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I meant a second sheet between you and a duvet. Ofc there is another one covering the matress.
The duvet cover is, in effect, the second sheet of which you speak ;)
Technically it is, but the ux is very different :)
Roll-Invert-Unroll: An easier way to replace a duvet cover
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#222” 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 hope you are not sleeping with same duvet since you were 18…
Not quite, but the liners are some 20 years. Changed and washed twice a year in 90 degrees and still fresh.
Save for the buttons that fell victim to our stone mangle, the covers of the same age are as new as well. That said, none of them are ikea, it’s sort of work place injury from the hotel business to use high quality linen.
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#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
The gender-neutral term I’ve seen (for eg an occupation for life insurance) is ‘houseperson’ which I always found pretty funny.
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#224Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I never had a duvet until the late 70's. I had heard that Swedes slept under duvets, but we had to settle for blankets and sheets. I ws envious! Well, we did have what we called "eiderdowns", which were like duvet inners, but lined in a heavy satin. But they were used as throws for extreme weather; you still slept between sheets and blankets. I think my parents' generation viewed duvets as unacceptably decadent, and…
I must also add that duvets were created for cold rooms and they're great for that: feeling so cozy warm when your nose is still chilled... However you get them as only choice in mostly any hotel nowadays, which also heat the rooms at 22C or more, so sweating and a general sleeping discomfort is guaranteed. Or shortly put: I hate you hotels with duvets.
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#225I just put the duvet into the cover, making sure two corners of the duvet go to the deepest corners of the cover, then stand on bed, hold those two corners and shake for a few seconds, then lay it flat on the bed and adjust as required. Takes 30 seconds, plus time for closing the fasteners. My wife introduced me to an interesting and possibly KKK-inspired method where she would wear the duvet cover inside out, totall…
> possibly KKK-inspired method
LOL
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#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
I never had a duvet until the late 70's. I had heard that Swedes slept under duvets, but we had to settle for blankets and sheets. I ws envious! Well, we did have what we called "eiderdowns", which were like duvet inners, but lined in a heavy satin. But they were used as throws for extreme weather; you still slept between sheets and blankets. I think my parents' generation viewed duvets as unacceptably decadent, and…
I must also add that duvets were created for cold rooms and they're great for that: feeling so cozy warm when your nose is still chilled... However you get them as only choice in mostly any hotel nowadays, which also heat the rooms at 22C or more, so sweating and a general sleeping discomfort is guaranteed. Or shortly put: I hate you hotels with duvets.
Don’t use the entire thing and you can sleep comfortably.
Also, many rooms let you get the temperature to ~15C.
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#227I am generally what one would consider an intelligent person in most respects (university professor doing research in STEM involving plenty of math, etc.) but for some reason, I am totally unable to understand how this technique works. I can follow the instructions, I know that it works, and I have a vague, superficial idea of why it's plausible for it to work (something like "things are inverted twice so it turns ou…
Imagine this way. You have three papers stack together. The top paper is the duvet. The bottom two paper are the cover. If you flip the bottom page over the other two papers, you have the duvet paper between the cover pages. For the real cover, you can not do that because the three sides are stitched together. So you roll the them together then you can invert through the opening.
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I taught my mother how to fold a fitted sheet. A girlfriend taught me and I was floored at how elegant it is. Prior to that, they just made me angry and ended up in the closet in a wad.
Please share!
Video is probably actually appropriate for this:
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Hard agree. Changing a duvet cover is not hard. Maybe we are just getting stupider as a species.
You are simply ignorant of how large duvets can get (taller than 99th percentile).
Maybe that is part of my ignorance. I am quite tall, probably in the 97%
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#230Clearly inferior to the "crawl inside the cover" method. Where's the step where I chase my partner around the room making ghostly "woo woo" noises?