The Great Fitted Sheet Battle
What is it with fitted sheets? They're a mystery to me.31 total reviews
Comment from Karen Cherry Threadgill
Makes sense to me. I solved the problem a long time ago. I get out green mint green striped sheet. I cram it inside the pillowcase that matches. I cram everything that matches inside one Bag. They get all wrinkly looking the minute you sleep on them anyway. I just pull out one pillowcase bag when It is time to change sheets. Easy peasy. Karen :-)
reply by the author on 30-Jun-2024
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Makes sense to me. I solved the problem a long time ago. I get out green mint green striped sheet. I cram it inside the pillowcase that matches. I cram everything that matches inside one Bag. They get all wrinkly looking the minute you sleep on them anyway. I just pull out one pillowcase bag when It is time to change sheets. Easy peasy. Karen :-)
Comment Written 28-Jun-2024
reply by the author on 30-Jun-2024
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Hello Karen,
thanks so much for the fine review gal. For whatever reason, I'm anal about the sheets. Certain things I can care less about, and others I can hardly leave alone. I've often wondered about my mental state.
Have a blessed evening.
Tom
Comment from Brett Matthew West
Fitted sheets can be a royal pain in the posterior.
Why not triangular? Be different from the norm.
Cardboard corners for fitted sheets. You could be onto a gold mine there.
Wrinkled sheets do make uncomfortable slumber.
reply by the author on 18-Jun-2024
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Fitted sheets can be a royal pain in the posterior.
Why not triangular? Be different from the norm.
Cardboard corners for fitted sheets. You could be onto a gold mine there.
Wrinkled sheets do make uncomfortable slumber.
Comment Written 18-Jun-2024
reply by the author on 18-Jun-2024
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Hi Brett,
I like the way you think. We spend so many hours in sleeping, why not make it as comfortable and easy as it can be? I appreciate the great review.
Have a blessed day.
Tom
Comment from judiverse
I'd been meaning to comment on this delightful piece, but have been sidetracked. The sheet problem is definitely one I have to contend with. It is hard to fold them properly, as you mentioned. Mine are always wrinkled. They're cotton, and I won't buy all-cotton sheets again. The really need to be ironed, and I am not going to iron sheets. Ironing would probably make them fold better. Also, the problem of getting the fitted sheets on properly. Mine have a very tiny "top" sign on them. I get bruises on my arms every time I change the sheets. I think my extra-thick mattress topper is partly to blame for that. My sheets remain wrinkled and unfold-able. It's one of the country's great problems. I enjoyed this tremendously. judi
reply by the author on 07-Jun-2024
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I'd been meaning to comment on this delightful piece, but have been sidetracked. The sheet problem is definitely one I have to contend with. It is hard to fold them properly, as you mentioned. Mine are always wrinkled. They're cotton, and I won't buy all-cotton sheets again. The really need to be ironed, and I am not going to iron sheets. Ironing would probably make them fold better. Also, the problem of getting the fitted sheets on properly. Mine have a very tiny "top" sign on them. I get bruises on my arms every time I change the sheets. I think my extra-thick mattress topper is partly to blame for that. My sheets remain wrinkled and unfold-able. It's one of the country's great problems. I enjoyed this tremendously. judi
Comment Written 06-Jun-2024
reply by the author on 07-Jun-2024
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Hello Judi,
thanks so much for the exceptional rating gal. I think I hit on something that a lot of people could relate to. A number of folks mentioned that they just launder the sheets and put them right back on the bed. At least that way they don't have to worry about folding them. Have a blessed evening gal.
Tom
Comment from Debi Pick Marquette
Dang it now, Tom, now I am going to have to buy another set of sheets.
What a fun topic too.. I do have some ocd issues that even drive me crazy, but Ihave to say I am thankful this isn't one of them. However, like you it may turn into one. LOL. Virtual Six! Thanks for this fun and delightful post! Love, Debi.
reply by the author on 05-Jun-2024
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Dang it now, Tom, now I am going to have to buy another set of sheets.
