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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sleeping bag and a pillow are a great idea.  She can use this right on top of the bed.  Easier and less embarrassing for all[/quote]

Excellent idea. My sisters and I did the same as kids. We didn’t hurt anyone feelings at all [/quote]

New poster. If the SIL is touchy, then a sleeping bag coming into the house is going to upset her all over again. A sheet can be folded up and packed inside a bag, same for a top sheet and thin blanket. A sleeping bag is very obviously a sleeping bag and practically shouts, "I'm not sleeping IN any of your bedding, I'm going to sleep on top of it encased in my sleeping bag," whereas quietly getting out sheets at bedtime on your own, and tossing them on top of bedding, is much less showy a solution. Unless the DD is is making a big production of stripping the bed and re-making it, sheets are a somewhat subtler solution and therefore "easier and less embarrassing" than hauling a rolled-up sleeping bag into the house. DD should be just laying her own flat sheet on top of the bed sheet, then covering herself with her own flat top sheet and/or blanket. Done. No stripping required.

Also, to OP, I think all you adults here are going to make your DD and the cousins all embarrassed and self-conscious. Unless your DD is talking to her aunt and cousins about the smell, complaining, making a big fuss about it when there -- let this go! And why are you calling your DD "picky" in one moment but the next moment saying she genuinely has sensitive skin etc.? It's not being "picky" if your skin is affected. Neither is it being picky if smells, bad or supposedly "good" perfumed smells, irritate your nose, eyes, skin, give you headaches -- is she experiencing those things? I do, whether the issue is bad smells or gross perfumed detergents on "clean' sheets.

Just tell DD to be discreet about the sheets and not to talk it up around the cousins and aunt. Done.

Please don't end up driving a wedge between your DD and her cousins, if they get along nicely now. [/quote]

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