Do you button up your duvet cover before washing?

I can’t believe it never occurred to me to do this. My duvet covers swallowing all the other laundry and turning it into a giant wet sausage is one of those small daily irritations that can reliably tip me over the edge into utter despair.

From now on I will button my duvet covers before washing them and consider it an act of preventative mental health care.

Yes otherwise everything goes inside it and it ends up in a massive soggy ball that doesn't spin out properly and the washing machine will be banging loudly because it unbalances the drum.

No. But I tend to do only bedding in a bedding wash…duvet cover, bottom sheet, couple of pillow cases, occasionally mattress cover. Duvet cover will be inside out for ease of getting in back on.

And no, I don’t iron any of this, life is for better things😁

Using the shorter cycles uses more electricity and water than longer ones... So if you're choosing them because you want to save money (or energy, or water) then it's actually costing you more. Seems counterintuitive, I know, but it's true.

I don't care if the washing supposedly gets clean in cold water, I will carry on washing my bedding and towels at 60.

I do 3 washes a week so not using lots of electric or water and I use the shorter cycles

@Nannyfannybanny - a super king duvet cover, sheet and pillowcases pretty much fill the machine.

I never thought to and get pissed when the pillowcases get lost, so will start buttoning up now 😊.

No ironing, that's for sure. But yes, every second button, and wash inside out, ready to put back on bed. Fold neatly when dry, and place with one matching pillowcase and any matching/favoured undersheet (why is an undersheet never part of a bloody set any more?!) inside one of the matching pillowcases. My "linen cupboard" is not tidy, but this way it all gets kept together so I can find a set instantly in the chaos.

Towels are Sanderson embroidered, says max 40c that's what they get, washing machine agitation cleans clothes and the liquid which works even in cold water. We're now importing electricity from Russia!

I will wash towels with bedding but nothing else as I wash them at 60 and that is too high for clothes

No , never occurred to me. Would remove the fun of thinking the washing machine has swallowed a pliilowcase before realising it’s in the duvet cover.

No, I don't. But I'm thinking I should, inevitably I end up with half the washing balled up inside the duvet when I take it out of the washing machine, and the same again with the dryer 😫

I've just stripped the bed,king sized bedding. It took 30 seconds, I counted,to undo the buttons, remove the duvet and do the buttons back up. I am 5ft tall,74 with arthritis on hands and wrists.. the machine is full, making the most of a dry windy day. As for not taking long to remove smaller items,I have pegged duvet covers out years ago, and there was still small items stuck in there. If you want stuff to dry on your line, especially at this time of year,you have to put thin light weight items on the inner lines and thick stuff like towels on the outside,so they get maximum wind or sun. I'm sure someone will come and say they can't be bothered, they just throw it all in the tumble dryer. That's a very last resort for me.

I find that its the tumble dryer that's the problem absolutely every other item ends up inside the duvet cover and then doesn't dry properly.

No , I wash it on its own , super king size.

Yes, as otherwise loads of other things end up getting in the duvet cover. Sometimes I only do up every other button to save a bit of time both ways.

I second this!

I have a duvet cover where the poppers wouldn't stay shut. I bought some velcro 'coins' to sew into the between-popper gaps and the velcro is just so easy that now I think all duvet covers should come with velcro closures.

I don’t - it didn’t even occur to me to do that 🤦🏻‍♀️🤣

Why have a never thought to button it up? 😝 I get The Rage when all the stuff gets stuck inside it

No I CBA, life is too short. If any one else want to then that is fine, as long as they put it back one

I don't

No, waste of time when it means unbuttoning before putting it on again, so that means the pillowcases end up inside, but it takes seconds to shake them, and any odd socks etc. out.

Buttons on a duvet cover? What fresh hell is this?

I don’t, but I should because it gets all knotted up in the dryer and there’s always a random sock or pair of knickers in the corner, still wet when I take it out.

Depends how dextrose you are, what you need a high sugar level to do up a few buttons. Straining the buttons by doing them up. Those who only put bedding in the machine,do you have tiny machines,or infinite cheap electricity? Mine only goes on with a full load. I'm not sure whether items inside a duvet cover would be washed satisfactory with today's machines that take in so little water,to save that plus energy.