Top Sheet | Pad Patter 2.17

@Nemla Living in a hot country - we just have summer and winter weight duvets.
I don't know anyone that uses blankets instead of duvets, only as an additional layer over the duvet come the cold of winter, as our homes don't have central heating.

 

I always used a top sheet for years, although I didn't pin them to the blanket the way my mom did (which keeps them together.) Then I discovered that IKEA sells duvet covers and I've switched nearly everybody to those.

I do have one for everyone, but my oldest son wanted a lighter quilt for his bed and it's cheap and thin enough that I just wash it with his sheets. His younger brother flips between a thin quilt -- no sheet or cover -- and a comforter with cover. The rest of us have comforters with duvet covers. (I guess they are duvets inside duvet covers, but I keep thinking of them as custom comforters. LOL)

I miss the top sheet; I should ask my husband what he thinks, since the puppy chewed a small hole in our duvet cover and I should probably think about replacing it. Maybe he'd prefer the top sheet too?

 

Man...never realized there was so much passion over a top sheet.

We have one but only because we just bought new sheets and there was one in the package. I don't think either of us actually cares if we have one or not. It usually ends up stuffed at the end of the bed every night so I don't know that it actually does anything other than frustrate me when it's time to make the bed.

Neither of my kids use one. They both hate them so I don't even bother.

 

Hubby and I have always used a top sheet. Otherwise my blankets would need washing more often and I hate washing all our blankets. Lol. My oldest son kicks his top sheet to the bottom of the bed instantly. sigh. But, my 12 year old uses his every night.

 

I think this is why I don't use it! It just seems like more work having it on the beds!

 

This is me... though we use washable down comforter and duvet cover from IKEA - all washable. Toss it all in. Kids are same.

 

One more thought from me:

Every EVERY hotel or motel, from the cheapest to the most luxurious, makes the bed with a top sheet. Why would my standard be any lower than Motel 6’s or The Drake? ??????????

 

Hotels use them so they don't have to launder the comforter/duvets on a daily basis

 

That actually skeeves me out. I understand, but never thought about it.

 

Exactly. Which should tell us something.

I rest my case.

 

My hubs and I HAVE to have a top sheet... but my kids... (insert exasperation) Their top sheet always ends up on the floor at the foot of the bed. As a kid I didn't use one, but as an adult, I can't imagine a world without... lol

 

I totally do not use a top sheet as I never, ever, ever sleep with only a top sheet on. I have to sleep with the blanket all the way to my chin. If I get hot, I stick a foot (or two) out but I never take the blanket down from my chin.

 

Yea, I always wonder about it when I stay at hotels. I try my best not to sleep with the bedspread touching me, lol.

I'm on team top sheet! ... but I do feel less worried about the cleanliness of the linens in my own house vs. with random hotel guests

 

I want to be comfortable in my home, so I opt to wash it all. I feel constricted with a top sheet. To each his own, and that is the beautiful thing.

 

It's one of those things that I think everybody does, and then am surprised to find out no one does. LOL My mom would fold over the top sheet at the top of the blanket, and then pin it all together with diaper pins. (Mine were ducks!)

When I started my own house, I had a hard time finding diaper pins that would stay closed. I got tired of them popping open, so I quit using them.

 

We are a top sheet family -- but we almost never make our beds - gasp! Okay, if we have company coming over and there is a chance they might see my bed, then yes I make it. Hubby is part of the air out the bed group so he flings all the sheets and comforter over the end of the bed every morning to air things out.

And my sheets must be perfectly tight and smooth - and the top sheet must fold over the top of the comforter so it does not touch my chin when I have them pulled up. And yes, I crank that A/C way down at night in the summer (and very cold in in the winter) so I can sleep with the comforter year around.

Kids are on their own - although I do wash DS sheets since he is only home from college on weekends. He is really in the pulled up, tight, smooth sheets and comforter group. He just sort of slides in between the perfectly made up bed and sleeps like that. DD is a pile of sheets, comforter, and large stuffed animals, but she does use a top sheet.