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?

Catsmamma I have those fancy pillowcases too. I make dh put the plain white one on top when he goes to bed

How DO you get that skanky yellow colour out of the pillowcases? And why is it that dh's and dd's pillowcases have it but mine don't? I am obvs much cleaner than them

EngelbertFustianMcSlinkydog

I air my bed all day every day. I don't really see the point of making the bed :-D

They do don't they Catsmamma. What's the yellow thing about? I like white bedlinen but DH turns it yellow so I've had to get more colourful.

Oh for fucks sake... I am clearly old and just like my mother

We always have a top sheet - although my duvet cover does get laundered regularly too (not every week like my sheets do though).

I also have plain pillow cases covering the pillows and then the proper cases to match the duvet cover on top of them. And I turn my good pillows over to the plain side so we are not putting our heads on the fancy bit

I always though the yellow was caused by dribbling

Am I right in thinking it's GetOrf that has the ultimate authority in bedding issues? She who changes the beds daily....?

Until she has spoken, I shall reserve judging your weird behaviour.

In summer, I often have a top sheet under the duvet cover but mainly so that if it gets too hot for the duvet, I can kick it off and still have something over me (can't sleep with nothing over me).

Once a week washing duvet cover and sheets is fine, unless it's minging and needs it a bit more

'I turn my good pillows over to the plain side so we are not putting our heads on the fancy bit'

I swear if some of you saw the midden we live in, you would have me tarred and feathered in the middle of the Good Housekeeping square

I haven't had a top sheet since I lived with my gran as a child, and it was sheet, itchiest blanket known to man, and a feather eiderdown for winter.

The point of duvets is to remove the need for top sheet madness.

X post Tyler

Yes, unless you change yer duvet covers and sheets every day, OP, YOU are a minger

We have separate duvets, his side is somewhat smellier, and can be changed more often (more than once a week!)

Sorry, I meant tainted

This top sheet thing is just plain weird. Anyway top sheets attack you in the middle of the night.

What's with all the fancy pillows too? I'm imagining lace a frou frou and Hyacinth Bouquet

bellavita thank God, I knew there must be one!!

yes catsmamma my nice white pillowcases have also mysteriously old-man yellow. Bleach??

Haha, I knew you'd be along soon GetOrf, you smelt the washing powder, didn't you?

You maintain the authority for sheer dedication to bedding!

Ah, now you see I have been thinking of starting up 'top sheets" in our house,m because I hate changing duvet covers with a passion, and was thinking it might mean doing it less often (or being minging less often)

GetOrf, well, I only change my sheets once or twice a week but then I am Revolting.

'top sheets attack you'.... Not unless you provoke them!!

AIBU to think children should be taught to behave properly around top sheets from an early age?

Thank heavens for the arrival of GOML - the arbitor of bedding issues.

I only know old people who do this with top sheet.

Yes what is that yellow business all about? How much do husband's faces sweat???

YABU they get tangled up and annoying, I just ripped mine off one frustrating night. If you wash your cover regularly there is no problem.

nah...i am a dribbler, but my pillow cases are not yellow....it's man skin that makes them go yellow.

and the good pillowcases are not frou frou, they are the ones that match the duvet, he has to sleep on the plain ones instead. [nagging wife smiley]

I get tangled up enough with the duvet getting wrapped round me and DP. Me and DP battle with the duvet all night - sometimes we wake up with the popper side of the duvet at the top. I swear it is the bedding equivalent of the aftermath of Stalingrad (hence why I change the sheets so much, it's easier to do that than make the bed).

onetoomanycornettos you and your DH have one duvet each? What, a single duvet on each side? What prompted that madness interesting arrangement?

I also have to change the pillowcases every day as I go to sleep with my make up on, and my pillowcase looks like the Turin shroud (the Barbara Cartland version) in the morning.

Revolting