How many duvet covers?

[FannyCradocksDoughnut]

How many duvet covers do you have for the bed you sleep in?

I have about 10 AIBU?

3 for me, all plain and off/ white

3 but one is very faded and on my bed currently. I like to have 3 on rotation, so will replace it at some point in the next year.

Two and one spare just in case I have an emergency and I need the spare one while the other is not washed.

1 summery that gets washed and dried then back on
2 wintery that are used alternately.

Three.

Three. One on the bed, one in the wash and one spare in case of leaks, hot flushes etc.

Agreed, 2. No storage space for any more even if I wanted them, which I don't.

2 or 3 full sets. (I'm actually about to sort the ottoman after turfing everything out looking for my Halloween costume).

One duvet cover that I use as a sheet in the hight of summer, and a few spare pillow cases for when I'm sick and don't want to lay my head in last night's gross-ness.

3 - bed, wash and spare. All identical.

Probably one too many.

Same - although your DM didn't tell me!

I have 3 but only really use 2, but I usually take one off, wash, dry and put the same one back on that evening as it like it feeling and smelling fresh.

Two the same pattern but different colours and a Christmas one

Two plain white cotton for spring through to autumn. Two plain white brushed cotton for winter.

All other beds in the house have 2, one on, one off.

Can't be doing with seasonal themed bedding.

I have two, plus I kept the fitted sheets from the previous set as back for, I’m not sure what, if we spill something maybe? They were expensive and I’m not getting rid of them. It’s a superking and the bedding cost a lot when we got it, it’s a lot more reasonable now. I did have a clear out a few years ago and discovered we had maybe six sets of double bedding but no double bed in the house anymore.

I've noticed a few people have said 3-one on, one in the wash and a spare. What's the logic in that? Why do you need a spare as well as one on, one off? It's like having a spare for your spare! (Medical issues requiring abnormally frequency linen changes etc excluded).

Two sets, one on the bed, one spare. I don’t have the storage space for more

Recently reduced to 4 for our bed, plus one for the spare bed as, it being the spare, only gets used occasionally, washed & then stored for future use.

My mother only had 2 - one on, one in the wash, but she was of a generation when bedding, nightwear etc was changed on Sundays after the weekly bath. We had a strip wash in the week. Mum would say: 'wash down as far as possible, up as far as possible & then give 'possible' a wash'. How times have changed. 😂

I have 3.

One on the bed, one freshly laundered and an emergency one after learning an important lesson as someone who has a cat and cats sometimes show their displeasure at life by shitting on the bed......

3

One cotton
One linen
One brushed

That's one on the bed, one in the wash and a spare.

Well the brushed cotton one is a spare for most of the year but brought into rotation over winter.

Only 1.
Saturday morning; strip the bed, put sheets in the wash, tumble dry, back on the bed.

One here too. I would like to know how big some of your linen cupboards are, I'm picturing some Mitford Hons style cupboard!

Probably 6 or 7. I don't need that many, must get rid of a few.

That was the standard thing for clothing when I was a child - we only had 3 lots of school shirts/blouses. I think it comes from the days when people didn't have as many clothes as they do now.

I remember my grandmother telling me how her mother used to extol the virtues of the invention of separate clothes. When she was in 'service' (she was a housemaid at the local 'Big House') they would have uniform dresses, one for the morning x2 & one for the afternoon x2, then only one for dress for their days off & one for best to be worn to go to church, high days & holidays and which was usually the dress they wore on their days off. My GGM was born in the 1870's & in the very late 1800's/early 1900's suddenly blouses & skirts were invented which was a big innovation meaning that working women could make blouses for themselves at home & made laundry so much easier. Previous to that they had to wear dresses & had pads under their arms to absorb the sweat as laundering heavy Victorian clothes mainly consisted of careful brushing with occasional washing & they probably stank.

Two full sets of bedding for each bed. One on and one in the wash. Although we’ve recently moved to coverless duvets, so no more changing duvet covers thank goodness!