Overdressed & Underappreciated

out-there-on-the-maroon:

impalaanddemons:

tlakht:

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kd-heart:

out-there-on-the-maroon:

siseja:

etherealunicorn:

siseja:

etherealunicorn:

kavesinisukka:

glumshoe:

“um OP don’t you know you’re supposed to have blankets on your bed that you never come into physical contact with” I’m sorry that you live in Actual Real Hell my friend but here in the world of the living I like to be able to rest comfortably without worrying that shifting in my sleep will cause my skin to explode by coming into contact with the Blanket of Forbidden Texture

See this is the kind of thing I was wondering about when posting about why making the bed could take so long. What are you people doing with your beds? I tried to Google this, but it still makes no sense.

Do US people not use those sheets that go on fully around the blanket? And why not? Is the top sheet supposed to function like those sheets, only fifty times worse because there is nothing holding it in place?

Sheets that go fully around the blankets? What the heck are you talking about.

With me you got your fitted sheet (or top sheet that gets tucked in), 5 Soft Blankets and then a comforter.

Do people even use top sheets anymore? I have only seen them at h/motels. Maybe in a very hot climate it would be better to use them versus a blanket? Anyway I have only seen them in-between the fitted sheet and the blankets?

What kavesinisukka means is a sheet that’s like a pillow case for your comforter.

Here we have the sheet that covers the mattress, then you, then a comforter that’s in a comdforter-sized pillow case and that’s it. That’s all the blankets and sheets you need.

You can get an extra blanket on top if you’re Cold but out comforters are designed to keep you warm all through icy winter.

So it’s basically a giant sleeping bag for your comforter? Do you crawl in with it or do you just go under the comforter and comforter case thing???

Huh i just learned a new thing

Heh I suppose that description works. A very thin sleeping bag made of sheet for your comforter. You don’t get into the bag yourself. The sheet is there as a protective and decorative casing around your comforter, protecting it both from dust but also from you, so that you can take it off and wash it every few weeks, because the comforter itself is not supposed to be washed.

This strikes me as something rich people do that needlessly complicates things. I barely have time to make my bed after changing the sheets, you’re telling me people spend time wrestling a giant bulky blanket into a sleeping bag sleeve every so often? It’s hard enough getting the fitted sheet on the mattress!

Why on earth would I own something I use daily that I can’t wash.

But… it’s the opposite… the sheet stays on the blanket/comforter the whole time. When you wash your linens, you only wash the sheet and you just put a new one on the blanket. It’s less work, not more

Yup. And with a duvet cover that’s well designed (not all of them are), you put your hands through the small corner holes, pick up the blanket/comforter by the corners and pull it slightly through the opening on the other side, and you shake. Voilà, comforter inside duvet cover in fifteen seconds.

(Also, washing the duvet covers every week is usually a good idea.)

Ok, now I’m confused, because I assumed that Americans who actually use duvets (rather than comforters, which are slightly different and seem to be what most Americans use?) also use duvet covers. Is this not the case? Or do so many Americans just not know about duvet covers simply because they themselves don’t have duvets?

If I have any American followers who have an answer to this, I’d be interested to know, because it’s relevant for a Christmas fic I’m working on.

I am confused americans. Do you just sleep under your blanket without a Bettbezug, aka duvet cover???????

How do you deal with plumeaus? They are basically impossible to was and need a cover?

@eufeme tell me!

After reading a lot of these posts I think I’ve figured out some of the confusion here:

1) What we’ve all been struggling to define is: “duvet” and “duvet cover.” Those are terms I an American understand. I thought you were taking a random blanket and stuffing it into some kind of sleeping-bag-like zipper wrapper and was very confused. That made no sense to me.

2) Many Americans on tumblr are young adults, who probably don’t own a duvet. That’s for a fancy rich person adult bed, or a hotel bed. A struggling young person wouldn’t invest in a fancy duvet that, if something spilled on it, would be a nightmare to wash and dry. Many of my friends still sleep on mattresses on the floor or futons, they’re certainly not spending money on a duvet, which they can’t easily haul to a laundromat.

3) I doubt people in warmer climates own or use a duvet at all, hence the exacerbated confusion. (For example, I moved to LA and now for most of the year I mostly use a single sheet, or a thin blanket because I need some kinda pressure when I sleep, I can’t grapple with a duvet.)

4) I’d love to own something called a “bettbezug” that sounds adorable.

Why is there even so much terminology? School told me duvet is just the regular thing you sleep under. The Bettdecke. Which is in a Bettbezug. Like your pillow is in a pillow case. So it’s mattress in a sheet, pillow in a pillow case, you, your duvet-blanket-Bettdecke in a Bettbezug-Cover-Case. Something like that. That’s three things in the bed with you. Maybe some more pillows, a plushie or twelve, or like a blanket on top if you’re really, really cold.

Also, most people I know wash their mattress, blanket, and pillow cases like every three months or so. Every week seems excessive.

When I slept on a futon in the US for three weeks, I never figured out what the hell the blanket was. It felt like three sheets folded into each other and one of them felt bad. Though not as bad as the bedding in France did, where we were supposed to wrap a scratchy wooly blanket in a sheet. Just. Wrapped around, no buttons, no zippers, no anything to hold it in place.

Beds are weird.