You may have to look hard at this pic but believe it or not there is 4 baby pussy cats in this box, all of them were found in one mattress, unknown mum, all survived and are now in good homes.

Talk about sucking the life out of a mattress, only Quasimodo could have found this bed comfortable.

Even we had to laugh at this one, someone nicked all the mattresses from the council clean up day, spread them around the park and played Dominoes with them. How creative is that?

What about this? This work is constructed entirely from discarded mattress frames. It is a life-sized classic Australian miner's cottage, like the structures built by this country's early pioneers, looking to make a home far from all they knew, to safeguard themselves from what they percieved as an alien landscape. Yet Dream Home offers no protection from wind or rain, no shelter from the storm.

What a beautiful mattress but translation please?

Whilst the origins of this mattress are unknown, it leads us to believe it may have been one of the first "pillowtop" mattresses. A mattress that has a layer of foam attached to the top of the mattress to give a feeling of cushioning and comfort, well that's our excuse for the ridiculous name anyway.

"For your comfort and happiness all night long" are the words used to describe this mattress from Thailand. "Simplicity and Peace from Nature". This mattress was still in good condition, so maybe it did not give the sleepers the peace they were seeking. Either that or they were hoping you would be inspired by the thought of the name "Bonca" and buy it.

How ironic is it that in the same week that an article appears in our local paper about the ex Humphrey B Bear suit wearer and his assault on his child’s school vice-principle, that we get this mattress through our collections? Maybe a child threw it out as a protest.

Click on image to enlarge.

Anyone wish to translate this mattress label for us?

We are not the favored supplier of product to One Steel recycling, this is what happened to their shredder when they tried to deal with our mattress springs on mass. The guy with the orange socks got all wound up about it.

If anyone can tell us what Merpal Hair is, we would welcome the call

All we need to do now is tie him on spin him and throw knives.

“Yes... The mattresses made for Oompa loompas have arrived”

This Mattress must be tailor made because the bloke in front of it is only 5 foot 5. Go figure.

Just when we thought we had seen it all, out from a feral mattress pops a feral pussy.

Not what you would expect on a Monday morning :)

How about this mattress it’s over 26 years old and probably belongs in the AFL museum.

Oh deary me :)

Mark recieved this in an email

Subject: Driveline Vibration Issue

No Vehicle Fault Found

This guy ran over a mattress and decided to keep going. The ensuing jumble finally whipped around enough to put a tear in the gas tank, the subsequent lack of fuel is what finally brought this vehicle to its knees.

It had still managed to drive 30 more miles decently with a 60lb tangle wrapped around the driveshaft.

This genius complained that the vehicle had a "shimmy" when driving at high speeds.

This is what the dealership found..............

Holy Moly!!!

Talk about a huge mattress.

This must have been custom made.

James is 6ft 5" tall so this just shows how big this mattress is.

Holy Mattresses Batman!!!

Well we thought we had seen it all until this little critter made an appearence. It was driving us batty trying to figure out what it was.

We tried using it to scare one of the staff but he didn't bat an eyelid :)

"EWWWWWWWWWWWWW".

"The eighth wonder of the world"

We have no idea how this mattress got up there but there it is.

"This mattress label was quite ok in the 1960’s"

"The Kingsdown "Kid Nap" mattress. Where do they get these names from?"

"Oh My God, we thought we had seen it all, Now you can grow your own garden on a mattress."

"We finally found money in a mattress!!!"

Well on a mattress at least. This is fabric from an old bed.

"This can be a pig of a job sometimes!

Iimagine the surprise when this un-invited guest wandered into the Deer Pork, err I mean Deer Park Factory.

When the factory supervisor told our National Operations Manager, he thought he was off his chops."

"This spring set was powder coated white before being put into a mattress, It would have never bio-degraded in land fill. Thank god we found it first."

"Impressive eh, this individual peed so much on their bed that over time it actually burnt a hole right through it."

"“The legend of the pee bed just got bigger. The one above is a single so you can imagine a child may have had a few accidents, but this is a double with a whole big enough to climb through in it.

So the assumption has to be made that a grown up was sleeping on this one. HHHhhhhmmmm?

"This pretty fabric was on a cot mattress, I’m sure it made children sleep better"

"This mattress had so much blood on it that we theorized someone had been shot on it."

"If we didn't know the story behind this mattress we would have had to call the police.

We have never seen so much blood on a mattress before. It's the leading contender for the worst mattress we've ever seen."

"Welcome to our life, this is what happens when you bite off more than you can chew and can’t process them as fast as there coming in."

"There gone now though Mr. EPA"

"This fabric tells a sad story, it came off a old mattress and features the skyline of New York that will never be seen again."

"This is the thinnest oldest mattress we’ve seen, we think it was an old prison mattress."

"What the ???? We think this was used in a play as a prop, the brown stuff is stitched on fur, but your guess is as good as ours."

"This mattress was picked up at an elderly citizens hospital. Imagine what was going through our drivers head when he had to pick it up"?

"How about this? A pair of PJ’s made of old mattress fabric. They were made for an exhibition by Julie Shields. Here’s a link to her web site and more PJ’s"

"The window display of Mattress made PJ’s"

"This is what happens when you compact a mattress with a bike, this bike is actually now part of the mattress and protrudes through to the other side."

"We don’t know the origin of this mattress but we can take a guess!!!!! Why in the hell would you have a round bed????"

"Does your mattress look like this?"

"These are some of the things we find inside mattresses. Click on image to enlarge."

"Employee of the month, Arron, has a bit of the Tom Hanks (Wilson) castaway thing happening here…"

"This fantastic picture was on the underside of an old mattress base."

"I’ll get through these. “I think I can, I know I can, I think I can, I know I can, etc, etc.."

Some people will try anything ... once!!! Or Twice even!!!!!

The picture at the top was taken by Dreamsafe in November 2008. What we thought was a one off proved us wrong when it was spotted again in Feb 2010 and made the Herald Sun

From the Herald Sun 16th Feb 2010

THIS motorist pictured on a Melbourne freeway with five mattresses strapped to the car roof could be Victoria's stupidest driver.

But police say he might not have broken any laws.

Sharon Jones and her husband were driving on EastLink when they saw the car about 2pm on Sunday. "We've seen that sort of thing in Thailand before but didn't think it would happen here," Mrs Jones said.

The mattresses were piled over a metre high on the car, which Mrs Jones said was driven by an elderly man. "He was driving along like it was his Sunday afternoon drive," she said.

"It is difficult to see in this photo whether this load fits within safety dimension limits or not," road safety legislation expert Sen-Sgt John Gibson said.

Road safety laws say the maximum height of a vehicle is 4.3m and a load was not to project more than 15cm to either side.

We never knew Dennis was such a lover of mattresses never the less he liked this one enough to endorse it.

This mattress arrived in a black plastic bag.

We should have guessed why, you name it this mattress had it, sick, wee, and rear action excrement.

Someone had a rough night and decided to send their mattress to us to be recycled, how nice of them.