Does your bed have sheets & blankets instead of a duvet?

esmf73

rachbc wrote: »

i have both - in the winter I like to be super snuggly and have a duvet with blankets layered on top - I liek the weight of a blanket but the fluffy snuggliness of a duvet

Snap - me too - tried to sleep without the weight of the blanket last night and couldn't - guess its habit too. Wish I wasn't going out for our valentines meal now - could be snuggly in bed - with the tv for company ! x

YORKSHIRELASS

At the moment we have:

A sheet, 3 blankets, a duvet and a throw

MIL gave us the duvet because it was too heavy for her! Our house is old and draughty and we are very frugal with the central heating. Through the summer we reduce this to just a sheet and duvet. When I was little there were no such things as duvets and I have always liked the weight of the blankets.

kitschy

I have a 15tog duvet - all year round! In this flat, it is cold all year round - so much so I have turned up at a friend's in jeans and a sweater only to be laughed at as it's roasting out :rotfl:

I don't have any heating on in the bedroom, and in winter I do have a wool blanket on top and a thermo-heat mattress topper. I too find blankets a little too restrictive, and I like making myself a little nest to burrow into at night (usually accompanied by two pushkins). We always had duvets at home, and just the duvet cover in summer, and there's nothing better than dragging your duvet into the living room when you're poorly and snuggling up on the sofa. That is the official sign that you are ill!

BitterAndTwisted

Well, because I'm a bedlinen and bed-clothesaholic I have a large number blankets, duvets, quilts and bed-covers. It's a sickness, really. In very cold weather, as I don't currently heat my bedroom, I have a 15tog duck-down duvet with a huge American-style comforter on top. I generally move down to a sheet, wool blanket and cotton bedspread in the summer. Inbetween seasons have inbetween covers of some combination.

spuunge

I use a 7.5 tog duvet all year round (two of them. I wash one and switch to the other) and can't sleep under a blanket. I like the weightiness of a duvet and seem to be allergic to blankets of any kind! If I go on holiday to a hotel with sheets/blankets on the bed I can't sleep and come back more exhausted than when I left!

LolaLemon

i would love to do the sheet and blankets but im not to great at making the bed most days and it would bug me to go to bed the next night with it not being as 'tight'.
i love when i stay in hotels with them, although i cant, for the life of me, have the blanket touching me. i find them to be too scratchy but its my fear of them being old, or not washed properly or some other unknown reason, so i pull the pillows down a bit and tuck a part of the sheet either all around me , if im cold, or over the blanket top if its a hot room.

currently have a goose feather and duck down quilt, when i went an got my washing machine (my 1st, nearly 4 years ago) the first thing i asked was - what does it fit? i was pregnant at the time... and the woman assured me it would fit a double quilt plus all the bedding, and it would all fit in the 'free' tumble drier... only went for that option so my quilt could get washed regularly as it costs me around £12 at the laundry.... guess what? no, it doesnt fit!!!
rage!

i might have to get teh sheets for my son though, as he does not keep any quilt on no matter how cold it is!

Luciferswench

Im a duvet fan. I hate blankets i dont like having to rearrange them all the time. I have several different duvets i alternate between on my bed, i have a summer one thats thin as i cannot sleep with just a sheet. It just doesnt give the same snug feeling as a duvet. Even in summer i get wrapped up in the duvet all snuggly.

OrkneyStar

We have a duvet but a heavy weight blanket on top of that too.

Julie67

We have a duvet all year round but in the colder months we also have a thick throw. This just gets folded at the bottom in the summer. I like to use a nice throw that matches the bedroom and that way you can use any duvet cover and it doesn't matter if it matches as the thrown is the only thing you can see. iyknwim.

mummyjane

I have to admit I prefer using sheets and blankets, shame really as dh and ds won't go for it. I love that 'all wrapped up' feeling you get with them. We always had sheets and blankets as kids - I presume duvets weren't really around much in the 70s/80s?