Do you have a top sheet on your bed, or a duvet instead?

*which ARE much more common in the USA

Sorry!

Only a duvet? That's gross. You still need a top sheet with a duvet. I don't care what anyone says.

It's more hygienic, softer and more practical for controlling temperature.

Be wary in hotels. They never wash duvets.

[quote] Only a duvet? That's gross.

Only if you have a duvet without a washable cover. Most people who have duvets have washable covers on them.

Not using a top sheet under a duvet is akin to going without underwear. It’s there for a reason.

R4 - I refuse to believe people wash their duvet covers as often as sheets. No way.

I woudln't want to stay in a hotel where there was only a duvet, and no top sheet in between. You can't convince me that with every single turn of the room, the staff would wash and duvet cover and then wrestle the liner back in. I know there is a knack to it, but still. That would be like sleeping in someone else's filth. No, thanks. I LOVE my duvet and occasionally crawl directly under it to take a quick nap, but it's mine and it's MY skin cells, sweat, or whatever, so I don't care about that. In a hotel? Never!

…it’s summer …for now a top sheet and a European quilt (I call it the “moving blanket”). Come October, the duvet will come down from the closet.

[quote] I woudln't want to stay in a hotel where there was only a duvet, and no top sheet in between.

Good luck staying in hotels or air B-and-Bs in Europe.

R9 hasn’t stayed in the Côte d’Azur this summer.

Another CLASSIC DL thread...thanks, OP!

I only sleep with my comforter. I have a top sheet, but I kick it down to the end of the bed and just sleep with the comforter on top of me. I'm not sure what the hygiene issues are. It's just me and the occasional "guest"

Hygiene issue: suboptimal!

*linen

I spent the summer in Paris a couple years ago.

The Airbnb had no AC, no window screens, and no top sheet.

It would get hot at night so I had to lay totally exposed without any covers and the window wide open!

Did you present h… oh, never mind.

I use both. Who are these fools who'd rather struggle with removing and replacing duvet covers for laundering than wash a simple top sheet?

Or are the duvets covers in Europe easier to take off & on?

The latter. In Italy, it’s called the “envelope” (duvet cover. But that’s different from the top sheet.

The discussion is about a top sheet up to the pillows, and a duvet further down —usually at the foot of the bed after a turn-down. Just returning from a hot time in France…pretty much SOP there.

I have to admit its fun watching the husband struggle with removing and replacing the duvet cover. All that swearing under his breath in French. Sometimes he calls out for safety pins.

I'll just take the top, thanks.

Do you have a top shit on your bed, or douche instead?

Pass-around bottom^

Not a good idea for people who sleep naked. Have pajama sales increased?

Call me trash, but I can't think the last time I was in a bed with a duvet. It is a comforters most times. I think a lot of people just use the term duvet to sound special. They succeed.

I have a top sheet and a light 100% cotton blanket on bed now, for summer. Even a 100% cotton comforter is too much. I don't like duvets, down comforters are way too hot and I prefer a comforter I can wash when I do use them, 100% cotton.

Trash! Your are TRASH!

R24, i put duvet covers on old comforters

Un, umm—a covered down comforter is a duvet. So is an uncovered down comforter.

is that also called the FLAT sheet?

Yes

I don’t need a 37 pound dusty Euro-duvet on top of me while I am trying to sleep in this under air-conditioned hotel in fucking Berlin.

Consequently, I always swipe a sheet from the cart used by the people cleaning the rooms. I hide it in my luggage when I leave and bring it back out when I get back in the room.

hide it in my luggage when I leave and bring it back out when I get back in the room.

OP: “ I'm always surprised when I go to Europe”

Of course you are surprised. You’ve never actually been. Watching videos on TikTok does not count.

Yes, I have a top sheet and I wash my top sheet, my fitted sheet and my pillowcases every week.

Then I line dry them because I prefer line drying to a laundry dryer.

R34 is a tenement fishwife on the LES.

I find duvets annoying, having to wrestle it into the cover with every washing.

[quote]Then I line dry them because I prefer line drying to a laundry dryer.

Better neighborhoods do not allow clotheslines.

