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Do you button up your duvet cover before washing?

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Ultravox · 03/11/2024 15:31

Please help resolve an incredibly minor dispute in our house. I’ve just changed our sheets and when I went to put on the clean duvet cover it was buttoned up so I had to unbutton it to put it on and then re button it. It has proper fiddly wooden buttons and it may be just menopause but I have the rage over this.

So…

YABU: Yes I button up the duvet cover before putting it in the washing machine to stop other items going inside it.

YANU: What a waste of time. If any items go inside the duvet cover during washing then it’s easy to take them out before drying.

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WinterFrog · 05/11/2024 07:15

Another buttoner here! I find that the small irritation of dealing with the buttons is outweighed by the lack of other washing ending up inside the duvet.
I try to be very 'zen' about washing bedding, and the buttoning makes me feel competent and a little bit smug.

@MrsToothyBitch - inspired!

MrsToothyBitch · 05/11/2024 07:04

Yes I button them up. I also button them so that the buttons are turned in and don't make as much noise in the washing machine.

Much less noisy against a wooden bedframe when in use, too.

FrostFlowers2025 · 05/11/2024 06:57

Nsky62 · 04/11/2024 15:58

Er, normal bedding, what else, poppers prob on cheap polycotton.
Personally I prefer slightly premium non high street cotton bedding, buttons standard

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The only place I have seen buttons on duvet covers are cheap hotels. My covers all have a strip of fabric so I can tuck them under the matrass to keep my feet warm, but no dang buttons. No sirree!

Onlyvisiting · 04/11/2024 21:16

Ultravox · 03/11/2024 15:31

Please help resolve an incredibly minor dispute in our house. I’ve just changed our sheets and when I went to put on the clean duvet cover it was buttoned up so I had to unbutton it to put it on and then re button it. It has proper fiddly wooden buttons and it may be just menopause but I have the rage over this.

So…

YABU: Yes I button up the duvet cover before putting it in the washing machine to stop other items going inside it.

YANU: What a waste of time. If any items go inside the duvet cover during washing then it’s easy to take them out before drying.

Oh. I never have because it simply never occurred to me that this would be a solution to the sheets ending up inside it. Every day's a school day 🤣🤣

soupfiend · 04/11/2024 21:15

Just hanging my big ol' duvet cover up, zipped of course, and I remembered another reason why I like it sealed as such, its becuase when hanging it over a line, which Ive just done, when its open and hanging like a gaping mouth, its hard to get it to hang on the line in a nice square. I dont use pegs, its just hanging with the top foot or so over the line, so I like it nice and symmetrical/square

If you have a dryer then this isnt a problem of course

halloumidippers · 04/11/2024 21:14

I do the duvet cover and sheet in one wash, and then the pillowcases along with a load of other whites. So I don't have to bother with the buttoning but nor does anything get stuck. You're welcome.

ChanelBoucle · 04/11/2024 21:07

I voted YANBU because I don’t do it, because I’ve never thought to do it before! But I think I will from now on - great idea, I hate it when the bedding all balls up.

RobinEllacotStrike · 04/11/2024 21:02

Honestly this thread has shook me to my core.

I would never button a duvet for the wash & I'm astonished so many seem to do this.

AutumnLeaves24 · 04/11/2024 20:54

Laiste · 04/11/2024 20:17

@@AutumnLeaves24

Zips on Dorma bedding 😊

Thanks!!

sorry about my phones ability to rewrite my posts!!! I did type Laiste!!

AutumnLeaves24 · 04/11/2024 20:53

Nannyfannybanny · 04/11/2024 15:19

Eon says a shorter wash cycle saves fuel and a lot of other sites say that,bear in mind I did say I also do a lot on a cold cycle

EON says it uses less energy

😂😂😂

ask yourself who sells energy & who manufactures washing machines??

now have a wee think...

PassingStranger · 04/11/2024 20:50

Of course. Otherwise everything gets tangled up inside, it takes longer to sort it all out, while falling with a wet duvet.

Laiste · 04/11/2024 20:17

@@AutumnLeaves24

Zips on Dorma bedding 😊

StormingNorman · 04/11/2024 19:29

Buttoning up and unbuttoning is such a waste of time. I leave it unbuttoned and turn it inside out so it’s ready to go straight on the duvet.

Original poster
Ultravox · 04/11/2024 19:26

Gah - looks like I am there unreasonable one! Mind you I don’t put clothing in with my bedding so not so much to get tangled.

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ByQuaintAzureWasp · 04/11/2024 19:14

If I can be bothered ... always regret it if I don't!

Compash · 04/11/2024 18:55

soupfiend · 04/11/2024 18:53

Ive tried this, it leads to a false sense of security, that pillow slip will find its way in between the open button gaps.

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Dammit. 🙈

soupfiend · 04/11/2024 18:53

Compash · 04/11/2024 18:49

Bear with me on this, but... I do up EVERY OTHER BUTTON! Stops it filling with pants and shirts, but less buttoning.

Solomon's Judgement. 🧐

Ive tried this, it leads to a false sense of security, that pillow slip will find its way in between the open button gaps.

Compash · 04/11/2024 18:49

Bear with me on this, but... I do up EVERY OTHER BUTTON! Stops it filling with pants and shirts, but less buttoning.

Solomon's Judgement. 🧐

user2848502016 · 04/11/2024 18:48

Yes I do, because if you don't everything ends up inside the duvet cover in a big ball and doesn't wash properly.
I do every other button up to lessen the pain!
Maybe you need duvet covers with poppers on them!

MellersSmellers · 04/11/2024 18:44

Haha, never even heard of this but now I have - seems like a good idea!

AuntyMabelandPippin · 04/11/2024 18:42

I find it so much easier to button the duvet up, rather than spend hours untangling everything from inside it, and having to put it back in the dryer as none of it has dried properly.

I also iron my bedding. 😂

soupfiend · 04/11/2024 18:39

Ive just changed the bed, made sure to zip up the one Im putting in the wash. Theres no room for socks or anything else, its the cover, the sheet, 4 pillow cases. Its full to the brim, king size bedding but if I dont zip it up then all the pillow cases will end up all scrawled up in the cover and wrestling with a wet huge cover with short arms to get the slips out to re spin them because they'll be wringing wet is not my idea of fun.

Then I got out my fresh bedding, happy to see it was inside out and buttoned up

And what brand was it I thought to myself with these lovely fancy buttons and good quality cotton, oh, Kirkton House, aka Aldi!!

LoveBluey · 04/11/2024 18:34

Absolutely not. It has never occurred to me to button before putting in the wash.
But my big shock from this thread is that people put duvet covers and socks in the same load. Mind blown!

Katemax82 · 04/11/2024 18:28

If i don't button mine up I end up with a great big tangled ball of washing inside it

Nsky62 · 04/11/2024 17:07

soupfiend · 04/11/2024 16:40

Alright, no need to sound so snobby, my Ikea and Dunelm have buttons on them, I dont have any polycotton but very much 'high street' in this house also know how to make good quality cotton bedding. With buttons!

Or zips as per some of my Dorma

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I wasn’t I stated my viewpoint