Anyone has got THE trick to change the bedding without getting a nervous breakdown?

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You put your hand in from the "wrong side", grab the two far corners - without turning the entire cover inside out - and just slide the thing over it, give it a a short shake and close the zipper

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Noone else has ever heard of these? https://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/store/product/comforter-clips-set-of-4/1010313465?categoryId=12022

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I suspect they are plastic ..... and I'm the 'princess and the pea' - type

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im telling you the way it is done professionally. In a hospital all the duvet covers are washed and turned inside out to enable it to be quickly put on the duvet

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thank you

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yes, this way is faster than turning it inside-out.

a good reminder that the 'professionals' are often no better than some non-professionals.

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but hey, it's the perfect discussion-killer. The other one they like to use here is "we always did it this way"

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some people never want to learn anything new.

The non professional way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7XcIZe9X2k

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so macht the profi!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQdC38OQSXM

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I have a feeling that the peeps who put the cover on the professional way also put the toilet paper in the only possible professional way. Lol.

I am glad I taught about Koko the talking gorilla today. Did some messy art and ate jambon cru for dinner, out of the plastic cover.

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Right - all artistic, the paper's been touched a 1000 times by God knows whom when you use it, just like the fancily folded napkins

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Our duvet is the same size, also Ikea one.

I use the same technique and it's not difficult, except for the weight of such a big duvet. I prefer to let my OH do it, simply because he's physically stronger when it comes to shake it to place

I change the kids' duvet weekly in less than a minute though, 90x200.

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Maybe try a sleeping bag with a liner, no duvet cover needed, easy, winner!!

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you mean 59.9 sec.Are you talking about the professional method or amateur?

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Let's do an EF competition!

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I just fold the mattress, hook the folds of the sheet onto the corners and let go, mattress flattens with a satisfying "whump" and I get a perfect bed, as for the cover, inside out, hands in the corner, grab the corners of the duvet and shake it down.

Thats my take on the subject.

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There's no need to if you do it "right" [(C) Urs Max].

You simply turn the covers inside out when taking them off (for me actually the easiest way to take them off). That's how they go thru the whole process including when folded and stacked in the wardrobe.

This may no longer be valid (if it ever was to begin with) but the logic behind it all was to protect the colors. I was told (in the good old days) that washing and drying (especially tumbler'ing) wears the colors so turning the covers inside out was considered good practice. I wouldn't claim though that this still applies today, not to a noticeable extent.

An additional benefit is that if you drop the cloth and get a minor stain or two they will be hidden once reverted. This may be irrelevant in a private home with colorful cover surfaces but in a professional environment the situation may well be different. I'd think in hospitals the slightly improved hygiene is the most important aspect, the (invisible) stains on the white fabric the most important in the hospitality industry.

If one were to ask someone working in a professional laundry they might add additional reasons in the sense that the machinery has been set up to produce inverted covers.

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No condoms required either, sex is not so easy in a sleeping bag

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Another good reason for having covers inside out is that if they are ironed (by hand or by putting them through a roller) the pressure on the 'excess material' in the seams at each corner actually 'wears through' the cover. Sounds weird I know, but it is true.

Best place I ever had for putting on double duvet covers was in a house in England, where, using the 'inside out, hold onto to corners and shake the duvet into the cover' principle, I did it hanging the whole thing over the railing of the upstairs landing. Brilliant and very quick.

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now that's a separate debate: whether to wash them inside out!