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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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).
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