Fitted bed sheets

We have a topper on top of the mattress. It's very easy to put fitted sheets just around the topper. The mattress has it's own matching cover. Problem solved - if you have a topper

Fitted sheets are great and I never use anything else. If you decide to buy some get the deep fitting ones.

House Of Bath have fitted sheets in different depth sizes and different colours. Sometimes they are on offer.

I have a memory foam mattress and then a topper on top so I have difficulty fitting a fitted sheet on properly. I thought my sheets were deep but possibly not deep enough. I must measure the depth of the mattress etc.

One of the guest bedrooms has a 6ft bed, with a very heavy dunlopillo mattress fitted into a frame - even with a fitted sheet, I just cannot do it with my bad shoulder. Lucky that we always make beds as a team with OH. It used to be our bed- but now we have an 8' bed - lol, well 2 x 4' next to each other- easy peasy.

Charleygirl5- you need to buy fitted sheets with extra deep pockets- as from the White Company.

I am very surprised anyone uses flat sheets anymore.

Fitted are so much easier and there really is no need to fold them as they stretch out when putting them on the bed.

Don’t go for cheap ones though.

on which planet are you living? Fitted sheets have been out there for decades, just buy deep fit.

M&S are good for sheets. They do Deep and Extra Deep!

A lot of my fitted sheets seem to have shrunk - I blame the tumble drier. What used to be very easy to do is now a huge struggle to get the last corner on. They do stay on once in place though. I've got some fleece bedding which is super stretchy and fits like a dream - it's a dream to sleep on too although obviously not in the summer!

I always use fitted sheets. Dunelm's Soft Touch Deep (30cm) and Extra Deep (32cm) are both great, good quality, soft to sleep on and they stay put.

A lot of fitted sheets with the mattress depth allowed shown. Some say deep but than can mean 8" other than 6". Check descriptions. Even if you buy from a store you can often find the full details eg measurements on line at the stores website. Fitted sheets should help you.

Only fitted sheets in our house. Easy to use - just make sure you buy them deep enough for your mattress.

M&S have a good selection of these I find.

I don't like fitted sheets and in any case am still using 65 year old cotton sheets and I don't think fitted sheets were around then. These sheets are wonderful - they have been in constant use and show no signs of wear yet.
Having broken my shoulder last year I just laid the bottom sheet on the mattress without tucking in at all and it was so successful and effort free that I have continued doing that.
I do sleep very still though.

I bought stretch jersey fitted sheets ensuring , they are much easier to get the sheet over the corners..

Measure the depth of your mattress and, as other posters say, make sure you buy fitted sheets that are deep enough - but not too deep as I did; one rather expensive sheet is quite generous (probably extra deep!) and does not fit as snugly as it should.

Don’t go for cheap ones though.
I agree with Greciangirl - they won't be very generous and will be a struggle to get over the corners.

I am considering going back to flat sheets/ My (good quality) fitted sheets are getting more difficult to put on as I have to lift my mattress up out of the pine base which is becoming increasingly difficult. Must buy a reasonable stock though in case they stop selling flat sheets

who'd a thunk that a discussion on sheets could be so interesting? note to self... get a life.
Dunelm sell all sorts of good makes of sheets, plenty of flat sheets there too.

Be careful lifting the mattress to put fitted sheets on, I couldn’t be bothered to wait for my husband’s usual help with our deep mattress and really injured my back. That was about 15 months and numerous physio visits ago and still not 100%!

I use the deeper sheets makes it a lot easier than struggle I had with usual depth sheets I also bought sheet suspenders a couple pound from eBay they keep ordinary sheets in place

For my spare ordinary double bed I have bought a king size bottom sheet so that it is easy to put on. I just pull int down more one side..

We have fitted sheets for our king size bed but the mattress is very deep and heavy. I'm finding it more and more of a strain to lift the corner of the mattress to tuck under the fitted corners, two of the corners (diagonally opposite to each other) are easier than the other two opposites. Because DH tends to have a one man wrestling match most nights (I'm in the spare bed) one or two of the fitted corners do come out after a few nights. tbh unfitted sheets would be just as difficult to tuck in at the foot and head.

I find fitted sheets more difficult to put on than flat sheets as you have to lift the mattress to put them in place properly .

Dunelm do a great range of fitted sheets, buy deep ones and as good a quality as you can afford. Who on earth even tries to fold them? Blimey, they get washed, dried, and neatly rolled into a little sausage, and put in the airing cupboard. Wrinkles get stretched out and then you sleep on it, who ever sees the creases?