# Moving a mattress

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/moving-a-mattress/86338>\
**Category:** The Show\
**Created:** [August 1, 2014, 1:10am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/moving-a-mattress/86338 "2014-08-01T01:10:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![gcwcars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a88e57/32.png) [@gcwcars](https://community.cartalk.com/u/gcwcars)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2014, 1:10am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/moving-a-mattress/86338/1 "2014-08-01T01:10:12Z")

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Here is one way to move a mattress.

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**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2014, 1:18am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/moving-a-mattress/86338/2 "2014-08-01T01:18:05Z")

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At least it is properly secured, and the “spoiler” in front of it undoubtedly helps a lot.  
Almost weekly, I see new-looking mattresses on the side of I-287, after they blew off of the top of a car to which they were not properly secured.

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**Author:** ![George\_San\_Jose1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@George\_San\_Jose1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/George_San_Jose1)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2014, 4:09am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/moving-a-mattress/86338/3 "2014-08-01T04:09:31Z")

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I’ll bet lots of folks have moved mattresses that way. I moved a mattress like that on even w/ my little old Corolla. Wasn’t quite a professionally done, but the mattress made the trip ok. I moved an even bigger item, a home furnace, that way, on top of the Corolla. No freeway driving involved though.

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**Author:** ![meanjoe75fan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/meanjoe75fan/32/552_2.png) [@meanjoe75fan](https://community.cartalk.com/u/meanjoe75fan)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2014, 10:02am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/moving-a-mattress/86338/4 "2014-08-01T10:02:55Z")

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Yea, looks pretty safe. Double-strapped with some beefy ratcheting tie-downs.