When making your bed w/clean linen...

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Anonymous wrote:It's even grosser in a hotel.

+1 billion

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Anonymous wrote:Use a duvet and duvet cover. Makes making the bed so much easier.

But don't you have to remove the cover, wash, and then stuff the duvet back in every time you do the laundry? It takes me forever to stuff my queen size duvet back into the duvet cover and then do up all the buttons. Throwing a flat sheet on takes me seconds in comparison. Am I doing something wrong?

Putting on a duvet cover takes under a minute, way less time than making a bed with a sheet and comforter every day.
I put the duvet cover inside out, reach inside and grab the two top corners, then grab the two top corners of the duvet/comforter and pull them out the hole at the bottom. Shake a few times, make sure the bottom corners are lined up and then button up.

I wash the duvet cover every time we change sheets (have learned to button it up in the wash or random other things get in there!)

Then I'm doing something wrong, because I need to block off a whole evening to put our king size duvet cover back on. And I'm usually sweating afterwards.

+1. Maybe I'm not tall enough or don't have the wingspan. Grabbing two corners of a king size duvet while my arms have disappeared in a duvet cover and then pulling the heavy comforter through and shaking it out would not end the way PP has described. More likely there would be some frustration, and then me yelling at DH to do it instead.

[Anonymous]

My problem is finding duvet covers that actually fit the duvet. My duvet swims inside most covers, so it gets all bunched up on one side and I end up "covered" in nothing but the cover.

[Anonymous]

Right side down, folded over. Even without a pattern, the seams would be all wrong if you didn't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My problem is finding duvet covers that actually fit the duvet. My duvet swims inside most covers, so it gets all bunched up on one side and I end up "covered" in nothing but the cover.

Sew some ties to the inside corners of the duvet cover, then you can tie the duvet in place.

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Anonymous wrote:My problem is finding duvet covers that actually fit the duvet. My duvet swims inside most covers, so it gets all bunched up on one side and I end up "covered" in nothing but the cover.

Sew some ties to the inside corners of the duvet cover, then you can tie the duvet in place.

Our duvet covers come with ties.

[Anonymous]

Upside down so when folded the "pretty" side is up. This is the way my mom taught me to do it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Flat sheet upside down.

+1

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Use a duvet and duvet cover. Makes making the bed so much easier.

But don't you have to remove the cover, wash, and then stuff the duvet back in every time you do the laundry? It takes me forever to stuff my queen size duvet back into the duvet cover and then do up all the buttons. Throwing a flat sheet on takes me seconds in comparison. Am I doing something wrong?

It takes ... 20 seconds to make the bed with the duvet. And maybe a full two minutes to put the duvet in the cover? (I am gigantically tall, however, which perhaps helps).

Also, if we use a flat sheet, my husband always ends up undoing the fold of the sheet. And then the unwashed and often scratchy part of the covers comes into contact with your bare skin. Which I cannot ... absolutely cannot ... handle. I shudder.

[Anonymous]

I should add, furthermore, that my husband is not able to put the duvet into the cover. The topography of the fabric flummoxes him. So if you aren't good at rotating flat planes in three-D space, it may not be the solution for you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Use a duvet and duvet cover. Makes making the bed so much easier.

But don't you have to remove the cover, wash, and then stuff the duvet back in every time you do the laundry? It takes me forever to stuff my queen size duvet back into the duvet cover and then do up all the buttons. Throwing a flat sheet on takes me seconds in comparison. Am I doing something wrong?

Nope I agree. We grew up not using a flat sheet so I still have trouble getting my parents to understand how much easier it makes my life.
Different strokes I guess.

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Anonymous wrote:Flat sheet upside down.

Used to do this, but now we don't bother with a flat sheet.

I don't understand -- you don't use a top sheet, between you and the covers?

Not the PP, but I sleep under a duvet with a cover that I wash when I wash the sheets. If I need blankets they're on top of the duvet.

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Anonymous wrote:Use a duvet and duvet cover. Makes making the bed so much easier.

But don't you have to remove the cover, wash, and then stuff the duvet back in every time you do the laundry? It takes me forever to stuff my queen size duvet back into the duvet cover and then do up all the buttons. Throwing a flat sheet on takes me seconds in comparison. Am I doing something wrong?

Putting on a duvet cover takes under a minute, way less time than making a bed with a sheet and comforter every day.
I put the duvet cover inside out, reach inside and grab the two top corners, then grab the two top corners of the duvet/comforter and pull them out the hole at the bottom. Shake a few times, make sure the bottom corners are lined up and then button up.

I wash the duvet cover every time we change sheets (have learned to button it up in the wash or random other things get in there!)

Then I'm doing something wrong, because I need to block off a whole evening to put our king size duvet cover back on. And I'm usually sweating afterwards.

+1. Maybe I'm not tall enough or don't have the wingspan. Grabbing two corners of a king size duvet while my arms have disappeared in a duvet cover and then pulling the heavy comforter through and shaking it out would not end the way PP has described. More likely there would be some frustration, and then me yelling at DH to do it instead.

+1

I don't have the wingspan or patience to do king-sized duvet covers anymore. Just quilts now for us.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: Why would anyone not use a top sheet!? Gross.

European-style. Lots of hotels do it.

Yes, and when this is done in hotels, they wrap the duvet in sheets (triple sheeting) or use a plain cotton duvet cover and change it like a sheet between each guest. So it isn't really a matter of skipping the top sheet, it is more a matter of using a different type or application of top sheet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you buy the proper sort of sheet, both sides are finished in the same manner so there is no difference. I feel sorry for your children

WTF kind of thing to say is that? LOL! I'm guessing that there's probably not a correlation between parenting skills and knowledge of bed linen protocol. Take your meds.