Air Mattresses

Consider this a wake-up call to bedding makers: Less than half of the queen-size cotton sheets in our tests perform so poorly that they won't even cover a 10-inch mattress after less than a year's worth of washes, let alone a 12 1/4-inch mattress, which is the average height. That means these sheets are rendered no longer functional for most people. And some of them are so expensive that we suggest using coupons or waiting until they go on sale before buying. As for the others, the sheets that don't shrink, our tests and reporting reveal a number of issues.