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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some people use sheets and pillowcases that don't match?[/quote]
I do! My bottom sheets always wear out first. The pillow cases and top sheet will still be fine. I'll pick up just a bottom sheet because that's all that needs replacing.

I do the same thing with bath towels. The bath towels wear out, but the wash clothes and hand towels will still be fine. Rather than replace the whole set, I'll just pick up new bath towels.[/quote]
I always mix up my sheet sets, and I'm not "poor."  Most of my bed linens are from Garnet Hill and good quality.  It just pleases me to use a different color or pattern top sheet and pillowcases than the fitted sheet.  They don't clash; I make sure of that.  But I like an attractively made bed with pattern and texture.   And I seem to be an outlier here... I always make the bed in the morning.  Just seems to put things in order and the makes the rest of the room appear less messy.  Call me bourgeois.  [/quote]

The sheet and towel thing is interesting to me. I grew up in a middle class family. My husband grew up poor, and his mom grew up in abject poverty. She always has matching sheets and towels, as a reaction to never having them as a child or a young parent. I suspect since my parents could have afforded matched sets if they wished, but wanted to spend their money on different things, they went with the frugal method of just replacing what's worn (and cut up the worn out sheet/towels for dust clothes or shoe shine rags). From that perspective, matching linens is more of a reaction to newly having money. But my comfort with linens that go together but aren't a matched set would be indicative of a slightly higher class. So perhaps the return to matched set linens is another jump in class?[/quote]

+1 - actually, I think that's true for a lot of this. I grew up comfortable, in the NE suburbs - not wealthy, but comfortable (whatever the fuck that means). My husband grew up in a very very poor city. For me, I love to go live in rough places, the adventure of city living. He feels like he's had enough. He wants to live somewhere peaceful and quiet now.

The bedsheets, too. I think because I grew up as secure as I did, I have the freedom to be careless about things like matching sheets and impeccable clothes. I feel like I was born into a status that allows me the freedom to be a slob. With no irony at all: that is a luxury that I really cherish.[/quote]

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