Top Sheet | Pad Patter 2.17

I have to have a top sheet! Christa, @cfile I remember those duvets in Germany. The first night we got there, we didn't know what to do. I wasn't enthralled enough to get them when we returned to the States, however. They were super comfy.

 

We love them ... they are perfect year round I feel like I sleep in the clouds

 

I agree with that. I think the main reason I didn't was because I didn't want to cover them up (I loved the white!) but we had kids and dogs...……………………….

 

I use a top sheet. I always have, and I always will. My husband always wants warmer than I want to be, so the sheet is my salvation.

 

I hate top sheets and have always been that way. I like super soft blankets and then a comforter if I'm cold. My kids don't use top sheets either. I wash my blankets whenever I wash the bottom sheet and pillowcases.

 

I stopped using a top sheet when I had kids. They slept with us and everyone had their own blanket. Now none of them want to use top sheets and it hasn’t bothered me. I have returned to using a top sheet on our bed though, to protect the comforter.

 

This is an eye opener for me, never realized you use blankets and comforters in USA I honestly thought the whole world used duvet's ,apart from hot countries. . We use a duvet with a cover that gets washed weekly,and in the inbetween season a fleese blanket type thing, that washes and dries quicker than a cotton top sheet,in summer a sheet or a towel. And yes definitly seperate duvet's .

 

I seriously have no idea what a "true" duvet is....now to Google!!!

 

I always wait for PB sales!
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We use a duvet most of the year with the exception of the summer months when I pull out our warm-weather bedding (which a light-weight quilt). I would say most of the bedding sold in the US is quilts/comforters. I like duvets because we have a down comforter in ours and I like being warm when I sleep.

Our sheets are washed at a minimum every other week. I don't wash the duvet cover that often because I don't want to degrade the fabric and the fabulous top sheet acts as a barrier, so it doesn't really get soiled. I usually buy a new duvet every few years. I figure if I'm spending a third of my life using something, it's ok to invest every once in a while, lol.

 

It must be a generational thing. I have been quietly embarrassed when finding out my kids and grandkids did not use top sheets! I thought they were neglectful parents! Or too broke to buy a full set of sheets. My goodness. What does "often" mean when washing a duvet cover? Surely not once a week as my generation washes sheets!!!!! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU no-top-sheet people???!!!! Don't you know that a top sheet is PROPER!!!! okay...ROTF...if you can stand it, I won't butt in, but if I stay in your guest room, please either provide me with one or let me know I should bring my own! Seriously not getting over this conversation and this new enlightenment. i'm old.

 

Top sheets and a duvet for us. I did find that most duvets were too hot for us but finally found a silk one that breathes much better. I didn't know the no top sheet thing was big either until traveling in Europe when we only had duvet/cover which I didn't like at all!!! We use the duvet for three seasons and then a top sheet/cotton coverlet in the summer. Even when its hot out, I need to have a sheet over top too!

 

Seven kids, and only ONE uses top sheet. I fought them for years...but now, they do their own wash. You wash the blankets and all..one son has sheets on his bed, and comforter, he sleeps in a cocoon of blankets on top everynight!

 

I guess I'm weird because I use a top sheet. As far as I know, my millennial daughters use them, too.

 

I think my grown-up kids still use top sheets. I know my daughter & son-in-law don't tuck anything in because he's so tall they wouldn't stay tucked anyway. They do have a top sheet on their guest bed.

I always use a top sheet on the beds. Not having one strikes me as mighty peculiar as does the notion of two people sharing a bed having separate blankets. How on earth do you make the bed? Or don't you?

 

My husband and I have a top sheet and thin blanket in summer which the last few weeks only gets pulled up onto us in the early hours of the morning when the temperature drops a little. During winter we have top sheet and a feather doona which has channels allowing there to be more feathers on my half than my husband's as I feel the cold more than he does.

 

Umm I didn't know that not using a top sheet was an actual thing...



We, of course, use a top sheet!!!! And I always have to sleep with a comforter. I like the weight of something on me while I sleep. I probably would love one of those thunder blanket things. Like even when it is 101 outside, must have a comforter and top sheet!

 

Growing up we had the German eiderdown (duvet) without top sheet and that is what we have always used as a family. If we stay in a place with a top sheet I will rip it off before we sleep - I hate getting all tangled up in it. I just wash the duvet cover, sheet and pillowslips.
No top sheet for this non-millennial either.

 

My friend introduced me to the no top sheet on the kids bed movement. I loved it. I adopted it Marchish-Novemberish. With no pesky sheet, he can make his own bed. He likes the top sheet in the winter.
I do have a top sheet. If it starts bugging me, I probably will stop. Well, I should just buy a duvet cover and call the top sheet quits. But I like just the top sheet in the summer when it's super hot.