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“um OP don’t you know you’re supposed to have blankets on your bed that you never come into physical contact with” I’m sorry that you live in Actual Real Hell my friend but here in the world of the living I like to be able to rest comfortably without worrying that shifting in my sleep will cause my skin to explode by coming into contact with the Blanket of Forbidden Texture

See this is the kind of thing I was wondering about when posting about why making the bed could take so long. What are you people doing with your beds? I tried to Google this, but it still makes no sense.

Do US people not use those sheets that go on fully around the blanket? And why not? Is the top sheet supposed to function like those sheets, only fifty times worse because there is nothing holding it in place?

Sheets that go fully around the blankets? What the heck are you talking about.

With me you got your fitted sheet (or top sheet that gets tucked in), 5 Soft Blankets and then a comforter.

Do people even use top sheets anymore? I have only seen them at h/motels. Maybe in a very hot climate it would be better to use them versus a blanket? Anyway I have only seen them in-between the fitted sheet and the blankets?

What kavesinisukka means is a sheet that’s like a pillow case for your comforter.

Here we have the sheet that covers the mattress, then you, then a comforter that’s in a comdforter-sized pillow case and that’s it. That’s all the blankets and sheets you need.

You can get an extra blanket on top if you’re Cold but out comforters are designed to keep you warm all through icy winter.

So it’s basically a giant sleeping bag for your comforter? Do you crawl in with it or do you just go under the comforter and comforter case thing???

Huh i just learned a new thing

Heh I suppose that description works. A very thin sleeping bag made of sheet for your comforter. You don’t get into the bag yourself. The sheet is there as a protective and decorative casing around your comforter, protecting it both from dust but also from you, so that you can take it off and wash it every few weeks, because the comforter itself is not supposed to be washed.

This strikes me as something rich people do that needlessly complicates things. I barely have time to make my bed after changing the sheets, you’re telling me people spend time wrestling a giant bulky blanket into a sleeping bag sleeve every so often? It’s hard enough getting the fitted sheet on the mattress! 

Why on earth would I own something I use daily that I can’t wash. 

But… it’s the opposite… the sheet stays on the blanket/comforter the whole time. When you wash your linens, you only wash the sheet and you just put a new one on the blanket. It’s less work, not more

How I make my bed: mattress cover, fitted sheet, flat sheet, blankets stacked on top depending on the season.

How I think you make your bed, after reading this thread: mattress cover, fitted sheet, flat sheet, stuffing a blanket inside a sleeping-bag wrapper for some reason. 

And you never wash this blanket, you just wash the wrapper? Why don’t you have blankets that can be washed? What are these non-washable blankets made of?

After wrestling the fitted sheet on, all I gotta do is stack blankets on over the flat sheet. I don’t have to stuff a blanket inside a special wrapper. If I had to stuff one of my blankets into a special blanket wrapper, that sounds like more work to me.

Hold up, I think they’re using a Duvet cover? When I do my linens, I tend to use a duvet cover so I can air out my down blanket and then wash the cover. It’s also hella warm, so I only use it in the cold seasons, but it’s a way to let my blankets get washed without needing a full wash because they’re heavy and I always worry they won’t dry or fluff up properly. So it goes: Fitted Sheet, Flat Sheet, (layer thin but plush blankets if needed for ++ warm), and then down comforter inside of a duvet cover. 

what fresh hell is going on here

….

Apparently Americans as a group don’t know what a doona (or duvet) cover is.

And that’s terrible.

Yes. They’re so much easier to wash than a whole duvet.

Possibly gross: I use a comforter cover because allergies mean I sneeze very often. If I didn’t cover my comforter with something it would be rather covered with sneeze residue in pretty short order, which would be difficult to remove because you’re not supposed to wash comforters.

I’m continually baffled when tumblr acts like (thing some people do or use because they need it to more easily solve problem x) is “a rich people thing”

Like, I’m bougie because… I sneeze a lot?

Tumblr has this horrifying strain of incuriosity that I find really troubling. Like, no one can know everything, and if you’ve never used a duvet cover then you’ve never used one, but “I’ve never heard of it, so it must be a stupid rich people indulgence with no purpose” is a deeply flawed line of reasoning that I see on this website all the time.

Yeah, I mean, apparently I’m bougie because I do my own laundry. 

The whole point of a duvet cover is that they’re easily washable…

Hang on, are these people actually just sleeping under thick fluffy comforters that have actually never been washed!

….I think OP may have been talking about something like this: 

my late grandma used to make blankets like this for all her grandbabies at every major life event.  it was a very sweet and thoughtful gesture, and I still have one of the ones she made me.

the trouble is… especially if you use cheap yarn to make them… these things feel like concentrated death. they’re scratchy. they’re full of holes, so they’re not really warm unless you’ve got at least another sheet under there. it’s hard to get comfortable under one without stretching the blanket out to the point it might unravel. 

so they’re really more for decoration than anything else. I suspect OP was complaining about blankets like these. 

Looking at that example and imagining certain yarns, I’m kind of glad my family has tended more toward gift quilts 😕

The OP was referring back to another post about sensory issues with a specific type of (not so decorative) hotel blanket–and people feeling a need to wade into notes with comments like “you just don’t know how to properly use a blanket”.

I remembered that series of posts, mainly because I’ve had about the same reaction to those scratchy blankets to the point of phantom itches looking at them. A normal top sheet usually isn’t enough to keep the horrible blanket material totally away from your skin all night. A duvet cover might actually do it, as long as you got someone less bothered by the texture to wrestle it into the cover.

OTOH, a lot of Europeans don’t use layers of top sheets and blankets at all, just duvets with the easily washable huge pillowcase type covers. Sometimes with a separate top sheet too as mentioned here, sometimes not since you do effectively have one built in. (Source: I married one of them.) Across socioeconomic groups, as far as I am aware with not knowing anyone who is wealthy.

I personally burn completely up without adjustable lighter layers, thanks to some other sensory issues, so we keep separate covers. I’ve actually dragged some less horrible-textured blankets back from US to get the kind I wanted. But, if you do like comforters? The washable covers are a great way to go, and it’s a shame they’re not more common back home.

Coming from the US, I wasn’t aware how common the duvet approach was until I moved where that is How To Do Bedcovers. So, I can totally understand some confusion about what people are even talking about on both sides there. The leap to “a rich people thing” is what really confuses me, though.