My fiance and I have recently moved in to our first home together - a rented single-wide. Our bedroom is currently housing a second-hand futon frame and mattress that I bought off Craigslist. It works just fine for my fiance when he is home alone, but as I'm planning to move over there and marry him soon, for the two of us it isn't so good.
I've been trawling Craigslist for second hand options, but I'm more than a little wary of the unknown quality of a second hand bed. He is a horseshoer, and I am an ex-dancer. Between the two of us, there are barely any functioning vertebrae left. I am used to sleeping on a good quality orthopaedic mattress, which didn't come cheaply.
I saw that our local Goodwill store offers new beds and mattresses, and we could get a complete bed (frame, box spring and mattress) for just over $400. The good quality Craigslist finds are not much different in price. Our budget is getting trashed as we set up house from scratch, we are broke phi broke, so anything more than $600 for the complete bed is really pushing our available resources.
My question is: has anybody ever tried a bed from Goodwill? Is there a better place I could look for a good bed at a good price?