ladies who own a camper...

We use the fully elasticized, meaning 100% of the way around the perimeter, fitted sheets. It sometimes takes both of us to change the bedding, because of the way the built in closets come right up to the sides of the mattress. Once the fully elasticized fitted sheet is on, it stays on. Ours is a full mattress (not original to camper) with an added 1" topper and mattress pad.

http://howtorvgeeks.com/miscellaneous/making-a-fitted-sheet-fit-an-rv-mattress/

We don't use sheets. We just use sleeping bags. Put on the bottom and one of top.

How about using a quilted, zippered mattress cover that totally envelops the entire mattress, as your bottom sheet? It wouldn't slide off or come untucked, and would be provide a comfortable barrier.

On 7/25/2014 SHOPR said:

We use the fully elasticized, meaning 100% of the way around the perimeter, fitted sheets. It sometimes takes both of us to change the bedding, because of the way the built in closets come right up to the sides of the mattress. Once the fully elasticized fitted sheet is on, it stays on. Ours is a full mattress (not original to camper) with an added 1" topper and mattress pad.

In our fifth wheel I would open the closet and then I had room on that side for my bum when I bent over the bed to put the sheets on. It was much better than this situation. I tried to use a queen - hoping it would stretch tight across the mattress but it was just too small. I went to Walmart and bought very inexpensive sheets thinking they would shrink and fit better than the nicer ones but they didn't. I am considering remeasuring the mattress and taking them to a seamstress (since I don't have a sewing machine here) to get them custom made. I will look for suspenders at walmart but that will require DH to help me put them on so I don't know how that will fly.Sometimes he is very helpful and sometimes he's just cranky so that could be an issue.

I am a professional bed maker - a nurse - and this is harder than making occupied beds at work. Actually I use a technique I learned as a nurse for making an occupied bed from top to bottom . I am bound and determined to beat this issue! My DH is on a forum for people who own the brand of fifth wheel we used to own and this is a frequent topic of conversation there.

On 7/25/2014 Azcowgirl said: I'm glad you brought this up...DH and. I are RV shopping, and I never would have thought about the bed making issue. I also made a mental note when you mentioned regretting not getting the washer and dryer combo.When the RV sales people say you can only wash one or two items at a time because it's so small, I say I don't care, it's still better than having to go to the laundry mat.

Getting a washer and dryer really takes up a ton of storage space - however, the element of people we have run into at the laundry in town makes me really wish I had gotten them. Lately, it has been so bad that now my DH stays there with me. Our campground has a laundry but the pipeline workers use it and they leave everything covered in mud all the time and they break the machines because of the extreme dirty clothing - all caked in mud- that they put in the washers.I took a throw rug down there this week and not one washer was working but the big triple loader - and I'm not paying $6 to wash one throw rug.

My DH asked the campground owner if we could put a washer in the shed and pay her monthly for water use - we pay for our electric already - but she said no. He had already figured out how he would engineer it to have water from our outside shower line and hook up a Y connection into the sewer drain, but the owner would not even hear about it from him.