Posted on 04/08/2018 7:46:51 AM PDT by BBell
The pillow salesman had so much crack cocaine pounding through his bloodstream he hadn't slept for two weeks, he would later say. Even the drug dealers were counseling Mike Lindell to slow down.
It was March 2008, and the Minneapolis-area entrepreneur's life was in free fall. Marriage broken. House lost. Business - a company he started four years earlier called MyPillow - struggling. Two weeks into this particular hot-wired bender, Lindell went to his usual drug dealers for a fix. But the guys had already put word out on the street: no one sell to Lindell until he sleeps.
"They were three of the biggest dealers in the cities," Lindell recounted to the Salvation Army in 2015. "They refused to sell to me again. One of them tried babysitting me until I fell asleep."
Instead, he snuck outside to score elsewhere. But no one wanted his business. Lindell waved around a $100 bill for $5 worth of crack. Nothing. He tried to hide his distinct mustache behind his hand. No luck.
"I get back to the apartment, and [the dealer] is sitting there, and he goes, 'How'd that work out for you?'" Lindell explained to CNBC last September. His dealer picked up Lindell's phone and snapped a photo of the addict's face - walking dead skin tone, disheveled hair, mug shot scowl. It was a memento of what it looked like at rock bottom.
Lindell got clean the next year, and powered ahead with MyPillow, turning an idea plucked from a dream into a successful international business claiming nearly 30 million sales. For years he struggled against addiction and long business odds. Today, Lindell finds himself up against a political backlash.
Last week, Fox News host Laura Ingraham hopped on Twitter to blast David Hogg, the Parkland massacre survivor turned to gun
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If you read on it seems the powers that be seem to keep trowing up road blocks to this guy's company.
As a disclaimer, I have never owned a "my pillow" so I know nothing about the product.
Fifty dollars for a pillow is a bit much.
I think I paid 3 or 4 dollars for my last one.
“Fifty dollars for a pillow is a bit much.”
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I’ve always paid in that range for a pillow-—that’s not much.
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Yep. I buy cheap Walmart pillows and chuck them in the trash every few months.
Laura Ingraham hopped on Twitter to blast David Hogg
Blast huh. She didn’t “blast” anyone. She just said stop whining because a college didn’t accept you. The pillow guy is on the right side of things but keep your distance, he strikes my as pretty unstable IMHO.
I own one and it's great.
I didn't pay $50, I got it from a drug dealer from MN...heh, heh, heh:) {It's a bad joke}.
Depends how good it helps you sleep.
$50 isn’t much for a mattress for your head.
People pay thousands for a good mattress for the rest of the body - the neck and the head are worth as much!
Imagine how this article would be written if he were black and an Obama supporter... this would be a feel good story of how drug dealers care about their community and how one man overcame his addictions and succeeded only to be smacked down by an oppressive white privileged government.
Nope - guys a trump supporting charlatan drug using loser...
If you can't sleep and this helps, I would say it is worth it.
A thousand dollars is a bit much for a cell phone, yet millions of people buy them. Just sayin.
That pillow making headlines?
It’s made of corduroy.
“Who knew? Drug dealers with scruples?”
They don’t want their customers dying on them.
Bad for business.
We have two full sized and two smaller ones. I had to return one because it was too full of fill for me. The lesser-filled version let me bunch up and lay it in good ways.
I have slept on better pillows, but I haven’t had pillows that could stand up to repeated fill movement or washings. At some point, the normal ones don’t work right anymore. I have paid over $100 for a special foam pillow but even that doesn’t feel like what it did new.
The warranty, guarantee, and adjustability made it worth trying. We expect years out of them, though. My wife likes hers and she had some physical reasons for trying. We got them using a discount.
It doesn’t hurt he advertises on conservative shows, either!
So the moral of the story is, if you want a good nights sleep, buy a MyPillow and cut back on the cocaine, right?
LOL Is that really believable?
For the record: once you sleep with a MyPillow, you will take it with you when you travel. They are that good.
We own 2 and we love them.
I love mine. This guy is a Trump supporter and libs are all over him trying to destroy his business.
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