So the ogwife likes Jersey bedsheets
We have a set that she’s fond enough of that she has it on almost all winter long, leaving the bed just long enough to be washed and dried and put back on.
Trouble is, the bastards have the consistency of a T shirt, they’re stretchy, and have the adhesive properties of Saran wrap. Six times a night I wake up with them wrapped around me like some slow, tedious mummification process is taking effect. Of course the wife bitches about the blankets being pulled, which of course never happens with flannel or percale.
And these days I wear a wrist brace at night to keep the carpal tunnel at bay, and the velcro sometimes attaches itself to the jersey, and I wake up and head off to the crapper with most of the bed attached to my arm, which makes me very popular in my house, as you can imagine.
Damn, I’m for some global warmening. I need to get back to percale sheets soon.
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The answer is a separate (queen size)sheet & blanket for each sleeper.
I hate knit sheets. Hard to move around or roll over.We gave ours away. Goodwill, I think. Give me 400+ thread count percale, anytime. Flannel is nice and soft but I get too hot sleeping. Must be the company I keep.
Kelly brought a set of those down. I can’t stand the bastards.
We use the same sheets. I love them because they don’t get too warm; and they’re soft. She loves them because they dont get too cold; and they’re soft.
I sleep like an eggbeater. I hate them because they’re invariably wrapped around me as I sleep.
Flannel sheets here are the only way to go. Wife hates the Jersey’s the bastards shrink and never fit like they should (or originally did) after a washing or two.
I sleep like an eggbeater.
I’m stealing that line. Anyway, there’s nothing like flannel in winter, but once the temperature gets above freezing, it’s linen sheets, what you’re calling percale.
I would love it if they made sheet sets consisting of two top sheets and two pillow cases. I loathe fitted sheets. They are impossible to fold neatly, one end always pops off of the corner of the mattress (especially since I use a mattress protector cover), and they always stretch to hold the body impression, meaning that a made bed always looks a bit off. A normal sheet underneath can always be tucked to look crisp enough to bounce a quarter off of.
I like my sheets the way I like my dress shirts: smooth, medium starched, and properly seamed.
Too funny!
It would be easier to make world peace than find a solution to this!
Gad, Og, I flashed on the image of you marching determinedly down the hall to the loo with a full set of bedding hitched to your wrist, Ogwife struggling in your wake (she’s a saint, you know) and laughed so hard I nearly fell over!
MTS, when folding, match up the four corner seams of the fitted sheet; this gives you one good corner diagonally opposite. Fold working from the good corner; the fitted sides end up hidden. To make up a proper bed with ’em, you about have to lift the mattress to get them tucked well enough to get the proper smoothness atop the mattress but it can be done.
Roberta’s vision pretty well matched mine… and the vision of what happens in my house regularly.
I tend to get up to go to the bathroom without waking up; this causes Lisa unending grief on a regular basis. Especially when I try to find my way through the wrong door and it doesn’t work.
One of these days she’s going to quit yelling at me, and just start shooting. I’m sure of it.
Once you try Polartec sheets in winter you will NEVER go back….even to flannel. No way. No how.
I LOVE my Polartec sheets. Damn. I wish I was laying in them now.
I love livin’ in the South. I keep the same sheets year ’round.
Just Damn!
Our final solution to years of blanket-theft was a truce – and two twin-sized comforters on the king-sized bed.
One for each – it’s hard to steal the bottom sheet.
And making the bed is much simplified, turn them in half and let them lay.
Try muslin sheets, they’re coarser than percale but not stretchy like Jersey. Although, with the thread count fetish lately, they may not even make them any more.
I’m tellin’ ya, unless you go to a Two-State Solution there will be no peace in the Middlebed.
What DirtCrashr said.
If my wife and I used the same set of sheets, my wife would have the sheets and I would be lying there freezing.
We determined before we were even married that two sets of sheets and blankets would be required.