Duvet makes no sense to me.
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That’s why you tie them in at the corners…
I am literally in bed literally dealing with this as we speak. Life is tough, man...
In high school someone I knew got trapped inside a duvet cover and basically everyone in attendance didn’t know what was happening (emphasis on HIGH school). A decade later I discovered what a duvet cover was and still don’t much care for them.
Oh yes.
Duvets are a pain in the ass and both the duvet and cover need to be washed anyway. Why not just stick with comforters with sheets and save yourself the trouble?
At least with down, the duvet cover can be washed more often than the duvet. Plus you can change the color or design without wasting as much material buying a whole new duvet/comforter.
I'm an uncultured slob that doesn't put my blankets in giant pillowcases. I am happy in my ignorance.
Just so you know. This is unhygienic as fuck if you sleep in the regularly. It's basically how you get bed bugs.
You get bed bugs by bringing infested items/animals/people into your home, not by sleeping in a bed with no duvet cover
It's stuff like this that makes me both relieved and slightly ashamed that I'm in my 30s and still don't know quite what a duvet is.
Okay, you know how we put pillows in pillowcases, so that when it's time to wash the bed linens you don't have to wash and more to the point dry the pillow stuffing?
Take that same concept and apply it to your comforter or bedspread.
A duvet is a thick blanket that's designed to come apart so you can wash or exchange the outer layer without having to wash the fluffy insulation. Another feature is that you can own multiple covers and one actual blanket, so if you want to change up your colors you can just swap out the cover. One-piece comforters don't fold up that compactly for storage, but empty duvet covers do.
Thanks for the explanation! TBH it sounds like something that I would hate and find a bunch of extra work, but I can see why other people would like it and find it useful.
WE DIDN'T WANT TO KNOW!
I've grown up with these, I think they're the standard blanket in Germany. We also have a thin inner for summer and a thick goose down inner for winter. And a whole bunch of covers, so you can just throw one in the wash and put the next one on.
Actually now that I think about it we always buy pillow case+duvet cover as a matching set, idk if you can even get then separately lol
They're not typical in the United States; one-piece comforters are more typical.
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Most (but not all) duvets and duvet covers have ties/loops to tie the corners (and sometimes the midpoints) off to keep this from happening.
Honestly I never had this issue nor knew about the loops/ties until I graduated from a full/queen cover to a king size one and it became a real problem.
In my experience, only the fancier brands do this. But you can make your own and sew them on too.
I thought I was so clever when i discovered this myself one day. Then i used it and it torn the string off the duvet cover :/
I have been around for 3 and a half decades and I've never had a duvet that's done this in the UK
For the first three decades of my life my duvet had the loops but the cover didn’t have the ties. I just thought the loops were something to grab on to while spelunking into the cover to insert the duvet 😂
You don't have to go spelunking if you don't want to. Turn the cover inside out, lay the duvet on top, tie off the corners if you have ties, and turn it all back right side over.
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Obviously a different thing, but your comment unlocked a several decades old memory about my mom tying the ends of my duvet to the bed frame, because I would kick it off the bed while asleep. Wow, that memory was pulled from some very dusty and almost forgotten part of my brain, lol.
Our comforter is tied to the bed footrest on my husband's side, because otherwise I steal it in my sleep. It keeps marital harmony!
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Yes I also get mad about thin floppy empty duvet
....because I also have sensory issues
My favourite is when sheets are tucked in tight and straight and even and flat; with NO WRINKLES and NO EDGES and I slip into bed like a letter into an envelope. Especially if I just showered and the sheets are clean too
Mail me to dreamland snnzzzzzzzzzz
I'm 60, and I've lived my entire life with a fitted sheet, and a couple of blankets. I don't even use a blanket in the summer, just sleep nude on the bed uncovered. Dunno why people make sleeping so complicated.
Top sheet, bottom sheet, mattress pad, mattress topper, blanket, duvet, comforter, short pillows, long pillows, round pillows, square pillows--JFC, just go to sleep already!
I don't get the need for so many different shapes of pillows.
I mean, okay, sure, Standard vs King, alright. And I know I have a mix of those. As well as a memory foam wedge that slightly elevates my pillow and fills the gap between the mattress and the headboard so my glasses, phone, and remote stop falling back there.
But I do have a lot of pillows. Because I've recently started to sleep in like a cradle of them. A slope from my head down to my mid-back, and then a couple under my knees/thighs. And it's so damn comfortable. I'm only 41, but I'm seriously considering buying an adjustable bed so I can get this position ("zero gravity") without so many pillows, because they do make making the bed, and getting in/out of bed, a pain in the ass.
I think I could make a fortune going around teaching people how to do their bed, cause I never had huge existential problems like these. It's crazy.
I have a rather heavy duvet and linen sheets, so the whole duvet often slides down the bed as I'm kicking and thrashing in my sleep because RLS. Then I wake up with the top of the duvet at my waist so I have to grab the sheet with my toes to stop it bunching up as I pull the duvet up again. This happens 2 or 3 times a night and I wake up feeling like I fought a fucking bear.
I'll get fed up and he-man flick the duvet until there's a more even distribution of fluff. (There seems to be an allegory in there somewhere.)
It's the bed cover that pops off the mattress every morning that shits me
Fortunately, got a new bed cover and seems fine now. Best investment ever
For future reference, these exist:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08MZPR43J
So at one point I needed these for a king size fitted sheet that would not stay comfortable, I knew they existed but didn't know what they were called. What do I look up that gets me exactly what I wanted? Bed suspenders....
Magnets. Not kidding. They sell strong magnets with a cloth covering so it doesn't have edges, and you just secure the ends with them.
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