For the upcoming holidays we have a lot of out of town guests coming into town so we just got finished renovating our basement and thought it would be really nice to have a more comfortable place for people to sleep. We have one of the standard thin little sleeper sofa mattresses and it's just not that comfy, so we did a ton of research and decided to buy this. I am so glad we didn't throw away the one we had b/c this one is honestly just about the same. But we decided to stack them together with the new one on top and it's really comfy! So now we are going to have to just keep the packaging (plastic and huge cardboard box) and store this new mattress in the garage whenever it's not in use, as they both of course won't fold up in the sofa.....kind of a pain. So basically it just serves as a feather topper or a cushy mattress pad. I wonder if we could have found something a lot cheaper, that would serve the same purpose but would fold up and fit in the linen closet........