AIBU to wonder where duvet covers with poppers have gone?

[Cornettoninja]

Am I just being too cheap and need to go somewhere more expensive?

I’m completely sick of having to change three beds and fiddle around with bloody buttons; or even worse some ridiculous flap system

Ofthread my Muji zipper was invisible zip and well concealed!

Sorry, it's me - I've been hoarding them all for years! As to poppers that melt in the dryer - not the metal ones. You need the posh poppers :)

My Ikea one that I have on now has poppers.

RogueV
The flaps at bottom are to tuck under your mattress. I absolutely live this style- no buttons or poppers.

I wish they sold these in UK

My duvet cover has zips around all 4 sides.

I don't fancy snuggling into a zip at the top end! All our duvets have buttons. Annoying when one comes off.

If you do the poppers up, they don't melt in the dryer.

We wash our duvet covers inside out and poppered up, then all you need to do before pretending you're a ghost to fit it is unpopper the poppers.

You can buy snap faster tools and loads of different coloured poppers (snap fasteners) for less than £15 for the whole lot.

I use mine all the time to add poppers to bedding, children's clothes and adding tabs yo stuff etc.

amazon link to snap fastener sets

Duvet covers had poppers in the 80's, 90's and 00's and didn't melt in the dryer - it's fake news!
I hate buttons on duvets.

I want a duvet with poppers (or a zip, I guess!) that actually fits, rather than leaving you with a foot extra material all round. What is it with that???

I much prefer buttons the poppers sometimes melt in the dryer

How strange! I changed all the bedsheets yesterday and was silently cursing the buttons! I too miss poppers, and have somehow over the years accumulated ONLY button bottoms

H&M ones (at least the kids’ ones we have) not only have the slits in the top for pulling the duvet up to the top, but also just had a smallish opening at the other end with NO FASTENINGS at all. It’s very freeing. Just shove the duvet in, hold the corners and shake it all into place and you’re done. I know I could just not bother buttoning up my other duvet covers, but I can’t seem to bring myself not to conscientiously do each individual one up.

I actually check the fastenings because I really really dont like buttons (even writing the word is cringy to me) as Im weird. Also when they fall off they make me want to vom. Eugh. Like I said Im weird.

Asda and Leeds United stores have poppers. When I checked in Primark they had buttons. Must check again.

Dont think I like the idea of zips. Only because Ive not seen them before.

Oh and my poppers have never melted in the dryer

I've got one duvet cover with a zip and it drives me mad. Whenever I change the bed and put that one on, I have to turn the bloody thing round and round before I can find the zip. I never have that problem with poppers or buttons.

How interesting that buttons are now deemed to be upmarket compared with poppers.

I remember when duvets (or continental quilts, as they were then known) first became widely available in the UK in the mid '70s. Covers were mostly rather boring and plain and fastened with buttons. By the late '70s they had really taken off and Marks and Spencer (then deemed to be upmarket and aspirational) started selling them - and their covers had poppers, which were deemed superior to buttons!

I hate the buttons! I ripped a whole load off the other day thinking it was the popper ones, only when they shot off and bounced off the bedroom wall did i realise they were buttons.

Buttons are not upmarket - they are just the norm. They break in half in the dryer and are a pain to fasten.

Melted poppers aren’t fake news, I have unusable duvet covers to prove it.

I have a very old Ikea cover that just had a gaping flap so I put my own poppers on it (metal so they don't melt, not that I usually tumble dry duvet covers anyway as they just get all bunched up and outside is burnt to a crisp while the middle stays wet).

With Ikea they seem to do the 'lots of small cost saving things which will add up to a lot extra profit when we sell millions of items' thing so I expect that it costs more to put buttons on than poppers or nothing at all.

Its the cheap ones that have poppers.