How Many Are On Your Bed?

15 years ago

How many covers are on your bed at night during winter?

I just have one comforter and no top sheet, sleep with my door closed and no heat on. How about you?

Sue

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monica_pa Grieves
15 years ago
Top sheet and down comforter.
hgl_gaylemarie
15 years ago
Top sheet & a nice fluffy Comforter. Plus, the warmth of 3 critters.
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nanaofmany08
15 years ago
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patti43
15 years ago
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glenda_al
15 years ago
same as above :o)
schoolhouse_gw
15 years ago
I thought sure this was going to be about pillows.

I use a top sheet, alternative down comforter blanket, and then a wool filled comforter. The last comforter usually towards morning or when the temps are in single digits. I have a very small furnace register in a room with a 14' ceiling and it gives off all the heat I need or want. I'm used to sleeping in the room when it had no heat at all except that which flowed in from the other parts of the house.
ravencajun Zone 8b TX
15 years ago
in the colder months I usually put on flannel sheets so would have the flannel top sheet (and bottom) and a light weight down comforter, I have a ceiling fan on and a small personal fan that blows just on me, I like a bit of a chill in the air. Doors are open, and one tiny dog that loves to cuddle.
kayjones
15 years ago
I have the following on my bed:

bottom sheet
top sheet
electric blanket (turned off when I crawl in)
decorative comforter

It the above order - very toasty, indeed!
lydia1959
15 years ago
Top sheet, a thin cotton blanket, then a thin quilt topped with a comforter. Our bedroom can get down in the 60's at night during the winter. In the summer we use a top sheet and the comforter.
susie53_gw
15 years ago
Top sheet, flannel blanket and comforter. Our blanket is flannel on one side and weave on the other. In the winter it is on the flannel side, in the summer we flip it over. Perfect...
kacram
15 years ago
top sheet
2 very light weight cotton thermal blankies

DH has a quilt over him.

household thermostat set on 63
User
15 years ago
Let's see. Flannel sheets, wool blanket, old thinning comforter and a newer comforter.

Hey, it's -37C tonight with the wind. We keep our bedroom cool and I hibernate.

Divine.
oldgardener_2009
15 years ago
On my side of the bed, I have:
top sheet
two cotton blankets
two fleece blankets

If I get cold, I pull DH's big fluffy comforter on top of me, but it's too warm for me most of the time.
gadgets
15 years ago
Schoolhouse thought this was going to be about pillows, and I thought it was going to be about dogs. lol

Top sheet and down comforter (year round), and a heavy afghan added on top during colder months.

Shirley
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15 years ago
top sheet
electric blanket
2 thin throws sewn together (since it hurts to lift the comforter with my shoulder problem)
Marilyn Sue
Original Author
15 years ago
I only have a one dog night on my bed and then she isn't always on the bed. Sometimes she is on her pallet on the cedar chest under the window or on the floor.

Sue
bigfoot_liz
15 years ago
top sheet - 6oz flannel
broken electric blanket LOL dog just chewed cord!
polar fleece Hello Kitty queen sized blanket on my side
cotton blaket
serasoft fleece blanket

i like to be very warm LOL. even thou i'm in orlando i use all of those blankets, except the electric one, year round. i also run the ceiling fan on high or my dog Sandy pants LOL - liz
chisue
15 years ago
Bottom to top:

Extra-long twin foundation.

Extra-long twin mattress, firm.

(Two Extra-long twins make a European King.)

Electric blanket, twin. (Dates to the 1970's.)

One-inch foam mattress topper, king.

King mattress pad.

King bottom sheet.

ME!

King top sheet.

King blanket, lightweight woven acrylic.

King down comforter.

Westie footwarmer. (Starts in his own bed on bench, but...)

Our BR door is closed and one window open a crack unless it is well below freezing. House thermostat at 64F.

