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I've never once used a duvet cover. There are plenty of comforters that look great all by themselves. Sometimes the best solution is to remove the problem entirely.

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That's a rather gross way to live (not trying to dunk on you, this is my attempt at raising the level of awareness). I wash my duvet cover every other week. Clean bedding and sheets are one of the simple joys in life.

It isn't much work, great ROI.

There are different ways of setting up a bed with a duvet. In the United States a bed would most commonly have a fitted sheet on the mattress, then a flat sheet on top of the fitted sheet, tucked under the mattress at the foot of the bed. You sleep on top of the fitted sheet and under the flat sheet. The duvet goes on top of the flat sheet, so it basically doesn’t touch anybody in the bed.

The other way is to eliminate the flat sheet, and have the duvet inside a regularly-changed cover, because, without the flat sheet, the duvet is in direct contact with the people in the bed.

A more detailed discussion can be found at: https://www.realsimple.com/home-organizing/bedding-debate-to...

Simple, you just wash the whole comforter and live happy and clean without ever having to deal with a duvet. I wish I had done it sooner.

Totally, that works as long as it isn't filled with down feathers. Cheers.

Whether this is practical presumably depends on the typical room temperature — a thick/heavy duvet suitable for a cold climate would be inconvenient to wash that regularly.

Ah.. yes, true. I live in SoCal. :)

I'm not sure it's so much about looks as such as that, if something does get spilled, it's a lot easier to wash and cheaper to replace a cover than it is an entire comforter.

> … if something does get spilled, it's a lot easier to wash …

Not eating in bed solves this and some unrelated health problems.

I’m sorry that you can’t think of anything messy happening in bed other than eating food.

Scabs can also come off etc. Various ways to get bed linens stained. (I don't eat or drink--other than water--in bed. A cover just seems a reasonable precaution.)

Have you read the article? Children don't need to be eating in bed in order to soil sheets.

The commenter probably uses two sheets, one above and one below the body, so their uncovered comforter is protected from body soiling processes.

And not peeing on your hands is good too, but I still wash my hands after going to the bathroom.

Ah yes, "you're holding it wrong."

Don't shit where you eat. Don't eat where you sleep.

And don’t sleep where you shit!

I hope you don’t give that one to your guests.

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