I just put the whole thing in the washing machine and run the drier for two hours.
Roll-Invert-Unroll: An easier way to replace a duvet cover
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#12My preferred technique is to also start with the cover inside out. Then put your hands inside the cyber into its corners. Then grasp two corners of the duvet through the fabric. A bit of shaking to turn the cover the right way out and you are done.
I think this is the official strategy, i've never seen someone using a different one.
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#13My preferred technique is to also start with the cover inside out. Then put your hands inside the cyber into its corners. Then grasp two corners of the duvet through the fabric. A bit of shaking to turn the cover the right way out and you are done.
What other way is there? This is how I learned it from my mom and have done it ever since.
Edit: I guess there's this rolling method, which seems a lot more convoluted based on the videos.
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#14I go into the duvet cover with the duvet. Hold the two upper corners, put the duvet cover over your head, attach each corner of the duvet to the corresponding corner in the duvet cover (I buy ones with strings for this purpose). Then extricate yourself, hold the corners you just attached, shake vigorously, handle fine alignment of the bottom corners, and button the thing up.
I am sure people will make fun of this but I get it done in a minute (buttoning all the buttons at the bottom is the hardest part), and I do wash it every 2 weeks, so... poke fun all you want, at least I'm not rolling around in filth from a month ago.
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#15I just put the whole thing in the washing machine and run the drier for two hours.
Doesn't work well with duvets filled with feathers.
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#16I couldn't understand past the part where it was rolled down to the bottom, Fig 6.
However, this was never a problem for me. I simply grab the top corner of the inner part and match it inside with inside corner of the outer part. Then the other top corner. Then pull them both to the top of the bed, then fix the bottom—easy.
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#18This practice of roll-invert-unroll is very common in India. I recall putting on liners on beddings and blankets when I was ~6 year old in the 1990s.
I didn't realize until I saw comments that it's not the normal way here in western parts. I think may be hospitality industry may use it already and not commonly documented. Thanks for documenting it. Now I have a blog to point to when teaching my kids.
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#19My preferred technique is to also start with the cover inside out. Then put your hands inside the cyber into its corners. Then grasp two corners of the duvet through the fabric. A bit of shaking to turn the cover the right way out and you are done.
I call this the ghost method, because you look like a ghost with your arms through the inverted duvet cover.
My girlfriend insists that the your head does not go inside. But why would you forgo all that fun?
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#20” 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.
>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.