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.

It must touch your body, unless you lie there like you're dead

As you twist and turn thoughout the night the sheet wont always be over you, dont you have times when you lie on top of the duvet or put your leg over it?

In any case just like all furnishings - cushions, sofa covers, pillows - you get skin shedding, sweat, odours, they need to be washed regularly. Its one area I wont be cutting down on. I'd rather freeze than not have fresh bedding.

Had a top sheet growing up.. never thought about it much but I presume because we lived in a very cold house so it was an extra layer? Perhaps I'll reinvest this Winter!
I actually like a top sheet (nostslgia maybe) but am far too lazy to bother with them myself!

But you can still fit a full set of bedding into one washer or dryer load, and pegging out a duvet cover on the line is no harder than pegging out a sheet. So why is "double the amount of washing" twice the effort?

I have a top sheet and two blankets. I get so hot so usually only sleep with a sheet over me. But for the odd night I will use the blankets.
I don't wash the blankets as often as the sheet because they are barely used!

My mum did but not me, I'd get too hot xxxx

I do this too.

It must touch your body, unless you lie there like you're dead

It really doesn’t! I do hospital corners and tuck in half way up the bed and fold over the top of the duvet.

As you twist and turn thoughout the night the sheet wont always be over you, dont you have times when you lie on top of the duvet or put your leg over it?

No, can’t say I lie on top of the duvet. I’m trying to imagine how I’d put my leg over!

But you can still fit a full set of bedding into one washer or dryer load, and pegging out a duvet cover on the line is no harder than pegging out a sheet. So why is "double the amount of washing" twice the effort?

No, the washing isn’t twice the effort. It’s putting the darn thing back on the duvet that’s the effort. If you’re just washing a top sheet rather than a duvet cover, there’s more room in your machine for other washing.

I see what you mean, Id be ripping that top sheet right out, cant bear to have my feet trapped in, I swing my leg over one bit of the duvet, and have my feet poking out the end. Then the feet are in and out, in and out all night. I drive myself mad with it. Hot cold, hot cold all night

...Id be ripping that top sheet right out, cant bear to have my feet trapped in, I swing my leg over one bit of the duvet, and have my feet poking out the end...
Me too! I can't bear being tucked in.

Ditto

I fidget in my sleep a LOT - layers of fabric would drive me nuts. Summer duvet, winter duvet, that's it. No sheet.

We have top sheets on our beds. The monsters can’t nibble your toes when they’re tucked in!!

As I said on the other thread, I'm not in the UK and didn't know people actually don't use a top sheet - but then I don't generally ask people about it either. Most of the sheets I see for sale come in a set - one fitted, one flat and often with pillowcases. I don't see the point of constantly taking the duvet out of its cover so the cover can be washed.

Why introduce an extra layer to make you hotter and sweatier. No thanks.

I live in NZ and frequently remove the duvet on hot summer nights - but still have the top sheet as a light cover. I rather think a duvet would make you much hotter and sweatier than a sheet!

A top sheet under the duvet is how the Australians and New Zealanders do it.

Oh thank goodness - I was beginning to think I am odd

Layers are always better, imo. More flexibile and easier to find your personal level of coverage for comfort, which can change from night to night, if not hour to hour. Some nights I want nothing more than a sheet. DH, meanwhile, will need sheet, duvet, and extra blanket to stay warm enough. It's convenient to just fold a layer off or on as needed.

Top sheet is left untucked on DH's side of the bed, as he also hates his feet to feel trapped. It doesn't actually have to be tucked in to stay in place, I find. Or maybe the light tucking in at the foot of the bed on my side is enough to hold it steady.

But you still have to wash the top sheet, so it's not saving on washing is it.... or am i missing something?

I find it interesting how many people are saying a top sheet is ‘too hot’. Using a sheet and duvet isn’t something I thought to suggest on the ‘how to stay warm without heating’ threads (because I assumed that’s just what people did). Maybe I will suggest it next time one of those threads is posted since it sounds like a lot of people are saying it’s warmer than a duvet by itself. I wouldn’t know personally since I’ve never tried it.

It's the faff of taking the duvet in and out of the cover you are saving. Not the actual washing that takes time.

Wouldn't work for me as any time I've been in a bed with a topsheet it has ended up twisted up at my feet with me directly under the duvet as normal. So if anyone has been a guest in a bed with a topsheet after I've been there your hosts may have been relying on a sheet to do a job it didn't and you've been sleeping under my used duvet cover!

Definitely seems to be a restless sleeper thing to hate top sheets. I definitely don't like them, they get tangled and they mean I can't snuggle my shoulders and the middle of my back into a duvet while sticking my feet/legs out to cool down. I'm a notoriously fidgety sleeper though...

Thank you!

Putting a sheet under a duvet defeats the object. A duvet is not a blanket, it's a duvet. It's all you need.

It's the faff of taking the duvet in and out of the cover you are saving. Not the actual washing that takes time.
Surely any once a week duvet cover faff saved will be replaced by fannying about making the bed with a sheet and duvet daily.