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.
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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
Lots of them anymore have little “top/bottom” or “head/foot” tags on the inside. Very handy.
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.
there trick is to pull the elastic down far enough so it reaches over the bottom edge of the mattress.
forget folding it neatly. you can adult without that skill
Also depends on the sheet. I have one that always pops off no matter how well I secure it on the corners.
you can adult without that skill
Thanks, that makes me feel better about my adultery skills
Thanks, that makes me feel better about my adultery skills
Stop cheating on your spouse.
No wonder the sheets don’t stay on the bed 😂
Do you latch your sheets below your matress’ corners? They’re usually meant to fully cover the top and all sides, except for those with no elastic.
Or, perhaps the elastic has gotten too lash, so they slip out from below and ride up the sides?
I don’t have a proper solution for washing and drying, except putting them in a washing bag so they don’t eat all the other laundry.
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.
I learned these straps exist. Going to give it a shot.
fitted sheets just fit around the mattress
This is your core problem. They need to fit a good ways past the edge. You need a ‘deeper’ fitted sheet.
Have you tried flat sheets rather than fitted?
Always fitted. I think that’s my problem.
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
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.
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.
Life hack you didn’t know you needed.
Did you buy suspenders for this purpose? Who owns suspenders in the year of our Lord?
Firemen and obese truckers.
To answer your question in two parts:
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I do own a pair or two of nice dress suit suspenders, and they’re awesome. The nice kind, where you have to get buttons sewn into your dress slacks.
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I did specifically buy a pair of firemen suspenders, for use with sheets.
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My grumpy 67 yo coworker has been wearing 3 point suspenders for the past week, never seen him wear em before
Those suspenders must be too damn tight.
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.
I feel like I’m failing adulthood after being bested by a bedsheet.
Don’t worry - most
older adultspeople 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!
You put your sheets right back on the bed because you’re too lazy to fold it.
I put my sheets right back on the bed because they’re my only sheets.
We are not the same.
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).
Bed Sheet Suspenders, 100%
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.
When I wash and dry my sheets it inevitably spirals up in the washer and dryer so it never washes or dries properly.
I got about 8 wool dryer balls that I tossed in the dryer and it has kept the fitted sheet from wrapping and bunching up. Dries MUCH better.
Any product recommendations on those?
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 just talked myself into trying this someday.
This is what most hotels seem to be doing these days. At least the ones I’ve stayed at.
