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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 ErigmolCt »

Semaphor wrote: post #13
pablobaz wrote: post #7

My 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.

This is a skill that is passed down to us through "inheritance"

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Post by groestl »

megadog3 wrote: post #8
pablobaz wrote: post #7

My 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.

I do that with my kid. For funsies. Also high in the list: snake bites foot (to put on his tights).

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Post by twic »

twodave wrote: post #9

I think you might also just roll the inner up, stick it the bottom of a collapsed cover, then grab both an exposed inner corner + side of the cover in each hand and stand up with it, shaking a bit to get it to unroll on the way down.

This is what I do. I don't actually roll the duvet up, just do a rough concertina fold

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Post by vundercind »

m463 wrote: post #3
lifeisstillgood wrote: post #2

Not only am I going to try this, I think it’s a YouTube sensation in the making

right up there with japanese shirt folding: https://youtu.be/b5AWQ5aBjgE

Exact same video where I first saw this. I love the audio.

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Post by spuz »

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.

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.

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Post by ErigmolCt »

pablobaz wrote: post #7

My 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 remember how my parents used to do this together the same way you describe, and I was always getting in their way. It was a lot of fun.

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Post by mlok »

pablobaz wrote: post #7

My 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 was never taught this, but I ended up "reinventing" it a few decades ago, certainly because this is the most efficient way ? I have always used this technique since.

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Post by rSi »

pablobaz wrote: post #7

My 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.

WTF!? I heard before that putting a cover on a duvet was a thing, a problem, a mystery... are ppl making this up? is this a joke I don't get invert, tie corners together and what not...

my family and everyone i know do it the way @pablobaz describes it. it's simple and effective. change sheets whenever you feel like doing it, because its easy and fast... endof story

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