some advice on duvets, please

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ok to put a duvet cover back on its duvet, i

i. lay the duvet out on the bed
ii. turn the cover inside out
iii. get entirely inside it
iv. put my hands through the little holes at the corners and feel around for the corners of the duvet on the bed
v. grip like billy-oh
vi. extricate myself from the duvet cover, keeping hold of the duvet and pulling it after me
vii. if all goes well, the duvet cover turns itself right way out during this and is deposited in place round the duvet

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 18 September 2003 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

surely other solutions are by comparison ludicrous in their complexity

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 18 September 2003 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

bump!!

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 18 September 2003 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

My way is to bundle the whole duvet into the cover. shuffle two duvet corners to the corners of the cover then grip the corners and shake the duvet and cover together until they are correctly aligned.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 18 September 2003 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Mark, please film this operation.

I do it by looking useless at it until Vicky gets exasperated and takes over ;o)

― chris (chris), Thursday, 18 September 2003 15:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I do that if I have enough space! I enjoy it! Rub adverts which picture this as a PROBLEM are rubbish and thusfore I shall never buy z brand washing powder or x brand car ever again.

God duvets are nice. I might go and get under mine now.

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 18 September 2003 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

*shakes head*

You're doing the inside out bit right, but making it unneccessarily complicated. You need to turn the cover inside out and thrust your ARMS inside, grabbing hold of each of the far corners (you may have to bunch the duvet up a bit but do NOT climb inside). Then take hold of two corners of your duvet with the same hands that are holding the cover corners. Then sort of shake the cover down over it. Voila.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 18 September 2003 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I grab the corner of the duvet and push it into the corresponding corner of the cover, repeat until out of corners. this thread makes me feel hopelessly twee for some reason. WTF, DUVET ADVICE ARRGH!

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 18 September 2003 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I basically shove the duvet into the cover and get in there with it & try to work things out from the inside.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Thursday, 18 September 2003 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Mentalists.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 18 September 2003 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Ed's method works perfectly well, in my experience.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 18 September 2003 16:02 (twenty-two years ago)

My method replicates mark's steps i-iii, but substitutes:

iv. go to sleep

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Thursday, 18 September 2003 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I do what Ed does.

― David. (Cozen), Thursday, 18 September 2003 16:56 (twenty-two years ago)

this is much easier to do with two (or more) people, throw a duvet stuffing party.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 18 September 2003 17:56 (twenty-two years ago)

It's called a duvet? I just call mine a comforter.

Uh...having laid out the comforter cover, I stuff in the two far corners of the comforter itself to match up respectively with the comforter cover corners in question. Then everything smooths itself out from there.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 September 2003 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Comforters don't require duvet covers though.

Im glad Im not the only person here who thought the process is insane.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 18 September 2003 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, this comforter does. It's all white and stuff.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 September 2003 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Did the comforter salesman man slip you a duvet when you weren't watching? They are tricky people like that.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 18 September 2003 19:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I know not the answer to this mystery.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 September 2003 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Aaaaaaah, Jedi mind trick I see.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 18 September 2003 19:08 (twenty-two years ago)

what the hell is a comforter?

"everything smooths itself out from there"

??? whatever this is it isn't a duvet

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 18 September 2003 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

You're describing my comforter and my comforter cover above, Mark! Or at least the same basic procedure. Don't question me. < / Patsy >

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 September 2003 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.adh.brighton.ac.uk/schoolofdesign/MA.COURSE/000C/im/duvet.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 19 September 2003 12:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Duvet, not DURER, dammit.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 September 2003 12:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Thats not very comforting.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 19 September 2003 12:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I usually attempt Archel's method, but the cover usually falls over my head and I end up with Mark's method (sometimes, but not always with the fascinating/ painfull result of falling off the bed whilst inside the duvet cover.)

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 19 September 2003 12:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm with Ed on this one! *shake it, shake it, shake it*

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 19 September 2003 12:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I believe I have a career in duvet alignment master classes.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 19 September 2003 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I do wot Ed Does too but I also turn it round and do the same thing with the remaining 2 corners, if ya see what I mean...

― smee (smee), Friday, 19 September 2003 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)

that is a little flourish you can do if you're not making the bed late at night, tired.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 19 September 2003 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Ed, you are indeed the God of Duvet Advice.

― smee (smee), Friday, 19 September 2003 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I always do the inside out thing, apart from the duvet that's got the buttons about 5 inches from the top of the cover. That one's a bugger to get in as the duvet doesn't fit it properly anyway.

I don't get inside the duvet cover, I wash the covers inside out, reach in and grab the corners, then grab the top corners of the duvey, and stand on the bed and shake, and then repeat on the other corners.

Actually, I've realised that washing the cover inside out isn't the best thing, as it doesn't turn the right way round easily when I shake, I have to drag it down the duvet. It's best to turn the (right way round) duvet cover part way inside out, just enough to grab the corners, then take it from there. So basically waht Archel does, but making sure NOT to turn the whole of the duvet cover inside out.

And to think that I assured chris last night I wasn't turning into my mother.....

― Vicky (Vicky), Friday, 19 September 2003 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

a thread exists for everything doesn't it?

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

in a board called "i love everything". ironic really.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

Use the search function for our mighty works and weep.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 6 March 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

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