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Benedict Arnold

Do you use a top sheet? What's the reason you do or don't?

I recently learned this is a controversial subject.

Posted - February 12
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  • 12085

    I do use a top sheet. And the reason is because my sheets are flannel sheets – and it feels pretty good to be sandwiched between flannel. Cheers!

      February 12, 2025 9:50 AM MST
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  • That's very Canadian of you!
      February 12, 2025 10:56 AM MST
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  • 8315
    Flannel sheets,? why haven't I thought of this before.  Drats
      February 12, 2025 4:12 PM MST
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  • 44802
    I do not. I have a throw/blanket. It's all I use. It looks like this:

    This post was edited by Element 99 at February 14, 2025 6:53 AM MST
      February 12, 2025 11:52 AM MST
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  • 53836

     

      What a coincidence; I have a US Marine Corps blanket.
      ~

      February 14, 2025 6:54 AM MST
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  • 4935
    I do not.  My mom never used them and when I moved into my own apartment, I just continued along the same path.   
      February 12, 2025 11:54 AM MST
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  • Probably the same reason I always used one. But after a couple older people I know had bad falls after getting tangled up in a top sheet, I re-thought it. Since I use a duvet cover and wash it when I wash the sheets, it seemed superfluous to me. Much easier to make the bed too.
      February 12, 2025 3:22 PM MST
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  • 4935
    Same here.  
      February 13, 2025 9:01 AM MST
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  • 10940
    Sure!  Along with several blankets and several throws (I hate being cold and can't afford heat).  In the summer I only use a top sheet (even at 110+ degrees it helps regulate the heat).
      February 12, 2025 12:48 PM MST
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  • 35808
    Only in the summer, if I am hot. 
    Otherwise,  no I use one cover. I do not like layers. 
      February 12, 2025 1:31 PM MST
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  • 8315
    Same here. 
      February 12, 2025 4:11 PM MST
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  • 8315
    No, it always ends up bunched up at the bottom end of the bed.  I have a nice warm, soft blanket I use. 
      February 12, 2025 4:10 PM MST
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  • 17759
    I use a top sheet except for the warmest months.  I rarely have to put a blanket on my bed outside of a couple of weeks of really cool weather.  During that time I love leaving the windows open for those night time 50s.  The blanket I use is a thin open weave cotton blanket.....very light weight.
      February 12, 2025 4:52 PM MST
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  • 17319
    I don't. In winter, the duvet cover suffices - just change it weekly like I do the bottom sheet. In summer I like the air to circulate around me - the temperature was still 98F at 2am this morning, after 113 in the daytime yesterday. I don't want anything on me in that.
      February 12, 2025 5:35 PM MST
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  • 53836

     

      Yes!
      (What’s the controversy? Is it juicy?)
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      February 14, 2025 6:51 AM MST
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  • Some people think it is unhygienic to go without a top sheet to serve as a protective layer between your body and any additional bed covers.

    Supposedly, Gen Z began the trend of discontinuing the use of top sheets. But answers in this discussion seem to indicate that they aren't the only ones.
      February 14, 2025 7:33 AM MST
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