Is there a trick to keeping a duvet from drifting down the cover?

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Our duvet has a tendency to make its way towards the bottom of the bed, so that we end up with a foot or so of thin cover at the top every few days. I’m a short arse so other than standing on the bed with my hands over my head, shaking it in sections, I can’t see how to prevent it.

Just wondering if there’s a trick that I’m missing that everyone else but me knows? Smaller size cover? Stapling the duvet to the cover? Propping up the foot of the bed?

You can get duvet pins that literally pin each corner through the cover and duvet. Think I’ve seen them on Amazon.

Oooh I've never heard of duvet pins, off to Google...

iI use these

I've always been tempted to attach buttons on the corners of the duvet with loops on the inside corners of the cover. I've never got round to it though and just go for the "good shake" method!

We bought a duvet with little tabs at the top of each corner and the duvet cover has ribbons so you tie the two corners together - maybe when you are ready to change buy these but until you are ready to replace just use a safety pin? Cheap and we all have lots of those!

I had to sew buttons to the duvet and buttonholes in the cover to prevent this happening. Big buttons worked better than small ones. I might try the little tabs/ties on the next one I do.

Mine does this but from one side to the other! Drives me bonkers. Also off to google duvet pins.

Dd duvet does this as she fidgets so much I bought duvet pins from Amazon which stop the duvet migrating.

Thank you! Duvet clips ordered.
this is far too exciting

The newer duvets have buttons & the covers have loops in the corners to connect them & help avoid this

I am here for this thread.

Coverless duvets. A miracle invention

I think it depends on the bedding. My duvet has a Cotten outer and cover is cotton and they cling. Duvet used to have polyester outer and they shimmy down.

I have never heard of duvet pins. I think my life is about to change immeasurably. 😁

Safety pins. No need to buy special stuff

I use a sheet then duvet then throw. Altogether better climate control during the night and much easier for laundry.

Be careful. I used these with a feather duvet and they ripped huge holes in each of the corners. Had to stuff all the feathers back in (it was a nightmare and very messy!) and sew each corner back up!

Nappy pins (attached to the seam corners, then flip to the right side) are less likely to spring open and stab you in the night!

These duvet pins - is there not a risk of them coming loose and causing injury? I’d love a solution too and agree that I think it’s the duvet cover material that makes it worse. I switched our bedding to 100% cotton and it doesn’t happen to us - but kids pure cotton bedding is proving difficult to find!

How bizarre, I've never had this happen and over my 50+ years I've probably had all sorts of duvets and covers.

I do remember a particularly annoying feather duvet though where all the feathers migrated to the sides leaving none in the sections that were actually over me

@Stars2theside M&S often have 100% cotton in some of the kids range.

I only get 100% cotton duvet covers for this reason. Anything with polyester in has done this previously. The duvet doesn't seem to 'stick' to the cover.

I bought duvet pins as the buttons doing the cover up keep coming open. Now finding the mushroom cap tops everywhere with the dogs biting them off!