Trouble Sharing Bed Sheets? Use Two!

[canyonwalker]

Humorous images and memes about couples having trouble sharing the bed sheets have been around for years. One partner grabs way more of the covers than is left for the other. Even manufacturers have gotten in on the joke with novelty sheets such as these:



Usually it's the woman who's portrayed as the blanket hog, though not always.



My partner and I used to have problems like these... though without resorting to solutions like hammer and nails. She'd go to bed first and have the blanket all scrunched up, and I'd have to pull it off her when I came to bed to straighten it so we could share.

Even when we were sharing the covers close to 50/50 there'd still be problems. It was too far up, so my feet stuck out the bottom (I'm much taller). Or it wouldn't cover down both sides well enough, a particular concern in the winter when we sometimes kept our heat a bit lower.

One solution we tried was to buy oversized sheets. We bought a king size blanket for our queen size bed. That helped with some of the doesn't-go-all-down problems but still didn't solve the blanket hog type problems.

The best solution we figured out a few years ago is just use two sheets. With different sheets and blankets on the bed for her and me there are almost never conflicts over who has how much of it. There's a whole sheet or blanket for each of us!

The two-sheets approach also solves differences in preferred temperature, weight, and texture. I usually like a thinner sheet while she prefers a heavier blanket. With one sheet or blanket shared, it was almost impossible to satisfy both of us. Now we're both routinely comfortable.

We also have differences in preferred texture. The sheet and blanket I like the feel of best, she finds "itchy". The blanket she likes best, I hate the feel of when it touches my skin. Now we don't have to negotiate on who gets their way. We both get our way, every time.

Comments

[some_other_dave]

I just saw either another novelty bedspread or a cartoon like the B&W one you show here. But about half of the width of the bedspread was in red, and labeled "The Cat's".

Not something you have to worry about, obviously, as you do like to continue breathing, but something we're kind of familiar with in our house...

[canyonwalker]

Yeah, I saw a bunch of pictures of bed spreads like that when I was searching for the images I included here.

[sorcyress]

I am a big fan of the "bed should be as extra and decadent as everything else in my life" and so I tend to have a number of extra pillows and blankets on my bed. Since my partners all tend to run hotter than I do, I've worked out a good system which allows us to share a sheet, and me to burrow under many extra blankets if necessary!

~Sor

[kjn]

The only times that thette and I have had to share bed sheets is when we've been staying in hotels abroad…

[canyonwalker]

Hotels in the US seem to have standardized on providing three sheets atop the bed: a thin sheet, a comforter, and a thin sheet atop the comforter. We frequently pull these apart and each use whichever we need.

It's also standard in the US for there to be a spare blanket folded up in the closet. We've never used one as we've always been able to adjust the room temperature enough to avoid excessive chill.