Single or lonely men sometimes miss having the odd snuggle up in bed with a partner, and we all know about pillows being hugged in replacement of a person, but a pillow which looks and feels like the lap of a female?!

Men think women have issues…?! Who would honestly use a ‘lap pillow’?! Someone with very little self pride, or on the other hand, a great sense of humour maybe?!

But now, single and lonely men can now use a lap pillow when they are missing a female companion, yes you did hear me right, i said a ‘lap pillow’.

These pillows consist of skin coloured thighs which are on show due to a rather short skirt…apparantly this pillow is perfect for men who like to feel comforted when they are napping, reading a book or just chilling watching the TV.

And as surprising as it may be, it is actually a very popular seller! When the lap pillow was first launched sales reached over 3000 in a matter of a couple of weeks.

When speaking about the product the managing director said “we created this item to help tired people relax, we thought our main customers would be men in their 20s, but even men in their 60s are buying it”

And great care and attention to detail was used when the lap pillow was designed, elements such as the softness of the thighs and wrinkles on the lap of the skirt – this is to make it feel and look as real as possible – which is a bit weird i know!

At the stores that stock them, the lap pillows gather crowds where people poke and touch the foam legs, seriously though, whatever next?!

Most people are unhappy about their weight and around 90% of us have tried some sort of diet at some point, to fail miserably and even resulting in actually gaining weight!

But a recent study has proven that there may be a very simple reason as to why some of us struggle to loose weight and keep it off, and this is lack of sleep. This study has shown that lack of a good night sleep can increase hunger and affect your body’s metabolism, which will make it hard to maintain weight loss or lose weight in the first place. 

This is because sleep loss makes you feel hungry even if you are full, this is because it affects secretion of cortisol, which is the hormone that regulates your appetite, so people who get less sleep will still feel hungry even after they have eaten enough food.

Lack of sleep can also increase your fat storage, and this will also interfere with the body’s metabolic rates, causing you to store carbohydrates which will turn into fat and also increase your blood sugar levels – all of these side affects just from not getting a good eight hours?!

What better excuse do you need to get yourself to the duvet and pillow warehouse pillow sale and duvet sale to ensure you are as comfortable as possible and get the eight hours sleep that we all need!

If you loose weight it is a fact that it can improve your sleep pattern, as well as your partner’s if you have a problem with snoring… after losing weight there was a reduction in snoring from a massive 82% to just 14%!

So there you have it, forget spending hours at the gym, and just snuggle up under your duvet for a great night sleep whilst losing weight!

We all know how important sleep is and how it effects us if we don’t get enough, we struggle with work, and find it hard to focus and life in general just feel like hard work!

Sometimes we wish we could live without sleep, it takes up so much time, and we miss out on so many other things we could be doing whilst we are asleep, but it is still essential that we get 8 hours of rest each night, so staying out clubbing and drinking until 3am and being up at 7am for a lecture isn’t such a great idea, but if you are a student, or have ever been a student you will be very aware that this happens, and for most students very regularly.

And when most sleeping problems occur when alcohol is involved, whether this be from being knocked out and dead to the world whilst sleeping off a monster hangover, or being wide awake due to too much vodka and red bull, the duvet and pillow warehouse will try their best to give you little snippets of information regarding sleep problems to ensure you enjoy the best night sleep, even at the weekends…

If your not completely tired and you have things on your mind you will struggle to drift off into dreamworld naturally, so our advice is that if you have been led awake whilst trying to fall asleep for more than 30 minutes, the best thing to actually do it get up… no we haven’t gone mad, we did say, get up!

Try to do something calm and relaxing, such as reading a book or having a nice warm drink, anything that doesn’t cause any mental strain that will make you brain even more active, and make sure the light in your room is low, even just have a candle lit, and after a while you should start to feel tired and drowsy so thats when you should return to your bed and peacefully drift away to the land of nod.

Everyone knows that Goths are into strange things…such as wearing heavy eye make up and all black, but not many would expect them to be into sleeping in coffin’s, as disturbing as it is, some Goth’s are now known to be ordering coffin beds to sleep in, however strange or disturbing most would believe this to be!

It brings a whole new meaning to the phrase of ’sleep when your dead’! And as strange as it seems, these coffin beds are actually meant to be quite comfortable to sleep on and some people who have already used them have said they have actually had a better nights sleep than in most other beds – i think i’ll stick to my lovely big mattress and fluffy duvets and pillows thanks!

So whilst the rest of us ’suckers’ stretch out on our king sized mattresses complete with fluffy feather duvets and pillows cosy and content, some choose to put their head down in a hard wooden box which you cant roll over in or stretch your arms and legs out… which you will probably need to do after being cramped up in there, and you are also risking the fact that the coffin lid could close on you during the night and you could even suffocate to death – at least you would already be ready for burial though?!

Even more so disturbing, you can also purchase extra’s for your coffin bed such as lock and latches and heavier ‘customized’ lids, oh ok thanks for that, please can i also add to effect and have it filled with flesh eating bacteria?

But, there is still hope for all us people who still love a traditional big soft mattress, duvet and pillows, and this hope comes in the form of the Duvet and Pillow warehouse, where you can purchase everything you need for that extra comfortable nights sleep, check out their current pillow sale and duvet sale for all the best offers online, and enjoy an amazing nights sleep in a BED!

