When your parents or grandparents bought a mattress, it likely came as a set with a box spring. But box springs have become far less common in the last two decades. With the innovations in mattresses ...

You're probably familiar with a box spring, the simple wood frame with springs that acts as a support base under older mattresses. It's not a highly technical piece of equipment like a smart bed (or a ...

Susie Allison had fielded all sorts of wacky requests from her three kids through the years. But when her 4-year-old son Matt asked if he could sleep in a cardboard box, she was thrown. "I kind of ...