To think making the bed is bl**dy hazardous?

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Dull maybe, but it's really getting to me!
We have a bed frame where the mattress sort of sits inside it, iyswim, and a big fairly heavy mattress. Both of which are fairly new and we love.

But putting the sheets on the mattress is like dicing with death. (Huge exaggeration obvs)

I have skinned knuckles and this time a bent back nail that feels like razorblades have been at it

I lift each corner of the mattress for the mattress protector and fitted sheet, and then push the sides down by sliding my hands between mattress and frame.

How the F does anyone do this without sustaining injury?!

PS, sorry this is banal.

😂 I feel your pain! I'm short so I struggle with the duvet cover and end up smothered by it, I wish beds would change themselves!

Do it together. Much easier. Half each and helps with the weight.

YANBU Last tear I tore a ligament in my wrist, struggling with a single bed mattress. It's left me with chronic pain and weakness.

The lesson is clear: Train the dc early!

I'll tell you another dangerous activity. getting out of bed in the middle of the night to look at the downpour and forgetting exactly where the little table next to the sofa in the bay window is. Rubs sore toe in sympathy with the skinned fingers bent nails and torn ligaments.

God yes Jessie don't get me started on the duvet!! Although I have found that standing on the bed to do it helps a bit.

We do try to do it together usually, just not always possible.

Sorry to hearing viques and stepaway!!

YANBU OP, I think I remember watching a documentary about a singer. In it they mentioned a case where a man was making the bed and burnt the house down.

Have you broken a shin bone walking around the thing too? If not, you're a novice.

I once had a mattress that had fabric handles on it. So easy to lift up for changing.

I kiss that mattress.

MISS. not kiss.

Our mattress is a super king and tempur so it's like trying to lift a sack of cement. The rule is I take the sheets off and DH puts them back on again.

My mother broke her shoulder turning the mattress earlier this year. Beds are damned dangerous things.

try changing the sheets on a 5ft high loft bed...

We got rid of our daughters high sleeper bed because it was a bloody health hazard.

I reckon changing sheets and a super king duvet cover should be taught as a 'life skill' in schools

Made beds on a boat today and smacked my head twice!! Gonna take some getting used to!! (new job!)

If, like me, you are a shortarse and struggle to change a double duvet without tying it and yourself into knots, google the burrito roll method of putting it on. You lay out the cover inside out, put the duvet on top and, starting with the closed end, roll it up. Then you tuck the corners in and unroll it. It works and is much less hassle!

Holy shit hats off to some of these!

toothtrauma cement is right! So you splash out on this lovely stuff and it damn near kills you

Nanasueathome damn straight. Boys and girls.

I stabbed myself in the arm with my own thumbnail pulling the sheet off the bed.

T'is why I love my divan!

We've had our new mattress for about a month. It's very firm and very heavy. Trying to get the fitted sheet under it is definitely dicing with broken fingers.

The instructions say it should be turned every week for the first three months. I don't think so! It gets hoovered every week, but it takes at least two people to lift the thing.