How many duvet covers?

My parents have 6 duvet sets of which 3 are for spring and summer. The other 3 are autumn and winter. Not got seasonal images on them but the latter 3 are darker colours.

If you have a tumble dryer I suppose you can cope for one for each season and it would be dry the same day.

Same here. Surely you’d need 2 duvet covers and pillowcase sets for each season (one on and one in the wash) - that’s a lot of duvet covers that only get used for a short period of time each year. Definitely not for me!

Can't be doing with seasonal covers. Also any seasonal homeware. Supposed to have autumn crockery, mugs, cushions. FO!

We prefer to have plain ones, but in different colours that have been chosen to complement other things in the room. Neither of us are really fans of patterned duvet covers and I'd hate to have loads of different patterned ones. We both don't see the point of seasonally patterned ones - but if it makes other people happy.....

Btw, that doesn't mean we don't like pattern - quite the opposite in fact as we're both maximalists 😉 - and our pillowcases (or rather, the top pair of which we have several different Australian sets as they seem to produce more interesting designs) are patterned, but no florals currently as I'm not really a fan of those unless they're vintage or ditsy style.

In our bedroom the curtains (two windows) are patterned as is the large wool rug, plus the large lampshades on the bedside tables and the block print throw over the end of the bed, plus there's loads of colourful art/books - so no shortage of pattern!

I’ve just seen one I’m eyeing up (I am a bargain hunter!)
https://dusk.com/products/tisno-100-cotton-duvet-cover-pillowcase-set-dotty-animal-print-white-black

@buffybots amazing! Mine were about £100 from M and S or JL. Lesson learnt!

Sheets is interesting @Denim4ever I have more sheets than duvet sets!

Our mattress is really deep and it's a struggle to find ones that fit without pinging off, when I found one in Tesco that worked and it was on sale I bought about five of them.

I find that sheets wear out quicker than duvet covers, also means if something happens like I get my period on the sheets I don't have to change the whole bed, so works having more than the amount of duvet sets you have I think.

We have 2 for each bed in the house.

They are all in a pop up Ottoman in spare double room with sheets and pillow cases.

I read this and thought you ment how many do you sleep with. I just imagined this bed with all these winter duvets piled up and my initial thought was 'oh god, they must really feel the cold!' Not realising you ment the bedding. I have 3. No festive or Halloween ones unfortunately as DH doesn't like them.

@Denim4ever nope, as I said, two sets, we don’t even have a tumble dryer! But I don’t feel the need to have a variety of duvet covers any more than I keep spare bedroom curtains in different colours to alternate. If you have lots of storage space and it makes you happy then why not? Just didn’t know it was a thing people did.

2 for each bed. One on, one off

I find it odd to have just one or two exactly the same. It's nice to have different ones.

If you only have one cover and have to wash and dry in one day then you are making the worst job - bed making - a task you do in 2 halves. Stripping and making up being the 2 halves. Not to mention laundering and ironing, if you bother to.

Do some people only have one set of pillow cases and one fitted sheet?

Someone who sees another one they like and there's no need to throw away the old ones?

I go to the laundrette once a month so I need to use more then two before washing sometimes.

I think I have at least 4.

2 I rotate on our bed , one of which is new so the older one is in the “ Hot Press “ ( what are these “airing cupboards”? ) along with :
the festive duvet
and 2 other duvets for the spare bed

But there are also
At least 4 more unwanted presents / older duvets from years ago which are poly cotton and should be thrown out

plus god knows how many single duvets, none of which we need anymore either.

I need a clear out !

You'd dry stuff, outdoors or on a clothes horse or airer, and iron it before you folded it and put it away in the airing cupboard. Many houses were colder and damper then (single glazing, no central heating etc) than they are now so the linen would stay drier in the airing cupboard then it would elsewhere.

Yes, nice big airing cupboard,tank and emersion heater for the solar panels. No sun or wind for a week now, I can hang small items of clothing,tea cloths over the bottom 2 shelves.
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2 for each of the single spare beds and ours, got Williams Morris curtains last year, duvet covers co-ordinate with them.

Oh, was that the idea? It did have the hot water tank in it. But how does anything get dried effectively when it's all folded up? Wouldn't it have "aired" better on an actual airer, unfolded? The whole house was warm - she had central heating. And a tumble dryer (so the stuff was already warm and dry prior to going in the cupboard). Maybe it was just a habit going back to before she had either...

2 every day duvet covers,one on the bed and one in the wash.
I also have 1 Christmas duvet set.

An airing cupboard saved my old Nokia when I dropped it in a milkshake
dried it out nicely. I do miss having one, it was great for warm pjs

Airing cupboards usually had the hot water tank or immersion heater at the bottom so bedding etc placed on the slotted shelves above would get thoroughly warmed and dry.

One. I wash it, dry it and put it back on. This used to cause genuine distress and worry to my grandma (RIP) who thought that wearing clothes / sleeping in sheets that hadn't been "aired" was potentially fatal. She had something called an "airing cupboard" - as a child I used to wonder how putting anything in a cupboard would "air" it, and I still do (anyone?). I do not have an airing cupboard and the deadly sheets haven't got me yet.

I don’t find them mega expensive, I can usually pick one up for £30-45

this is my most recent, I also shop the la redoute sale and TK maxx plus Asda

https://www.dunelm.com/product/the-linen-yard-hebden-reversible-100-cotton-duvet-cover-pillowcase-set-1000212570?defaultSkuId=30719344&gad_campaignid=19815172305&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADGqyX3ZNpapeHVquHir2528wLTlV&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIsfbkr5GvkAMVhJJQBh1Z_ibdEAQYASABEgJORPD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds&utm_campaign=Bedding_Duvet+Covers-PMax_%5BGOO-PLA-BEDDING-COVERS%5D&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&beddingSize=Super+Kingsize&colour=Natural+%28Cream%29