To think sleeping without a top sheet is minging?

[RevoltingPeasant]

DP likes to sleep with a sheet covering the mattress (obviously) and then just a duvet on top.

I think this is skanky, esp since DP doesn't wash his duvet cover every week () and so it gets really sweaty. I also think it's weird and wrong to not have a sheet above and below you.

AIBU?

Are you sure you're not American? Apparently this is more common in the states.

we had top sheets before duvets

OP admit it you have plastic covers on your sofa dont you?

Could you clarify if your DP has a duvet cover on duvet - because if so then you are most VUB? Who on earth has a sheet below a duvet?
But if hes just got a duvet without a cover...

Obviously I've heard of a top sheet but only in conjunction with a blanket and bedspread (showing my age now ) never with a duvet.

breathe

Let me check.... Oh, wow! Actually, it turns out I am

readywithwellies

I can believe how many people care. I thought this would get about 3 responses.

AmazingBF... oh the shame!! No, I don't actually. But I do love your Draco ref.

I have a top sheet sometimes!

Usually in the summer so I can hurl the duvet back but still have a cover.

sits in old fogey corner with Revolting Peasant

Aww bedspreads. A I BU to want a candlewick bedspread? Used to have one at my Nannas house.

RP, Thank you well done on getting the reference!

Don't know about minging but very draughty, oooh I do like a top sheet me!

Yes, ABF what ever happened to candlewick ?

I change bed linen when it gets skanky rather than religiously once a week. And get the duvets dry cleaned about once a year. There, I've said it.

I tried a top sheet once. I bought a set of bedding that included it so I gave it a go. It lasted approx 5 mins before I had to get out of bed, unwrap myself and re-make the bed without it. Fucking annoying.

Engelbert, how are you supposed to air the duvet before making the bed? Does it count if you leave the duvet in a scrumpled heap for a bit?

Candlewicks are lovely too...I had one from the charity shop for the dog, it was beautiful!

very seventies, white with an orange and yellow starburst on it!

I used it on the guest bed for ages before I gave it to the dog.

We used to have goose feather eiderdowns mmmmmm prickly, but made you feel safe under the weight of it

yes candlewick,at my nanna's too.

a blanket and nylon sheets!

top sheet was deffo back in the days before duvets. I remember the day we switched to duvets, in our house. It was so so exciting, the quilts came from M&S in a box, must have been 1978 ish. I still have that single duvet on dd's bed. !!

i just turn my duvet over completely to air on the bed for a few hours.

I have never used a top sheet with a duvet. Ever.

YABU

I have lots of candlewick: orange, purple, yellow, yellow with flowers... they're on rotation for snuggling under when I'm watching the telly

(old gimmer)

(curtains always drawn, lest the neighbours should see)

My nan used to have layers and layers of sheets and bedspreads and god knows what tucked in all really tightly and I still remember now the horror of waking up in the middle of the night, trapped upside down unable to move under it all :o

I have a bedspread over my duvet in the winter when it's cold

now for another confession...

We have two pillows, one plain one fancy and dh is NOT ALLOWED to sleep on the good pillow

Men make white bedding go a skanky yellow, even if you boil wash!

I just use a flat sheet in summer when its too hot for a duvet I didnt think it was odd to not use one under the duvet, i wash bedding every sunday :)

I do have a top sheet under my duvet. On the spare bed in the spare room. Then when we have visitors I don't have to bugger about taking the duvet cover off to wash it when it's only been slept in once.