That's a funny story. Kudos to your husband for his perseverance.

Hilarious!

I actually have my first duvet ever. I wasn't too sure about it but I really do like it. I was worried about the insert moving around but it's fine even without being tied to the inside corners of the duvet. The duvet was from Ikea and the down blend comforter I use with it is from Target. Both were very inexpensive just in case it didn't work out for me using a duvet.

So funny. Maybe he will have a better appreciation for one of the tasks that get magically performed around the house. Not by him of course.

This is why I use a sheet under the comforter and don't wash the cover nearly often enough. I spent a year in Switzerland and we had to put our comforter (or "pouf" as we called them ) covers and bottom sheets in the laundry every week. What a pain. Even now that I know the "burrito method", it's still a pain.

ROFL!

I feel your husband's pain. I have tried the duvet route...never again. They are banished from my house.

I'm glad he didn't let it beat him!

My SO said the same thing when tasked with putting on a duvet cover for the first time. "Can't be done properly" was his response after a few minutes. I learned him though! Love me some duvets!

Less complicated than sheet, blanket, top sheet, tucked in, folded, ...

Rather wrestle with a duvet cover during the day than with a a bunch of sheets in the dark while asleep.

I'm with SueB.....ties or not, they are still a PITA and always look lumpy and bumpy... i.e. messy. I have two in spare bedrooms but if we move or redecorate they will be history.

That's funny!

All our beds are linen sheets and duvet covered. We have summer and winter comforter inserts. I like the "lumpy bumpy" look I guess. Super comfy IMHO.

I have lived in FL all my life and I don't even know what a duvet or duvet cover is. We use a quilt in the winter and a quilt with no batting in the summer for our bedspread.

Donna

With regards to keeping the comforters in place, I just use big safety pins on the bottom corners and in the middle.

I think it's what you're used to.

Here is a video on how to do it: Duvet Cover Roll

Our down duvet sometimes gets bunched up inside of the duvet cover precisely because it does not have those ties on the ends. Either I or the housekeeper fixes it. This year, the housekeeper wasn't there for a week while I was in FL and DH was in PA. He contacted me, very confused, about what to do about the bunched up cover. The concept of holding it in the corners and shaking it so it redistributes was apparently a difficult one. Who knew.

Also, when I first got Molly puppy and she was like 12 weeks old, she crawled inside of the duvet cover because she thought it looked very cozy. She was quite concerned when she could not find her way out!

My son was gifted one, hand-me-down from an allergic cousin before he was old enough to understand the true worth of such a gift. As he got older he became a tish obsessive about laundry so I know it was cleaned REGULARLY. He took it to college, he took it to his first apartments...one cover after another was worn out, replaced..all by him. Never once did he ask for or need assistance. Now DD#1 has one too. I wonder if she will do as well.

I have enjoyed reading everyone's duvet cover anecdotes. Somewhere in this is a youtube channel or an America's Funniest Home Videos special.

When my kids moved into their first apartments I gave them alternative down comforters and duvets of their choosing. It never occurred to me that they might not understand the concept. It's just a big pillowcase and they had been changing their sheets weekly for years while at home and I know they had seen me remove the duvets.

DS # 2 took his to the local laundromat and washed them - without removing the cover. I should have been more alert - he was the kid who called from college and said "Remember how you told me to separate my laundry by colors? - Well they still come out clean if you don't - they just don't look it."