Those better neighborhoods are sure stupid then.

But my clothesline is behind my house and my house is so far off the road that no one knows I have one.

Maybe I'll need to string one up closer to the road so all can admire my underwear, etc.

Sure thing. If you’re shanty Irish! 😉

[quote]Some people have line drying in their richly paneled knotty pine basements, you very stupid cunt at [R37]. Your neighbors and HOA HATE you. I can tell.

Line drying in the basement seems to go against its very purpose. Who wants their clothes to smell like a dank basement?

Club top sheet and (chenille) bedspread here.

Oh you guys are gonna hate me. No top sheet. Duvet with duvet cover over top because every time I put the cover on the duvet the cats puke on it within 1 day and I am not their laundry slave. Well, I am but this is the only way I won't kill them. And they never puke when I fake putting on the duvet cover.

We HATE you

Duvets are too heavy, and a top sheet is more comfortable, with a blanket that can be discarded or rolled up,, or even a blanket added.

Bedspreads, of course, have no business being left on a bed that is to be used, as they are the formal exterior. Chenille, satin and silk wear so easily. I use an old family quilt on top or my bed, and I wouldn't want to damage it since it's 140 years old.

I miss the Poo Shoes days

R45 don’t you have a town hall in Greenville or Charleston?

I have a collection of all cotton and a couple of linen duvet covers and wash 1-2X / week. Same goes for my sheets.

I used the top sheet most of my life and finally gave up on them recently. They make sleeping hotter and bc I'm a side sleeper I toss and turn more, half the time it would get bunched up and tossed to the floor. A European friend who I speak to often talked some sense into me. They dont use the top sheet there.

Obviously, you need to wash more frequently but I'm a laundry addict will big new machines.

You wash a duvet weekly? Do you jackoff with Playtex gloves, ‘cause it sounds like you.

Learn how to read, dumbass. COVER.

You wash a duvet cover weekly? Do you jackoff with Playtex gloves? It sounds like you.

Beds without proper dressing are trashy.

[quote] Beds without proper dressing are trashy.

Looks like a Chinese whorehouse!

Imagine not bringing your own bedding wherever you roost overnight…

Are you a hen?

R51. Yes, I do. And unlike yours my bed doesn't smell like ass.

Naked mattresses ruin porn for me; they are gin and regret.

Here’s a hint; never lay on linen sheets while wearing riveted pants. Eventually you wear out the center of the fitted sheet and you have to use clip ties on the corners of flat sheets to use the surviving flat sheet. Now, you’re using two sets of sheets because you need a top sheet to protect the comforter from your filthy sleeping body.

PS - wash your pillow cases. This week would be good.

Linen?

What the hell are "riveted pants" and why would you wear them to bed?

I sleep whenever I’m tired and sometimes it’s while I’m dressed. My jeans have rivets as do most of my chinos.

I’ve had these sheets for 15 years and the fitted sheet shredded at the hip points and you could see rivet holes in the fabric. I’m not making that error with the flat sheet as it and the pillow cases are still in good shape.

Rivets. Like the little round brass buttons on jeans? Weird they would make holes in sheets. Your jeans must be magic 🎩 ✨️

Who the FUCK doesn’t sleep without a top sheet?

I don't understand not being able to take off your jeans before going to bed...I mean, unless you're drunk or something. Also how uncomfortable it would be to sleep in jeans.

Annoyed there was no option for "Top Sheet, with a blanket or two"

I don't like duvets...you can't snuggle up in them. They're too stiff.

Yeah, I don't get the not using a top sheet thing.

Curling up in my super soft linen top sheet is the best part of sleeping!

I can't imagine a duvet being stiff. It's like sleeping under a cloud.

LINEN SHEETS ARE LIFE!!!!!

I hate the way top sheets get tangled up in your legs during the night. No top sheet for me, only duvet.

I stayed at a place and the bed basically had two top sheets with a comforter sandwiched between them. Somehow it worked and the maids didn’t have to wrestle a duvet into a cover. The bedding was tucked tightly under the mattress on three sides—sliding in was fun. I guess it functioned like bed restraints because even though I’m a restless sleeper, the comforter was never exposed.

