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[Helene2013]

After trying bamboo sheets, I can no longer truly enjoy other type of sheets. But they are soooo expensive when you get the 100% ones (not the mixed type). To me anyway. And in Canada, it is hard to find them at a decent price too. Only one store carries them in my area and I've put my name on their sales list so when that set comes on sale or that they have a coupon for first item at 50% I jump at the chance to purchase a set. I now have 3 sets (one is in the motorhome). They last forever so I should be good for a while. For a king size set it is nearing 200$. That is way too much money for my taste for sheets. So when on mega sale, it is worth it. But rarely on sale. But yes, good sheets are rarely cheap. The price to pay to get a decent (if I can say decent) when past menopause. I never or rarely sweat in those as they adjust to body temperature.

[Pax]

Helene, that's good to hear, I was looking at set of bamboo sheets but they were so sort I was afraid they'd pill up.

[OakLeaf]

What, you don't sleep in flannel all year round? It's so soft and not hot at all. Then again there might be a week or two in August that I don't sleep in a couple of layers of wool .....

Try pricing organic cotton flannel I try not to buy conventional cotton, it's so toxic. But I don't know why I have to order USA made organic cotton linens from a company in Canada. Sigh.

[Crankin]

The flannel starts making me uncomfortably warm, as soon as the temperatures at night get into the 50s on a regular basis, despite the fact I keep my house cool at night.

[Helene2013]

Helene, that's good to hear, I was looking at set of bamboo sheets but they were so sort I was afraid they'd pill up.

http://www.linenchest.com/en/bamboo-...ollection.html

Those stayed perfect forever. Never had pilled up. Ever. They are soft as silk too. But they are heavier then sheets. And to wash them is a bit of a pain because of the weight. I can wash the set at once but to dry it is better to do them in half due to weight (takes forever). That is why I have many sets. I can switch and do my bed right away without having to wait for it to dry. Now weather is good so it dries outside. But in winter, it can take a good 50 minutes to dry just half of the load.

But personally, I will not go back to other sheets. Oh yeah...hubby says he's too cold in there so what I did to satisfy both of us.... I cut the fitted sheet in half. yes.... And he has his own flannel side and I have my own bamboo. Satisfied couple! The flat sheet is all bamboo. He does not mind the top.

I could never sleep in those flannel, comfort or whatever other sheets called "warm".

So yes bamboo sheets are not cheap. The quality ones anyway. But the 1st set is over 8 years old and still looks good. Now I am using it in the motorhome as I don't really mind if it wears out quickier (campgrounds requires more indoor maintenance.

So Pax, no need to worry about piiling up. Oh...another thing. If not folded properly, they will look so crinkled. Crazy. But once on your bed, they are perfect. I just changed my sheets this morning. I can't wait to get in-between. haaaaaa.

[OakLeaf]

in winter, it can take a good 50 minutes to dry just half of the load.

Yikes!

There's a Fellini movie, I want to say 8-1/2? that has a brief scene showing women doing laundry, and to dry the bedlinens, they had these huge wooden hemispherical frames in a covered atrium.

I wonder what people in humid climates did before dryers were common. Where we live in Florida, on a sunny day when the humidity's "normal," we have about a three-hour window where we can dry laundry outdoors before the humidity comes up so high that they start getting more damp instead of less. If it isn't sunny, forget about it. I used my dryer more in Florida this December and January than I did the whole rest of the year. Put together. Not exaggerating.

Even in northern climates where indoor heating dries everything out, many if not most people wouldn't have had enough space for drying bedlinens. I have no idea what they did. Heck I live very close to lots of Amish and Mennonite people who don't have dryers, and I know they'll dry laundry on their porches if the weather is even remotely hospitable to that, but when it isn't, I don't know any of them well enough to ask!