What a fun topic too.. I do have some ocd issues that even drive me crazy, but Ihave to say I am thankful this isn't one of them. However, like you it may turn into one. LOL. Virtual Six! Thanks for this fun and delightful post! Love, Debi.
Comment Written 05-Jun-2024
reply by the author on 05-Jun-2024
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Hello Debi,
thanks so much for this delightful review. It was a fun post to do. I never know what I'm going to do from one post to the next. I could easily fall into rant mode, as so many things seem to bother me. Right now I'm being invaded by my family, complete with a two year old who is wound up tighter than a drum. It's rainy outside, so I can't send them out to play. The older I get, the less I can tolerate noise and confusion. Oh well. By the way, I sent your book off yesterday. I'll send you the tracking number at a later date.
Blessings,
Tom
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Hi Tom, I meant to say this when I replied to your kind comments for my story, but as much as I miss my grandkids being young and all the fun things I did with and for them. I could never tolerate it again. The way it is I can barely walk so building tents and playing goofy games is out of the reality now. So I hear you 100%. I have a couple friends who are just now getting grandkids, now that mine are almost all grown. Well, I am not that old, as I am still in my 60s, but not for long. Ouch, that hurts to admit that. So just wanted to tell you that I think that many are feeling that way. Take care and thank you so very much for sending me a copy of your book, as I am very excited to get it.
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Tom, your book arrived today and I am so excited to read it. However, I have one little problem and if you have a minute I have a little story to tell you that I think you might get a kick out of.
I don't think my husband has read a book in years. He reads the newspapers everyday but a book, I don't think so.
Well he carried the mail in and I saw the package and I said Yay, my book from Alaska. And he said, "yes, it is". And I said, "Glen, you'd really like this guy because he reminds me of Mikey C"..... and Glen said, "no, there is only one Mikey." I opened the book and I read the front cover out loud. And he started laughing and said, "maybe there is another Mikey. Can I read that first?" He said, "I think I am going to like this guy." So just so you know, Mikey C is a character that everyone loves. He is known in our circle of friends as kind of a 70 yr old class clown but he has been a fun guy for the last fifty years I've known him. So believe me, I can't give you a nicer compliment than compare you to him. And what is my problem. I have to wait to read it until he is done. LOL.
So we both thank you so very much! You are the best.
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Hi Debi,
I guess I should have scrolled down first. I'm so honored that you would be reminded of such a good friend. Thanks so much!
When I first started to write the book, I was still angry about the time we spent on the farm. The more I wrote, the better I felt. I heard from different people who were involved in the Move, and the overall response was favorable. Several of the elders who still live at the farm disagreed with my take on things, but that was no surprise.
I can't recall if I mentioned in the book or not, but I wrote most if not all of it at the school library. When I was working at the school, they gave me a key to get in after it closed in the evening, and since I didn't have a computer at home at the time, I took advantage of it.
I was pleased with the way it turned out. The publisher, a fellow who was a traveling evangelist, had a publishing company that he started in Beaverton Oregon. He used to go to the various churches and offer to publish books for them. Of course they had to pay for them, but the congregation would tell how they were saved or how they came to know God. Then they would distribute them to the community as an evangelical tool. Unfortunately, he doesn't do that anymore, and though I have some copies of the books, I need to find someone to print them out soon, as I'm starting to get down on some of the inventory.
Anyway, that's the story, and I'm sticking to it.
Blessings,
Tom
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Hi Debi,
the only issue with the grandkids getting grown up is that they have children too, so the cycle starts all over again. I just don't tolerate the noise and confusion well. I'm in enough of a state of confusion without importing any.
On a different note, did I see something a while ago that you fell and hurt yourself, or is that someone else?
