most healthful, most economical pillow in the world.

     So what are you waiting for? Go right now to www.buckwheatglory.com and invest in the most blissful and enjoyable sleep of the rest of your life.

Hold On To Your Pillow

     Some weeks ago I wrote a post about our granddaughter, Shannon, complaining about headaches keeping her from sleeping, and my wife letting her use her buckwheat pillow to take a nap on our sofa. She had such a relaxing sleep that she asked my wife, Doris, if she could borrow the pillow, and Doris told her she could have it.

     As you may remember, her husband, Ed, asked Shannon if he could try it out. Shannon let him, and he was so enamored of it, that he kept asking Shannon if he could borrow it. Soon Shannon was complaining that Ed was wanting to borrow it a lot.

     Ed is a plumber, and we had a small leak in our plumbing, so Ed, Shannon, and their 3 children came over and he fixed our leak, and we all enjoyed a home cooked meal of roast beef, mashed potatoes, and all the “fixins”.

     After dinner we’re sitting around watching TV, and Shannon was obviously drowsy. She said she couldn’t sleep well last night as she had a headache. I said to her “You mean you had a headache even while you were sleeping on your buckwheat pillow“. I’m sorry I asked the question. She shot a look at Ed and said “I never get to sleep on it anymore. Ed kept asking me if he could have that buckwheat pillow to sleep on every night, and I just got tired of hearing him begging for it, and he sleeps on it every night now. I never get to sleep on it anymore”.

     Now they’re really a lovely couple, and usually get along great, but it was obvious to Doris and I that there was some degree of friction there, due to a pillow fight, so to speak. Well, we now know what our next gift to one of them needs to be, we just haven’t figured out which one. 

     So, I guess the moral of this story is, don’t give a buckwheat pillow to 1/2 of a married couple, unless you want to cause a marital problem. Fortunately, I think we discovered the error of our (I mean my wife’s) ways in time to correct it. Of course this lesson needs also to be applied to the individuals within a marriage. Don’t make the mistake of buying a buckwheat pillow only for yourself. Remember, a marriage is a partnership, and we don’t need friction in the bedroom. In a marriage, you buy buckwheat pillows in pairs.

HERE I AM

     Buckwheat pillows are the way to stretch your dollars in economic doldrums such as we are now in. Does that surprise you? Stay with me on this one, because it may not be apparent at first glance. The important thing in this regard is to stick with quality buckwheat pillows, not those el cheapos sold in discount stores and elsewhere that are made in China or Japan, and sell for 1/2 or less than a good quality one.

     A good quality buckwheat pillow will last for 10 to 15 years, without fear of a dust mite infestation. It will improve in comfort with use, and will always be fully adjustable as to your own personal comfort level, due to the concealed nylon zipper.

     The poorer quality ones will be lucky to survive a year. They probably are not adjustable in their volume of hulls. They’re usually filled with imported mulch grade hulls, which means that by federal law they must be roasted to kill any foreign insects or bacteria. The roasting bakes out some of their natural oils, reducing their life expectancy.

They are seldom properly vacuumed to remove all traces of buckwheat flour, thus they may support allergies and aggravate any tendencies toward asthma. These low quality buckwheat pillows can not be considered hypoallergenic. There is a low percentage of people who are allergic to buckwheat flour, so it really needs to be properly removed by triple vacuuming.

     So, bottom line, considering that conventional feather or foam pillows should be replaced periodically due to the dust mite infestation problem, and low quality buckwheat pillows are not satisfactory, the only thing  that makes real economic sense is to invest in good high quality buckwheat pillows.

A BUCKWHEAT PILLOW - BEST EVER SLEEPING PILLOW

     Have you ever had an idea, or knowledge of something that you just want to shout from the roof tops? Something you just know will improve and change every one’s life for the better. But you have one problem - not very many people listen. Those who do listen, and act on what they hear, come back and say “Why aren’t you telling everybody about this? This is fantastic.”

     This is the one reaction I get when I get on my soapbox about buckwheat pillows. Another result is that some of the people that hear me pass me off as either some kind of snake oil salesman, a raving lunatic, or, at best, a harmless simpleton.

     That somewhat describes my quest to promote buckwheat pillows. I do get to talk to enough of my customers to know that those who hear me and actually act on my advice re buckwheat pillows now appreciate buckwheat pillows as much as I do, so I know I’m not really all alone or delusional regarding buckwheat pillows.

     However, it’s still frustrating to realize that there are still so few people who invest in the  seemingly obvious benefits of sleeping on buckwheat pillows, when literally everyone could be profiting from their use. I feel so inept at being unable to have this knowledge disseminated to every living person.

     I realize that the importance of enjoying the benefits of sleeping on a buckwheat pillow pale in comparison to, say, a vaccination against all forms of cancer. but the point is that I have the answer to the best ever sleeping pillow, and I don’t have the formulae for a cancer vaccine, so I’m working with what I have to make the world a better place.

     I appreciate any help I can get in spreading the word about the benefits of buckwheat pillows. Of course you have to be experiencing those benefits yourself before you could possibly have the conviction necessary to be effective in your promotion of them.

     In other words, “Practice what you preach.” It is imperative that you sleep each night on a buckwheat pillow. Then you will know exactly where I am coming from on this blog post. Have the best sleep ever.