New Generations Not Using Top Sheets on the Bed???... - Page 8

Icegoddess · ‎03-19-2010

@Coastalcarolina wrote:

@lgfan wrote:
@Coastalcarolina wrote:
@PA Mom-mom wrote:
I'm a top sheet advocate. I just like that cotton sheet next to me. AND it saves me washing the blankets, quilts and comforters more often. My children use the top sheet, but ALL my grands do not use a top sheet. Believe me, I dread washing all those comforters and spreads after they all visit. I'm facing that right now, just after the Easter visit. I don't think those blankets were made to wash so often.

My children tell me the grands feel as though they get all tangled up in the top sheets. Even when I try to sneak them on to the beds, I find them neatly folded next to the beds.
I keep trying to imagine how others sleep to get tangled in sheets! I fall asleep and wake up pretty much in the same position and sheets stay put!😁

Many people toss and turn when they sleep. I am one of those people. I wake up and the sheets and blankets are all over the place.
My daughter said after she first got married, that her new husband was this way. She said mom, it looked like he was fighting someone for the pillows. They were on the floor with the blankets 😂

@Coastalcarolina I'm not sure what my husband does, but he mangles his pillows. I am glad we got one of those mattresses that dampen the movement so I don't usually feel him getting in and out of bed and turning over. Every little bit helps when it comes to sleep.

PA Mom-mom · ‎05-27-2015

@Icegoddess wrote:
@lgfan wrote:
@Coastalcarolina wrote:
@PA Mom-mom wrote:
I'm a top sheet advocate. I just like that cotton sheet next to me. AND it saves me washing the blankets, quilts and comforters more often. My children use the top sheet, but ALL my grands do not use a top sheet. Believe me, I dread washing all those comforters and spreads after they all visit. I'm facing that right now, just after the Easter visit. I don't think those blankets were made to wash so often.

My children tell me the grands feel as though they get all tangled up in the top sheets. Even when I try to sneak them on to the beds, I find them neatly folded next to the beds.
I keep trying to imagine how others sleep to get tangled in sheets! I fall asleep and wake up pretty much in the same position and sheets stay put!😁

Many people toss and turn when they sleep. I am one of those people. I wake up and the sheets and blankets are all over the place.
But, my question is, how are they getting tangled up in the top sheet when it is there, but not getting tangled up in the bedding when a top sheet is not there?

@Icegoddess You should see them hanging out of the beds - heads near to or on the floor...cuddled up with the dog...completely flipped around with feet at the top. I don't know what goes on, but I don't want to be anywhere near there. I guess the sheets just get in the way. Hahaha!

ROMARY · ‎04-28-2010

Smooth Vellux and similar to Vellux lightweight blankets during the cold Winter nights.

We have several, and change/wash just as frequent as regular top sheets.

'More or less', 'Right or wrong', 'In general', and 'Just thinking out loud ' (as usual).

I am still oxox · ‎03-09-2010

@walkingal wrote:
@Trinity11 wrote:
@I am still oxox wrote:
Never used a top sheet and did not grow up using one. I really do not see the reason
Just curious...then you wash your comforter or blanket once a week @I am still oxox ? My washing machine won't wash a queen comforter. It just won't fit, so the top sheet keeps it fresh.🙂
@Trinity11 I was thinking of asking the exact same thing. My skin against a comforter or blanket, I would have to wash those items just like I do the sheets.

@walkingal Not really we wash the sheets weekly and the comforters monthly. I sleep in a 68 degree room with A/C and ceiling fan year round

Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and start being positive what could go right.

We rescue cats · ‎01-25-2023

Always use a top sheet . . . and (this will freak some out) also our weighted blanket!

Lynn-Critter Lover!
(especially cats!)

Shelbelle · ‎03-09-2010

My Mom was certainly very old generation, and never used top sheets in her home.

PA Mom-mom · ‎05-27-2015

@We rescue cats wrote:
Always use a top sheet . . . and (this will freak some out) also our weighted blanket!

@We rescue cats I would love to find a weighted blanket that didn't make me too warm. Do you have any suggestions?

Parischic · ‎12-06-2022

I stopped using a top sheet when I moved out on my own in 1986.

Tinkrbl44 · ‎08-23-2010

@stevieb wrote:
After many years of religiously making the bed with all of what were considered the 'appropriate' layers, I have to admit that I now often skip the top sheet too. I enjoy a fresh bed but absolutely hate changing out bedding. I have enough quilts, comforters and so on that I don't feel compelled to always use (and launder) a top sheet.

@stevieb @ciao_bella

Ditto over here.

I stopped using a top sheet a few years ago. I think it originally started during an extended heat wave a few summers ago, and the nights were unbearable!

I believe it's also common in a Nordic country, maybe Sweden, that people don't use top sheets. They are big on warm down comforters, and top sheets are unnecessary.

It's not that unusual.