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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 .
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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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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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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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFOhjljieqs same method, but in video form.
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I learned about it from the Superdry brand which is a Japanese brand.
Superdry is a UK brand. They just make use of Japanese aesthetics.
[1]: https://corporate.superdry.com/media/mswf3cml/public-factory...
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Long story but we went to someone to have a cover custom made (she advertised this kind of thing, and for us it was partially to use fabric that had sentimental value for us). She ended up arguing with us about how we didn't need the holes, and demonstrated this flip move that seemed impractical for a large comforter.
I wish all duvets and covers had ties, and more importantly covers with holes. It's so much simpler and direct a solution.