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Roll-Invert-Unroll: An easier way to replace a duvet cover
- SmellTheGlove 3y agoOur duvet covers all have two fabric loops in the corners. You push a bit of the duvet through those and then just pull it over. Works very nicely.
- lifeisstillgood 3y agoNot only am I going to try this, I think it’s a YouTube sensation in the making
- m463 3y agoright up there with japanese shirt folding: https://youtu.be/b5AWQ5aBjgE https://youtu.be/b5AWQ5aBjgE
- karaterobot 3y agoInteresting that this is referred to as Japanese shirt folding. This is how I learned to do it decades ago, and there was no Japanese attribution at the time. I wonder if it is claimed (by whom?) to have been invented in Japan, or if it's just because the video is in Japanese.
- dist-epoch 3y agoI learned about it from the Superdry brand which is a Japanese brand.
- n4r9 3y agoSuperdry is a UK brand. They just make use of Japanese aesthetics.
- seabass-labrax 3y agoAnd even that is suspect, considering that the Japanese text is nonsense and the clothing is of course not produced in either Britain or Japan[1]. Kudos to them for actually specifying their factories though! [1]: https://corporate.superdry.com/media/mswf3cml/public-factory-list-jan-2023.pdf https://corporate.superdry.com/media/mswf3cml/public-factory...
- lamontcg 3y agoAnd ranger rolling your t-shirts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuD-ZZydsVg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuD-ZZydsVg
- mderazon 3y agoT-shirts are the easiest thing to fold. The real nightmare is the wife's pile of clothes. Every piece of clothing is unique and different in shape and size. Some of them I wouldn't even know how to wear let alone fold
- vundercind 3y agoExact same video where I first saw this. I love the audio.
- ninkendo 3y agoI remember learning this and thinking it was so cool. Then I realized how much effort it takes to lay a shirt so flat and straight on a flat surface in the first place, and I went back to my “grab the shoulders, shake the middle away from me, bring them together, tuck sleeves in while folding in half” way I’ve always done. Half the work of shirt folding is getting the shirt to a known orientation anyway, I much prefer letting gravity do the work here.
- nodoodles 3y agoand folding plastic bags into triangles for storage
- alargemoose 3y agoCame across this right before I start laundry, looks like I have a test to run!
- sandesh247 3y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFOhjljieqs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFOhjljieqs same method, but in video form.
- hackernewds 3y agomuch better with this advance technology
- greggsy 3y agoWhile it was quaint to read through the high effort blog post, it was like reading a cooking blog that starts off with reminiscing about travels through an Italian village where they learnt how to make toast.
- mderazon 3y agoReminds me of these topology tricks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ebiyOtn7NA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ebiyOtn7NA
- Kailhus 3y agoSorcery!
- MichaelZuo 3y agoThis could also be an interesting Topology lesson.
- penguin_booze 3y agoBack then, I learned to swim via a correspondence course. Thank goodness for video these days.
- nlawalker 3y agoBeen doing this for years, sans the roll/unroll. After tying the corners, reach all the way inside the inside-out cover, grab the two corners furthest from the opening, pull all the way through, and shake.
- pablobaz 3y agoMy preferred technique is to also start with the cover inside out. Then put your hands inside the cyber into its corners. Then grasp two corners of the duvet through the fabric. A bit of shaking to turn the cover the right way out and you are done.
- VagabundoP 3y agoYup, this way and you're done in a minute or two.
- megadog3 3y agoI call this the ghost method, because you look like a ghost with your arms through the inverted duvet cover.
- lagrange77 3y agoI think this is the official strategy, i've never seen someone using a different one.
- worddepress 3y agoI used to do the shove it in and frantically thrash until it take shape. Then I learnt this system and it is much easier. For a king size: maybe just get someone to help.
- eternauta3k 3y agoI googled this when I first moved to a duvet country and adopted this exact method.
- ThrowawayTestr 3y agoI just put the whole thing in the washing machine and run the drier for two hours.
