Comments on: How to change the sheets and make the bed. http://www.alisoncummins.com/2009/08/16/how-to-change-the-sheets-and-make-the-bed/ Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:42:14 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Leanne http://www.alisoncummins.com/2009/08/16/how-to-change-the-sheets-and-make-the-bed/comment-page-1/#comment-2006 Leanne Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:32:25 +0000 http://www.alisoncummins.com/?p=743#comment-2006 That's funny. Maybe you actually do something in your bed? I just crawl in at night, and then pull up ("tug into place a bit" as you put it) a couple feet on the top corner of where I've slept in the morning, adjusting the overlapping top sheet a bit, put pillow on top... Perhaps I forget that some people toss and turn or ... ack! actually have S-E-X! lol! I don't remember having to redo a bed daily other than straightening top sheets (and having to fold the coverlet overtop of the pillows if you have that), even though I'm pretty sure that we got fitted sheets only in the 70s. But then my mom is a nurse, and her sheet corners could hold you down like a straight jacket rather than come untucked! But yeah, the lift up and shake in the air so it lies flat that is the Ikea thing is quick... but I have exactly the same thing with my featherduvet/summer sleeping bag within its cover. And my gosh. washing weekly! I guess I just skipped over that part as unbelievable! ;D That’s funny. Maybe you actually do something in your bed? I just crawl in at night, and then pull up (”tug into place a bit” as you put it) a couple feet on the top corner of where I’ve slept in the morning, adjusting the overlapping top sheet a bit, put pillow on top… Perhaps I forget that some people toss and turn or … ack! actually have S-E-X! lol!

I don’t remember having to redo a bed daily other than straightening top sheets (and having to fold the coverlet overtop of the pillows if you have that), even though I’m pretty sure that we got fitted sheets only in the 70s. But then my mom is a nurse, and her sheet corners could hold you down like a straight jacket rather than come untucked!

But yeah, the lift up and shake in the air so it lies flat that is the Ikea thing is quick… but I have exactly the same thing with my featherduvet/summer sleeping bag within its cover. And my gosh. washing weekly! I guess I just skipped over that part as unbelievable! ;D

]]> By: alison http://www.alisoncummins.com/2009/08/16/how-to-change-the-sheets-and-make-the-bed/comment-page-1/#comment-2004 alison Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:24:45 +0000 http://www.alisoncummins.com/?p=743#comment-2004 Leanne, I wasn't thinking so much time as laundry effort, but the Ikea Generation is definitely much faster in terms of time. The Traditional Method (even if it doesn't involve shaking and turning the mattress daily) has to be redone daily: the top sheets pulled down, the bottom sheet re-tucked in, the rest of the bed made. The Modern Method involves a contour bottom sheet so you can get away with skipping a day, but then you get into fights with your top sheets because they're all over the place, so you really do need to redo them daily. Ikea Generation beds don't ever really look made or unmade. Whatever you do, they look a bit messy. But even if you don't shake out your duvet daily, when you go to bed you just need to tug it into place a bit and you're done for the night. So I only ever make my bed when I change the sheets. Enna, I actually do a modified Ikea Generation. I change the bottom sheet weekly and the duvet covers biweekly. Leanne, I wasn’t thinking so much time as laundry effort, but the Ikea Generation is definitely much faster in terms of time. The Traditional Method (even if it doesn’t involve shaking and turning the mattress daily) has to be redone daily: the top sheets pulled down, the bottom sheet re-tucked in, the rest of the bed made. The Modern Method involves a contour bottom sheet so you can get away with skipping a day, but then you get into fights with your top sheets because they’re all over the place, so you really do need to redo them daily. Ikea Generation beds don’t ever really look made or unmade. Whatever you do, they look a bit messy. But even if you don’t shake out your duvet daily, when you go to bed you just need to tug it into place a bit and you’re done for the night. So I only ever make my bed when I change the sheets.

Enna, I actually do a modified Ikea Generation. I change the bottom sheet weekly and the duvet covers biweekly.

]]> By: Enna http://www.alisoncummins.com/2009/08/16/how-to-change-the-sheets-and-make-the-bed/comment-page-1/#comment-2003 Enna Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:29:34 +0000 http://www.alisoncummins.com/?p=743#comment-2003 You actually change the bed each week? I'm impressed. And, by comparison, lazy. You actually change the bed each week? I’m impressed. And, by comparison, lazy.

