Sheets and blankets or duvet

Fitted sheet, flat sheet, duvet, cover. Washing sheets is easy.

I use the burrito method to replace my duvet cover (Google or YouTube it). I don’t like standing in the bed and I don’t have a stairwell to shake it over, I find hands-in-corners is much more difficult.

Norah

Fitted sheet, flat sheet, duvet, cover. Washing sheets is easy.

Washing sheets might be easy but ironing the blighters isn't.
I do bottom sheet then duvet with duvet cover but no topsheet both changed weekly.
I'm very interested in the coverless duvets that people describe and will try one first chance I get.
Only trouble is that would make redundant the store of beautiful duvet covers that I have built up over the years.
After childhood years of being tucked in tight with sheets and scratchy brown blankets , I embraced with glee the freedom afforded by what we previously referred to as " continental quilts" (the duvet). I have never looked back.

I’m nearly 70 and have never ironed sheets. My fitted sheets are 400tc cotton (Habitat, from Sainsbury’s) and they go back on the bed after line drying.

Why would anyone iron sheets ? Take them out of the machine at the end of the wash cycle, fold in half give them a shake and hang out straight away. Fold and hand iron when dried.
I use a cotton sheet under my duvet so only need to wash the sheet, and leave washing the quilt cover for longer.
I broke a perfectly good Bosch washing machine by overloading it so wouldn’t risk washing a king size cover less quilt even if I could squeeze it in to my 9 kg machine.

I have a coverless duvet, 4.5 tog, which has been enough this past mild winter. No heat on at night but I’m always warm in bed.
My double duvet fits in the washing machine and dries quickly indoors but I finish it off in the tumble drier and back on the bed the same day.

I personally don’t have any problem with putting a duvet cover on but can understand if someone is disabled it might be more of a problem

There is a sort of roll system which makes it much easier apparently.

The only bedding I ever iron is pillowcases - if guests are coming to stay. Creases on duvet covers soon drop out, and hardly show anyway, if they’re patterned.

My neighbour hangs out my top and bottom sheets on her line ,which is higher than mine. She then returns them dry and folded, no ironing required. She then helps me change the bed. A neighbour to be proud of.

I use the 4.5 tog Night Owl coverless duvet all year round. I just wear thicker PJs and socks if it's cold.
It's Kingsize and washes and dries easily in my average size machine. Dries in a couple of hours on the line or over the bannisters.

Top sheet, duvet, king size throw.
Something like this.

www.soakandsleep.com/products/natural-reversible-floral-print-bedspreads?variant=52697192038732

I use all seasons duvet, so that I can separate to fit them in my washer. I also use a flat sheet so that I don’t have to wash my duvet cover weekly & only wash cover once a month in the winter, especially with cost of electricity.

We have a super king bed and it would be impossible to squash a 10.5 tog coverless duvet in my washing machine . It takes a superking 4 tog for the summer easily.
So what I’ve done is buy two separate 10.5 double coverless duvets and wash them separately
It is honestly less trouble than washing quilt covers
As people say they dry so quickly
I hang one over the banister and another one over the heated airer and then swap them over, and they’re ready for bedtime

I use the inside out method with clips like the ones Witzend uses but I think the secret is to take your time changing the duvet cover. I gave up ironing sheets and duvet covers years ago. I do fold the pillowcases and give them a quick swoosh with the iron.

Duvet covet inside out, hands into two corners, grabbed the duvet and shake inside out or outside in which ever way you want to call it.
Easy as pie for both single and double I ve always done it this way. Takes a minute.
Never iron anything most modern day material doesn’t need it if you dry it correctly

We have a king size bed but use single duvets…….no tugging and fighting for the duvet and so easy to change the covers using the burrito method. Always have a top sheet too. Fitted bottom sheet and top sheet changed weekly and duvet covers last a big longer.
Would never go back to blankets……all that dusty fluff isn’t good for asthma.