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Smart Bedding – Never Make Your Bed Again

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In Europe and Japan nobody uses a top sheet in the first place.

I dated a German woman for a while. Took just a few nights at her place to convince me the top sheet is worthless and I was doing it wrong my whole life.

The other thing Germany gets right with bedding is a smaller duvet for each person on the bed, instead of sleep-fighting over one bigger duvet.

I'm from Europe and I always used a top sheet. Isn't the duvet too hot for summer nights?

Yeah, that's the first time I heard about it.

Personally, I think making the bed is purely cosmetical and useless. A waste of time. Throw the blanket over a chair or something to air it out during the day, that actually beats making the bed. Doesn't look as good to some people... which sucks for them and doesn't bother me. Ahh, the joys and hard savings of an examined life ^^

I have a problem with people who say things like: "Never make your bed again", and then at some point say "Then when you make your bed, it's just...". You're still making your bed, just perhaps removing one step. I wish them the best of luck, and hopefully at the very least they get some nicer sheets onto peoples beds.

I like my sheets tucked in, and half the time I don't use my duvet, it's just too hot. And I would still have to make my bed, pulling the top sheet and the duvet up takes like 5 extra seconds. I agree that bedding could use improvements, but I think it will take more than attaching the top sheet to the duvet to fix it.

A $10,000 Kickstarter for a problem that could be solved by just not using an unnecessary extra sheet in the first place! The blurb claims that washing a top sheet is easier than washing a duvet cover, which it isn't (I have alternated over the past ten years between using a duvet and duvet cover, and a top sheet and blanket, so I have extensive comparative experience of the comparative laundry difficulties of the two); and that the two layers give you extra options depending on the temperature, which this system prevents by attaching the top sheet to the duvet cover.

Also, it appears to use those crappy plastic clasps that lose their shape after two washes.

Yes, I came here to check and see if it was some kind of satire. Being from the UK I'be never heard of a top sheet and couldn't imagine what benefit it would give you. Also, would it not get crumpled up in the night as you move around?

I use a top sheet and I've never had any serious problems with it running away from the blankets on top. Additionally, I don't tuck it in.

I find using a top sheet _vastly_ superior to not using one, as it's far easier to wash sheets than it is to wash bulkier blankets -- they fit in the washer and dryer better. Whatever is touching you directly should be washed frequently and it's much easier if that's just a sheet.

The typical alternative to a blanket + top sheet is not just a blanket, but a duvet with a duvet cover, that is just as washable and not much different from "just a sheet". And the bonus is you don't need to do anything to prevent it from bunching.

The solution for me is to not use a top sheet at all. Is there something wrong with that? Honest question.

Depends: the sheets (whether fitted and flat, or two flat with one tucked under all four corners and one lying above) are there to provide an easily-washable envelope within which to couch your body while sleeping. While we sleep--and occasionally, when we use the bed for something other than sleep--we produce a certain amount of refuse: sweat, sloughed-off skin, hair, drool, etc. The sheet envelope can be pulled off and tossed into the laundry to remove that stuff--and its associated visual and olfactory attributes--from the sleeping environment.

It's troublesome to haul the mattress out in the yard and hose it down, and even harder to stuff it into the dryer afterward; and some bed coverings (heirloom quilts, down comforters, etc.) cannot be readily laundered. As long as you have something washable between yourself and those elements of the bedstack, you're probably fine.

On the other hand, if you're romantically inclined, and the person with whom you would like to recline romantically is turned off by how your bed is stacked, well then, yes, you're doing it wrong.

I liked tucked in top sheets. My idea for this (which, of course, I never implemented), was to make a top sheet with a pocket at the end that slipped over the mattress - no more pulled up top sheet in the middle of the night.

It seems like a neat idea, but I like tucking the top sheet in :)

Maybe if they had a way to tie the top sheet to the fitted sheet?

Yup, there's two different camps, loose top sheet or tucked in. They should have two different designs.

There is a third camp, never heard of a top sheet until now. I belong in this camp and am wondering what I've missed all these years.

The top sheet keeps your blankets and comforters clean; its much easier to wash a sheet than a blanket.

If you buy a bedding set they usually come with two pillow cases (for queen and king sized beds or one for smaller) and a loose and fitted sheet.

That's not smart bedding. It's just being a clever human.

Joseph Ducreux over the bed. I wonder if that guy's single?

Top sheet?

AKA flat sheet, which is really a more descriptive term, as it usually does not go on the top of the bedding stack.

I don't see how tacking the flat sheet to the duvet cover helps--yes, it keeps the sheet from getting wadded at the foot of the bed, but you lose the ability to throw off the duvet and keep the flat sheet over you in the middle of the night. I guess I could unsnap the two pieces, but that takes somewhat more consciousness and cognitive skill than I generally possess while sleeping. In order to do it, I'd have to rise further out of slumber, which would be a less-desirable outcome than having to pull up a sheet in the morning.

Maybe people who thrash about so violently that they wad the flat sheet into a ball at the foot of the bed are so light-sleeping that they'd hardly notice the slumber-level change necessary to affect the coverage shift.

On the other hand, I'm really digging the idea of a flat sheet with a pocket, to keep it well-tucked while deployed. Kickstarter me that and I might invest.

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