Dum dum OP.

You always use a top sheet with a duvet (which should have a duvet cover).

Who the hell sleeps under just a duvet?

Do you also drain your pasta, OP?

Sheets don’t get tangled in your legs if the bed is properly made.

Bottom to top...

Fitted sheet

2 Flat sheets between which I sleep

Blanket or duvet

Fitted sheet on the botton, then a top sheet, then a cotton blanket, and then another top sheet.

My dog sleeps in bed, and I can whip off that outermost layer if it gets muddy or wet and replace.

Demanding a top sheet sounds like something my Grammy would have done. Let people sleep however they choose. I think the biggest concern in this thread is how filthy some of you are that your skin can't touch a sheet, comforter, or duvet without it being laundered every hour on the hour. Are you wallowing in mud?

Some of you who won't sleep without a top sheet between you and your duvet have not been to Europe. Germans do not sleep with top sheets, and hotels that cater mainly to Germans in Germany reflect that.

I am really old-fashioned here. I sleep with a top sheet and a blanket in the colder months and with only a top sheet in the summer I also use a bedspread, when the bed's made..

I've tried duvets. I don't like them. Too warm in the winter and it always ends up tangled or on the floor.

R73, literally Yes. It’s an ostomy bag that likes to burst because I fart very big for my height.

You kids have it easy. I have a bed pad below and above my belly to keep my bed linen shit-free.

BTW, all linen bedding is slippery and they slide off one another. Add some percale to the mix to keep things off the floor.

I always use a top sheet and a duvet with a washable cover.

r74

[quote]Germans do not sleep with top sheets, and hotels that cater mainly to Germans in Germany reflect that.

And they lost how many wars? Coincidence? [italic]I think not![/italic]

[quote] Some of you who won't sleep without a top sheet between you and your duvet have not been to Europe.

Or we HAVE been there, and thought the way they made up their beds was ridiculous.

[quote] And they lost how many wars? Coincidence? I think not!

LOL, R77

They did win that Franco-Prussian thing in 1871.

R77, DON'T MENTION THE WAR!!!

Germans and Swiss people use featherbeds (basically down comforters) (Fetterbett). If you are not used to them, you will wake up in the middle of the night feeling you are having some dread disease causing fearsome night sweats. (Has happened to me!) I've been told that if you grow up with them, you learn to subconsciously poke out legs and arms during the night to regulate the excess heat. But they are great in winter for places without central heat. Even if your bedroom is 50 degrees, you'll feel cozy and warm.

This is also a cultural thing. Caucasians aren't the healthiest when it comes to matters of hygiene. This is the same as the wash cloth vs. just a bar of soap debate. They will be the first to just rub a bar of soap all over their body, all up in crack of their ass and call it a shower leaving it for the next person. They will be the first ones wearing flip flops around a filthy city, soles black as the streets themselves, or even go barefoot (the horror!) then jump into bed. Its always the girls with the wet hair, yoga pants, no underwear coughing like kennel dogs sitting next to you on the plane. They will hike all over the world with a greasy face, matted hair, wearing the same clothes for ten days - by choice. My college roommate didn't wash his sheets the entire first semester. This is why plagues that came down to basic things like washing your hands after you shit wiped out entire generations of Europeans for centuries. And don't get me started on lice. Other cultures may have body odor that Westerners might find strong, but that doesn't come down to cleanliness, that just comes down to not using deodorant. But the bodies themselves are cleaned, scrubbed.

Don't get me wrong, caucasians have done many amazing things in the world, have changed it for the better in a lot of ways and have left a huge impact considering their relative small numbers. But cleanliness just sin't their strong suit.

Just sleeping with a covered duvet and no top sheet is not sanitary. I don't care how often you wash your duvet cover, the mites are in the duvet itself when you sleep next to it night after night. And I know people are not washing their duvets weekly.

^^ Wow. Okay. That was a lot.

R54=King Charles (formerly Prince)

Cognoscenti know that nothing beats line dried bed linens.

If you have not had the experience, well .. you are just not used to the finer things in life.

