Discuss sheets.

Freshly washed & dried sheets + freshly washed & dried naked people = nice.

Sorry, I have nothing better to add to this thread. Feel free to make a thread count joke; I can't come up with one worthy of even my low standards.

 

My ultimate favorite is supima cotton, but they're almost impossible to find any more. I hate higher thread count sheets or "sateen" because they're hot. I bought a set of Egyptian Cotton sheets off nomorerack and I love them, but they pill like crazy at my feet still. I cannot sleep with anything in the bed that feels remotely like sand.
Here, I use top and bottom sheets, end tucked in, and a comforter. I can't sleep with my feet exposed. Childhood trauma from reading "It".
At home, the hubs likes his side untucked so his feet can be out and we use a thin coverlet. I usually have an extra blanket tossed on top.

We have two sets of sheets that have lasted almost 10 years with weekly washing, rotating. Both are supima cotton and still in pretty decent shape. We both use two pillows with regular pillowcases, and we despise shams... Too rough on the face.

I love Sunday nights here, sliding into still-warm sheets with no fuzzies after a nice hot shower with a cool burst at the end.

 

I think the sheets we're currently using are 350 count. I am not a fan of the "satiny" type sheets. We use cotton in the summer (maybe a cotton blend? I'll have to check when I get home) and flannel sheets in the winter.

Eden and I both move around a lot, and we both tend to "cocoon" in the blankets. After a couple nights of stealing the blankets from each other pretty much constantly, we decided separate stuff was better. (we do have one large comforter, but it hardly ever gets used...we each have a sheet and a heavier blanket. And like, three or four pillows each.)

I try to wash the sheets every weekend, or every other weekend depending on time constraints. Unscented detergent (All Free & Clear), and either unscented fabric softener OR this Clorox bleach-free stuff that smells completely awesome. No starch, and I usually use extra softener...I like soft sheets

I really wish we had a clothesline...sun-dried sheets are the best.


Oh--colors. I like blues and greens, Eden likes red and black. We try to stay away from mostly white sheets, since the dogs sleep with us, although the current set is white with a green ivy pattern. The flannel sheets have a blue snowflake pattern, and we also have a set of plain blue cotton.

 

Indeed.

I like patterned sheets with lines running the long way, so that you don't have to wonder which way to orient them when you make the bed. However, most of our sheets have no pattern.

My wife and I both prefer to sleep between bottom and top sheets.

Sheets that get torn or have holes are no longer usable.

Pillows with pillow sham covers are not for sleeping on.

Memory foam is great stuff. We have a layer of it on top of our mattress (below the bottom sheet).

 

You should hear some of the arguments my wife & I have when making the bed.
She gets the argument going with a really stupid & rhetorical 'question,' "Do you want to help me make the bed?"
I'm tempted to reply, "Only if it doesn't involve micrometers." No man on Earth "wants" to help his nitpicky wife/SO/GF make the bed.
"No," she says, "you have turn it the other way so that when the sheet is folded down the pattern is right."
"It doesn't fucking matter which way the fucking pattern goes," I reply. "You're the only person who would notice."
"It's important, it has to look right."
"It isn't, and it doesn't."

 

My favorite sheets were my mom and dads sheets before they divorced. So they're from the '70s. Bill Blass brand. One is Olive Green. One is Khaki and Chocolate design. They're the softest best sheets I've ever slept on. Sadly, they're starting to fall apart.

I use Downy Infusions Orchid Allure when I wash them (and everything) They smell so great right after they come out of the dryer.

No set sexy time sheets.

I have shams for making the bed but sleep with cases.

I don't care for top sheets much. I'm far too restless and get tangled up too easy.

No flannel sheets ever. I very much enjoy the coolness when you first jump in bed.

 

My wife is sheet obsessed. I will ask her as I have no clue.

In Singapore, I rarely even use sheets anymore.

 

Don't have a favorite brand or anything, but Mrs. Levite has successfully converted me to the value of cotton sheets with absurdly high thread counts. Our sets range from 500-600 thread count to 800-1000 thread count. They are expensive as fuck, but hella worth it. We have a really good bed, plus a plushy mattress pad, so with ridiculously high thread count sheets, it's like sleeping on a fucking cloud. It is awesome.

We are both somewhat allergic and sensitive to perfumes, so we wash our sheets with scent-free hypoallergenic detergent.

We also have completely different sets of linen other than bottom sheet: we each sleep with our own top sheet and blanket(s). In part this because we prefer very different ways of sleeping: she's a neat sleeper, likes the top sheet and blankets tucked in, bed carefully made; I like the sheet and blanket loose, because I sort of twist it and tuck it around me, leaving a foot exposed even in winter, and in summer more. That's the other part: we run in completely different temperature zones. She is almost always cold, and even in summer sleeps with more than one blanket-- in winter, she piles them on. Whereas I always run hot, and use just a top sheet and one blanket during winter, early spring, and late fall, and only the top sheet the rest of the year.

We also differ with pillows: she sleeps with one or two fairly flat pillows. I sleep with two to three fat pillows plus a husband pillow, as I like to sleep at an angle.

 

I'm told that all of our sheets come from LL Bean and that those are the only ones that will do. I just sleep on them.

Plain colored, no pattern, bottom sheets with his and hers down comforters, because we can't agree on a pattern and she's a blanket hog.

 

any sheets over 500 thread count are the only sheets i buy now and never, ever, again, will i buy satin sleeps, much less sleep in them for more than one night

 

We are freaking addicted to our new LL Bean sheets... Simple cotton sheets. They're percale and breathe like nothing I've ever slept in/on ever. Hubs loves them, too, which is incredibly rare--for us to agree on temperature support in sheets. He's usually too hot, I'm too cold. These balance you out perfectly based on your top layers. Worth every penny.

 

This. Those are the exact sheets I bought. Two sets - one in light tan color, and one in neutral slate grey, so I can switch them out once a week and only have to launder sheets once every 2 weeks. Super soft and comfy.