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Roll-Invert-Unroll: An easier way to replace a duvet cover

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Re: Roll-Invert-Unroll: An easier way to replace a duvet cover

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Post by Unbeliever69 »

bhaney wrote: post #45

I wasn't even aware duvets were still used outside of hotels. You guys don't just have sheets and a regular blanket on your bed? Is it a cultural/regional thing? They seem very annoying to deal with and I've never found them to be particularly comfortable, so I'm surprised so many people here seem to use them.

My absolute favorite items in this world are my down comforters and duvets. I have a thick one for winter and a thin one for summer. Sometimes I have them both on the bed and use one as a snuggle blanket. Every night when I crawl in bed it is a form of catharsis like a cat making biscuits.

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Post by forgotusername6 »

NeoTar wrote: post #39

If you’re only changing your duvet cover once a month (or less) you’re sleeping under a sheet under the duvet, right? We don’t do sheets and are in the change once a week camp.

Nope. Duvet changes every couple of months perhaps. Sleep straight under the duvet. Thought this was normal. Never heard of a sheet under the duvet

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Post by bootsmann »

stephencanon wrote: post #44
Semaphor wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The rolling method is really exactly the same thing, but some people find it easier to think about reaching in for the corners after rolling, and you don't need to be tall enough to let it fall down into place (wife is 5'4" and rolls, I'm 6'4" and just reach for the far corners).

The duvet is like a parachute, you don’t need to shake it in from the top you can shake it in like a magician doing the table clearing trick.

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Post by wrp »

bhaney wrote: post #45

I wasn't even aware duvets were still used outside of hotels. You guys don't just have sheets and a regular blanket on your bed? Is it a cultural/regional thing? They seem very annoying to deal with and I've never found them to be particularly comfortable, so I'm surprised so many people here seem to use them.

I think it's regional. Growing up in the western USA, I never saw a duvet with a removable cover. Living in Japan/Korea, I've never seen people use the sheets+blanket arrangement in the home.

BTW, I first heard the word "duvet" as a teenager watching British comedy on PBS. I had to look it up in the dictionary.

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Post by Semaphor »

stephencanon wrote: post #44
Semaphor wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The rolling method is really exactly the same thing, but some people find it easier to think about reaching in for the corners after rolling, and you don't need to be tall enough to let it fall down into place (wife is 5'4" and rolls, I'm 6'4" and just reach for the far corners).

If it's the same, then some people here posted really bad videos of it ;)

FWIW, my wife is tiny (160cm) and still does the reverse grip method

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Post by napoleongl »

nvy wrote: post #20
napoleongl wrote: post #10

” 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.

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.

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Post by chatmasta »

pablobaz wrote: post #25
Semaphor wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

IME lots of people just try stuff the duvet in and then shake it to get it in the right place.

Someone should write a book called Household Chores for Hackers: The algorithms your mother took for granted and forgot to teach you.

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Post by kirenida »

Related question: what method do you use to keep the duvet in place inside the cover?

I have some animal themed safety pins that my parents used on my duvet since I was a child. I put four of them in a square shape around the middle of the cover when the duvet is inside.

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