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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:
ClytemnestraWasMisunderstood · 03/11/2024 15:38

I have a duvet cover witth a zip along each edge. It is a godsend!
All other covers are buttoned; bastards, havecto be done up!

NorthantsNewbie · 03/11/2024 15:36

I don’t, but we have super king size bedding and I don’t wash it all at once to avoid overloading the machine, so I just wash the duvet cover by itself. Whoever wants to button it should also be responsible for unbuttoning, though.

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!

mondaytosunday · 03/11/2024 15:36

Yes I do button it up. Better yet I've now bought a washable one that I only put a cover on in winter.
And why don't they all have zips? So much easier!

Mimiconvos · 03/11/2024 15:36

Oh I defo button up before washing and drying, otherwise any small items end up in a ball inside it and don’t get washed properly.

Roystonv · 03/11/2024 15:35

Yes (or rather dh does as designated bed changer) as once the washing got in such a tangle/twist inside the cover that it took ages to untangle it and it was hard work, so never again.

Itstime2023 · 03/11/2024 15:35

Personally I button it because it's so annoying to have everything else get tangled. It's really not adding too much extra time.

BabyCloud · 03/11/2024 15:34

I button it up so that socks and other items don’t end up trapped inside.

Butterflyfern · 03/11/2024 15:34

YABU.

When items get inside the duvet they don't spin so well, so are wetter at the end and so take longer to dry. I only do every other button though, that's usually enough