Top sheet under duvet, yes or no?

[Snowiscold]

Following on from another thread:

A top sheet under a duvet cover is a good idea and normal - YANBU
A top sheet under a duvet cover is weird and defeats the point of a duvet cover. YABU.

Same here, it allows me to pull down the duvet to sleep under just the sheet when I feel overheated, but I can easily pull it back up either partway or all the way when I inevitably feel freezing at 4am. When I change the bedding I change it all so both get washed with the same frequency.

I use a top sheet just so the top of the duvet covers don't get stained with make up not taken off properly. Also, if it's hot you can just have the top sheet. I wash them all when I change the bed.

For me, it's partly because there are still some nights where I feel cold enough to need to the 4.5 tog duvet over at least some of me, and partly because I have nowhere to pack my duvet away in. The 9 tog duvet is already in a vacuum bag under the bed waiting for really cold weather, and I have no more space under there or in my wardrobe or in my hallway storage cupboard. So it stays on my bed, mostly folded down.

No, top sheets are awful. Horrible to sleep under, create extra work bed making, everything gets pulled out and scrunched up when you are trying to sleep.

And bedlinen should get washed anyway, the thought of only washing the top sheet and leaving the duvet cover is skanky.

Just a duvet. Then just the duvet cover when it’s really hot.

Just back from a weekend staying with a friend - had no idea the top sheet might have been to save washing the duvet cover,
Offered to strip the bed & took the lot off.

I have stitched two woollen blankets together and they go inside a duvet cover, which goes on top of a 100% cotton sheet. I cant tolerate polyester or any other man made fibres.

I'm fed up with duvets too.

I have bottom sheet, top sheet, a blanket and then a king sheet (my bed is smaller) tucked over and around the blanket, like a sandwich. Super easy to make and no duvet cover to deal with.

This is for summer, obvs.

I've ticked YABU although we do have a sheet when it's stiflingly hot with the summer duvet at the foot of the bed in case we feel cold later in the night.

In the winter, yes. It’s far easier to dry a sheet than my uber thick cotton winter duvet covers. I’ve bought an extra couple of duvet sets so I don’t have to wash and dry heavy bedding at all from Nov-March and I’ve got some microfibre sheets that dry in no time over the bannister.

Never heard of anyone doing this before, very weird.

It’s really rank to do this to avoid changing the duvet for guests.

YABU one hundred times over.

I bloody hate it when places do this (side eyes in laws).

That's the least of it

Hang out on some of the US hospitality forums - you may never stay in a cheap US motel again!

I wouldn’t do it for guests probably. But surely a duvet done this way is similar to a quilt, and they rarely were washed, guests or not. In winter I’m planning top sheet, blanket(s), then duvet on top. The flat sheet is big enough to fold a long way right over the top of the duvet. Hotels do it, so surely it’s more normal than most people are making out. But the percentages speak. Perhaps it’s country specific. Somehow not common in the U.K. but normal elsewhere.

Changing a sheet is much easier than changing a super king sized duvet cover. So yes, we have a top sheet. Not on the spare beds though, so they get changed after visitors, but the beds are smaller.

I have a sheet under the duvet. It does save on washing. Yesterday I washed everything but not the duvet cover- doesn't touch my skin and also I can't stand wrestling with it. Will do it all next time. The main advantage though is it helps with the menopausal temperature madness.

Cotton flat sheets are expensive and hard to come by these days since fitted sheets became the norm.

Plus I hate fabric bunching around my legs/feet. Making up the bed take longer too.

What’s a Doona?

Why are people still using their duvets in the summer?

Some of us live in Scotland.

I use a light tog duvet year round with a wool blanket as well if I get cold.
An extra sheet sounds like madness to me.

Ew no

Yes this, exactly

Where is the wool blanket, though? On top of the duvet? Surely it would squish the air out, making the duvet less efficient? A blanket would have to go under the duvet, and you wouldn’t want to sleep under that.

HRdly much different in washing a thin sheet and washing a duvet cover, just means overall you will have more washing.

Yes blanket on top of duvet, better than a heavier tog duvet as I can push it down if I get too hot.
Duvet is an el cheapo thin acrylic very light tog Ikea job as I genuinely prefer it and its easy to wash and dry so not much air to squish out.