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I’m 41 and I still don’t know what a duvet is or why it needs covered.
Come sleep over with me.
Since I’m not a native speaker, I had to Google… It’s just a blanket. I put a cover around my blankets regardless of type personally - it’s easier to wash the cover than the blanket.
and you don’t seem to understand…
Most (but not all) duvets and duvet covers have ties/loops to tie the corners (and sometimes the midpoints) off to keep this from happening.
Honestly I never had this issue nor knew about the loops/ties until I graduated from a full/queen cover to a king size one and it became a real problem.
I have been around for 3 and a half decades and I’ve never had a duvet that’s done this in the UK
For the first three decades of my life my duvet had the loops but the cover didn’t have the ties. I just thought the loops were something to grab on to while spelunking into the cover to insert the duvet 😂
You don’t have to go spelunking if you don’t want to. Turn the cover inside out, lay the duvet on top, tie off the corners if you have ties, and turn it all back right side over.
Obviously a different thing, but your comment unlocked a several decades old memory about my mom tying the ends of my duvet to the bed frame, because I would kick it off the bed while asleep. Wow, that memory was pulled from some very dusty and almost forgotten part of my brain, lol.
Definitely not most. I have never seen such a thing.
It still happens especially with fabric like viscose. My duvet has ties for in-between corners too, but my comforter doesn’t, so I get what’s being described here. I need to sew some in and stop being a lazy ass.
Omfg yes. I am under this duvet so that I have a heavy warm blanket over me. Not some shit ass excuse for a fitted sheet.
I’m an uncultured slob that doesn’t put my blankets in giant pillowcases. I am happy in my ignorance.
Just so you know. This is unhygienic as fuck if you sleep in the regularly. It’s basically how you get bed bugs.
You get bed bugs by bringing infested items/animals/people into your home, not by sleeping in a bed with no duvet cover
They’re called comforters and very common in many places. I rarely see duvets where I live. You just wash them periodically like anything else.
Bed bugs need to be introduced to the home from a source somewhere and a duvet cover won’t help if they are.
You mean dust mites? You get them regardless, but I agree that it’s nicer to reduce how often you need to wash the duvet, better for the environment as well.
We tie and clip the corners
… There are ties to connect the corners so this doesn’t happen on every duvet+cover I’ve owned. Just buy one like that.
Right? And even on ones that don’t, it’s easy to sew on some strips of fabric at the corners
Mine has no straps. I just use big safety pins.
Hell that might be even easier lol
Yes, but also yes
Yep…which is why I no longer use duvet covers.
Just use blankets and/or comforters and wash them regularly?
Duvet covers are from olden times when you had to wash your bedding on a rock down by the river.
No. Because then I would have to settle for some subpar sleeping materials like synthetics or cottons. Unlike my breathable warm and cool and cozy alpaca and wool.
Look at this lucky person who’s not cursed with a 7kg “efficient wash and dry” machine that you can barely force a duvet into, and the program takes 7+ hours.
Oh man, high-efficiency washing machines is a whole other post. I want my $200 washing machine from the 90s back.
Sometimea you have to think outside the box. Just cut the comforter in half so you only have to put half in at a time
Laundromats exist
I wish. Maybe that’s true in your country… it’s the law that landlords provide laundry facilities, and so there’s no real demand. There’s only one laundromat in the entire country, and it’s hours away - in Stockholm. And I’m not crazy enough to dryclean my duvet.
In theory. I can never remember to go haha. I have a bunch of stuff in a pile but it’s just not part of my routine so it never happens
Somehow this never happened to the ones I have used. I hate putting them together though. Fuck all of that
Just turn the cover inside out and flip it on from the corners, it takes a few seconds to shake it out and you’re done.
Duvet makes no sense to me.
It’s stuff like this that makes me both relieved and slightly ashamed that I’m in my 30s and still don’t know quite what a duvet is.
Okay, you know how we put pillows in pillowcases, so that when it’s time to wash the bed linens you don’t have to wash and more to the point dry the pillow stuffing?
Take that same concept and apply it to your comforter or bedspread.
A duvet is a thick blanket that’s designed to come apart so you can wash or exchange the outer layer without having to wash the fluffy insulation. Another feature is that you can own multiple covers and one actual blanket, so if you want to change up your colors you can just swap out the cover. One-piece comforters don’t fold up that compactly for storage, but empty duvet covers do.
Thanks for the explanation! TBH it sounds like something that I would hate and find a bunch of extra work, but I can see why other people would like it and find it useful.
If your not from a cold weather climate you probably also don’t have a down douve that can only be dry-cleaned.
Where I’m from we generally sleep with the window open to some degree all year round. So in the winter the bedroom gets pretty cold sometimes.
Honestly in canada I’ve never heard of them either lol. Typically my familly have always used 1-2 thin bedsheets, then what we call a “catalogne”, which I can’t seem to be able to translate. It’s basically a hand tressed bedsheet that’s impossible to wash without it breaking apart. Then some cover that’s usually pretty thin, just for the looks I suppose. If you’re cold, you just add layers. Once a season, you take that catalogne and the top sheet and soak them in water, then let them dry outside.
Or you can do like my sister and not give a fuck about that. She just sleeps under 10+ loose blankets and a furnace of a dog.
I’ve grown up with these, I think they’re the standard blanket in Germany. We also have a thin inner for summer and a thick goose down inner for winter. And a whole bunch of covers, so you can just throw one in the wash and put the next one on.
Actually now that I think about it we always buy pillow case+duvet cover as a matching set, idk if you can even get then separately lol
I’m from Québec and we/some put thick bed covers like comforters on top of another set of thin sheets. I grew up with the principle of just removing a layer if it was hot in summer, sometimes removing the comforter entirely, and putting it back in winter. I have never used a duvet before visiting Europe. It’s only when I slept in hotels in Germany that I met a duvet for the first time of my life. Most of them only have a single sheet, a duvet and a giant deflated pillow. And I must admit that I hated it. So much so that I went to Decathlon to buy a liner and an inflatable pillow because I couldn’t sleep with the duvet nor the folded pillow.
If it’s any solace to you, I hate those pillows too, and my whole family has never had them. Idk what’s up with hotels of all places using those
They’re not typical in the United States; one-piece comforters are more typical.
Depends on the area I guess. I see more duvets than one-piece comforters here in the PNW.
Here in Finland at least pretty much every single duvet cover I’ve ever had has small slits in the top corners, so that you can just put your arms in, grab the corners of the duvet and give it a shake and it’s perfect.
Also when actually putting it on, you just out your arms through those holes, then through the main hole at the bottom, grab the duvet and shake, and it sets perfectly.
Don’t know about these ties people are talking about. You could put safety pins in the corners as well but that’d bother me at least.
Also currently I am suffering from this issue because this newest satin one I bought doesn’t have em. Some import shit.
Why do duvets have covers when u have to wash both anyways?
Maybe another question is how long can the duvet go between washes when you regularly wash the covers? Is it jeans or jackets?
It’s the bed cover that pops off the mattress every morning that shits me
Fortunately, got a new bed cover and seems fine now. Best investment ever
