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[Catrin]

At some point, about now, flannel sheets make me itch, but never in the winter. Doesn't make sense but there it is. One thing I noted about the sateen weave sheets last night was that they didn't feel cold on my skin, just smooth and soft. I might try a higher count for my next pair.

I've been seeing Jersey sheets for sale. Are they as warm as flannel or...?

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[OakLeaf]

I've had jersey sheets, years ago. They're as soft as flannel, not as warm in summer, but they're a huge PITA to wash, dry and fold. It's whether you feel the comfort is worth the maintenance as compared to other fabrics, I think.

[Crankin]

The folding part, who cares? Now that I store my sheets in pull out baskets on rollers, under my bed, they get smashed in there, and that's it. I hate folding sheets! DH can do it perfectly, but folding a fitted sheet seems like an act of torture to me. And wrinkles? Again, no one is going to see it, so I just don't care. Of course, I am the person who would rather take something to the dry cleaner than have to iron...
Oak, my grandmother did not have a dryer in her home. In the winter, she hung the clothes on lines, all strung around the basement. She had to go outside to access the basement, what a pain! I hated sleeping over her house, because when she did the laundry would be all stiff and itchy from being hung out to dry on the line or in the basement.

[snapdragen]

Folding fitted sheets is easy.

1. Match all the corners.

2. Roll into a ball and put in linen closet or basket.

[salsabike]

Folding fitted sheets is easy.

1. Match all the corners.

2. Roll into a ball and put in linen closet or basket.

[smilingcat]

As I get older, I'm becoming more lazy. Fitted sheet it is. Years ago, I would carefully fold the corners of flat sheet and tuck it in neatly so that it didn't have any wrinkles. Must be my engineer side.

One of my cats have an allergy to down feathers. She insists on sleeping on my king size down pillow when its reasonably warm or under my down comforter in the winter. Poor thing has constant runny eyes. But I guess she prefers the soft pillow for her bed. I guess its a body pillow to her. She let me rest my head on a corner of the king size pillow. What I do for my kitties.

[OakLeaf]

Ha! Yeah, folding is the least of it (though my OCD self is much happier since I learned the technique for folding fitted sheets that involves tucking each corner into the last ). It's more that, you know how T-shirts act in the washer and dryer, well imagine a T-shirt the size of a queen sized fitted sheet. In the washer it turns into a sodden lump, gets imbalanced and I'm lucky if it doesn't pop the door and spill water all over the floor. In the dryer, if I'm using it, you have to open it up and shake the sheets out at least every 10-15 minutes, or they'll still be sodden lumps at the end of an hour.

[OakLeaf]

the laundry would be all stiff and itchy from being hung out to dry

It wasn't until I started moving between a home with very hard water, and a home with very soft water, and hanging my wash to dry at both, that it occurred to me how those types of water got their names! I've never looked it up, but it seems an obvious guess.

[Crankin]

Maybe... I know the water here is hard, because whenever I've moved to a place with "soft" water, my hair gets even more difficult than it normally is!

[VeganBikeChick]

Feeling so old...

Went out to dinner tonight with a friend 13 years my junior. The waitress comped us both a glass of Amontillado and I remarked it was my first time having this drink but I remember the name well for having read "The Cask of Amontillado" in junior high. Both the waitress and my friend looked at me like I had a third head, neither one having heard of the story before. While I didn't love lit in school, it was certainly something I remembered. Cheers to being an old fogey.

[OakLeaf]

Ha! I think it's more some kids are into Poe and some just aren't. I'm pretty sure I'm a good bit older than you are? but I remember a time from high school, when some of the middle school kids for some reason started building a wall with those cardboard bricks, across the hallway of the science building. I stood behind it and hollered, "For the love of God, Montrésor!" The only person who got it was one of the teachers. (A science teacher too, not an English teacher.)

[lph]

Feeling so old...

Went out to dinner tonight with a friend 13 years my junior. The waitress comped us both a glass of Amontillado and I remarked it was my first time having this drink but I remember the name well for having read "The Cask of Amontillado" in junior high. Both the waitress and my friend looked at me like I had a third head, neither one having heard of the story before. While I didn't love lit in school, it was certainly something I remembered. Cheers to being an old fogey.

Yup. At choir practice last week we were doing warm up exercises, and our 28 yr old conductor wanted us to sing "the Jello song, you know, the advertising jingle for Jello" (well, the norwegian equivalent).

Some of us old fogies didn't know it, so she hummed it for us. We all started smiling as it was pretty easy. Otherwise known as "Blue Moon".