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.

Thanks!!

sorry about my phones ability to rewrite my posts!!! I did type Laiste!!

Honestly this thread has shook me to my core.

I would never button a duvet for the wash & I'm astonished so many seem to do this.

I voted YANBU because I don’t do it, because I’ve never thought to do it before! But I think I will from now on - great idea, I hate it when the bedding all balls up.

I do the duvet cover and sheet in one wash, and then the pillowcases along with a load of other whites. So I don't have to bother with the buttoning but nor does anything get stuck. You're welcome.

Just hanging my big ol' duvet cover up, zipped of course, and I remembered another reason why I like it sealed as such, its becuase when hanging it over a line, which Ive just done, when its open and hanging like a gaping mouth, its hard to get it to hang on the line in a nice square. I dont use pegs, its just hanging with the top foot or so over the line, so I like it nice and symmetrical/square

If you have a dryer then this isnt a problem of course

Oh. I never have because it simply never occurred to me that this would be a solution to the sheets ending up inside it. Every day's a school day 🤣🤣

The only place I have seen buttons on duvet covers are cheap hotels. My covers all have a strip of fabric so I can tuck them under the matrass to keep my feet warm, but no dang buttons. No sirree!

Yes I button them up. I also button them so that the buttons are turned in and don't make as much noise in the washing machine.

Much less noisy against a wooden bedframe when in use, too.

Another buttoner here! I find that the small irritation of dealing with the buttons is outweighed by the lack of other washing ending up inside the duvet.
I try to be very 'zen' about washing bedding, and the buttoning makes me feel competent and a little bit smug.

@MrsToothyBitch - inspired!

Leister made me laugh😂

I never button. It's never ever occurred to me. Stuff almost never ends up inside, if it does it takes all of half a second to remove it.

The idea of having to unbutton it to put the duvet inside to button it again blows my mind.

YANBU op. Not one little bit.

Never uk, anyway hate to be hemmed in

No I don't button them up, so fiddly to do! Yes smaller items get inside but I just shake them out again. So YANBU!

I wonder if it depends on whether people use a tumble dryer? If I'm using mine, it's definitely worth doing up the buttons, but less so if hanging it out.

You can't tell me that a 15 minutes cool or cold wash cycle uses more electricity than a 2 hour eco cycle . I've got solar panels, I know exactly how much power I am using at any given time.

@Laiste

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don't encourage it, it's an annoying little 💩 already 😂

You may be right! I don't own a tumble dryer, I line dry.

Life is too short for buttoning bedding for washing, unbuttoning and rebuttoning to go onto the bed. I have considered not even bothering buttoning when putting on the bed to save myself a minute or two.

Life is too short to undo a couple of buttons,you can buy "coverless duvets" , which is a misnomer really, because of course the wadding has a cover, problem solved. I would like one, but I havent found a pattern I like.

Don’t bother, they’re completely impractical. A king size one only just fits a normal washing machine and is too big for a standard tumble dryer. I hate ours with a passion.

Blossomtoes, I do have a relative with one, but she washes it weekly which I think is ridiculous. I would assume a top sheet. As a child growing up,it was top and bottom sheet, blankets,then a duvet. I can get my king size duvet in my washing machine.

Yes or all the washing ends up inside it!

I have a couple of duvet covers from La Redoute IIRC which have a sort of wide fabric funnel at the bottom. It tucks under the mattress, reducing the thickness if you prefer an anchored duvet. You get full coverage and the “shoulders” keep the duvet in place.
No buttons (but 4 corners to catch and hide socks).

Example

That's exactly what my covers are like