Do you button up your duvet cover before washing?

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Please help resolve an incredibly minor dispute in our house. I’ve just changed our sheets and when I went to put on the clean duvet cover it was buttoned up so I had to unbutton it to put it on and then re button it. It has proper fiddly wooden buttons and it may be just menopause but I have the rage over this.

So…

YABU: Yes I button up the duvet cover before putting it in the washing machine to stop other items going inside it.

YANU: What a waste of time. If any items go inside the duvet cover during washing then it’s easy to take them out before drying.

Yes because otherwise if in the dryer things get stuck inside, don't dry and the duvet cover also doesn't dry so i end up with massive sheets hanging from doors etc

I always button the duvet cover because if I don't everything in the same load crawls inside the duvet cover like it's some life-giving shelter and not basically a giant, annoying sock and it infuriates me.

Like many others have already said, yes, I button up the duvet cover so that it washes and dries properly without anything else getting stuck inside it.

Sorry but I really can't imagine why anyone would get worked up about undoing a few (surely a max of 10 or less?) buttons before putting the cover back on the duvet and then buttoning it up again.

Wash buttoned, inside out so that the rest of the laundry does not end up in a damp ball inside it, and it's easy to flip over the duvet the next time it's used. No brainer!

As an older person I wish all duvets had SNAPS! End of issue. The older one gets the more buttons make life hell.

The pillowcase in the duvet cover is at the bottom of an energy well, once it gets in there there is not enough energy in the system to get it out. Thermodynamics. It might get there via centrifugal force but the reason it always stays is thermodynamics.

I try to remember to button it, also put it inside out as thats the way I put it on the duvet, but usually forget both things. I also have some nice sets with zips too.

I always leave things unbuttoned in the wash to protect from straining the buttons. Zips done up to stop other things catching them.
Bedding gets done by it's self so it's only the pillow cases that can end up in there anyway.

Depends how dextrose you are, not for me tho

Depends how dextrose you are, what you need a high sugar level to do up a few buttons. Straining the buttons by doing them up. Those who only put bedding in the machine,do you have tiny machines,or infinite cheap electricity? Mine only goes on with a full load. I'm not sure whether items inside a duvet cover would be washed satisfactory with today's machines that take in so little water,to save that plus energy.

I don’t, but I should because it gets all knotted up in the dryer and there’s always a random sock or pair of knickers in the corner, still wet when I take it out.

Buttons on a duvet cover? What fresh hell is this?

No, waste of time when it means unbuttoning before putting it on again, so that means the pillowcases end up inside, but it takes seconds to shake them, and any odd socks etc. out.

I don't

No I CBA, life is too short. If any one else want to then that is fine, as long as they put it back one

Why have a never thought to button it up? 😝 I get The Rage when all the stuff gets stuck inside it

I don’t - it didn’t even occur to me to do that 🤦🏻‍♀️🤣

I second this!

I have a duvet cover where the poppers wouldn't stay shut. I bought some velcro 'coins' to sew into the between-popper gaps and the velcro is just so easy that now I think all duvet covers should come with velcro closures.

Yes, as otherwise loads of other things end up getting in the duvet cover. Sometimes I only do up every other button to save a bit of time both ways.

No , I wash it on its own , super king size.

I find that its the tumble dryer that's the problem absolutely every other item ends up inside the duvet cover and then doesn't dry properly.

I've just stripped the bed,king sized bedding. It took 30 seconds, I counted,to undo the buttons, remove the duvet and do the buttons back up. I am 5ft tall,74 with arthritis on hands and wrists.. the machine is full, making the most of a dry windy day. As for not taking long to remove smaller items,I have pegged duvet covers out years ago, and there was still small items stuck in there. If you want stuff to dry on your line, especially at this time of year,you have to put thin light weight items on the inner lines and thick stuff like towels on the outside,so they get maximum wind or sun. I'm sure someone will come and say they can't be bothered, they just throw it all in the tumble dryer. That's a very last resort for me.

No, I don't. But I'm thinking I should, inevitably I end up with half the washing balled up inside the duvet when I take it out of the washing machine, and the same again with the dryer 😫

No , never occurred to me. Would remove the fun of thinking the washing machine has swallowed a pliilowcase before realising it’s in the duvet cover.

I will wash towels with bedding but nothing else as I wash them at 60 and that is too high for clothes