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

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

And ranger rolling your t-shirts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuD-ZZydsVg

T-shirts are the easiest thing to fold. The real nightmare is the wife's pile of clothes. Every piece of clothing is unique and different in shape and size. Some of them I wouldn't even know how to wear let alone fold

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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

I remember learning this and thinking it was so cool. Then I realized how much effort it takes to lay a shirt so flat and straight on a flat surface in the first place, and I went back to my “grab the shoulders, shake the middle away from me, bring them together, tuck sleeves in while folding in half” way I’ve always done.

Half the work of shirt folding is getting the shirt to a known orientation anyway, I much prefer letting gravity do the work here.

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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.

I meant a second sheet between you and a duvet. Ofc there is another one covering the matress.

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Where I'm from we have holes in the top corners of the cover. Just put your arms in there, grab the duvet and pull it in, shake it a bit, done (additionally you might need to fix the bottom corners and shake again). I was surprised when I went to other countries where you have to fiddle with only a bottom opening.

Fellow Finn here, I'm flabbergasted how the rest of the world hasn't figured this out apart from us in the nordics :D

In 2007 Ikea stopped selling duvet covers with holes in the corners. “It’s for the international market” they said.

There was a national uproar. People no longer knew how to make their beds.

Attempts were made at convincing them to bring the holes back but without success. We have now settled for the typical Swedish response of making an angry fist with the hand securely hidden inside a pants pocket.

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post #54
post #26

Where I'm from we have holes in the top corners of the cover. Just put your arms in there, grab the duvet and pull it in, shake it a bit, done (additionally you might need to fix the bottom corners and shake again). I was surprised when I went to other countries where you have to fiddle with only a bottom opening.

Fellow Finn here, I'm flabbergasted how the rest of the world hasn't figured this out apart from us in the nordics :D

I personally just used the covers alone, but I also found out that finally there is some with buttons or even with zipper. And pillow covers with zippers are amazing.

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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.

You can have a much higher quality material for both inside and outside, and washing the cover is easier than a full comforter. You wash the inside more rarely with a duvet cover. You can also have one inside and many covers for variety of styles during seasons without having an entire room of the house for storing comforters

Vacuum bags are good for storing that kind of stuff compactly. My duvet and duvet covers semi-permanently live in one! The only kind of blanket I’ve found that is not too warm is gauze.

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” 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 do it in fifteen seconds at most, stuffing it without any consideration just keeping two corners in one hand, then matching them with two cover's corners and gently shaking. Also genuinely baffled about the article, but to be honest, not the first time that I hear someone hating the procedure and describing some problem that I don't understand.

Maybe 30s here, but I'm not claiming to be the fastest; I'm wondering if body length is a factor. As a somewhat tall person (189cm) in my 50s I never had any issues changing doona covers.

Had a much shorter girlfriend at one point who simply said "that's not fair" when she saw me do it.

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

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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 .

Grab any 1950's "how to be a good housewife" book, use a bit of scripting to replace "housewife" with "housekeeper" and "husband" with "partner", and republish.
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