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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:
Ilovemyshed · 03/11/2024 16:29

Yes because otherwise it can get twisted up and other stuff gets caught inside it.

Himawarigirl · 03/11/2024 16:28

I don’t, life’s too short.

NeverDropYourMooncup · 03/11/2024 16:25

YABU.

Buy some iron on Velcro (might need a couple of stitches if you tend to tumble dry at a high temperature) and close the cover before washing it. Bingo - both problems solved.

Rage at buttons is nothing to compared to rage at a soggy mess of crumpled stuff in a tangled duvet.

FedupMumof10YearOld · 03/11/2024 16:22

I have never buttoned but only because it has literally never occurred to me to do so 😂

Flossflower · 03/11/2024 16:21

I button up because pillow cases will end up inside it and make 1 huge ball. This happens in the tumble dryer as well as the washing machine.

HelpMeGetThrough · 03/11/2024 16:21

and......wait for it.....iron!

Nothing wrong with ironed bedding. My mum goes to another level, she iron's underwear.

Her take on it was, they are of an age where hospital can be a regular occurrence, so wants to be "neatly turned out".

Autumnalsun · 03/11/2024 16:17

I don’t because I can’t be bothered but it’s a good idea to button it up first, if you’re not a lazy sod like me.

I don’t see it as that big of a deal to unbutton it before putting it on the bed and then button it again.

As the MN saying goes, if you’re not happy with how someone does the laundry then feel free to do it yourself.

BuzzieLittleBee · 03/11/2024 16:10

Definitely not! But socks and small things don't go in with bedding as it gets washed at 60c. So it's just the sheet, duvet and pillowcases in the load.

Life is too short to be buttoning and unbuttoning duvet covers for washing!

Teaortea · 03/11/2024 16:06

No buttoning, I don't care if items go inside, I shake them out easily enough. It's actually never occured to me to button it up before washing.
I always seem to be putting a clean duvet on the bed when I'm overtired and ready for bed so having to open the buttons first would likely cause me a meltdown!

travelallthetime · 03/11/2024 16:05

no I dont, but that makes so much sense to everything doesnt end up inside it. I will be doing this in future!

FastFood · 03/11/2024 16:04

Nope, and not all of my duvet covers have buttons anyway. Easy to retrieve any rogue sock.

MoneyMill · 03/11/2024 16:03

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!

When, oh when will Mumsnet add a
'This poster is clearly off their head '
button?

Pebbles16 · 03/11/2024 16:01

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!

@Butteredtoast55 you are my type of person - I do the same!

elQuintoConyo · 03/11/2024 16:01

Yes. Bonkers not to. There are about 10 buttons on hours, takes less than a minute.

Conniebygaslight · 03/11/2024 15:59

Yes I do.

HelpMeGetThrough · 03/11/2024 15:53

Yep, I do up every other popper to stop the cover eating everything else that goes in with it.

We've got one that doesn't do up and it's a right pain.

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!

purplebeansprouts · 03/11/2024 15:51

Yes unless its just in with pillow cases or a couple of jumpers or a sheet

kitsuneghost · 03/11/2024 15:50

I button up. Makes it so much easier on the other side

Nannyfannybanny · 03/11/2024 15:48

When I never bothered with the buttons or press studs,my entire washload was inside the duvet cover, learned my lesson, it's always done up before going in the washing machine.yes,it comes off the line like that, means it's easier to fold neatly and smooth out, before putting in the airing cupboard.

PinkiOcelot · 03/11/2024 15:48

No I don’t but when I’ve got pillow cases stuck in it, I always wish I had.

SunblockSue · 03/11/2024 15:44

It has never crossed my mind that you'd button it up before washing!

Hotafternoon · 03/11/2024 15:43

I have a Dorma quilt cover that has a zip. It's so much better than poppers or the fiddly buttons.

I wish all duvet covers were zipped.

Miffylou · 03/11/2024 15:42

YANB AT ALL U! My husband does this too when he puts the washing in and it drives me round the bend. We don't put small things like socks in the same wash and even if a pillowcase does end up inside it’s easy to see and get out. The worst tangle I’ve ever had after a wash, when things got in a real knot and took ages to untangle, was when the cover had been buttoned.

Grrr.

TheNoodlesIncident · 03/11/2024 15:38

I do fasten it up when it gets washed because as PP have said, things get stuck inside and stay scrunched up at the bottom of the duvet cover.

However, because I'm not mad, I don't put the laundered duvet set away with the bottom still fastened up. That would be daft!