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For a queen size duvet I just stuff the entire duvet inside the cover and then align the two corners farthest from the hole, pinch from the outside and shake, takes less than a minute if I'm in a rush and no inversion required. I do have very long arms though, and maybe this would be faster for a king size duvet cover.
In Australia a duvet is called a “doona” and while there are some perverts who use a sheet between person and doona (these are people who don’t like to wash doona covers), fitted-sheet=>sleeper=>doona is the standard
I don't think there's really any right way of doing things though. Sometimes I wonder if we should just have a linen blanket or something on top in the summer but we never seem to get too hot somehow, and I've never managed to find a top blanket that is the right size and that we like.
(I'm also not really sure I want to store our duvet just for the summer either but that's solvable.)
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 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.
I know a lot of places aren't as into complete climate control as we are around here, so it makes sense that those places would have different priorities when making bedding choices, now that I think about it. Thanks for sharing.
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Presumably they wash though, probably after getting out of bed.
And before crawling into it.
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Most of the people I knew in Australia 10 years ago had duvets. I never even knew what a duvet was until I went to Australia. Moved back to the US and got one. I can only think of one other person I know here who has a duvet
Also we call them doonas.