This found me at a very bare mattress time of my life
this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2025
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The discomfort I feel at the thought of sleeping on a bare matress ensures that I will put the sheet on. Of course, only just before going to sleep when I want to do nothing more but flop onto my bed after staying up too long again
Nothing I love more than coming upstairs after my day of chores, exhausted, to find a ball of sheets on my bed. THANKS earlier me.
And earlier me is like "have fun, future me who will be very unhappy about this :D"
Own more than one set? I have 3 so I can just swap it out and afford to forget to wash the other one for a week
Fucking Richie Rich over here with 3 sets of sheets. Next thing you know we'll be eating 3 meals each day, too!
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Or...now hear me out...get a 2nd set of sheets. Straight swap. One on...one off. Then you can forget about the "off" set, until it's time to change the sheets again.
I was already assuming they did have a second set. Taking off the dirty ones and putting on the clean ones is bloody well hard enough. Are people out there really trying to turn around a single set in a day? That's just setting yourself up to fail, I don't care how neurotypical you think you are.
Wait, there are people who only one set of sheets? To me it sounds like having one set of clothes
It's more like having only one pair of shoes. There isn't usually a compelling reason to change them frequently, so you only need one.
I have seen this before it's US americans, they all have dryers and can wash and dry in the same day.
I would never, I have sheet that are cozier for winter etc, also I dry on a clothesline
I also have a dryer, but I have like 3 or 4 sets of sheets. They don't have to buy the fancy ones, just buy the $30 set from IKEA.
I now have dirty sheets and damp sheets that have been in the dryer for a week.
What now?
Buy two more sheets and try again, repeat until desired results are achieved or death.
My washer is full, and I can’t put the 5 or 6th sheet set into it. Please advise
Buy an additional one.
After you have enough you can also double it all and pass it to your kids.
Instructions unclear; all bedsheets are now dirty and I've been sleeping on a bare ass mattress for a month.
I caught this, too. If I forget about them until the next set is dirty...
have two sheets, put the new one on right after taking the old one off. put the old one in the laundry pile and wash it with your clothes.
Yup, except wash them separate so you can use warm water and not ruin cloths. Unless you're lucky enough to have durable cloths from 10 years ago. And wash them right away, or you'll end up in the no-sheet situation anyway.
I'm not so lucky and I wash everything in cold water and together, except if I have enough linens built up, then I wash them in separate loads.
Hah, my washer is small, hadn't considered that. A set of sheets and pillow cases fills mine as it is 😃
Then I'd have to learn the black magic that is folding a fitted sheet AND actually fold them every time I change my bed/wash the old set.
Can't just leave clean laundry in a pile either... That's just going to bother me; are they clean or not? If it's clean, it's gotta be put away neatly, but It's gonna have to stay in the dryer until I work up that kind of courage.
Nope, just gonna fight myself to put them back on the bed once they're clean...
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You need a backup too in case of spills and so you're not at the mercy of executive dysfunction when it comes time to replace one of them.
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And the overwhelming urge to take a nap before the dryer is done rocking.
I eventually got a second bed set just to help me out on that front
But unfortunately they've got a different thread count so they have a different skin feel then the old ones so I absolutely can't mix the sheets with the other ones because the difference is too jarring
I tell my spouse I can change the sheets in seconds, and pre-swap the sheets to accomplish it. This makes it a “fun” thing, that my brain is more than happy to focus on because it’s “fun”. It also happens with just the right frequency that it doesn’t become boring.
However, if my spouse ever found out the trick (or told me they did) the magic would be lost.
Put the old sheet in the doorway. Now you can't leave the room until you are done because the doorway is blocked.
JRPG rules FTW!
Emphatically wrong! Sleeping on a bare mattress is crazy. I just use the couch like I do many nights anyway.
I have two sets of sheets. Adapt and overcome.
Three. One to put on. One to have at the ready. One to wash.
Oh you mean one already on, one to wash, one to wash?
That's why I also have an extra clean one, uhm, somewhere in one of these piles.
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This is why we have two sets and I have a day just for doing the sheets. Sheets off, pillows off, into washing machine, grab the clean sheets from the pile. Sheets do not get folded, that's a nightmare. There's just a pile of clean clothes. And the sheets. There's also like fifty pillow covers they just accumulated somehow.
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This is why you find a partner who can compensate for your dysfunction.
Have two beds. Clean and remake one when sleeping on the other. Don't switch until other one is clean.
This is how I end up with one dirty bed I sleep on and one bed buried under clothes (clean it dirty) and other things.
I've been sleeping on a blanket for a while now, come to think of it...
I'm going to do it but only because I want to and not because you called me out
I've heard you can minimize risk by having multiple fitted sheets on your bed at once. Just strip off the top sheet, add to laundry hamper, sleep on the newly revealed clean sheet.
I don't do that because I don't use sheets. I sleep in a hammock and just swap between two hammocks when they need washing.
Dog got sick on the sheet and the dryer is broken. I've slept on that bare ass mattress for two days so far. Dryer is supposed to be replaced today but I'll be to drained after 10 hours at work to do wash.
Executive disfunction has prevented me from getting another sheet before this happened.
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