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

Post by wlindley » Sun, Mar 31, 2024, 2:42 PM UTC

vundercind wrote: post #133

Jare wrote: post #116

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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.

“Fitted sheet” (sheet with elastic on the corners, a little smaller than a same-nominal-size sheet) that covers the mattress, regular sheet, optional light blanket, comforter, optional quilt or something like that if it’s very cold. That’s standard bedding around here (US Midwest). This duvet-only (not counting mattress cover) stuff is wild to me. May have to try it.

Post by schneems » Sun, Mar 31, 2024, 3:22 PM UTC

mtrio wrote: post #227

Al-Khwarizmi wrote: post #219

I 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.

Post by smegger001 » Sun, Mar 31, 2024, 4:09 PM UTC

brookst wrote: post #242

chatmasta wrote: post #69

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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 .

What does the page on folding fitted sheets say?

Post by nabeards » Sun, Mar 31, 2024, 4:25 PM UTC

pablobaz wrote: post #7

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.

Post by goodlinks » Sun, Mar 31, 2024, 5:40 PM UTC

sundvor wrote: post #129

narag wrote: post #47

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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.