- cyberax 3y agoDoesn't work well with duvets filled with feathers.
- twodave 3y agoI think you might also just roll the inner up, stick it the bottom of a collapsed cover, then grab both an exposed inner corner + side of the cover in each hand and stand up with it, shaking a bit to get it to unroll on the way down.
- twic 3y agoThis is what I do. I don't actually roll the duvet up, just do a rough concertina fold
- napoleongl 3y ago” Imagine replacing your duvet cover in minutes” When i was 18 and begun my career I hospitality, we’d change a twin bed completely in like 3-4 minutes. How do you spend minutes with just one duvet (excluding disabilities but that’s quite obvious). Also, this is why Swedish duvet covers have holes in the upper corners, just reach through them and grab the liner and pull it in, shake a bit, and you’re done.
- nvy 3y ago>How do you spend minutes with just one duvet Ours is supremely irritating because the duvet gets folded over or bunched up inside the cover and shaking it does not fix this. So I have to get bodily into the fucking cover and stick each corner in place. It's infuriating and I hate duvets for this reason.
- noduerme 3y agoI once zipped my girlfriend up inside a cover while she was doing this, it was quite funny.
- ignoramous 3y agogzipped.
- vundercind 3y agoGod damnit. Now I’m bound to someday call it “girlfriend zip” out loud at work and it’s gonna be a whole thing.
- napoleongl 3y agoI guess I’ve been lucky in which duvets and liners I have met in my life. Only time I’ve met opposition is with flannel covers, but those are just horrible in all other ways except for starting fires.
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- jrockway 3y agoI go into the duvet cover with the duvet. Hold the two upper corners, put the duvet cover over your head, attach each corner of the duvet to the corresponding corner in the duvet cover (I buy ones with strings for this purpose). Then extricate yourself, hold the corners you just attached, shake vigorously, handle fine alignment of the bottom corners, and button the thing up. I am sure people will make fun of this but I get it done in a minute (buttoning all the buttons at the bottom is the hardest part), and I do wash it every 2 weeks, so... poke fun all you want, at least I'm not rolling around in filth from a month ago.
- mixmastamyk 3y agoI couldn't understand past the part where it was rolled down to the bottom, Fig 6. However, this was never a problem for me. I simply grab the top corner of the inner part and match it inside with inside corner of the outer part. Then the other top corner. Then pull them both to the top of the bed, then fix the bottom—easy.
- lstamour 3y agohttps://www.extrapetite.com/2021/03/how-to-put-duvet-cover-burrito-roll-trick-video.html https://www.extrapetite.com/2021/03/how-to-put-duvet-cover-b... Might make a bit more sense, but I’m still trying to follow it myself. I’ll have to try it to get it, I think.
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- vik23052016 3y agoThis practice of roll-invert-unroll is very common in India. I recall putting on liners on beddings and blankets when I was ~6 year old in the 1990s. I didn't realize until I saw comments that it's not the normal way here in western parts. I think may be hospitality industry may use it already and not commonly documented. Thanks for documenting it. Now I have a blog to point to when teaching my kids.
- pandemic_region 3y agoThis is not a western parts thing, just one guy discovering something most consider common knowledge here.
- acchow 3y agoI learned this from my grandmother’s domestic helper in Hong Kong. Brilliant trick!
- fellowniusmonk 3y agoFor a queen size duvet I just stuff the entire duvet inside the cover and then align the two corners farthest from the hole, pinch from the outside and shake, takes less than a minute if I'm in a rush and no inversion required. I do have very long arms though, and maybe this would be faster for a king size duvet cover.
- derbOac 3y agoThis is what I do as well basically. It's usually more confusing to me to figure out what's top and bottom versus sides than to actually put the cover on.
- sneak 3y agoThey make duvet covers that zip all the way down two sides. And they make little padded clips for the corners so there is no tying.
