Page 8 | Top sheet under duvet, yes or no?

Snowiscold · 2022-08-29T08:59:04+00:00

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.

Sparklingbrook · 30/08/2022 11:41

I can't see any time saving or advantage and wouldn't like it at all. In the summer when it's really hot we might just have the duvet cover with no duvet in.

DappledThings · 30/08/2022 11:41

drunktrifle · 30/08/2022 11:34

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.

Dunno. Never tried myself. Hate topsheets and the tangling. But I can imagine that if you don't go all hospital corners and just place the sheet in top then the duvet on top then that would be a lot less faff than changing a duvet cover.

drunktrifle · 30/08/2022 11:49

@DappledThings
I'm in the minority that doesn't find replacing the duvet a PITA. I would need a sheet to be completely smooth to even contemplate it, I rarely wear nightwear as I can't bear the fabric bundling up around my person so for me it would be more work than a quick shake of the duvet each morning.

Justcallmebebes · 30/08/2022 12:09

No. Never heard of this. Just a duvet and all bedding washed once a week

DappledThings · 30/08/2022 12:19

drunktrifle · 30/08/2022 11:49

@DappledThings
I'm in the minority that doesn't find replacing the duvet a PITA. I would need a sheet to be completely smooth to even contemplate it, I rarely wear nightwear as I can't bear the fabric bundling up around my person so for me it would be more work than a quick shake of the duvet each morning.

Oh I'm with you. I don't think a topsheet would be less work by any stretch. I'm just trying to get in the mind of those who do!

Talia99 · 30/08/2022 14:37

I have a top sheet and it’s not because I think it’s less work, it’s because I prefer it that way.

CecilyP · 30/08/2022 15:04

drunktrifle · 30/08/2022 11:34

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.

I’m obviously a very sedate sleeper because I don’t really make my bed except when I change the sheets. Just fold the sheet and duvet back a bit to air in the morning and then pull it back in the evening.

CecilyP · 30/08/2022 15:09

Sparklingbrook · 30/08/2022 11:41

I can't see any time saving or advantage and wouldn't like it at all. In the summer when it's really hot we might just have the duvet cover with no duvet in.

Do you mean the duvet cover or a duvet cover? Do you take your duvet out if it’s cover when hot, or do you put your covered duvet somewhere elsewhere and use a different cover for hot nights?

RomeoOscarXrayIndigoEcho · 30/08/2022 15:14

Grew up with a top sheet but we didn't have duvets and duvet covers then.

We had a complex arrangement of blankets.

Hate being trapped by the top sheet so just a duvet and duvet cover here. Both get washed regularly.

Washing the duvet is helped by the fact we have an all seasons duvet so there's light duvet for warm months, a medium duvet for colder months which make a super warm and toasty duvet for winter!

CecilyP · 30/08/2022 15:21

Oh I'm with you. I don't think a topsheet would be less work by any stretch. I'm just trying to get in the mind of those who do!

Could be a generational thing. If you grew up with sheets and blankets, then it just feels normal. If you had just a single duvet on your bed as a child (as single duvet covers are easy to change) then having a top sheet might feel odd. Having made the switch from blankets to duvet, we just had the duvet at first and it was fine. However as they were advertised as ‘labour saving’ and once I’d done my first cover change I felt it was more work, not less, it’s been top sheet ever since.

drunktrifle · 30/08/2022 18:54

@CecilyP
I'm a shuffler and DH has night terrors our bed definitely needs making daily!!

onlythreenow · 31/08/2022 05:14

Surely any once a week duvet cover faff saved will be replaced by fannying about making the bed with a sheet and duvet daily.

I don't "make" my bed daily, but even if I did it is far less of a faff to pull up a sheet (which is tucked in at the bottom) and a duvet than it is to take off the duvet cover and then put it back on. No fannying about required at all.

mogsrus · 31/08/2022 05:51

Summer duvet all yr round nothing else too warm otherwise

Purplebunnie · 31/08/2022 22:21

I never get tangled in my top sheet and it seems to keep the duvet on the bed. Slept at other peoples houses and always end up loosing the duvet and get cold feet

Dannexe · 31/08/2022 22:34

I'm now worried that the presence of the sheet makes people think we don't wash the duvet cover!

me too! It all gets washed here!

DillDanding · 01/09/2022 00:47

I'm now worried that the presence of the sheet makes people think we don't wash the duvet cover!

That’s exactly what I would think. Why have the sheet otherwise?

fUNNYfACE36 · 01/09/2022 00:55

Itseems to deeat the object of having a du v et, if you've gotvto faff about tucking sheets in

Ffsmakeitstop · 01/09/2022 01:09

Sleeping under a sheet doesn't provide adequate protection from the monsters under the bed.
Exactly this. We have a top sheet but none of our 3 adult kids do.
I told my dd I don't sleep with my arms dangling in case of monsters and she just scoffed and asked "how would they fit it's full of stuff under there?
I don't know but I"m not risking it.