Do you have a sheet underneath your duvet? Have I been making a bed wrong all these years?

[MaCosta]

So I'm looking for bedding for DS2 who is having a new bed delivered on saturday. The pictures all show a fitted sheet (or tucked in flat sheet). Then a sheet and then a duvet (in a duvet cover of course). Then often a throw or quilted "comforter" on top.

I've never put a flat sheet between me and the duvet. Have I been doing it wrong all these years?

I think there's some confusion between duvet and quilt.

Duvet is a big thick thing inside a cover buttoned or poppered up.

Quilt is a heavy bed throw.

People seem to use the word quilt when they mean duvet.

Gin, I loved being tucked in. And with a top sheet two people can adjust the bedding according to temps. In the summer I just have a top sheet but DP uses the quilt too

never!
hate being tucked in at foot end as well.

No. I don't know anyone who does. We have a mattress cover then a sheet for us to lie on and then a duvet complete with duvet cover. An extra sheet would just get tangled up.

Oh I see! I don't as like others have said I'd feel too hemmed in!

Inlaws do but I don't.its called a flat sheet btw

We do. Not to avoid changing to duvet cover - all bedding is changed twice a week. I like it because I get really hot at night and push the duvet off but I am still covered wit a sheet. We inly use a summer weight duvet all year as well. The joys of hot flushes!

Changing bedding twice a week sounds like making too much work for yourself IMO.

This is the old fashioned way of making a bed.

Care homes and old people living in their own homes like the bed made like this.

We do and always have. Fitted sheet, flat sheet, duvet and quilt folded over the bottom half of the bed.

Sheets and duvet cover are washed weekly too.

I think everyone in my family has the same set up regarding sheets...tbh I have never heard of just one sheet and duvet combination.

Most people have a fitted sheet and duvet with cover on and thats it

Is it the old fashioned way? I'm 31

Blimey. One of the great joys of moving to a duvet aged about 7 was that we didn't have to have a top sheet. I thought the duvet didn't hold warmth as well when it can't make a nice seal around you.

Beds in catalogues/pictures are ridiculous. I hate all those cushions, extra pillows, comforters etc, but I guess they represent about another £100 per bed for the retailer. Recipe for a broken hip in the night if you've got all that stuff on the floor when you actually use the bed.

I would do that only if I were using a blanket to make the bed instead of a duvet cover (the way people did before duvets). My mum and grandma do the same - sheets and blankets or just a duvet in a cover, not both.

My MIL does the sheet-and-duvet thing though and it confuses me. I don't complain though because she only gives a really thin duvet and every scrap of fabric to hold in more warmth is welcome. (MIL is not very good at empathy and thinking about how other people might experience things, thus she is too warm because she suffers hot flushes and no one gets more than a 4tog duvet in the dead of winter even though the rest of us aren't menopausal....)

Leirs

Sorry but it is old fashioned.

I ve worked in the community and in care home with people of all ages and i ve only ever know anyone over the age of 70 insist on a bed made with a flat sheet and/or quilt

Hate it when you get this - it's always tucked in all around the bed and I have to pull it all out to not feel trapped when I'm asleep. Need to know I can stick a leg out if necessary

My Mum always made a bed with a sheet tucked in over the mattress and another folded down and tucked in over us. It meant she would only need to top and tail the beds every week, and wash the duvet cover every few weeks. I get around this problem by only doing the bedding about once a month anyway.

When DS1 stayed over with Mum when he was about 16mo she heard him crying in the night and couldn't find him.....after some time she found him lying underneath the top sheet at the bottom of the bed all scared because he couldn't get out! She then agreed not to put a top sheet on the spare bed again!

Or up (grrrr to tucking in at the foot of the bed)

Flat sheet yes. Dh and I have different heat levels and he wants more coverage than me so I kick away the duvet and just use the sheet. Could I ask you to take a look at my thread in "good housekeeping"? I need advice on a duvet "tongue" hack.

I have a flat sheet under the duvet in winter. It seems to make it warmer and it's good when bedding is hard to get dry to be able to just wash sheets instead of (cotton) duvet covers that take a long time to dry. I like how it looks too. I even put one in DD's cot under her little duvet to make it more snuggly!

I don't. But I do have a massive chenille and very soft throw on top of my duvet.

DS otoh has sheet and double duvet to sleep on - followed by blanket, single duvet, blanket on top!

I prefer to sleep on a furry blanket rather than a sheet (it's warmer). And still have the duvet in a duvet cover. Now if I could get a furry duvet cover I'd be in heaven......

Hospital beds has flat sheets? I'm sure mine has.

jane that's sounds perfect.

I've also never slept in a hotel which doesn't have a flat sheet! Can't believe I've reached the grand old age of 31 and never new about this sheet/duvet combination.