You might think having a bed which is about 6.5 feet in both directions is great. In some ways it is.. for couples who can’t sleep without walloping each other in the face accidently, going on holidays to the other side for a week, leaving all your clothes, books, letters, laptop on one side and still being able to sleep comfortably, having wild threesomes and still have room for one person have an undisturbed nap.
But there are downsides like having to spend a week washing and drying all the bedclothes only to start the process again straight away and finding very hard to get out of on cold wet mornings. Worst of all though is the Duvet Changing.
Why oh why is it such an ordeal? I usually put it off as long as possible. I do all the inside out corner tricks but still, I find myself inside it, struggling with moving corners and folded over bits of duvet. Exasperated, I stop for a rest, still inside. I have a little nap in this cocooney womb like world. I’m like a tiny cell between the dermis and the epidermis of a slumbering beast. After a few minutes, I go at it again, more stuggling, more sweat. I manage to place the so called corners of the duvet into the so called corners of the cover and slowly retreat back out. Once out, I carefully draw the cover down fully around the bottom corners. Then there’s so those bloody snap things. I start on the left, snap, snap, sssssnap, snap, snap until I reach the right. Shit, one left over.
Fuck it.
I have found that there is no shortcut to the changing of a duvet. None.
Hang it from the banister? then do the inside out thingy
I would need the choir balcony of Adam and Eve’s Church to do that.
Meh heh heh, yes indeedy I can relate. I always put it off as well.
Like there’s a hum off my duvet at the minute and possibly some crusting and stuff, but I’m fucked if I can be arsed doing the whole stand on the bed (to engineer height) and do the inside-outie shite, fuck it.
As for washing the bastards, I have no clothes line and stuff and sure you can’t dry them things inside when you haven’t space to open them out fully.
Duvets. A world of pain.
I’m like a man with a fork in a world of soup.
Inside out…make your corners match and flick it!
we have big ass duvet as well which I constantly have to wash cause of Maxi and his mankiness all over it.
Two bulldog clips, on the initially fixed corners, will leave your hands free for the rest.
Try being a short and changing the duvet.
It’s a royal pain in the arse.
Let’s just delete that random ‘a’ from the last comment, shall we?
Fecking stowaway.
In a weird kind of analogy, employ the same technique as if you were rolling a stocking up your thigh.
Easy!
Yeah but I’m only used to rolling them down.
oh god if there is one job i hate is changing a duvet i have to do mine later. i always put the duvet cover inside and that usually works for me. thanks for nice comment that you left on my webpage regarding shep. hes getting bigger by the day and also hes my best friend.
I can’t do the inside thing. It’s like dying, I’m suffocating, I freak out, and once you start thrashing around you’re ended, you never get out of there. But then my wimpy girl arms are too weak to do the whole insideout shakedown thing either, at least without falling into an exhausted heap either.
I think the answer is that it’s a two person job.
Use a sheet.Then you only have to change it half as much.