<p>Here at home, D sleeps with a comforter with a removable cover. She always kicks off her top sheet the first night after the bed is made, and it stays on the floor, so she doesn’t really use the top sheet at all.</p>
<p>Do any of your kids use just a bottom sheet and comforter at college? Does it work well? I’d assume that a comforter insert with a washable cover is preferable to a (cheaper!!!) all-in-one comforter. That sounds like it wouldn’t get washed often = gross. So much cheaper, though!</p>
<p>Also, does anyone have good sources for inexpensive “a la carte” sheets, rather than sheet sets? Seems a pity to pay for a set and not use the top sheet!</p>
<p>My daughter uses a duvet cover(full/queen on a twin XL) with a down blanket inside when it is warmer and the duvet with down comforter inside and down blanket when it is colder. She has top sheets, but does the same as your daughter, so I don’t think she uses the top sheet at school. I bought her sheets several years ago at Macy’s.</p>
<p>I bought a light to mid weight, inexpensive “jersey” cotton style comforter at BBB and slept with that and a top sheet, because I like a top sheet. You don’t have to have a top sheet if you don’t want to. I don’t think I would bother buying one if she doesn’t like to sleep with one. I liked this because it was easy to wash and lightweight enough when it was warmer. I added a fleece blanket over top if it got really cold.</p>
<p>I’d never heard of a duvet until recently. I bought one with a cover for my bed at my parents house because I couldn’t find a comforter I liked. I liked it, but found it less convenient than a comforter. I’d probably never buy one again unless I couldn’t find a comforter I like… I’d rather just wash the comforter than put a duvet cover on and off. It’s really not difficult to wash a twin or full sized comforter, even in a dorm washer in my experience.</p>
<p>My D has a duvet from Ikea (reasonably priced), mid weight, and I made her a duvet cover sewing two XL sheets together. Inexpensive XL sheets can be found at Walmart and are sold separately. She also has some from Target but they were a little pricier.</p>
<p>Sheet with comforter is what my son does. His came from company store. The twin XL will be available at any places in time for college buying. If you keep an eye out, Macy’s sometimes has great sales.</p>
<p>We have three sets of sheets and we change them frequently, but we don’t wash them as frequently as we change them… you do the math. If you get stuck having to buy a set, we’ve tucked a top sheet around the mattress like a fitted sheet dozens of times and forgotten it was a flat sheet. Nice to have a spare for laundry emergencies! :P</p>
<p>I personally think taking a duvet cover off and on to wash is much more of a PITA than washing a sheet. My kids had regular comforters that they washed, and sheets.</p>
<p>When my daughter went off to college she just pulled the bedding off from her bed at home and shoved it into her suitcase, and off she went. So I’m not sure why you would expect your daughter’s sleeping habits to change at college – she should go with whatever bedding she prefers. </p>
Yes, this. Buy two sets of sheets. Sew the top ones together into a duvet cover. Wash the pillowcases and one bottom sheet one week, the whole set the next. Really, flipping the duvet cover core the comforter takes three minutes. </p>
<p>I still never use top sheets. Bottom sheet for me (we got them from Amazon at the time) and then a few fuzzy throw blankets. The dorms were I was were HOT in the middle of the winter. </p>
<p>Duvet covers are a PITA imo. The fuzzy blankets were easy to wash because they were much smaller than comforters. </p>
<p>I x-posted with you (got distracted by the game… oy!) </p>
<p>Another suggestion that just occurred to me: I would wait until you know where your D is going for sure and ask current students about the dorms. I’m in a coldweather place and our dorms always had the heat cranked WAY up. OTOH, I have friends at other colleges in the same climate who had freezing cold dorms. I’d definitely get a comforter if the dorm was cold. </p>
<p>Yes, great advice. I recommended to her yesterday that -once she knows where she’s going- she ask some current students what the dorm temps are like in winter. Maybe even wait until she knows what actual dorm building she’s in, since they vary so much in older New England colleges??? (When DO they get dorm assignments, anyone know?)</p>
<p>When you sew the sheets together, is it. big enough for the XL comforter? Is it a tight squeeze? Also, how do you fasten the top? Do you make button holes?</p>
<p>When do they get dorm assignments? Mine went to an older college in NE and knew where she would live about a month before the move in day, I think. She never ever bothered with duvet covers - inherited this dislike from her mom. - and only used a sheet plus a washable comforter plus a micro fleece blanket. </p>
- and only used a sheet plus a washable comforter plus a micro fleece blanket. </p>