How do you deal with the bottom sheet on your bed?
It always wants to ride up the sides of my bed because elastic never wants to hold it in place. When I wash and dry my sheets it inevitably spirals up in the washer and dryer so it never washes or dries properly. Then it’s a pain in the ass to try and fold neatly.
I feel like I’m failing adulthood after being bested by a bedsheet.
If it’s riding up the sides of your mattress, it’s probably not big enough for your mattress. Sheets say on the package something like, “fits mattresses up to 11 inches tall”. If your mattress is taller than that, it’ll ride up.
4-point suspenders. The adjustable kind for big boys.
Lay it on your box spring, with the 4 clips pointing at the 4 corners of the bed. Lay your mattress back down. Put your fitted sheet on, and clip each suspender clip to each corner of the sheet, under the mattress.
I feel like I’m failing adulthood after being bested by a bedsheet.
Don't worry - most older adults people aren't going to quiz you by bringing a fitted sheet to watch you fold. If you want to bunch it up and shove it in a cabinet, just go ahead!
A lot of times when I wash our sheets I just put them right back on the bed. Now there's a life hack for ya!
Glue it to your bed. To wash, hose it down every few months. It takes about a week to dry the mattress, so you just have to get used to sleeping on a damp surface. Apply Febreze liberally.
I didn't see anybody else share how to fold a fitted sheet, so here you go. This is how I've been folding mine for several years now. It's a game-changer.
Buy nicer sheets and you may need to buy the ones made for a deep mattress.
As a last resort you can buy clip on sheet holders that will make sure they won't come off, but at some point you'll probably end up ripping your sheet if you use them.
Mattresses have an enormous variance in thickness, and sheets vary considerably in the depth of the "pocket." If your sheets can barely fit over a too-thick mattress, then they're going to pop off when you move on them. You might just want to buy some new sheets with a deeper pocket. Alternatively, you can buy elastic straps that go under the bed and clip onto the sheets. You'll generally either find these as a four pack of short ones that are meant to go only at the corners, or as a two pack of long ones meant to stretch under the entire bed and attach opposite sides. Get the long ones; they generally perform much better.
Wash bedclothes separately at at least 60°C. Germs die and salt and fat will dissolve. No folding, because who cares it won't make a difference after 1 night. And yeah what elbow said, pull the fittet sheets as far as possible over the mattress. The rubber ring should be as small as possible on the backside. The sewn corners on the bed sheet should rest on the mattress' corners that are on the underside, or even being stretched further
I think some places you can buy sheets and pillowcases separately and not in sets. What this can allow you to do is buy a flat sheet and use it on your mattress instead of a fitted sheet. You might need to buy a size bigger for this to work, I don't know.
The flat sheet should be better because you can tuck it under the mattress and it will not do that crazy balling up in the wash/dry.
I do latch them below the corners. I have a foam mattress topper, so fitted sheets just fit around the mattress. As a result, there isn’t a lot of extra material to go under the mattress.
Fitted sheets are awful. For a start they never fit.
I use a massive flat sheet and just tuck it under the mattress. If your mattress fits in your bed frame rather than on it, use a mattress topper and tuck the sheet under that.
I dry my sheets separately because otherwise yeah, a bunch of clothes get stuck in the fitted sheet and don't dry. Honestly I never have the issue of the elastic failing to keep it on the bed, and I toss and turn a lot. You might just need new sheets if the elastic is starting to fail, or better sheets. Or maybe they're not quite the right size for your bed.
Dry a good thick blanket at the same time. It may stop the wrapping but if you check in ten minutes, it's a lot easier to unwrap. Much more likely, it wraps around the blanket and that stops the wrapping of the sheet around itself. Helps to do that wrapping around the blanket itself by hand before hand.
We only wash the bed linnen and then hang it out to dry (mynwife hates a dryi r, we got rid of it more them 15y ago).
When making the bed, bottom and top are fitted around the matress in 1 go (I'm to lazy to lift the matress twice).
Keep it from riding up by buying an extra size bigger (sheet should be 1 size bigger than bed).
Washing it with other stuff is fine, but don't dry it with the rest of the load. Hang it to dry somewhat while drying the rest of the load (I drape ours over our dining room chairs), then once the rest of the load is done drying, dry the fitted sheet by itself.
The fitted sheet? Never had issues with it. The "edges" are supposed to go under the mattress. It's not going anywhere.
Sheets that go on top of that? I don't use them because they are pointless. They always bunch up and end up at the foot of the bed anyway. I just use the comforter.
Maybe it’s just because I live in Texas and it’s 80 degrees outside in February, but I pretty much exclusively use that sheet. Blanket only ever covers my feet.
I feel like I’m failing adulthood after being bested by a bedsheet.
Don’t worry, no one can actually fold the fitted sheet nicely. I channel Lorelei Gilmore when I fold mine (jump to 0:45 for the relevant part, there aren’t many videos of this scene apparently).
I don't. I have a comfortable bed cover that I never remove for sleeping and put my sleeping blankets on top. No fiddling with any damn sheets unless it's laundry day and my bed always looks like it's made if I fold the top blankets aside.
one stupid idiot fuck has yet to make a fitted sheet with any sort of orientation indication on it so I refuse to sleep on a bed I've got a yoga mat it cost $15
The Lands End sheets do label the sides with discreet tags inside the fitted sheets, they might be worth it for that alone (tho they’re also p comfortable)
Target sells them now! Mine have tags on the parts that go either by your foot or head board that say that's where they go. They also have extra pleating at the corners so that they stay tucked deep under the mattress. Iove them! Oh, and elastic around the entire thing so they tuck under the entire mattress.