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I’ve sewed in little ties but still the inside of my duvet clumps into an awful big clump at the end of the bed. I end up sleeping under the empty duvet cover. No amounts of ties and zippers fixes this. I want a quilt.
–Duvet Bad, Quilt Good
This article appears in Jan 14-20, 2010.
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My last duvet is now garbage can camouflage – the crows don’t like it either.
I had this problem, then I bought “duvet clips” from Home Outfitters or Linens and Things and they attach each corner of the duvet to the duvet cover. They cost something like $10 for a set of 4. I’ve never had the cover and duvet detach in any way since.
wow, nothing like a bitch about rich people problems.
If you think thats bad, one time i woke up in the morning. Stubbed my toe on my four poster bed and jumped into my indoor golf cart to drive from my master bedroom to my palacial bathroom and i got a flat tire….*choking back tears*….and it took the servant almost half an hour to change the tire! *wipes tear away with back of his hand*
I bet the people in Haiti can totally relate to your duvet problem.
PS – If you are reading this on a computer screen and sleep on a mattress last night then yes, YOU are “rich” by world standards.
Great bitch – I HATE when this happens. I wake up freezing because the actual duvet is at the foot of the bed and only the cover is covering me.
Lovinglife – WTF??? This board has always been for trivial stuff. Yes, there has been a great tragedy in Haiti, but that doesn’t mean we can’t still bitch about the small stuff.
Think that’s bad? Live in an old house, with your bedroom on the north side of the house. My bedroom is easily 5 (if not more) degrees cooler than the rest of the house. So, I have to have a space heater and 2 blankets, just to keep warm overnight.
yea whatever i live in a van down by the river and sleep on oily rags on broken glass with dead rat carcasses for a pillow and it’s good enough for me; yep i reckon:)
Jennie – i agree, its just a timing thing.
that’s what happens when you buy stupid things.even if they do look cute and cool.get something in one piece and troubles over,tada.
Yeh owning a computer and a mattress are cleary indicators your rich… What an idiotic comment… I’d venture a guess that a lot of people on welfare have both… just because of a natural disater we’re no longer allowed to vent? Gimme a fucking break… And since your so worried about it are your going to haiti to assist with the relief effort? Doubtful…
Wash the cover, spread it out on the bed with the opening at the bottom. Hold tight to the corner of the duvet and keep holding tight as you put it inside the cover, pull it up to the corner you want it to stay in, now hold that same corner on the outside of the duvet, lift then shake the shit out of it. Lay it back down on the bed carefully. Find the other corner of the duvet and repeat on the other side except when you’re about to ‘lift and shake’ hold on to the other corner too. Still slouching in the center? Stuff the bottom corners, do up the buttons or whatever, hold both corners tightly then lift and shake like shit from the bottom this time. Voila. Rocket science.
Instead of going through all the BS posted above…just go buy a Duvet withthe inner fluffly insulation stitched in place.
Mine was made like that & I have no problems…until summer, when I change it out for a lighter one. Because I also have my bedroom on the Northside of my home. It is somewhat cooler than the rest of the house, but the heavy ones too much for summer time.
I personally love only a sheet & the duvet …& lots of pillows.
@lovinglife: I doubt the OP feels that their duvet problems are as dire as the Hatian problems. Most people can put these things in perspective.
Should we only be making bitches about Haiti at the moment? You should complain on every single bitch since the earthquake that their timing is wrong and inform them the proper amount of time to wait before posting non-Haiti related bitches.
P.S. I prefer quilts and fleece blankets.
I turn the cover inside out and reach in and grab the corners of the cover. I then, through the duvet cover, grab the two bottom corners of the duvet and shake it until the cover turns right side out. The two bottom corners of the duvet should be anchored to the two bottom corners of the cover by your hands. Then just pull the top to corners of the duvet to their proper spots, making sure the duvet isn’t twisted, and you should be good. Voila. Brain surgery.
I’m glad to be a man who doesn’t know what the hell anyone’s talking about on this thread… other than the stupid haiti comment(s)
If you hate duvet’s so much, why put up with it?
burn the fucker and (I’m assuming this would fix the problem…) get a comforter or quilt or something? I dunno, stab in the dark.
Logic – you have a very ethnocentric view of what it is to be “rich”. Even the poorest welfare bum in Canada is better off than someone in a thrid world country you stupid asshole. So like i said, you are rich by WOOOOOOOOOOOORLD! standards. Also, it’s you’re not your.
Anyone who has an issue with what I said needs to lighten the fuck up and stop being a humourless asshole.
http://www.globalrichlist.com/
case and point, type in that you make $20K/year and get ready to feel good about your job.
also, I know its monday but lighten the fuck up Pavilion. It was meant to be tongue in cheek.
I love how it tells me that 2400 bucks could educate an entire generation of Angolans, or I could buy an HD TV. I’d rather have the TV. But I do feel good about being in the top 7.9%. Sweeeet.
@lovinglife: If it was meant to be tongue-in-cheek it was humourless epic fail and only showed poor taste, ironically the very thing you were protesting.
Funny, the site is really sarcastic, if you input $10 CAD it’ll tell you you’re the richest person in the world. Assholes!
I should feel good about my job because I make more than that of someone in a 3rd world country? Well I dont… I do feel bad for them and their circumstances but that does not change the fact that if I made 20k/yr around here I would not be rich. Gimme a break… fuck wad…
If you really like the cover, it could be quilted down to the rest of the blanket. But of course you’d lose the reason most people have duvets with covers, which is so they can remove and wash them.
Like i said Logic, Thats an ethnocentric view of what “wealth” is. That website isn’t about feeling bad for other people, its about perspective.
Dr. Fever – yeah the figures on that website are kinda dated, either that of they are using Kijiji prices as their guide for second hand HDTV’s 😉 Thats funny about the 10$/year. I never thought to try that.
I used to live in an old ass house in buttfuck, ns, Dr. F, with NO HEATER IN MY ROOM because it was an old funeral home and they did the embalming in my room. Plus the house was insulated with birch bark (nobody light a match!)….needless to say I froze my fucking ass off so badly for so long I got used to it and now I can’t sleep without a fan because my body temp automatically rises when I sleep to compensate. Ugh.
I didn’t even know what a duvet was until I pieced it together from this bitch. Haven’t you heard of a blanket? They’re relatively cheap you know.
real men love duvets(goose down only) and quiche and synchronized swimming and long walks on the beach!:)
body heat baby…thats the ticket…man or beast
real FLAMING men love duvets(goose down only) and quiche and synchronized swimming and long walks on the beach!:)
your sooo butch fella:)
that site is fucking hilarious people, check it out.
Kay you have it mostly right, except…turn the duvet cover inside out and then place 2 corners of the duvet into the corners of the cover and shake. This can be quite a challenge with a king, one really needs a grand staircase to execute this procedure Then place the remaining 2 corner squarly into the coverlet. If one has a large, king, queen, you will need more than four tapes. Up to 12 for a king and queen.
Another solution is to buy a duvet with flannel ticking…flannel tends to grab cotton better. If your into that silky, shiny shit…your outta luck… or better yet you could save yourself a mattress, for that’s exactly where you’ll be in the morn, on the floor.
Sweet dreams:)
I solved the duvet problem by making a cozy flannel-lined quilt.
Ya know,
I always *wanted* to love the duvet, but it never worked out for me—that whole “bunching” problem, plus finding just the right weight is difficult.
But thanks to the handy tips posted here, I am going to try again.
: )
Settling in for a nice evening of coziness . . . . ah!
martym, I must admit though, I don’t mind a good quiche….
so I suppose we’re all a little flaming.
🙂