General Chat

We honeymooned in bed and breakfasts in Wales in the 70's. One bed was made up with purple, nylon sheet. There were grey hairs on it. We slept in it anyway!! The thought of it horrifies me now!

Just shows the things you tolerate when young!

My daughter worked for a time in a large, new hotel. They were instructed to use the dirty towels from the previous guest to polish up the toilet and handbasin.

She refused to do so and was reprimanded. :-0 :-( :-(

Mayfield - that's it! I'm going to take my own sheets along whenever I spend a night elsewhere - be it hotel or friend's house.

I remember seeing a programme about hotel cleaners where they described a short cut called "Tuck and Pluck", you tuck in the used sheets to look tight and pluck off any hairs! :-S

Hi Liz
Yes those sound like the ones. We put the fitted sheet on and then fasten it across the corner underneath. Works fine on cotton sheets.
B

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHTyH2nuFAw

or if you want a larf!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-a2FR1iwqg

Bob

or even this one,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okkT_TuesBk

Men & women who sleep rough in squats, tents, cars, parks, bins, flimsy sleeping bags in shop doorways – all unimaginable spaces in our capital city or beyond - have little option about the availability of clean sheets.

Barbara,

do you mean those elastic things with suspenders on each end? I got some plastic clips from Kleeneeze that hold the sheets and mattress cover in place but they aren't easy to use and won't work over the thick flannalette sheet.

Lizx

We have clips that go across underneath the corners - if you know what I mean. Stay on a treat.
Bought from one of the housewares catalogues that are dropped through the door and collected. Can't remember which one.

I had some fitted undersheets but didn't like them, They would come unhooked from the mattress every time I turned over so I went back to flat ones that stayed over the mattress all night.(And too much of the day!)

I had some fitted undersheets but didn't like them, They would come unhooked from the mattress every time I turned over so I went back to flat ones that stayed over the mattress all night.(And too much of the day!)

I couldn't leave used sheets on the bed of another guest.
We take our own when visiting aged mother-in-law now , to help her and sometimes leave them on the bed if we've only stayed one night.
Nobody else staysthere for much of the time and we know when to remake the beds for visiting family and take our's home for washing.

At the moment my living room is full of washed pillows, pillow protectors and quilts. We have just emptied our caravan and brought home all the bedding. There were always clean quited cotton protectors for anyone who stayed there,even if I couldn't get there to change pillows, so now the whole lot are awaiting my daughter's help to vacuum pack them, now that theyv'e all been laundered.

Gwyn

clean sheets yes



ironed NEVER ;-) ;-)

I put ours on top of the bed folded in half then fold the edges and ends in and continue to fold, comes out quite neatly.

Yes that's definitely a tricky one. Not very neatly at all actually

How do you fold them, Barbara! I've never mastered that one :-(

Must admit that I don't iron sheets. I use fitted sheets and because we tumble dry them and then they are s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d when fitting them on the mattress, they are OK.

I love flannalette sheets for winter, only a top one next to the duvet, but make sure I get real flannalette and not those brushed cotton ones, that aren't so warm.

I love Egyptian cotton sheets but can't stand them unironed, they have to be really smooth for me but ironing is hard, I struggle with ironing now because of the arthritis in my neck and shoulders along with the fibromyalgia. Standards have definitely slipped since developing that!

Lizx

Egyptian cotton sheets in summer. I've never ironed them.

DH's pillowcase gets changed several times a week, cos he sweats so much! Change the pillow protector too, and the pillow gets washed often.

Poly-cotton in winter, don't iron them either.

Neither of us like flannelette sheets... I don't like the feel of them, and DH complains that bits come off and get stuck in his beard, making him look like Santa. We had some flannelette sheets, but donated them to the op shop.

I love clean sheets. I always take my own pillowcase when I stay in an hotel, and if staying in a rented cottage, take my own sheets to go over what's provided, hoever clean they look.

Joan, I iron the thick flannalette sheets, love them for winter but they are hard work lol

The polycotton sheets get a quick smooth over.

Lizx

The worst pillows are those tiny things on planes.

I don't use them, I take a small towel & roll it up, handy for behind the neck.

I can't believe the number of people who put their faces where someone else might have drooled... or worse, sat on it! Ugh.