]]> By: Leanne http://www.alisoncummins.com/2009/08/16/how-to-change-the-sheets-and-make-the-bed/comment-page-1/#comment-2001 Leanne Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:24:09 +0000 http://www.alisoncummins.com/?p=743#comment-2001 hehe, well I see little difference between storing seasonally appropriate duvets, and seasonally appropriate quilts and blankets. Exactly the same difference. You don't have woolen blankets and quilts on the bed in summer... though you could keep them on top of your bed to look nice in lieu of storage. Which could be done with duvets too, esp if you have pretty duvet covers. The biggest point is that of the wear-out of bottom sheets, which is definitely true. It isn't so much an issue of disposability, but rather of favoriteness, in my case. I don't want to lose my blue fluffy clouds sheets (which are discontinued from Sears, blast them), so I hate the bottom sheet wearing out. I do flip it around in a clockwise direction so it wears more evenly, but the "move the flat sheet from top to bottom" would help wear... and if you do hospital corners, it shouldn't move. My fitted sheet always comes off anyways, since my flannel sheets have shrunk in the laundry and the corners of my futon are rounded. As per duvets and covers... personally my duvet is chicken feathers, and my grandmother made it out of her farm's chickens in the 1940s (I had to replace the feather ticking... I moved all the feathers to a new ticking!. The cover I made myself and use it every season... I don't wash it often since I don't want it to wear out: again, a fave pattern that makes me happy, that is no longer made. I DO vacuum it with one of those red magic brush attachments to remove dander and cat hair. Cats love to lie on THINGS, so I have a couple pet-food "free gift" little spot-blankets that lay on the bed, and the cats mostly lie on them... hair problem mostly solved. They do get vacuumed and put in the wash, being synthetic, very little wear. In the summer, a thin bike-camping sleepingbag opened up replaces the feather duvet... it can be laundered AND taken camping or to outdoor concerts. Anyways, I am not sure about any difference in time or cleaning. Takes just as long to replace duvet covers as to put sheets on a bed. And I always DO wash the top sheet: It is folded over the blankets at the top, so it is snuggled around the neck, thus covered with sweat, drool and grime. All in all a fascinating topic. btw: fastest? put a mattress cover, one of them dander/bedbug proof ones. Sleep in a sleeping bag on top. In summer unzip, in winter zip up. Have any sort of throw over the mattress cover, that stays there, like on a sofa. Throw pillows make it look ok. In the morning shove the sleeping bag under the bed, drag it out at night. Wash every once in awhile. hehe, well I see little difference between storing seasonally appropriate duvets, and seasonally appropriate quilts and blankets. Exactly the same difference. You don’t have woolen blankets and quilts on the bed in summer… though you could keep them on top of your bed to look nice in lieu of storage. Which could be done with duvets too, esp if you have pretty duvet covers.

The biggest point is that of the wear-out of bottom sheets, which is definitely true. It isn’t so much an issue of disposability, but rather of favoriteness, in my case. I don’t want to lose my blue fluffy clouds sheets (which are discontinued from Sears, blast them), so I hate the bottom sheet wearing out. I do flip it around in a clockwise direction so it wears more evenly, but the “move the flat sheet from top to bottom” would help wear… and if you do hospital corners, it shouldn’t move. My fitted sheet always comes off anyways, since my flannel sheets have shrunk in the laundry and the corners of my futon are rounded.

As per duvets and covers… personally my duvet is chicken feathers, and my grandmother made it out of her farm’s chickens in the 1940s (I had to replace the feather ticking… I moved all the feathers to a new ticking!. The cover I made myself and use it every season… I don’t wash it often since I don’t want it to wear out: again, a fave pattern that makes me happy, that is no longer made. I DO vacuum it with one of those red magic brush attachments to remove dander and cat hair. Cats love to lie on THINGS, so I have a couple pet-food “free gift” little spot-blankets that lay on the bed, and the cats mostly lie on them… hair problem mostly solved. They do get vacuumed and put in the wash, being synthetic, very little wear. In the summer, a thin bike-camping sleepingbag opened up replaces the feather duvet… it can be laundered AND taken camping or to outdoor concerts.

Anyways, I am not sure about any difference in time or cleaning. Takes just as long to replace duvet covers as to put sheets on a bed. And I always DO wash the top sheet: It is folded over the blankets at the top, so it is snuggled around the neck, thus covered with sweat, drool and grime.

All in all a fascinating topic.

btw: fastest? put a mattress cover, one of them dander/bedbug proof ones. Sleep in a sleeping bag on top. In summer unzip, in winter zip up. Have any sort of throw over the mattress cover, that stays there, like on a sofa. Throw pillows make it look ok. In the morning shove the sleeping bag under the bed, drag it out at night. Wash every once in awhile.

]]> By: kathleen http://www.alisoncummins.com/2009/08/16/how-to-change-the-sheets-and-make-the-bed/comment-page-1/#comment-2000 kathleen Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:50:33 +0000 http://www.alisoncummins.com/?p=743#comment-2000 Moot. Why make the bed and do the dishes? Six months later, you have to do it all over again. Moot.
Why make the bed and do the dishes? Six months later, you have to do it all over again.

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