A Review Of The Pillow I Cried Myself To Sleep On Last Night
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A Review Of The Pillow I Cried Myself To Sleep On Last Night

Calvin Klein’s mimosa down wrap pillow.

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A Review Of The Pillow I Cried Myself To Sleep On Last Night

Life is hard sometimes. It’s a busy, busy world out there and occasionally it can all be too much. So, last night I broke in my new pillow with a good ol’ adult crying session.


Resiliency is a term that I feel is synonymous with firmness. What I’m looking for out of a pillow is not a literal firmness, but an unwillingness to take my crap. Is my pillow going to hold me tight and make me feel better or is it going to slap my tear-streaked face and tell me to get up and try again? Unfortunately, last night’s pillow fell somewhere in the middle, which left me both confused and comfortable (see more in the cuddle factor breakdown).


This is where Calvin Klein’s Mimosa Down Wrap Pillows really shine. I’ve honestly never been more impressed with a pillow’s absorbency. A little background: I’m at a very unsure time in my life right now, which caused my tear output to be 1000 percent the usual. The water-ingestion to tear-output ratio was so offset I had to fall asleep with a water bottle in my mouth to avoid dehydration. But I’ll be damned if my pillow didn’t soak up most of my tears. Of course some of it re-entered my body through bodily pores during the night, but when I woke up I discovered there was enough water in the pillow to constitute a wringing.


This breakdown may be a little skewed because of my weak hands, whom a palm reader once described as “intensely emotional,” but due to the soft nature of the pillow, wringing out the salty sad juice proved to be a challenge. Wringing a pillow always begins with me posed in front of the sink butt-naked, and commonly ends the same, just with my body a bit more sweaty. I place both hands around the pillow and twist, but to my surprise and chagrin, this pillow twisted so much it just kept reabsorbing my eye saliva. I ended up throwing it in the dryer and vowing to reevaluate my wringing technique.


The absorbency may have high marks, but the cuddle factor is the crowning jewel of Calvin Klein’s Mimosa Down Wrap Pillow. Both arms wrapped firmly around the pillow, I would have been in heaven all night if it weren’t for the excessive crying. The points that got docked for the pillow not being firm are made up here because everyone knows the softer the pillow the easier it is to cuddle with. It’s why fat people were made. For one night, the Calvin Klein Mimosa Down Wrap Pillow made me almost remember what the touch of a real human feels like. No one can put a price on that.


The Calvin Klein Mimosa Down Wrap Pillow, valued at $80, is definitely a higher-priced pillow, but the emotions that are enhanced through a night with it definitely tip the scale in favor of the pillow. I recommend pairing with an excellent pillowcase, perhaps one lined with Brawny paper towels.


While it’s still tumbling in the dryer, I look forward to spending another night on this pillow. I’m certainly not in love with it, but hey, I also claim to not be in love with a woman as well. Perhaps she’ll read this article and sponsor the next pillow review. Until then I will just keep an IV drip of vodka into my heart in hopes that someday I’ll stop feeling.

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