Would you store duvets in the loft?

[sleepingrabbits]

We are currently doing my toddlers room, so she can move out of our bedroom into a bed in her own space. I said to MIL it needs a wardrobe and filling/ painting. She says well a toddler doesn't need a wardrobe, just a rail. Well, we have a rail in there now and everything is dusty and I can't put or hide anything away to be stored. I said I want to put duvets and the spare pillows and things in the top of a fitted wardrobe, plus spare coats and jackets. Plus of course some of toddlers bits. MIL says people store that stuff in the loft. Do they?

Firstly our loft isn't boarded and has mega thick insulation which gets into everything, plus no ladder, so to sort this I'd not be saving any money v getting a wardrobe. I feel normal people have wardrobes and aibu to want a wardrobe not the hassle of scaling the loft for duvets ? I don't normally suffer MIL rage, but this has annoyed me big time.

Sorry that sounded quite harsh.

What I mean is whose duvet is it?

My daughter was always having friends to stay so we had a few cheap single duvets which we stored in the loft wrapped in binbags. They were fine but they were down every few weeks being used. Our loft is boarded with a loft ladder and it provides so much storage.

Otherwise we store our out of season duvets under our ottoman beds.

But it doesn't really matter what I do. You do whatever suits you. I can't even imagine discussing my duvet storage systems with my MIL.

We do, in vacuum bags.

50% of the items in our attic are clothes/duvets etc.

I do worry about mice getting into the clothes but have never seen signs of them and I keep the best clothes in suitcases and the lesser stuff in IKEA storage bags (4 massive bags for £9).

If this is your house then why on earth is MIL telling you what furniture you can have / need?

No, I store duvets under the bed, but it's got storage under it that you can get to by lifting the mattress. So bloody handy.

Has this thread made anyone else buy vacuum storage bags? I've just bought six. 😅Not for the loft, but for our airing cupboard.

We have summer duvets and winter duvets. Is that unusual?

..Or, put MIL the loft. Then board the loft.

No way. The mice, rats or possibly squirrels would eat them.

(thatched house, rodents with hobnail boots each winter 😁)

Tell your MIL to butt out.

No, I’d store spare duvets etc in the airing cupboard and wardrobes. Too cold and musty in the loft.

We’ve recently moved and DH put the old baby clothes (in storage bags) in the loft, but this has reminded me it’s a bad idea so we’ll get them down to the wardrobes.

@Werehamster

We have summer duvets and winter duvets. Is that unusual?

Not in Australia.

@Werehamster

We have summer duvets and winter duvets. Is that unusual?

Same here, we have those all in ones (10.5 tog attaches to 4.5 to create 15 tog).

Except lately we seem to use the 4.5 year round!

MIL is not telling me what to do, she is trying to tell me what to do 🤣 I don't have to listen to her, just she's got on my nerves as she seems to think having a wardrobe in a bedroom is a ridiculous idea. I just think most people would think it was standard to have a wardrobe. But apparently I'm extravagant, but getting the loft boarded and installing a ladder isn't?