Please keep your law tag!  You know the one.  It’s at the head of the bed.  Plenty of jokes are made about it. The infamous little tag on your mattress has been the butt of jokes for decades. For years, many people actually believed that they would be breaking the law if the tag were removed. The phrase remove a tag and go to jail would make a hilarious public service announcement.

In the early part of the twentieth century, a common practice among certain unscrupulous merchants was to sell bedding that was stuffed with everything from straw and horse hair to paper and old rags. As laws protecting the rights of consumers begin to evolve so did the need to provide consumers with easy to understand information. This need led to the requirement to list the contents of bedding materials like mattresses and pillows. Serious public health issues were at stake and officials reacted with what turned out to be relatively simple, common sense regulations.

The tags and other information provided by manufacturers and retailers is very important. The last few years has seen an emphasis on incorporating more fire safe materials into the production of mattress. The funny tag is a very important way to communicate vital information to consumers and reassure them that the products they buy are indeed safe.

So yes YOU the consumer can remove the tag, BUT please keep it in a safe place.  It will void any manufactures warranty on the mattress.

On a side note, stains also void warranty’s. Get a good mattress pad.

Telling a customer their warranty is void is not fun.  Read your warranty card that comes attached to the bed.

Thanks for your time,

Tracy Eckard