We’ve all heard stories about animals crawling into comfortable places they shouldn’t and falling asleep, such as cats snuggled up under duvets or dogs on your pillows, but who would of thought sometimes people enjoy entertaining themselves by snuggling up in strange places?!

But this isn’t just any normal case of a person hiding in a bin or cardboard box to suprise someone… Duvet and Pillow recently received this photograph of a girl called Laura who managed to climb into one of our topper bags!

Good on her for achieving this, but we have to say, it doesn’t look too comfortable in there, and we are sure she should actually be curled up on the topper she would of recieved in the bag instead of the actual bag itself – maybe she got a little confused? But we doubt that, due to the comfort of our goose down toppers!

Anyway, here is the photo of Laura in the topper bag for you all to enjoy! We hope she isn’t still in there!

At the duvet and pillow warehouse we are always searching the internet for funny stories surrounding our industry, usually not to much success, as who would of thought that duvets would ever be the subject matter of a funny joke?

But recently we came across this video of comedian Rhod Gilbert discussing the difficulties of buying bedding and duvets…. he obviously hasn’t visited the duvet and pillow warehouse website where he could of found everything he needs to know about the confusing ‘Tog Rating System’, what time of year to use which ‘Tog’ and whether feather duvets are prickly or not?!

He just wants ‘a nice, soft, comfortable duvet’ – well, in future he should visit the duvet and pillow warehouse too set all of his confusion about ‘duck or goose down’, ‘feather duvets’ or ‘12.5 tog’.

Quote of the video – “I don’t care whether its Duck or Goose, i am not going to eat it!”

Watch and enjoy! (you may want to skip to 4 minutes 20 seconds… this is where the duvet fun begins!)

Our modern day world is best known for being surrounded by technology, we live and breathe it thoughout our days, even to the point where we now don’t even realise!

We send e-mails instead of letters, we talk over ’skype’ instead of in person, we don’t buy CD’s we listen to ’spotify’ online, everything is changing, and becoming easier and fast paced…. so much so that we are definately going to need a good nights sleep every night to completely ’switch off’ from our high paced days at the office! All sleep experts recommend  to get a good nights sleep you must turn off all technology and completely relax, and to some techno freaks that is enough to give them nightmares!

But, if you cant cope to be without your technology fix even at night time, there are ways…

The recent hype in the technology market is the new iphone, and a company have now introduced iphone bedding, so if the thought of going to bed without your beloved iphone sends shivers down your spine, check out this fantastic iphone theme bedding – so you can sleep soundly knowing your ‘iphone’ is wrapped around you!

Some people like to go over the top with their bedroom styles and designs and it can often be a little overbearing! Well we have been on the lookout for the biggest and smallest bedding accessories the world has ever seen and have posted them all on here for you to have a look at!

Worlds Biggest Bedding Pillow

World's Largest Pillow

This pillow was manufactured in Shanghai, China on 29th May 2009 and set the new record for the largest cushion in the world. The bedding pillow measures in at 10.08m (33ft 8in x 33ft 8 in) and was made by Shanghai Konglong Textile Ornaments Co., Ltd.

World’s Smallest Teddy Bear

World's Smallest Teddy Bear

Some of us just can’t get to sleep at night without our teddy bear by our side and so German artist Bettina Kaminski created “Mini the Pooh”. At just 5 mm tall, it is the world’s smallest Teddy Bear! Very very cute but you couldn’t really snuggle up to it at night.

World's Biggest Teddy BearMr Beans' teddy bear!

Where there is small there is big and we found the world’s biggest Teddy Bear! Well, its either one of the two above so you can make your own mind up! You would definitely feel protected if you had this teddy bear in this room.

The second picture is an 11 ft teddy bear which is thought to be the world’s largest and was recently sold at an auction in Solihull last September.

World’s Largest Bed

American basket ball player Shaquille O'Neal's bed

This huge bed measures in at 4.572m*9.144m (15 x 30) and is situated at the basket ball player’s home in Orlando.

BiggestBed to Travel the World

This bed travelled the world and was set up in London, Shanghai, Paris and New York for a cross continental bed jump lasting 16 hours. The 30 double mattresses and huge super sized duvet was used to create the bed for people to have a quick bounce on their way to work.

If you are looking for bedroom accessories including pillows, mattresses, duvets etc visit Duvet and Pillow Warehouse today for more information and products. We don’t sell beds and pillows as big as these but we don’t need too as we pack our products with super soft fillings to make your sleep a good one.

Everyone loves a good sale! And after the madness of christmas and expense, what more could you want than a good sale of luxurious duvets and pillows from the Duvet and Pillow warehouse!

Here at Duvet and Pillow we are sure after all the activites and stress of christmas you will need your bed more than ever, and what could be more satistfying than enjoying your favorite place in the whole world.

Knowing the duvet you snuggle up under and the pillow you rest your head on was a fraction of the cost with the same quality!

Check our duvet and pillows sale of fantastic pillows, duvets, toppers, memory foam products, silk products, accessories and towels! For all you need to experience pure luxury and get over the madness of christmas in perfect comfort!

If you’re looking to buy quality bedding to arrive in time for Christmas, now is the time to do it! 

The special monthly offer from Duvet & Pillow Warehouse for December is one of the finest offers we’ve ever had, with savings of 15% available, on top of our usual low, low prices!

Enter code XMAS1212 at the checkout when spending over £90 and you’ll save a massive 15%! And that’s not all – we’re also offering free delivery on all purchases over £40!