- spurgu 3y agoWhere I'm from we have holes in the top corners of the cover. Just put your arms in there, grab the duvet and pull it in, shake it a bit, done (additionally you might need to fix the bottom corners and shake again). I was surprised when I went to other countries where you have to fiddle with only a bottom opening.
- Permik 3y agoFellow Finn here, I'm flabbergasted how the rest of the world hasn't figured this out apart from us in the nordics :D
- fmbb 3y agoIn 2007 Ikea stopped selling duvet covers with holes in the corners. “It’s for the international market” they said. There was a national uproar. People no longer knew how to make their beds. Attempts were made at convincing them to bring the holes back but without success. We have now settled for the typical Swedish response of making an angry fist with the hand securely hidden inside a pants pocket.
- ghnws 3y agoI refuse to buy any duvets that don't have the holes. It's too much of a convenience.
- whizzter 3y agoI was annoyed at first and iirc my ex-GF cut the corners, once I realized the put-hands-inside-edges-of-inverted-cover-and-grab-the-duvet-corners-and-pull-through method I've mellowed on them since it goes fairly quickly.
- Ekaros 3y agoI personally just used the covers alone, but I also found out that finally there is some with buttons or even with zipper. And pillow covers with zippers are amazing.
- ww520 3y agoWas it how topology was invented?
- ricardobeat 3y agoI just hold the duvet by the two front corners, shove it inside the cover and find the edges. Hold the edges from the outside of the cover, shake. Takes 30 seconds. We also change it weekly, sleeping in the same covers for a month sounds disgusting.
- EthicalSimilar 3y agoThis is the way. I also use this method and change weekly. It’s pretty efficient, especially for larger duvets.
- what 3y agoPeople often have a flat sheet between them and the duvet that gets washed more frequently.
- lumost 3y agoBest decision I ever made was to skip the duvets and buy a polar fleece blanket for $30. Not to hot, not to cold, machine washable and $30.
- tokai 3y agoYou'll make a ton of microplastic washing a fleece blanket often.
- goodpoint 3y agoWTF?!? People don't change bedsheet every week?!
- thomond 3y agoMight depend on how much you sweat and the climate where you live. I personally change every week during summer but fortnightly during winter.
- pandemic_region 3y agoNext up: he learns how to slice bread. But seriously, why is this news worthy? My grandmother showed me how to do this way before this guy was even born.
- sunshowers 3y agoI also learned it from my grandparents, but I've been the one introducing it to a number of people in my life. Some of them have described it as black magic — so it's not very well-known.
- worddepress 3y agohttps://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/
- NeoTar 3y agoIf you’re only changing your duvet cover once a month (or less) you’re sleeping under a sheet under the duvet, right? We don’t do sheets and are in the change once a week camp.
- forgotusername6 3y agoNope. Duvet changes every couple of months perhaps. Sleep straight under the duvet. Thought this was normal. Never heard of a sheet under the duvet
- skeletal88 3y agoThen it is like changing your shirt every two months? You do sweat when sleeping.
- jebarker 3y agoPresumably they wash though, probably after getting out of bed.
- groestl 3y agoAnd before crawling into it.
- bruce343434 3y agoEither way the duvet will accumulate grime at night that someone should be able to smell. I wash and change my bedding weekly and am disgusted by the low frequency others are reporting. Who enjoys the texture of besweated beddings? I can certainly tell the difference and I love clean sheets and hate stale ones! How do people not feel or care about this sensation?? Especially if you have sex on sheets that you don't wash for weeks. Holy ew.
- Underphil 3y ago
- apimade 3y agotl;dr: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRPfudNNd8Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRPfudNNd8Y
- roryokane 3y agoThanks. This slower-paced video is more precisely explained and more visually comprehensible than the Rachael Ray video linked in another comment.
- bhaney 3y agoI wasn't even aware duvets were still used outside of hotels. You guys don't just have sheets and a regular blanket on your bed? Is it a cultural/regional thing? They seem very annoying to deal with and I've never found them to be particularly comfortable, so I'm surprised so many people here seem to use them.