Comment from EeanBlack
Yes. Straight up my life is the sheets. After you put them on, sleep on them all night, the next morning they are half off the mattress. I was short-sheeted in the Navy. I was under-sheeted in the army. Now, I buy them too big for my bed altogether. So they slide off. The perfectly fitted ones are too hard to get on correctly. There, I admit it. Maybe it's because we are both guys? Don't ever admit that that is the reason.
reply by the author on 26-May-2024
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Yes. Straight up my life is the sheets. After you put them on, sleep on them all night, the next morning they are half off the mattress. I was short-sheeted in the Navy. I was under-sheeted in the army. Now, I buy them too big for my bed altogether. So they slide off. The perfectly fitted ones are too hard to get on correctly. There, I admit it. Maybe it's because we are both guys? Don't ever admit that that is the reason.
Comment Written 25-May-2024
reply by the author on 26-May-2024
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Hello Eean,
thanks so much for the entertaining review. I've never been short sheeted, though I went through four years in the navy. Guess I was lucky. When I was in the navy (72-76) I had a guy in my division, ops, who was called Fat Mac. At the time, the bunks were aluminum tubes with canvas with grommets, that you tightened with ropes going through the grommets. Mac chose the middle bunk for some unknown reason, and I was on the bottom. When he hit the rack, the canvas would sag dangerously close to me, so that I couldn't even turn over in my bunk without bumping into him. That was unnerving. Fortunately those days are over, but there is still an ongoing battle with the sheets.
Have a blessed day.
Tom
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The same to you.
Comment from Jill D
I would love to be a fountain of knowledge on this but I don't even iron my over sheet. My advice would be stay up as late as you can till you're so jaded you don't even care what your sleeping on lol!
All the best.
Jill:)
reply by the author on 22-May-2024
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I would love to be a fountain of knowledge on this but I don't even iron my over sheet. My advice would be stay up as late as you can till you're so jaded you don't even care what your sleeping on lol!
All the best.
Jill:)
Comment Written 21-May-2024
reply by the author on 22-May-2024
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Hello Jill,
that sounds like good advice, thank you. My wife still has an iron, but I don't know if she has an ironing board anymore. She makes quilts for the kids and grandkids and has to iron the pieces I think. I don't know if I've ever slept on an ironed sheet before, or if I have, it's been a very long time. Thanks for the delightful review.
Have a blessed evening gal.
Tom
Comment from pome lover
Well, that is hysterical! I giggled all the way through. You just kill me.
My first, very first reaction was you are the only man I know who will fold sheets in the first place! and I bet the men who read your post thought "is he trying to me me feel bad?"
But, truly I also get disgusted trying to fold the fitted sheet and mine always end up sort of a messy wad, too. I think it's a universal problem. But your descriptions are so funny. Good for you. fun reading!
Katharine
reply by the author on 22-May-2024
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Well, that is hysterical! I giggled all the way through. You just kill me.
My first, very first reaction was you are the only man I know who will fold sheets in the first place! and I bet the men who read your post thought "is he trying to me me feel bad?"
But, truly I also get disgusted trying to fold the fitted sheet and mine always end up sort of a messy wad, too. I think it's a universal problem. But your descriptions are so funny. Good for you. fun reading!
Katharine
Comment Written 21-May-2024
reply by the author on 22-May-2024
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Hello Katharine,
thanks so much for the exceptional review gal. Sometimes I wonder about myself. I don't mind cooking, and I've done the laundry in the past, though Jan doesn't like it when I do. Whenever I start to wonder about my masculinity, I open my gun safe and gaze upon the contents, or wonder out to the garage and check out the tools. I think mainly I just go overboard with wanting things to be neat sometimes. Glad to have you back gal.
Have a blessed evening.
Tom
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well, I'll tell you, Tom, a man who likes things neat is a treasure!
However, I think from now on,every time I am folding sheets, I will think of you and laugh. That was just too funny.
