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” Imagine replacing your duvet cover in minutes” When i was 18 and begun my career I hospitality, we’d change a twin bed completely in like 3-4 minutes. How do you spend minutes with just one duvet (excluding disabilities but that’s quite obvious). Also, this is why Swedish duvet covers have holes in the upper corners, just reach through them and grab the liner and pull it in, shake a bit, and you’re done.

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I can think of lots of reasons. My double bed is in the corner of a small room so I only have access to one side of it. Lifting the mattress to put on a fitted sheet is very awkward and pretty strenuous. This also means that there isn't much room for laying out both a duvet and duvet cover. Typically I lay them both on the bed at the same time because I don't want either to touch the floor which makes inserting the duvet into the cover even more awkward. Next is the fact that a double sized duvet is almost but not quite square. It's quite easy to grab a corner of the duvet and match it with the wrong corner of the cover. Lastly, I only do this about once a week not 10 times a day so I haven't had a need to find a better method so far.

Ours is against three walls - you can only access the bed from the foot. It’s also four feet up in the air as we put a closet under the bed.

Turns out you can put on a fitted sheet while you’re on the bed really easily - just lift the head, bending the mattress and the corners in slightly, get the corners on, then off you hop and pull the corners onto the foot - takes 30 seconds at most, and there’s no walking around or lifting the entire mattress.

> Also, this is why Swedish duvet covers have holes in the upper corners, just reach through them and grab the liner and pull it in, shake a bit, and you’re done.

Just as an FYI, this is going away. At least IKEA stopped doing this. From what I heard, people complained thinking the holes were made in error. Stupidity wins again.

Easy, don't buy your stuff at IKEA. We have plenty of other companies in Sweden that cares for the swedish market.

Luckily should be pretty easy to modify to get the same result!

I do it in fifteen seconds at most, stuffing it without any consideration just keeping two corners in one hand, then matching them with two cover's corners and gently shaking.

Also genuinely baffled about the article, but to be honest, not the first time that I hear someone hating the procedure and describing some problem that I don't understand.

Maybe 30s here, but I'm not claiming to be the fastest; I'm wondering if body length is a factor. As a somewhat tall person (189cm) in my 50s I never had any issues changing doona covers.

Had a much shorter girlfriend at one point who simply said "that's not fair" when she saw me do it.

Not sure you have to be tall, you can do this flat on a bed just by shaking from the bottom instead.

The arm reach factor - I can stretch a queen size duvet tight, holding corner to corner. (AU Queen = 210cm X 210cm).

For fitting, standing up I'll just feed one corner of the doona into the cover and find a corner to pinch, then the same for the other side - then open wide, and shake it out.

It so easy, which is why I was also baffled to see an article about making this easier to do.

(It's a small thing and it doesn't matter at all, but the ex seemed to notice it.)

When i got a superking bed i realised what others had been complaining about.

Yeah, I reckon you'd be right. The 210cm Queen size is just within limits, would have to change my method for anything bigger.

Visual: https://knotte.com/pages/nordic-design-duvet-cover-hand-pock...

>How do you spend minutes with just one duvet

Ours is supremely irritating because the duvet gets folded over or bunched up inside the cover and shaking it does not fix this.

So I have to get bodily into the fucking cover and stick each corner in place. It's infuriating and I hate duvets for this reason.

I once zipped my girlfriend up inside a cover while she was doing this, it was quite funny.

gzipped.

God damnit. Now I’m bound to someday call it “girlfriend zip” out loud at work and it’s gonna be a whole thing.

I guess I’ve been lucky in which duvets and liners I have met in my life. Only time I’ve met opposition is with flannel covers, but those are just horrible in all other ways except for starting fires.

I hope you are not sleeping with same duvet since you were 18…

Not quite, but the liners are some 20 years. Changed and washed twice a year in 90 degrees and still fresh. Save for the buttons that fell victim to our stone mangle, the covers of the same age are as new as well. That said, none of them are ikea, it’s sort of work place injury from the hotel business to use high quality linen.

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