- Unbeliever69 3y agoMy absolute favorite items in this world are my down comforters and duvets. I have a thick one for winter and a thin one for summer. Sometimes I have them both on the bed and use one as a snuggle blanket. Every night when I crawl in bed it is a form of catharsis like a cat making biscuits.
- timbaboon 3y agoHaha amazing, I’ve now just discovered that some places don’t use duvets. I thought (naively) that it was worldwide…
- tdiff 3y agoExactly, living in Europe, I've literally encountered the sheet+blanket combination for the first time a week ago, in a hotel. Duvets with covers ARE the norm.
- vundercind 3y agoWait… you don’t use a sheet under a duvet? What do you wrap under yourself? Not the duvet, that’d be too thick, surely.
- Jare 3y agoA sheet covering the mattress, then we lying on top, then the duvet covering us to varying degrees of area and precision depending on temperature and activity while asleep. My son snakes over and under the duvet several times along his body.
- llimos 3y agoI vary it based on if the cover came out the machine inside out or not. If it did, I spread out the duvet, burrow inside the cover, grab the far corners of the cover from the inside and then through it also the corners of the duvet at the same time, and invert it. If it came out the right way round, I spread out the cover, grab two corners of the duvet, burrow inside the cover with the two corners of the duvet until they reach their destination, and come out again.
- zoklet-enjoyer 3y agoI've been doing it this way for years. Saw a YouTube video on it. Before that, I struggled to get the duvet back in the cover
- bartkappenburg 3y agoAlso known as the “burrito roll”
- HarHarVeryFunny 3y agoHoly crap! I've been wrestling with duvet covers the wrong way my whole life! The Rachael Ray video @sandesh247 posted shows how simple this is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFOhjljieqs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFOhjljieqs
- hank808 3y agoIs this what it's come to? Since AI has taken over tech, we're now discussing duvet cover removal/replacement methods?
- frenchie4111 3y agoCan someone make a diagram or video for us visually minded folk edit: nvm found it in a sister comment
- Unbeliever69 3y agoMy preferred technique is to grab a corner, crawl inside the duvet and pin it to the corresponding corner. Then I crawl out and repeat with the opposite corner. From there, I just pull the front two corners over the comforter then button/zip it up then furl it out. I'm not saying this is the best method but it works fine for me. My wife has no techniques that work for her, lol.
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- kirenida 3y agoRelated question: what method do you use to keep the duvet in place inside the cover? I have some animal themed safety pins that my parents used on my duvet since I was a child. I put four of them in a square shape around the middle of the cover when the duvet is inside.
- sunshowers 3y agoMy duvet covers have ties you can use against any duvet. My parents used to use safety pins.
- mlok 3y agoIf needed, I grab a cover border, and align the duvet border within it, make sure corners are aligned too, and then again : shake it. It comes back to place.
- dgfitz 3y agoIt just stays.
- Chaosvex 3y agoButtons? A zip? I've never seen a cover that doesn't have a way of keeping it closed.
- kirenida 3y agoKeeping it closed is not the problem. The problem is that the duvet bunches up inside the cover if you move around a lot during sleep.
- orliesaurus 3y agoKinda off topic but what is the name of the background on this blog? i.e. those patterns do they have a name? My mom used to have the same patterns on some sheets as a kid but no clue what they're called?
- theNJR 3y agoRelated question. Why is it that those damn strings break off after a few years? There must be a better way of attaching. Drives me nuts.
- EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 3y agoImages don't show in my Firefox.
- timvisee 3y agoIt does for me. Firefox on Android.
- veunes 3y agoIt so cool to see it on the first page
- michaelhoney 3y agoIn Australia a duvet is called a “doona” and while there are some perverts who use a sheet between person and doona (these are people who don’t like to wash doona covers), fitted-sheet=>sleeper=>doona is the standard
- derbOac 3y agoI'm in the US and we use a flat sheet between us and the duvet cover. We wash the duvet cover but the flat sheet gets washed more often and is less expensive to replace, and is replaced more often (nothing gets replaced that often, but relatively speaking). I don't think there's really any right way of doing things though. Sometimes I wonder if we should just have a linen blanket or something on top in the summer but we never seem to get too hot somehow, and I've never managed to find a top blanket that is the right size and that we like. (I'm also not really sure I want to store our duvet just for the summer either but that's solvable.)
