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

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

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Post by devbent »

rSi wrote: post #100
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.

WTF!? I heard before that putting a cover on a duvet was a thing, a problem, a mystery... are ppl making this up? is this a joke I don't get invert, tie corners together and what not... my family and everyone i know do it the way @pablobaz describes it. it's simple and effective. change sheets whenever you feel like doing it, because its easy and fast... endof story

I've only ever known cramming it inside and then crawling inside with it to try and get the duvet into place.

I grew up in a family that had (home made!) blankets and quilts, duvets were not a thing until I moved out on my own.

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Post by MichaelDickens »

worddepress wrote: post #167
harimau777 wrote: post #164

Is this a European thing? I've never even heard of a duvet.

How do you keep warm at night in the USA? Blankets and sheets I am guessing?

I live in the USA and I see duvets almost everywhere. But I presume GP uses blankets.

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Post by causality0 »

mch82 wrote: post #155

The correct technique is to replace a duvet cover by going to the store and purchasing a comforter. Ideally, purchase two comforters and alternate the one you’re washing with the one you’re using so that the bed is never without one. :-)

I think there's a gap between the "bedroom is center of home" people and the "bedroom is for sleeping" people. For the former, they value things like changing the appearance of the bed for seasonal or taste-based reasons. For people like me in the latter category, the things on the bed are like the floor mats in my car: as long as they're clean I don't give a damn what they look like. They're purely functional objects that I don't even see for more than a few seconds a day.

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Post by eternauta3k »

lagrange77 wrote: post #12
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.

I think this is the official strategy, i've never seen someone using a different one.

I googled this when I first moved to a duvet country and adopted this exact method.

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Post by 331c8c71 »

tdiff wrote: post #123
vundercind wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

What? Heresy! ;)

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Post by mrbadguy »

tdiff wrote: post #123
vundercind wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The duvet cover is, in effect, the second sheet of which you speak ;)

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Post by VagabundoP »

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.

Yup, this way and you're done in a minute or two.
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