Here on Maui it's just a top sheet with one woven acrylic blanket towards morning. We may have the ceiling fan on when we go to bed. Jalousies and sliders open a crack.
Tigerlil
15 years ago
Top sheet,thin quilt/spread and a light weight polar fleece type blanket at the end so my feet don't get cold but most of the time one foot is out from under the covers.Door closed,no heat (heat vent is covered) and most of the time I have the window cracked about 2 inches.
hallngarden
15 years ago
top sheet and a down comforter
lynn_d
15 years ago
electric mattress pad, sheet and fairly heavy cotton blanket. Oh and 2 or 3 cats.
jackie643
15 years ago
Flannel sheets,and a fleece blanket.
User
15 years ago
Top sheet (400 thread count, super duper love it sheets), a down filled comforter that's inside a cover plus a thick blanket. Oh, and a crocheted afghan. For me, it's not enough. But I'm being a good wife because my husband would prefer just the down filled blanket. It's not that I get cold. I don't. But I need that weight. Yeah, I'm weird like that. I have just as many blankets on the bed in the summer. We sleep with the windows open. When I wake up, my husband is sleeping on top of the blankets and I'm curled up and cozy as anything under all my blankets.
peoniesandposies
15 years ago
We keep our house at 58 degrees overnight. I use
top sheet
fuzzy microfiber blanket
matelasse quilt on top

Only if I'm really cold when I go to bed, I'll add a fleece throw over the foot area. (It takes me forever to warm up at night). When my husband is home (he travels a lot for his job), I often wake up in the night overheated. I tease him about all the BTUs that he gives off.
workoutlady
15 years ago
Top sheet and thin quilt. DH's side has the quilt and a blanket and heating blanket. Can you tell I'm starting menopause? During the summer I was getting hot flashes but I'm not right now. I think it's because of the winter so I keep myself cool with very little on top of me.
wildchild
15 years ago
Top sheet, fleece blanket and a down alternative blanket. Old sheet over everything to keep dog hair at bay.

I switched from comforters to fleece blankets, down alternative blankets and quilts because they are easier to launder.
User
15 years ago
I have never had heat in my bedroom since I moved here and most of the year(not now) have the windows open. I have an old 1830 rope bed. Bottom sheet , top sheet, wool blanket , comforter, and a down comforter on top.
linda_in_iowa
15 years ago
I keep the heating vent to my bedroom closed. The adjoining room gets heat and my door is open to that room. Thermostat set at 63 at night, 66 during the day. I have an electric mattress pad and don't turn on the side I sleep on. My feet have to be warm so they are on the heated side. I have a medium weight cotton blanket, light weight fleece blanket and a comforter over my feet. When my feet are warm, I am warm. Even in below zero weather I stay warm enough.
bulldinkie
15 years ago
Im with you no heat,I have a soft fuzzy blanket another blanket, a a medium quilt.
jannie
15 years ago
One blanket and one quilt. i no longer use top sheets.
bengardening
15 years ago
and I thought it was going to be about bed bugs
nancylee_ky
15 years ago
electric mattress pad, top & bottom sheets, medium weight blanket, alternative down blanket and 2 cats at my feet. In the summer, I turn off the heated mattress pad and only use the alternative down blanket. The cats stay!
joyfulguy
15 years ago
None o' your dang business ... "how many are on my bed?"!

Actually ... a sleeping bag, with sheet inside, and a fleecy coverlet over my torso when it's extra cold.

Hi scissors,

When men undergo a mid-life crisis ...

...do they call it "womenopause"?

ole joyful
bekind
15 years ago
Question about down comforters...I noticed many above just put top sheet and down comforter, no blanket in between...I bought my first down comforter, a three season, I'm in CT, and figured for winter I could use a blanket for extra warmth...do I buy an afghan throw to put on top of the down or do I buy a blanket to put in between down and top sheet? Not sure which way would most effectively trap heat. I put an old blanket from another set in between and it didn't make a difference in warmth, just weight. TIA
minnie_tx
15 years ago
Until I got another electric blanket just a thin blanket and a heating pad

I took back the electric blanket I had, the controls started flashing and wouldn't stop.
sue_va
15 years ago
Bottom and top sheet, comforter, and in winter I sleep in flannel pajamas. Heat vent closed in the bedroom.

A few years ago I was given Egyptian cotton sheets at Christmas and now I use them winter and summer and I don't need anything extra. In the summer I don't use the comforter at night. I have flannel, knit and some other kinds of sheets which I never use any more.

Don't know what it is about the Egyptian cotton sheets, but I'm very warm with them, and I am very cold natured.

Sue
User
15 years ago
sheet and one heavy quilt.
nan_nc
15 years ago
Bottom sheet, top sheet, quilt (my mom's), cotton thermal blanket, fuzzy cuddly cat.

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