- dzhiurgis 3y ago> perverts I do this during hot nights - easier to micro-regulate your body temperature with a extra thin layer. Easier to wash is a bonus. Plus they tend to be finer quality.
- neilv 3y agoPeople need to stop doing dark pattern cookie consent UI.
- deathanatos 3y agoIt's kinda weird? > We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our website, to show you personalized content and targeted ads, to analyze our website traffic, and to understand where our visitors are coming from. Like … I'm on what appears to be a person's blog. Who's "We"? What personalized content could one possibly receive from someone else's blog? (And of course, oh boy targeted ads.) Like … maybe some sort of out of the box thing gone amok, but the about page seems to indicate it's a pretty homegrown blog…?
- deathanatos 3y agoIt's kinda weird? > We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our website, to show you personalized content and targeted ads, to analyze our website traffic, and to understand where our visitors are coming from. Like … I'm on what appears to be a person's blog. Who's "We"? What personalized content could one possibly receive from someone else's blog? (And of course, oh boy targeted ads.) Like … maybe some sort of out of the box thing gone amok, but the about page seems to indicate it's a pretty homegrown blog…? The web is becoming downright tiresome.
- seventytwo 3y agoIs this kind of obvious stuff what passes for content these days? I should start a substack…
- mch82 3y agoThe correct technique is to replace a duvet cover by going to the store and purchasing a comforter. Ideally, purchase two comforters and alternate the one you’re washing with the one you’re using so that the bed is never without one. :-)
- causality0 3y agoI think there's a gap between the "bedroom is center of home" people and the "bedroom is for sleeping" people. For the former, they value things like changing the appearance of the bed for seasonal or taste-based reasons. For people like me in the latter category, the things on the bed are like the floor mats in my car: as long as they're clean I don't give a damn what they look like. They're purely functional objects that I don't even see for more than a few seconds a day.
- jaynate 3y agoI get inside the duvet cover. Pretend I’m a ghost. And have my wife hand me the comforter from the bottom. Bit of a workout. Works great.
- harimau777 3y agoIs this a European thing? I've never even heard of a duvet.
- worddepress 3y agoHow do you keep warm at night in the USA? Blankets and sheets I am guessing?
- MichaelDickens 3y agoI live in the USA and I see duvets almost everywhere. But I presume GP uses blankets.
- Grustaf 3y agoPresumably they put a sheet or something washable between themselves and the blanket though?
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- causality0 3y agoAfter living with a duvet cover for a year I decided the entire concept was patently moronic and went back to a simple blanket.
- shrubhub 3y agoThis is an April fools, right?
- xupybd 3y agoJust stand in the cover and drag the inner to the corners. It's so easy
- ssijak 3y agoHire somebody to do it for you. Profit.
- cinntaile 3y agoThis can be easily solved by having 2 holes at the top corners, it makes life so much easier when adjusting and inserting the duvet. No need for any convoluted methods like roll-invert-unroll.
- Grustaf 3y ago> Other expert voices say we should be doing this fortnightly, or even weekly. Even as a bachelor I wouldn’t wait two weeks to change the duvet covers, I hope most people change the covers when the change sheets?
- fifilura 3y agoIn Sweden all covers used to have holes in the upper corners. Really easy, just stick your hands in and pull the duvet out. Rumor has it thay IKEA stopped selling covers with holes at the top because lots of people came back and said they were broken. And now others are doing the same. Using duvet covers is very common in Sweden.
