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

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Post by Jare »

spuz wrote: post #87
pablobaz wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

This is what I do. I take a corner of the inner and stuff it into the outer until I find the corner of the outer. Then I try to keep those two corners in place while I do the same with the other corner. Then I grab both corners from the outside and do a lot of vigourous shaking until everything lines up. It takes ages and doesn't always work. I think I will try starting inside out from now on.

I do that and while the shaking is unpredictable and often requires doing it from multiple sides, I find it a strong but strangely pleasant exercise for my shoulders.

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Post by etrautmann »

chatmasta wrote: post #69
pablobaz wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 .

The book “Algorithms to live by” comes close

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Post by Macha »

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 take it you're in a warmer climate, a regular blanket is insufficient for many months of a year here. Like growing up, I had multiple blankets and a duvet, and had similar in some less well insulated houses I've lived in. My current house is better insulated, so a duvet on its own is generally sufficient.

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Post by 8organicbits »

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.

There's some articles that discuss this switch. It may be a generational preference.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/why-millennials-aren-apos-t-...

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Post by Jare »

vundercind wrote: post #88
tdiff wrote: post #72

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Exactly, living in Europe, I've literally encountered the sheet+blanket combination for the first time a week ago, in a hotel. Duvets with covers ARE the norm.

Wait… you don’t use a sheet under a duvet? What do you wrap under yourself? Not the duvet, that’d be too thick, surely.

A sheet covering the mattress, then we lying on top, then the duvet covering us to varying degrees of area and precision depending on temperature and activity while asleep. My son snakes over and under the duvet several times along his body.

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Post by olejorgenb »

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.

Visual: https://knotte.com/pages/nordic-design-duvet-cover-hand-pock...
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