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Do you button up your duvet cover before washing?

184 replies

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.

OP posts:
NoWordForFluffy · 03/11/2024 17:51

ShinyPrettyThings87 · 03/11/2024 15:36

I button every other button. Does the job of keeping everything from bundling inside, without taking too long to undo again when it's bedtime and you've just remembered you haven't made the bed!

Snap!

blackcatsblackcats · 03/11/2024 17:51

Clearly you need to buy bedding with less annoying buttons.

Fridgemanageress · 03/11/2024 17:49

Yes. It stops the carnage

BlastedPimples · 03/11/2024 17:47

No. I don't button it up. I wash all bedlinen together and not with smalls so nothing gets caught inside the duvet cover.

How annoying to have to do buttons again and again.

Gingerbee · 03/11/2024 17:46

Yes, easier to iron or hang on the line.
I know I'm sad but I love getting into a clean bed without wrinkles

Floralnomad · 03/11/2024 17:45

I always button them up , it’s easier to dry them buttoned as well

BookishType · 03/11/2024 17:43

Yes, always button them up otherwise they eat the pillow cases and fitted sheets.

BIossomtoes · 03/11/2024 17:43

JustRollWithIt · 03/11/2024 17:33

Wow I can't believe so many people button it up. That has never ever crossed my mind. That said, I wouldn't usually put anything else in with the bedding when washing it

You don’t wash the pillowcases at the same time? Because I do and they end up in a clump in the corner of the duvet cover if it’s left open.

msmatcha · 03/11/2024 17:41

I never do..... but what a good idea. Why am I not doing this!

JustRollWithIt · 03/11/2024 17:33

Wow I can't believe so many people button it up. That has never ever crossed my mind. That said, I wouldn't usually put anything else in with the bedding when washing it

mydogisthebest · 03/11/2024 17:13

GrandHighPoohbah · 03/11/2024 16:56

No I don't, but I only wash it with a sheet and two pillow cases, so nothing that small.

I only wash mine with the sheet and 4 pillow cases but if I don't button the duvet cover everything usually goes inside the duvet cover, doesn't wash properly, gets really really creased and then goes inside again in the tumble dryer and doesn't dry properly

GrandHighPoohbah · 03/11/2024 16:56

No I don't, but I only wash it with a sheet and two pillow cases, so nothing that small.

BIossomtoes · 03/11/2024 16:52

I button it up because it takes far longer to remove the pillowcases at the end of the wash and do it all over again when it all comes out of the tumble dryer.

xyz111 · 03/11/2024 16:51

Yes I button it up before washing otherwise the entire washing machine of clothes seems to get wrapped up inside.

TheDogsMother · 03/11/2024 16:51

No I couldn't be bothered with that. Throw it all in then give the duvet cover a shake before hanging up and everything falls out.

ObtuseMoose · 03/11/2024 16:50

I only unbutton two buttons to remove the duvet, I pull it like a magician pulling handkerchiefs from his sleeve, rebutton the buttons then wash. I don't like it open and devouring the rest of the laundry.

Boomer55 · 03/11/2024 16:49

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.

Yes. Because it t turns itself inside out and creates a clump, my machine won’t spin it properly.

Laiste · 03/11/2024 16:47

I button up (zip actually, ours has a zip)

I HATE it when stuff goes inside the cover and it all balls up into a big heavy lump. Doesn't wash properly and is a PITA to get unbunched. And it bashes round in the machine drum and that isn't good for the machine.

HATE it also when if left undone it turns itself inside out in the wash.

Pascha · 03/11/2024 16:47

Butteredtoast55 · 03/11/2024 15:53

I'm prepared to accept I'm in a minority but I button it, wash it and then unbutton to dry and......wait for it.....iron!

Me too. Also wash, fold and store inside out so its ready to chuck on the duvet.

murasaki · 03/11/2024 16:43

This is a bone of deep contention in our house. I button, DP doesn't and it gives me the rage. I left his socks that fell out of it on the grass this summer to prove my point. But he still won't see reason.

MaryGreenhill · 03/11/2024 16:43

YABU

Chemenger · 03/11/2024 16:43

This has never occurred to me. I only wash duvet covers with other bedding, so only pillowcases to get inside them, sheets don’t seem to. I don’t tumble dry bedding so everything comes out when I hang up the duvet cover. Certainly never wash bedding with socks or jumpers like PPs. I do iron bedding now I’m retired and have the time, because it feels nicer. I think having the buttons done up when I’m putting the cover on would, on balance, annoy me more than fishing pillow cases out of the cover to hang them up. There is a scientific explanation for small items getting stuck in duvet covers, it’s all down to thermodynamics, like most things.

Christwosheds · 03/11/2024 16:37

I don’t, but I wash the duvet covers with the sheet, not with small items.

mydogisthebest · 03/11/2024 16:33

Yes I do because otherwise the sheet and pillow cases end up inside it and end up as creased as hell and no way am I ironing bedding

Sgtmajormummy · 03/11/2024 16:29

Wash and dry it inside out to save the colours, Flip it back onto the duvet by grabbing the corners and turning it right way round. Any lost socks will magically be returned to you.
Obviously you’ll feel if anything larger got stuck inside.