It's why I abandoned the duvet lifestyle
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I need weight on me to sleep. I also have a weighted blanket. For the last winter because it was so cold I slept under two duvets and the blanket.
I thought I was the only one.
I have learned to just accept that and live with it. Works about 60% of the time
I'm so picky about my blankets.
I'm an uncultured slob that doesn't put my blankets in giant pillowcases. I am happy in my ignorance.
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That’s why you tie them in at the corners…
Wait. Does your cover have laces in the inside corners? Or do you make knots externally? If so how are those knots not the size of fists?
Mine does. They work alright, but the duvet still slips a bit.
Most (but not all) duvets and duvet covers have ties/loops to tie the corners (and sometimes the midpoints) off to keep this from happening.
Honestly I never had this issue nor knew about the loops/ties until I graduated from a full/queen cover to a king size one and it became a real problem.
Definitely not most. I have never seen such a thing.
I have been around for 3 and a half decades and I've never had a duvet that's done this in the UK
For the first three decades of my life my duvet had the loops but the cover didn’t have the ties. I just thought the loops were something to grab on to while spelunking into the cover to insert the duvet 😂
You don't have to go spelunking if you don't want to. Turn the cover inside out, lay the duvet on top, tie off the corners if you have ties, and turn it all back right side over.
Especially it is big / you are small, roll it up first, then flip it inside out and autobots roll out
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Obviously a different thing, but your comment unlocked a several decades old memory about my mom tying the ends of my duvet to the bed frame, because I would kick it off the bed while asleep. Wow, that memory was pulled from some very dusty and almost forgotten part of my brain, lol.
Our comforter is tied to the bed footrest on my husband's side, because otherwise I steal it in my sleep. It keeps marital harmony!
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Duvet makes no sense to me.
It's stuff like this that makes me both relieved and slightly ashamed that I'm in my 30s and still don't know quite what a duvet is.
Okay, you know how we put pillows in pillowcases, so that when it's time to wash the bed linens you don't have to wash and more to the point dry the pillow stuffing?
Take that same concept and apply it to your comforter or bedspread.
A duvet is a thick blanket that's designed to come apart so you can wash or exchange the outer layer without having to wash the fluffy insulation. Another feature is that you can own multiple covers and one actual blanket, so if you want to change up your colors you can just swap out the cover. One-piece comforters don't fold up that compactly for storage, but empty duvet covers do.
I've grown up with these, I think they're the standard blanket in Germany. We also have a thin inner for summer and a thick goose down inner for winter. And a whole bunch of covers, so you can just throw one in the wash and put the next one on.
Actually now that I think about it we always buy pillow case+duvet cover as a matching set, idk if you can even get then separately lol
They're not typical in the United States; one-piece comforters are more typical.
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Duvets are a pain in the ass and both the duvet and cover need to be washed anyway. Why not just stick with comforters with sheets and save yourself the trouble?
At least with down, the duvet cover can be washed more often than the duvet. Plus you can change the color or design without wasting as much material buying a whole new duvet/comforter.
I am literally in bed literally dealing with this as we speak. Life is tough, man...
Oh yes.
I think I could make a fortune going around teaching people how to do their bed, cause I never had huge existential problems like these. It's crazy.
You're supposed to tie the corners in
I've never owned a single duvet or cover in my life that had this functionality.
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Not all duvets or covers have those ties. It can be annoying when they’re like that! The burrito or California Roll method works pretty well for keeping the corners in place, though.
You know, I always thought "Duvet Cover" was just a fancy word for that blanket that goes on top of normal blanket in hotel rooms and never gets washed. But after watching this video, I now realize it's something completely different that I'm too poor to comprehend.
Never seen a blanket with strings hanging from it that can be turned inside out... What's it used for?
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It's the bed cover that pops off the mattress every morning that shits me
Fortunately, got a new bed cover and seems fine now. Best investment ever
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Yes I also get mad about thin floppy empty duvet
....because I also have sensory issues
My favourite is when sheets are tucked in tight and straight and even and flat; with NO WRINKLES and NO EDGES and I slip into bed like a letter into an envelope. Especially if I just showered and the sheets are clean too
Mail me to dreamland snnzzzzzzzzzz
Magnets. Not kidding. They sell strong magnets with a cloth covering so it doesn't have edges, and you just secure the ends with them.
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Yeah I have often pinned the whole top edge with a few big safety pins. Those things need more than 4 ties, it really is maddening. And no, I don't have sensory issues. In general I love textures of all sorts. Duvet covers are made wrong. They need to tie all along the top, then halfway down the sides, then the bottom 2 corners.
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