I can relate to ‘What's a good night's sleep worth’ (December 2022). Without decent sleep, I become irritable at best and at risk of poor decision-making at worst.
After years of wrangling the night away with clothes in a stuff sack and, later, air pillows, I arrived at a simple innovation: an inexpensive pillow made just the way I like it. I spent $14 on a 23cm square offcut of 4cm thick memory foam from Para Rubber. This goes inside a ‘pillowcase’ made from an old