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Saren Pedersen

@theaardvark @robb yeah, I was going to say I think this was a Gen X thing. I think we were also the first generation to start using duvets covers and not bothering with top sheets. And we realized that no one actually needs dryer sheets or boxes of Kleenex all around their house.

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Inhabitant of Carcosa :emacs:

@saren @theaardvark @robb If you don't use top sheets, what keeps the ghosts away when the weather is warm?

Adventurer #Harris

@saren @theaardvark @robb
I thought I was the only one who doesn't use a top sheet.

Chookbot

@saren @theaardvark @robb Nope. Sorry, hun, but I did that in the 70s.

Wolfie 🐺

@saren @theaardvark @robb the Kleenex one confuses me, why wouldn't you need access to tissues? maybe it's just my household of hay fever suffering millennials but easy access to tissues is not something we would forgo 😅

Pippa :deadinside:

@saren @robb @theaardvark @wolfie yeah we absolutely have boxes of tissues all over the place 😅

Anne Hulbert

@saren @theaardvark @robb
We never used a top sheet when duvets (continental quilts as they were called then (and were very expensive - I made my own with a kit)) first came in - a top sheet defeats the object of this lightweight cover moulding itself around your body to keep you warmer.

Anne Hulbert

@saren @theaardvark @robb
Oh, and for the OP, apart from for weddings and funerals, I haven't ironed for about 25 years. When I do, it's with a travel iron on a folded towel on a table.

Darq
@amokura @saren @theaardvark @robb isn't ironingdone to kill bacteria and as a side effect make the clothes softer?
Ben Tasker

@amokura @saren @theaardvark @robb Years back, I needed a plug, so I took it off the iron.

I've never got around (or needed) to replace it.

Louis Ingenthron

@saren @theaardvark @robb The drier sheets and kleenexes don't need to be everywhere, but for those of us with pets & allergies, they are still far more necessary than an iron or a top sheet.

econads

@saren @theaardvark @robb otoh recently started to use a sheet because allergy covers stick to the duvet covers, which means they take ages to change & ruck up the duvet making it smaller, which for us giants is annoying. Sheet makes it so much easier, especially as it also sticks.

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