Sheets and blankets or duvet

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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’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.

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 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.

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

I bought a set of 4 giant plastic clothes pegs (Amazon, about £4) - they make changing even a super king duvet cover on my own easy.

Feed one corner of the duvet into a bottom corner of the cover, fasten with a peg. Repeat with the other corner.

Repeat with top corners, give a really good shake, button up, shake again, done.

HelterSkelter cover less duvets compress into fairly small sizes and mine easily fits into my ordinary washer/dryer. It's very thin but so cosy. It's like sleeping in a cloud of hot air. Very very soft too.

I have coverless quilts too. You just bung them in the washing machine. They are very lightweight and dry very fast.

We have two and take it for a service wash at home as kingsize bed.

In our holiday caravan there is a launderette on site and u use it wash the two kingsize beds Coverless duvets, dry them in the commercial dryers and they are back on the bed by bedtime.

Duvet and an under duvet flat sheet. My housekeeping bar is set very low so I put off changing both for weeks. Who cares? Who sees?

My washing machine would commit hari kiri if I showed it a coverless duvet.

Turn the cover inside out and put your hands down to the 2 far corners, grab the duvet. And shake back down. How nice if we cou,l hire a couple of girl guides to help with duvets and a couple of boy scouts to sweep up conkers. Those days are gone.

There is already a thread on coverless duvets, which will answer any queries you might have before ordering one.
I still have a duvet with cover, which I struggle to get on, but will change to coverless when the time is right. My sister has them and when I stay I find it very light and cosy.

As I have said on here before, we find cellular blankets and a flat sheet best for us. We have four blankets and can regulate how many we need daily. This last week we have varied from four through three to two now back to three. They are so light weight there is no struggling with them to change the linen and they wash and dry so quickly. When we stay with our children we never sleep well, I get far too hot and OH, who is very tall, always has cold feet as they stick out the bottom of the bed.

In our 64 years of marriage we have always used blankets as when living in hot countries as we vdid for many years, very little need covering was needed and we now hate the weight of duvets.

I do get very puffed out trying to make up beds for visitors with duvets as they expect them, Tugging on duvets with arthritic hands and short arms is a nightmare that takes me a long sit down with a cuppa to recover!

I do what Beechnut does, use a sheet under the duvet, thereby not needing to change the duvet cover so often.