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To think sleeping without a top sheet is minging?

172 replies

RevoltingPeasant · 20/02/2011 20:42

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 (Hmm) and so it gets really sweaty. I also think it's weird and wrong to not have a sheet above and below you.

AIBU?

OP posts:
itsalarf · 20/02/2011 21:44

I could not sleep if the duvet poppers were in the wrong place - that is anywhere except the bottom of the bed. Think I will experiment with a top sheet, even though you all say it leads to tangling hell. Can't be worse than changing duvet covers.

MumGoneCrazy · 20/02/2011 21:45

Only time I've slept with a sheet over me was during late pregnancy with DD1....very hot june and july and could not sleep with duvet...I've never used both.

tyler80 · 20/02/2011 21:46

OH and I have a double duvet cover each, instigated by me. I'm a notorious duvet stealer, easier to have my own then I can be cocooned in it entirely. I've since found out that it's fairly common in Denmark and Germany to each have a duvet cover (OH is Danish)

MumGoneCrazy · 20/02/2011 21:47

The poppers on the cover we're using at the moment are on the side so I made sure DP gets that side Grin

BuzzLiteBeer · 20/02/2011 21:47

but then you must need a sheet between you and the top sheet. And another one between that.

Basically what you need is an infinite number of sheets stretching out for all eternity.....

trixymalixy · 20/02/2011 21:49

My MIL puts top sheets under the duvet covers, they always get wrapped round me.

They are pointless as some part of me always ends up in contact with the duvet cover so both will have to be washed ( I hope!!) just creating more washing.

EleanorJosie · 20/02/2011 21:50

No it's a great idea, or maybe two double duvets?

I quite like sleeping under sheets, blanket and a counterpane/eiderdown in a hotel but would find it all a bit of a faff at home. I didn't have a duvet or 'continental quilt' until I was about 13 though.

GetOrfMoiLand · 20/02/2011 21:52

You have 2 double duvets??

In the same bed?

Christ you must have those great big massive beds.

Or you roll up like human swiss rolls in them of a night.

AintMissBeehiving · 20/02/2011 21:55

My Dsis and her DH have two double duvets on their bed. She swears by them for stopping all the duvet hogging.

bellavita · 20/02/2011 21:55

We have a kingsize duvet on our double bed.

tyler80 · 20/02/2011 21:55

I roll up like a massive swiss roll, hence the need for my own duvet. No idea what the OH does, I'm normally already asleep when he gets into bed. Or rather I've already gone to sleep, he gets into bed and we talk but in the morning I'm completely unaware of these conversations Grin

Original poster
RevoltingPeasant · 20/02/2011 21:56

Ah yes, that unbeatable Swiss roll feeling...

The thing is, DP is like a furnace (I actually call him FurnaceMan) so the sheet also provides a layer of coolant between us.

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oopslateagain · 20/02/2011 21:57

I had a single duvet on each side too. We stayed in a hotel in Germany and that was what they did, OMG I managed a whole night without waking up freezing cos dh had kicked the duvet off, it was heaven.

I bought two Tescovalue single duvets and Tescovalue highly fashionable duvet covers for our bed. They were great, for a whole week. Until I realised it meant struggling with two bloody duvet covers every wash.

Dd now has a spare duvet and two nice spare covers too. Grin

bellavita · 20/02/2011 21:59

I have never rolled up like a swiss roll in my duvet in my life Grin

foreverondiet · 20/02/2011 22:00

Not really sure why you need top sheet if you have duvet cover thats washed weekly.

I don't know anyone who uses a top sheet.

BUT I think its pretty minging to just cover the mattress with just a sheet and no mattress protector.

I wash the mattress protector maybe every 6-8 weeks and I am always Shock by how smelly it gets and am Confused how anyone would want all that grease/sweat going into the mattress etc.

I generally only wash duvets in summer so they can dry outside but of course duvet covers washed each week.

vintageteacups · 20/02/2011 22:05

top sheets make it sooooo much more snuggly and warmer in winter too

OgreTripletsAreSoCute · 20/02/2011 22:05

MIL does this top sheet thing, I hate it too, tangles you up. She tucks the duvet in all the way round too, so that the duvet only comes up as far as the front edge of the pillows. I need duvet snuggled right up round my neck so I have to tug it all out before I can sleep. Having it tucked in pulls it tight over us too, you end up with a cold tunnel down the middle of the bed, grrr.

vintageteacups · 20/02/2011 22:06

OMG yes - that's a nan thing - tucking in the duvet so you just lie there butt cold Grin

ginmakesitallok · 20/02/2011 22:06

My Mum uses top sheets - we just sleep on top of it when we stay at hers. I do have happy memories of being properly tucked in when a child, with a nice tight top sheet - especially at my Grans with lots of blankets and a metal hot water bottle in a home knitted bottle cover (but when we stayed at hers and needed a wee in the night we had to use an old fashioned pot that was kept under the bed - not so good!!)

Am Sad that my DDs will never experience being properly tucked in!

OgreTripletsAreSoCute · 20/02/2011 22:08

DS loves being rolled uo into a "caterpillar" of duvet, gives that lovely tucked in feeling.

Catsmamma · 20/02/2011 22:12

I tuck the duvet in at the bottom in case the goblins from under the bed get me my feet get cold.

but I do sleep down the bed with my feet between the mattress and the footboard.

GetOrfMoiLand · 20/02/2011 22:13

My daughter tucks her duvet in all round, and just creeps in teh tiny tight gap at the top. She likes the feeling of being tucked in, god knows why, it would freak me out.

helewele · 20/02/2011 22:15

Top sheets all the way in this house, so def NBU! I change everything on a Sunday too went to stay with exMIL, and the sheets didn't even fit properly, I made the bed up to show her how it was done Wink and was horrified to see her teenagers slept on the bare matress Shock when teenage DD visited me, she couldn't believe that she had sheets and proper pillows on her bed!

randomimposter · 20/02/2011 22:23

Top sheets? Odd.

Mind you, DP and I are only still together (20 years) because we have separate duvets. A double each on a king size bed. I could just about share with him, he just won't share with me Grin.