Who has time for seasonal bedsheets

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Absolutely not here to cause offence butttttt

Shops are filled with seasonal decor - I understand maybe a Christmas cushion or even a Halloween door mat but who has the time for seasonal bedsheets? Do you use them all year round? Who looks at your bed? I've seen Halloween ones, Xmas, even Easter. I just don't get it!

I absolutely adore Halloween so always have decorations out and buy Halloween bedding. But I use the bedding all year and don't have many neutral bedding sets. They are for me and nobody ever sees my bedroom.

I don't really bother with Christmas, didn't put out any decorations out last year and probably won't this year either. Whereas I get genuine joy from decorating and looking at my Halloween decorations and bedding, just love the colours and designs.

It’s fine if you like it but it It literally takes 2 mins to post on Mumsnet!

Selecting Christmas bedding, washing it, making up beds in it, then doing that process in reverse and storing it in named bins takes a lot longer.

Personally I don’t like it because I think it’s a creeping trend to try to get us to buy more stuff. The force behind it all is largely commercial, and beyond making an autumn arrangement of stems from the garden, and growing a couple of pumpkins, I don’t like the feeling of being subtlety pressured in to things.

I have Christmas bedding and a mix of other bedding - I do tend to pick the more autumnal colours in autumn etc.

Well we have brushec cotton winter bedding - stags in snow, that sort of thing - rather than Christmas bedding. And it's sooooo soft and lovely to sleep in, and heavier than regular bedding. So we use those during the winter. Will probably put them on from the beginning of December (and yes we do have more than one set to swap when washing one! lol) Makes a nice change.

Other than buying it, washing bedding is a weekly thing any ways? Why do you think it's extra work?

Sure it's takes two minutes to post, and a few to read things, and then a few more to keep updated. Let's not pretend any one here doesn't have time to change sheets.

We have Christmas bedding, it lives in the airing cupboard until December. I don't get why people would buy new seasonabl bedding every year, but we've had ours for years and as it's only used for a month or so a year it's still in good condition.

You can't think of anything worse than sleeping on Halloween bedding?

That's amazing. I'm actually jealous.

Well I tend to wash dry and put back on in a day

Halloween bedding sounds a bit nuts but hey ho

Life is too short to faff with seasonal bedding!

When I see all of the seasonal stuff I gasp in horror at the thought of storing it!

I have a couple of Christmas cushions and mugs that live with the decorations in the loft. That's enough for me.

I have to say I was always with your way of thinking however a few years ago - for reasons I can't remember - I did buy some for my kids and on the 1st of Dec I now change them over and my kids absolutely love it. Probably because generally I don't really like christmas.

I wouldn't personally have them as an adult though but what ever floats your boat.

It's not about having the time for me, it's having the space & effort.
Do I have the storage space? No
Can I be arsed with doing it? No!

I don't see why it would require more time, but I don't do it. I admit I quite like the idea of a bit of non-tat seasonal decorating, but I find the idea of seasonal bedding a bit naff, like matching seasonal pyjamas etc.

The seasons are for outside. I feel no desire to bring them indoors. Especially not in the form of scratchy garish swathes of badly printed and poorly sewn cheap disposable polycotton shite.

As for Halloween, if I see one more fuck ugly orange blob of putresence pumpkin, I am going to scream. I like gothic themes but despise tacky Halloween stuff.

Yes, I'm a miserable old sod.
I'm not trying to stop anyone else, although I do wonder how much of this stuff goes straight from shop shelf to landfill.

I'm not against seasonal colours or fabrics. I am against over consumption involving ugly trinkets. Aww, it's cute, is no justification.

From a puritanical/no waste perspective probably better to have Christmas bedding than loads of plastic tat to decorate. And if it’s only used a few weeks a year it will last years. I’m not sure it would increase the amount of bedding you buy over a lifetime as the other bedding will last a bit longer.

I don’t do it myself, but can’t get worked up about themed bedding - plenty of other pointless plastic decorating tat to dislike.

@AutumnLeaves24, I am in the US, so it might be tricky to get, but it is from an online shop called "The Vermont Country Store." The quality is absolutely lovely. I also LOVE Peanuts.

Not everything about Christmas has to be tasteful. As you said, the person seeing it most of the time will be the person whose bed it is

No way! Christmas bedding still on the bed in Feb would be a good indicator to everyone we hadn’t got around to changing our sheets for a few weeks… prefer all year around bedding so no one can tell!

Same bedding on now for same reason!

Me what effort do you think it takes exactly...I assume you change your bedsheets at least once every 3 months....

I have Christmas specific bedding this year! We only use one lot of bedding per bed, it's washed and dried on the same day so storage isn't an issue at all. I also have Christmas specific cutlery that is only used in December. Again, wrapped in a bundle with cling film, takes no storage at all. I have Christmas cushions, I just keep them on the cushion and put the neutral cover over it. Christmas dishes sit under the usual ones but not used year round generally..

It's easy to do and store seasonal decor if your house isn't a clutter fest (as mine is atm!) and you don't have three generations worth of bedding and crockery taking up cupboard space. It might not be everyone cup of tea but, life would be boring if the home never changed. I look forward to cosying it up in Autumn/Winter and freshening it up in Spring ready for Summer.
I'm not spending a fortune, just switching fluffy blankets to cooler ones, swapping cushion covers over, just bringing seasonal to the front. Makes me happy, we have space and can afford it, why the heck not 😁

Not for decor, but I have normal cotton in summer and brushed cotton in winter?

Same. I bloody love it :D I've got Valentines, Easter, Autumn, Halloween, Xmas, and Winter. All brushed cotton 😍It's a joy to bring them out each year.

Super cute:

Stacey Solomon Ghosts Green Cotton Reversible King Duvet Set | Home | George at ASDA

Hahaha same! I can think of A LOT of things worse.