<p>Has anyone found a mattress pad in twin extra long? We bought a foam topper but I think I want to return it.
BTW- S said only one set of sheets.</p>
<p>BB&B has oodles from the basic “hold everything on the mattress” pad to “pillow top” pad. They also have fiberbeds/feathebeds in extra long.</p>
<p>If BBB is out of stock, try Sears - we picked our mattress pad and foamy cushioned pad (not technically an egg crate) up there in XL Twin.</p>
<p>Another option to the two sets of sheet dilemma - one set of sheets and a bottle of Febreze spray. Girls won’t go for that, but guys think its a great idea. At least it’ll give them a couple more days of non-stinky sleeping – until they figure out crusty and dirty don’t go away with spraying. Febreze also helps in the closets - to a point. Stinky shoes and hampers. Can you tell I have a boy?</p>
<p>I managed for two years with only one set of sheets (that’s what happens when you move in in November! Tried BBB, Linen’s and Things, and a few other places and only managed to cull ONE set of x-long sheets in a bearable color! And once I’d been doing fine with one set for a semester, getting another wasn’t a high priority). And yes, I did wash them 
I’d pop them in once every month or two when I had room with all my other laundry and just leave the bed naked while they were in the wash.</p>
<p>Now I’m a little older and maybe want to change my sheets more than that (particularly when the girlfriend visits… she’s more fastidious than the person I dated freshman and sophomore years. Ah, motivation!), so I’ve got two sets. Much easier. Get two–worst scenario, the kid doesn’t need them and they come home at the end of the year untouched. Best case scenario, the extra set saves your butt when someone spills something.</p>
<p>2 sets. Optimism is a good thing, right? </p>
<p>As for space: have you tried the cheap version of those vacuum bags? Fold the sheets neatly; put them into a 2 gallon zip-top bag; close the top most of the way; sit on the bag to squish the air out, and while sitting on it, zip it the rest of the way. You’ll probably need one bag for each set, but each bag will end up about 2 inches thick.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the great ideas! I think I’ll put the $20 in a ziplock bag with a SSA postcard in case it goes through the wash (I’m being very optimistic that he’ell occasionally launder).</p>
<p>mafool: i save those plastic zip bags the sheets come in and do pretty much the same thing, unless its packed to the max. Keeps everything together very well. I’m gonna get my mom to show me how to do reverse-suck on the vacuum to get an even better job done. I laugh at the people who go out and buy an actual vacuum packing set.</p>
<p>Not to be too explicit here, but at a certain point in the development of a highly personal relationship, the possession of a second set of sheets might become desirable.</p>
<p>If you know what I mean.</p>
<p>In the aforementioned circumstances, though, I expect that the student would likely purchase the sheets online or at a local store with the ever-so-convenient debit card that comes with the standard student checking account, and that I would never hear about it.</p>
<p>Marian: LOL. That’s just what I was going to say! My freshman son has a single! </p>
<p>I sent D with two; they did get used.</p>
<p>I am also making sire S has 14 of anything vital so laundry does not need to be done more often than once every two weeks. I prefer expense to thinking he is rewearing things. But maybe that’s just my S. didn’t have this concern with D.</p>
<p>Marian and mythmom</p>
<p>Save the second set, they can (will) just use the girl’s room.</p>
<p>oH no 07DAD! Say it ain’t so! Not my baby boy! hahahahahaha</p>
<p>I sent my S w/2 and he rotated them as he felt - his bedsheets never actually matched. D changed hers once the entire semester. GROSS. Now, I buy two but check out the storage space in their rooms. If they can’t ditch 'em under the bed, top shelf, whatever, they’ll more than likely come home with just what was on their beds.</p>
<p>07DAD: Uh oh. Already bought the sheets. Now wouldn’t they make a lovely gift instead of the traditionals? I once got a box of Fig Newtons from a swain. He did graciously tell me they were meant for some one else.</p>
<p>mythmom</p>
<p>THAT’s thinking like a guy. Gift HER with the second set of sheets. Then son gets the upside of giving a gift AND clean sheets without having to make the bed.</p>
<p>I’m so pleased to finally “get it” 07DAD. Thanks so much for the “liberal education.”</p>
<p>In my experience, the need for a second set of sheets has less to do with the gender of the owner than with whether the room is a single or double.</p>
<p>But perhaps we are getting too explicit here.</p>
<p>(I am trying to think like a guy, 07dad – a guy who knows that my daughter has a single room.)</p>
<p>Am I naive to think that I’ll be motivated to wash and iron my sheets every two weeks?</p>
<p>(Probably, but it’s a lovely thought, isn’t it?)</p>
<p>Edited to add: And I’m glad my parents don’t think like Marian, mythmom, and 07DAD, otherwise they probably wouldn’t have let me ask for a single. :eek:</p>
<p>Iron?! Iron sheets?</p>
<p>I mean, if you want to, but… why? :)</p>
<p>Because then they’re all crisp and feel much cleaner, and also because I’m used to it (I am so spoiled).</p>
<p>Haha. Clearly, I’ve been missing out… I’m perfectly happy with just the feeling of clean sheets. Which does get a little addictive. I probably wash my sheets more often these days just because it’s such a nice thing after a long, busy day to get into a perfectly clean bed; when I didn’t change them as frequently, I didn’t really notice what a difference it made.</p>