Cleaning out my linen closet today. Flat sheets are multiplying.

Ruth n Jersey

Ruth n Jersey

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Does anyone use a flat sheet for the bottom sheet? When I was growing up that's all we had and didn't think twice about it. In nursing school and years after we used two flat sheets and a draw sheet. Today being so hot and humid and the AC going strong I decided to clean out my linen closet. I had no idea I had accumulated so many flat sheets. I looked online and found one single fitted sheet costs just about as much as a set including pillow cases. I guess I'll give them to Good Will.
 

We don't have that many sheets, but I wouldn't hesitate to use a flat sheet as a bottom sheet. When I was a kid and used to help my mother on weekends with changing bedding and laundry, I never even knew fitted sheets existed.
 
Ruth n Jersey said:
Does anyone use a flat sheet for the bottom sheet? When I was growing up that's all we had and didn't think twice about it. In nursing school and years after we used two flat sheets and a draw sheet. Today being so hot and humid and the AC going strong I decided to clean out my linen closet. I had no idea I had accumulated so many flat sheets. I looked online and found one single fitted sheet costs just about as much as a set including pillow cases. I guess I'll give them to Good Will.
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No fitted sheets in my house growing up either. Until high school maybe? Sure would have made my mom`s life easier-she ironed everything. Sheets,pajamas,bras.....

BUT,my real question is,WHERE did you find a site for single sheets??? I have been looking and looking. Use to be so common but now that hardly anybody uses a top sheet anymore,all they sell is sets.
 

See this is a topic that most men including me have never heard in their lifetime or have the remotest clue what you are talking about.

I do know what a fitted sheet is because I struggled helping to install them. Fitted sheets don't fit so hot.
 
Mrs. Robinson said:
No fitted sheets in my house growing up either. Until high school maybe? Sure would have made my mom`s life easier-she ironed everything. Sheets,pajamas,bras.....

BUT,my real question is,WHERE did you find a site for single sheets??? I have been looking and looking. Use to be so common but now that hardly anybody uses a top sheet anymore,all they sell is sets.
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Mrs. Robinson, I found a queen fitted bottom sheet on Amazon. I don't know it they have other sizes.
 
Flat sheets saved washing. Every week when the beds were stripped, the bottom sheet went to the laundry and the top sheet went to the bottom. That way, except during the height of Summer, sheets lasted two weeks between washes.

Mum didn't iron the sheets but the pillow slips were starched, damped down and ironed every wash. She also had embroidered pillow shams that decorated the pillows. These were carefully folded when the bed was turned down.

 
Warrigal said:
Flat sheets saved washing. Every week when the beds were stripped, the bottom sheet went to the laundry and the top sheet went to the bottom. That way, except during the height of Summer, sheets lasted two weeks between washes.

Mum didn't iron the sheets but the pillow slips were starched, damped down and ironed every wash. She also had embroidered pillow shams that decorated the pillows. These were carefully folded when the bed was turned down. So pretty. I do remember pillow cases embroidered like that.In fact some were given as Christmas gifts back then. I Don't remember the switching of the sheets, but it's a great idea. Most likely my Mom did that also.
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I bought a full fitted sheet on Amazon. You might also check The Company Store online where I found different sizes fitted sheets. I won a $300.00 gift card from The Talk recently. Otherwise I would not buy from them as they are expensive.
 
I heard a commercial, I think it was Rush Limbaugh, selling a set of sheets that normally sell for $2,000, for a couple of hundred. What the hell...do they make the bed my themselves?

We have fitted sheets and I help the wife make the bed. She has one set with bright colored flowers. I call them my funeral sheets.
 
Warrigal said:
Flat sheets saved washing. Every week when the beds were stripped, the bottom sheet went to the laundry and the top sheet went to the bottom. That way, except during the height of Summer, sheets lasted two weeks between washes.

Mum didn't iron the sheets but the pillow slips were starched, damped down and ironed every wash. She also had embroidered pillow shams that decorated the pillows. These were carefully folded when the bed was turned down.

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The embroidered pillow cases were a common wedding gift back in the day. I got a few sets from the old ladies at church when I got married. Quite lovely they were, too!
 
When we lived in north Jersey, a coworker gave me a little sailboat. The sail was made from a bed sheet. We had fun sailing it around the lake.
 

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