Just remember that your pillows need fresh linens weekly - especially if you bathe right before bed.

Don’t place a damp head on your pillows - your fuck buddies will thank you!

r83's explosion of MARY!-ness was a thing of wonder.

It was like watching Vesuvius erupt.

I said what I said.

I have this blanket, like the one pictured below.

In winter, I will slip it into a cover that is akin to a pillow cover, just one opening at the bottom. Is that a duvet?

In summer, I will put that cover underneath the blanket, so that I am sleeping directly under the cover, with the blanket on top — great for regulating temperature.

What Americans would call this, I have no idea. Comforter? Duvet? I guess I turn my blanket cover into a top sheet in summer?

Dutchie it is pretty simple. What you have pictured is a duvet. That thing that goes over it is a duvet cover. Having a plain duvet on a bed is like having pillows with no pillowcases. Usually people will put a duvet in a duvet cover even if the cover itself is plain white. It is not enough to just sleep with a duvet (covered or not) without a top sheet. That is like wearing pants for seven days straight no underwear.

A proper bed should be - mattress, mattress cover, fitted sheet, top sheet and a blanket or covered duvet on top of that. They make duvets of various weights for different seasons. And if the lightest duvet is still too hot for you, that is what you use a blanket for. And when you are making bed, if you want it to look like a show room, you dress the bed with a thin blanket under the duvet, and you pull bot back when turning down the bed at night.

People get confused, (and so did I), because most Americans grew up with what we call comforters which is heavier than a blanket or quilt and basically the weight of a duvet and is not inserted inside of a cover.

If you have given up on sex, please remember that you deserve clean bedding every night. No, it’s a right to everyone and you are one of them. No ego….just a human looking after theirselves.

[quote]Usually people will put a duvet in a duvet cover even if the cover itself is plain white. It is not enough to just sleep with a duvet (covered or not) without a top sheet. That is like wearing pants for seven days straight no underwear.

Only if they're sleeping in the nude.

Most people do not.

Got it, R91

What I then meant to say is:

In Summer, I put the duvet cover between me and the duvet, thus having it act as a top sheet. This is nice, because sometimes I only want a small part of my body to be covered by the weight of the duvet.

in Winter, I put the duvet in its duvet cover and sleep underneath my covered duvet.

Now, the idea of adding another layer (a real top sheet) between my body and the covered duvet, is interesting. But then I might as well use a top sheet + 'naked' duvet all year round...?

I should add that I always shower before bed, I always wear boxer shorts in bed, and I wash my bed textiles weekly, my duvet bi-weekly.

Having a naked duvet cover aesthetically looks unfinished. It's like having decorative pillows with no pillow covering just white inserts plopped on your bed. It's like walking around in a wife beater and boxers and considering yourself dressed. A duvet cover, even if just white, which a lot of hotels do, presents a finished bed. And using a duvet cover as a top sheet instead of an actual top sheet is like using paper towels to dry off from the shower. Things have a purpose and should be used for that purpose. Yes, technically you can use it to cover yourself, but why would you?

It's simple, a duvet, duvet cover, top sheet, fitted sheet. Now that's a bed. If you don't want to fuss with a two part duvet/duvet cover, just get a comforter.

What in the hell are decorative pillows?

Bed?

[quote]LINEN SHEETS ARE LIFE!!!!!

Bamboo is better.

"Having a plain duvet on a bed is like having pillows with no pillowcases."

I totally agree with this.

[quote] Things have a purpose and should be used for that purpose.

You sound like Beth Jarrett.

Two top sheets on top of the comforter because Mr. 15lb kitten on steroids sheds everywhere and bites and claws our feet all night. The comforter has been shredded. The top top sheet is easy to wash twice a week.

R96 - you haven't seen those fussy beds filled with unnecessary decorative pillows? It's a menace that started 25 years ago - decoration via pillows, which is stupid and lazy.

One is ok - but stuff like this pic drives me crazy. Where are they supposed to go each night?

And people do it for chairs and sofas as well. It's a trend that has subsided somewhat, but it's insanity.

Duvets don’t work for messy bottoms, I prefer to use a painting tarp.