Comment from Esther Brown
OK, stupid of me to give 6 stars for a rant on fitted sheets...but I agree. My mother (an old fashioned Finnish nurse type) taught me to make hospital corners on flat sheets. My sister who can sew put some elastic thingy on it to keep it in place. I share your frustration...but never fold them. Wash and put back on the bed and ignore wrinkles! Also the fact that the mattress is always too fat and cheap sheets won't fit anyways. Esther
reply by the author on 22-May-2024
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OK, stupid of me to give 6 stars for a rant on fitted sheets...but I agree. My mother (an old fashioned Finnish nurse type) taught me to make hospital corners on flat sheets. My sister who can sew put some elastic thingy on it to keep it in place. I share your frustration...but never fold them. Wash and put back on the bed and ignore wrinkles! Also the fact that the mattress is always too fat and cheap sheets won't fit anyways. Esther
Comment Written 21-May-2024
reply by the author on 22-May-2024
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Hello Esther,
Well, I think it shows your good taste to award six stars for this piece, but I'm a little biased. You're not alone in washing the sheets and putting them back on the bed, at least three other folks have mentioned doing that. My wife does the laundry, and it probably wouldn't work for her to have to have the sheets done the same day they came off the bed, so we have an extra set all ready to go. Plus, I like different colors. I'm glad the days of only white sheets are past. I wonder if hospitals were to incorporate colored or sheets with patterns, if the patients wouldn't heal sooner? I think it would be a nice way to make a hotel stand out too. "spend the night with us on our luxury, pastel colored sheets and enjoy a taste of heaven." Maybe I can sell Marriot or one of the others on that idea.
Thanks so much for the exceptional review gal, I appreciate it.
Have a blessed evening.
Tom
Comment from Marilyn Hamilton
Well, if you are a pathetic loser, I am standing in line right behind you with a large L on my forehead too. Years ago I gave in to the whole sheet folding thing and I announced to the household that from that point on all folded sheets would be balled up and thrown in a large chest of drawers and if anyone complained they would be making the beds from that point on. No one has ever complained. :-) Good luck with your battle.
reply by the author on 21-May-2024
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Well, if you are a pathetic loser, I am standing in line right behind you with a large L on my forehead too. Years ago I gave in to the whole sheet folding thing and I announced to the household that from that point on all folded sheets would be balled up and thrown in a large chest of drawers and if anyone complained they would be making the beds from that point on. No one has ever complained. :-) Good luck with your battle.
Comment Written 20-May-2024
reply by the author on 21-May-2024
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Hello Marilyn,
you made me laugh with your comments gal. I've heard from different people about how they deal with the issue of the fitted sheets. Some wash and dry them and put them right back on the bed. Some actually have been able to fold them in a way that seems satisfactory, and others do as you do and don't worry about it. Thanks so much for the delightful review.
Have a blessed evening.
Tom
Comment from lyenochka
Lol. Thank you for this humorous post, Tom! When I first started here, Humpwhistle wrote about fitted sheets also - so you are in good company. I also don't like them not just because of the folding issue but because it's a real nuisance in the washer/dryer. Some piece of clothing always gets into one of the corners and fails to dry properly. So yes, you are perfectly right and sane to complain about the fitted sheet!!
reply by the author on 21-May-2024
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Lol. Thank you for this humorous post, Tom! When I first started here, Humpwhistle wrote about fitted sheets also - so you are in good company. I also don't like them not just because of the folding issue but because it's a real nuisance in the washer/dryer. Some piece of clothing always gets into one of the corners and fails to dry properly. So yes, you are perfectly right and sane to complain about the fitted sheet!!
Comment Written 20-May-2024
reply by the author on 21-May-2024
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Ha, ha, ha - Helen, I forgot about how that happens. Its usually something like my underwear or a sock. It's good to know that almost universally fitted sheets are an issue for people. When we get down to the nuts and bolts of life, we are all so much alike in so many ways. Thanks so much for the entertaining comments gal.
Have a blessed evening.
Tom