- sajb 3y agoI don't see this method working very well for me since I always use duvets that are wider than the bed, which I thought was the norm. Same width as the bed makes for tug-of-war with the sleeping partner. 120 cm wide bed -> 150 cm duvet, 140-160 cm bed -> 240 cm duvet
- bgnn 3y agoMy grandma and mom are doing it like this, for generations as far as I know.
- jonathanlydall 3y agoSomewhat relatedly, if you use elasticised fitted sheets, you may not be aware (I wasn’t for the first 25 years of my life) there is a simple trick to being able to fold them neatly when not in use. Essentially you fold it twice so that all four corners are “on top” of each other, then you tuck all the elasticised corners into each other. You should now have it looking quite neat with one corner being a little cut off, but still otherwise neat, see step 4 here: https://images.app.goo.gl/yfg4BnqxjuB2ztwv6 https://images.app.goo.gl/yfg4BnqxjuB2ztwv6 You can then fold it over in what ever way you want to make it rectangular.
- KptMarchewa 3y agoMy question is just why? They are perfectly good in a ball form.
- cja 3y agoI just put the duvet into the cover, making sure two corners of the duvet go to the deepest corners of the cover, then stand on bed, hold those two corners and shake for a few seconds, then lay it flat on the bed and adjust as required. Takes 30 seconds, plus time for closing the fasteners. My wife introduced me to an interesting and possibly KKK-inspired method where she would wear the duvet cover inside out, totally covering herself, and then pick up two corners of the duvet with her hands inside two corners of the cover. Then she'd reverse the cover off herself onto the duvet, from which point her method was the same as mine. I found it hilarious. Everybody's different...
- ivanjermakov 3y ago> possibly KKK-inspired method LOL
- Al-Khwarizmi 3y agoI am generally what one would consider an intelligent person in most respects (university professor doing research in STEM involving plenty of math, etc.) but for some reason, I am totally unable to understand how this technique works. I can follow the instructions, I know that it works, and I have a vague, superficial idea of why it's plausible for it to work (something like "things are inverted twice so it turns out OK") but I am unable to make a mental model of exactly how and why it works. I find this quite annoying because it also makes me forget the technique every time (typically I remember things because I understand them, and I don't understand this... for me, the correct way to do it is equally plausible as other alternatives, so I forget the correct steps). I do it together with my wife and she always has to give me detailed step-by-step instructions as if I were a kid, and I think she thinks I'm trolling her because for her it's obvious, but I'm not trolling. It's funny how one's mind can have weaknesses of this kind. (Related to the same weakness, I also get confused and spend a few seconds thinking when a sweater has its sleeves outside in or when I have to recover something from a coat pocket with the coat hanging, sometimes I actually put on the coat to avoid thinking about where the pocket is, but the duvet replacing thing is the most extreme manifestation because not even by stopping and thinking can I understand how it works).
- mtrio 3y agoImagine this way. You have three papers stack together. The top paper is the duvet. The bottom two paper are the cover. If you flip the bottom page over the other two papers, you have the duvet paper between the cover pages. For the real cover, you can not do that because the three sides are stitched together. So you roll the them together then you can invert through the opening.
- schneems 3y agoThanks for the explanation. I’m with you up until that last part. Maybe it’s just a “you have to try it kind of thing. Otherwise I’m not really sure the mechanics of what is happening when the unrolling is happening.
- ohthehugemanate 3y agoClearly inferior to the "crawl inside the cover" method. Where's the step where I chase my partner around the room making ghostly "woo woo" noises?
- discordance 3y agoKakebuton's are the easiest to put on and take off. I don't know why they don't have it in the west: https://www.japanache.com.au/contents/media/kakebuton%20cover.jpg https://www.japanache.com.au/contents/media/kakebuton%20cove...
- betimsl 3y agoThose few saved seconds, I really need them.
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- garfieldnate 3y agoI really miss Japanese duvet/futon covers; the corners have holes for the duvet to stick through, and the duvet has velcro straps that attach to loops on the cover. Every duvet/cover I own lacks this totally basic thing that prevents the duvet from falling all to one side of the cover.