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Where I'm from we have holes in the top corners of the cover. Just put your arms in there, grab the duvet and pull it in, shake it a bit, done (additionally you might need to fix the bottom corners and shake again). I was surprised when I went to other countries where you have to fiddle with only a bottom opening.

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Fellow Finn here, I'm flabbergasted how the rest of the world hasn't figured this out apart from us in the nordics :D

In 2007 Ikea stopped selling duvet covers with holes in the corners. “It’s for the international market” they said.

There was a national uproar. People no longer knew how to make their beds.

Attempts were made at convincing them to bring the holes back but without success. We have now settled for the typical Swedish response of making an angry fist with the hand securely hidden inside a pants pocket.

I refuse to buy any duvets that don't have the holes. It's too much of a convenience.

I was annoyed at first and iirc my ex-GF cut the corners, once I realized the put-hands-inside-edges-of-inverted-cover-and-grab-the-duvet-corners-and-pull-through method I've mellowed on them since it goes fairly quickly.

I personally just used the covers alone, but I also found out that finally there is some with buttons or even with zipper. And pillow covers with zippers are amazing.

We've had multiple covers, and the one that we've liked the most has holes in the top corner, along with ties.

Long story but we went to someone to have a cover custom made (she advertised this kind of thing, and for us it was partially to use fabric that had sentimental value for us). She ended up arguing with us about how we didn't need the holes, and demonstrated this flip move that seemed impractical for a large comforter.

I wish all duvets and covers had ties, and more importantly covers with holes. It's so much simpler and direct a solution.

I have no idea where my wife found them but we have duvets with an opening ⅓ of the way up, ½ the width of the duvet. Means you can’t invert it, instead just the top corners out through the hole, and I usually need to use my teeth as a third hand while I use the others to stuff the duvet in through the hilariously tiny aperture.

Even without the holes, you can just do the same thing by inverting the corners and grabbing the duvet through that.

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