fucking duvet cover

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I don't generally iron stuff, as I'm quite lazy. However, today just did a deep-clean of our bedroom and realised once I was finished that my creased bed linen was ruining the effect of the otherwise lovely clean room. Hmm I thought, maybe this once it would be worth making the effort to iron the duvet cover and pillow cases and enjoy at least a few hours of a beautiful neat room before it turns back into usual pit of despair.

Well, what a fucking waste of time that was.

It took SO LONG. King size duvet cover. I think it took me almost half an hour, is that normal? And then the complete pisser, it didn't really get out the creases!!!! I mean it looked better, I think, but it didn't look hotel-beautiful or like when my MIL does it. We have a decent iron (as far as I know, DH manages to make his shirts look nice). What went wrong? Do people actually do this on a regular basis, and if so are you the same people who wash your sheets like three times a week, and if so how do you ever get anything else done?! And how do you get the actual sodding creases out????

So as well as my questions above, AIBU to never iron a duvet cover again, as it doesn't work and no one needs to know or care about my wrinkly bed?

Iron the top third, use a lovely throw to hide the rest.

I'm absolutly AMAZED at the ammount of people who don't iron their bedding- and , going by this thread it seems to be the majority!! I don't know how you can't iron your bedding. It looks dreadful if it's not ironed. It takes me ten mins to iron my duvet covers and the trick is to spend time on folding it right before you start ironing. Fold in half lengthways so the underside of the duvet is showing and iron one side. Now flip it over and do the other side. Re fold it with the upper side showing and repeat the ironing, doing both sides. Take a bit more care with this side as this is the side which is on show. Fold carefully in half, and keep folding until you get it to the size you want for storage. I iron the side facing me after each fold too. I change my bed every week but as I have a top flat sheet I change the duvet cover every other time. Withpractice it takes ten minutes. Fifteen if your iron isn't very good. I can't understand why you wouldn't invest ten mins on something that looks soooooo much better and feels so much nicer. What's the point of buying good quality bed linen if you don't iron it? And everybody must surely be in agreement that an ironed duvet looks so much better than an Unironed one. If it didn't look and feel so much better then hotels wouldn't do it would they??

Ah, well, thats precisely why i chose this duvet cover www.urbanoutfitters.com/en-gb/shop/marble-print-duvet-set?category=home-dreambedroom-collection&color=018
Muahaha. I am not know to iron.

Hehe Mouse. I don't even bother doing that. I cover the top third with cushions. Bottom two thirds with a throw .

I'm quite happy to do these for you.
£1.50 a single, £2 a double, £2.50 a king and £3 a super king.

The amount of people who are willing to pay to have their ironing done still surprises me.

As Victoria Wood once said "I would rather go in for a piano smashing competition than change the duvet!"

If you have a tumble dryer, bung them in there and take them out the second they have done, shake them out and lay hem flat (DO NOT put them back on the bed at this point). When they are cold, remake the bed and smooth out. Will look better than after ironing :)

IMO the only reason an ironed bed seems better is because of the moral superiority one feels having ironed it. It may still have creases but they were put there by the honest toil of a good and proper wife.

Blimey, that's cheap Drumroll . You're not in Bristol by any chance, are you?

Heman Fraid not, whilst I do delivery and collection you're slightly out of my catchment area of east Leeds it's easy work, minimum priced orders, fits round the baby.

I iron all the bedding and rarely wash it on a weekly basis.
I do end up with one big crease down the middle on a double/king duvet but I figure that still looks better than the awful mess of creases that would happen if I didn't iron at all.

Meh, I don't spend much time looking at my bed. If I'm near it, I'm probably in it to sleep so a few creases don't bother me.

That's a shame Drumroll I thought I was onto something then .

So am I the only one who doesnt bother making the bed then? On the basis that once I am out of it I wont look at it again until bed time so what does it matter?

I suspect I may be.....

Probably because they got a best quality material. Or wrinkle free cover. I would hang it outside until it is partly dry, and then dry it in the dryer

I've never ironed bedding in my life, and virtually nothing else either. Nor can I say that I even notice whether anyone else has or hasn't.

I don't do ironing. The iron gets very little exercise in this house.

I don't make the bed either. I'm clearly a lazy bugger.

Abit off topic but how do you make a feather duvet look neat. Mine looks like there are hobbits living in it.

I don't iron bed covers or anything else

My covers get all creases out in the tumble dryer, so they look fine.

I don't make the bed either. It's healthier apparently. A neatly made bed encourages bed bugs

It's healthier apparently. A neatly made bed encourages bed bugs

You see, I always knew that...honest!

I hate how long household jobs take. Changing beds is awful. I'd never iron a duvet cover as no one else sees it anyway, but if you want the bed to look neat and lovely, have a (non-iron type) blanket or bedspread on top?

I might iron a duvet for a guest but who on earth is looking at my bed other than me??? Life's too short.

Or you could solve the problem by dumping the duvet and having lovely sheets and blankets

This only really works in dry weather, but I get the bedding out of the machine the minute it finishes and get the duvet cover straight on the line. I shake the worst of creases out by sort of flapping it, then peg it out really tight. Then the breeze blows out the rest of them.

That leaves just a line down the middle where it was pegged on the line, which takes two minutes to iron.

In the winter, I live with a wrinkly duvet cover.

Iron on low when it's on the bed. I do the same with the sheet too.

And I've just sorted all our covers out so they are less creased. I fold the quilt cover and three pillowcases that belong in the set then put them inside the 4th pillowcase of the set so when it comes to changing the bed, it's all together. I have two sheets per set (one cotton and one brushed cotton) so I pick this too (cotton for spring/summer, brushed cotton for autumn/winter)

And our bedding is washed weekly, sometimes fortnightly in the cooler months.

Ah curses, all these suggestions are making me want to try again!! I may be a slatternly housewife, but I am scientifically curious. I have investigated my duvet cover, it is Primark's finest 50% cotton 50% polyester. Is this good or bad do you think? For reference, I ironed the duvet cover whilst damp, tried to do it in folded sections but it wasn't making a dent; even doing a very single side (i.e. putting the ironing board essentially inside the duvet cover) wasn't making much difference, plus I started getting 'lost' inside the damn thing.

The ironing on the bed thing is intriguing me, but I still don't understand where the duvet is at this point - is it in the duvet cover? We have a feather duvet, I feel like I would lose the iron in a big pile of flumph?

TBH DrumrollCheese has by far the most tempting suggestion - £2.50 to make the whole problem go away? That sounds like an absolute bargain.