Yes!! This makes it a million times easier.You place the duvet on top of the comforter inside-out, upside-down, but right side-up. Each person takes a hand, puts it inside the duvet and grabs one of the bottom corners of the comforter. Then pull the duvet+comforter corner up to the top of the bed. The comforter places itself inside the duvet as you're turning the duvet from inside-out to right side-out.
This explanation probably makes no sense but I bet there's a YouTube video. It's easiest with two people but not a big deal to do it alone.
I am already confused and angry.
This is what I hate about being single. I always end up wrestling the duvet/comforter combination and end up looking like a sad ghost costume on Halloween.
I hated duvet covers until this house. Our dining room is up a half flight of stairs above the living room. So with husband's help, we each take a corner of the duvet, match it up with a corner of the cover, and then just hold on while we flip it over the railing and shake the duvet into the cover so that it goes where it's supposed to. I used to do it while standing on the bed, but it was way more annoying. This way has way less pet hair. And to think what sold me on the house was the railing and the Christmas garland and lighting possibilities!
I don't know, cleaning the ceiling fan above the bed ranks pretty high up there with shitty household chores because it fucks up everything else in the room.
Apparently, the hack for this is to use a pillowcase, place it over the blades, then pull it off, containing the nastiness inside it. I'm going to make my husband try it.
LIES!! I've tried that rolling technique, and it totally didn't work. I tried repeatedly for about an hour and my cover just kept getting tangled in on itself, mocking me with it's inside-outedness.
I'm always most successful when I lay the cover out empty and on the bed the way it will lay when I get the comforter inside of it. Then basically just kind of accordion the cover up along my arm on one side, stuff the edge of the comforter in, and clip the corner at the top. Then I do the same on the other side, shake it so the comforter goes up into the cover. Finally I clip the bottom edges, shake/fluff again, and then button it up. It's not graceful, but it's faster than any other method I've tried.
Am I the only person who irons my sheets? Only my bed sheets, not g's or the gust bed (fuck them). Anyway, this thread reminded me of this. My H side eyes this habit, yet he loves his hospital cornered-perfectly non-wrinkly bed.
I hated duvet covers until this house. Our dining room is up a half flight of stairs above the living room. So with husband's help, we each take a corner of the duvet, match it up with a corner of the cover, and then just hold on while we flip it over the railing and shake the duvet into the cover so that it goes where it's supposed to. I used to do it while standing on the bed, but it was way more annoying. This way has way less pet hair. And to think what sold me on the house was the railing and the Christmas garland and lighting possibilities!
I guess this is where I admit that we use a top sheet which we wash regularly but I only wash the duvet a couple times a year. This is probably flameful.
Post by lemoncupcake on Jan 3, 2016 22:12:11 GMT -5
I must have magical powers - I wash/change our duvet weekly when I'm changing the sheets, and it's super easy for me. I'd rather do that than just about any other household chore.
Am I the only person who irons my sheets? Only my bed sheets, not g's or the gust bed (fuck them). Anyway, this thread reminded me of this. My H side eyes this habit, yet he loves his hospital cornered-perfectly non-wrinkly bed.
You iron your sheets? Your sheets?! I iron nothing. I don't even own an iron. (We have one, but it's my BIL's. We never gave it back to him when he moved after living with us for awhile.)
I must have magical powers - I wash/change our duvet weekly when I'm changing the sheets, and it's super easy for me. I'd rather do that than just about any other household chore.
Same. I wash the bedding on Mondays and it's my second favorite chore.
I hate unloading the dishwasher, which is why it's DD1's job.
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No exaggeration when I write that sometimes I rewash it just to avoid ironing the wrinkled mess that it becomes (no matter how many different settings I try). Yes, I am part of The Problem.
I don't know, cleaning the ceiling fan above the bed ranks pretty high up there with shitty household chores because it fucks up everything else in the room.
Apparently, the hack for this is to use a pillowcase, place it over the blades, then pull it off, containing the nastiness inside it. I'm going to make my husband try it.
That would be replacing the bed skirt, Bob. I've had one in a laundry basket for months. I tried to be cheap but I think I'll just buy a whole new bed frame instead. That's how much I hate it.
And this is exactly what I did. I was so sick and tired of having one half of the bed skirt hanging off, or having it looking like the skirt got stuck in the mattresses underwear. OR having it getting caught in the vacuum, so I replaced our whole bedroom set.
You iron your sheets? Your sheets?! I iron nothing. I don't even own an iron. (We have one, but it's my BIL's. We never gave it back to him when he moved after living with us for awhile.)
The top band of the flat sheet is always crazy wrinkled. I don't know why, and it pisses me off.
Mine does that too. I smooth it out as best I can and go on my merry way. By the time I get in bed, I've forgotten all about it.
Apparently, the hack for this is to use a pillowcase, place it over the blades, then pull it off, containing the nastiness inside it. I'm going to make my husband try it.
Works like a charm.
Yes, seriously makes it so much easier and cleaner!
Am I the only person who irons my sheets? Only my bed sheets, not g's or the gust bed (fuck them). Anyway, this thread reminded me of this. My H side eyes this habit, yet he loves his hospital cornered-perfectly non-wrinkly bed.
I iron my pillowcases and sometimes the top sheet. Never the fitted sheet.
I'm growing older but not up. My metabolic rate is pleasantly stuck, let the winds of time blow over my head. I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.
All our duvet covers are in the linen closet as a result of this. Between not wanting to change them and having two cats I've decided that plain white bleachable duvets or quilts are the only kind of bedding allowed in this house.
Folding a small load of children's laundry. It looks like it'll be nbd then you realize it is 1000 tiny pieces of clothing that will take forever to "fold" (how can anyone actually fold a onesie or footed pjs?).
Folding a small load of children's laundry. It looks like it'll be nbd then you realize it is 1000 tiny pieces of clothing that will take forever to "fold" (how can anyone actually fold a onesie or footed pjs?).
I have abandoned folding any of DD's clothes. I just shove them all in the drawer and try to keep like items somewhat together (pants, shirts, PJs, etc). She likes to go in and pick her own clothes, thereby messing up any folding anyway, so forget it.
My personal least favourites are cleaning the tops of cabinets and doing windows. That just sucks. I'm fine with duvet covers at this point as I change them every two weeks.