<p>I am ready for the annual sheet discussion. I have read that some people purchase full sized comforters for the dorm’s extra long twin beds. Do students find that this helpful, or do they tend to drag on the floor? I am sure it would depend upon whether the bed is raised or not. Any help would be appreciated. Also, do the extra long sheets that BBB sells usually fit? Should the comforter ideally be extra long as well?</p>
<p>Northeastmom:</p>
<p>S inherited his brother’s Xlong twin sheets. S1 was the chilly type and got a comforter. Regular twin size was fine. I have not read of XL comforters. S2, not the chilly type, only used a regular blanket. Oh, and both occcupied top bunks, so bigger comforters or blankets would have been claustrophobic for their roommates.</p>
<p>here is a good site: <a href=“http://www.rhl.org…they%5B/url%5D”>www.rhl.org…they</a> make linens for colleges. they guarantee that they will fit and will be fine for all 4 years of college. my college provided me this link to order my linens. they deliver it rite to ur house as well. i hope this helps. they have good deals…check it out.</p>
<p>Double check that your S/D will, in fact, need the twin XL. S was in two different schools due to Katrina - XL for one, regular for the other. And at the “regular” school, other dorms were XL. Wait for room assignment if the school’s beds are not all the same. Comforter size is a personal choice, I think. But S was happy with the regular twin size. Of course, he didn’t even care about the cushiness-factor of his mattress pad (about which almost whole threads take place here on cc 
). At his Katrina school, I apologized profusely to him for having to tmporarily make due with an old mattress pad we had around the house - barely stretched to cover his twin XL dorm bed. I was about to run out and buy <em>new improved</em>. But he ditched the idea. So don’t over-coddle - some of them could care less.</p>
<p>I got 2 sets of XL at BB&B - one jersey, one regular. They both fit and he liked them both fine.</p>
<p>BB&B and Linens & Things both have XL sheets, mattress covers (which I highly recommend!) and mattress toppers (makes the mattress a little thicker, and much better than the egg crate toppers that are banned at some schools, plus give off noxious fumes if they catch fire, God forbid). Some mattress covers have “built-in” top thickness, so serve a double purpose–that’s what we have gotten. Both D and S1 used regular twin comforters–just fine. We did not use the college linen ordering that you can link to in post #3 because I found it much cheaper to shop around and get exactly what they needed/wanted in the right colors/prints for them.</p>
<p>My daughter had the cushiest bed on the floor, which was really nice in the NH winter. She had the arrangement that kids get a full sized comforter for - a bed that was “low-lofted”, the bed frame had notches that went all the way to the top of the frame, which allowed the bed to be raised almost 3 feet off the floor, but not truly lofted. She had a set of shelves and her frig under the bed. She talked about getting a double comforter that would hang down, and hide the frig, but after awhile realized that she used that space a lot, and it would be annoying to have to move the comforter out of the way to access the frig or the storage bins.
I would say wait as long as possible to buy anything out of the ordinary - like a double comforter, a futon, a frig, an office chair, or storage containers - unless you can get highly accurate measurements of the space. For storage bins and shelves (like Yaffi blocks or those plastic sets of drawers), you need exact measurements to utilize the space effectively.</p>
<p>Bought some XL sheets at Target and ordered some from BB&B later. The twin comforter was the same one my son used at his summer camp for 4 years. It is still going. I got 3 sets of sheets and I wonder if 2 sets ever came out of the wrapping. Have no idea. Again, ordered more things at Christmas break…rugs, storage stuff. He went with very little at first. That seemed to work fine but his roommate was a local boy and he had all the extras like fridge.</p>
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<p>I just purchased this comforter in navy for my son. It comes in extra long and is washable (it’s not too big and bulky–fits fine in the machine) and extremely soft. The price is right, too.</p>
<p>Amazon’s Friday sale has had Twin XL flannel sheet sets for $8.99 lately. Waiting to find out roommate and room assignment before getting comforter or other items.</p>
<p>I’m seeing something more and more often with kids - they don’t sleep with the top sheet on! (Admittedly it’s only boys I’ve seen this in.) They use the fitted sheet and their comforter - and that’s it!</p>
<p>I’m not crazy about it - so I just bought my son a new comforter (kept his college one that was new last fall for home), comforter cover and a matching fitted sheet (from CompanyStore.com - they have great stuff). I bought everything (comforter included) in an extra-long twin.</p>
<p>“I’m seeing something more and more often with kids - they don’t sleep with the top sheet on!”</p>
<p>And I thought my son was the only weird one doing this. By second semester he brought his top sheets home as they were only taking up space. Down side to this practice is that he washed comforter weekly–not sure if its going to make it through another year!</p>
<p>I should go out and look for a cover too and he could just wash that! Thanks, I hadn’t thought of that.</p>
<p>Okay, thank you all for the wonderful advice. I had the same info mailed to me as in post #3. I have a gift certificate from BBB, but I like what I saw at TheCompanyStore, as well as Target. Fireflyscout, I already bought the flannel sheets – Could not resist for 8.99! They are very nice BTW. I want some nonflannel cotton for the early fall, and a light blanket to start out the year. BTW, my S does not sleep with a top sheet either, unless he is so hot that he will use the top sheet instead of a blanket. That could happen if he is in a dorm that does not have A/C. Some have AC and some do not. I already know that my son’s dorm room will require the XL sheets. The school mailed that info to us along with the brochure from Rhl.</p>
<p>In Europe they don’t use top sheets - only duvet (covered.) It drives us crazy. You’re either too cold or too hot most of the time. Couldn’t wait for my own stuff to arrive after 6 weeks in a hotel. My Swiss cousin came to stay with us, and it was clear when she was making her bed that she had no idea what to do with the top sheet! When they make their beds, they just fold the duvet in half a lay it across the top. Beds are low to the ground, and comforters and such would hang too low. Duvets are one size. A double bed gets two duvets.</p>
<p>So maybe these college kids are just being European. :)</p>
<p>I get my kids to use a top sheet as well as a duvet cover. It’s far more of a hassle put the duvet into and out of the cover. This ways, they can wash the top sheet on a regular basis, and only wash the duvet cover at the end of the season.</p>
<p>I know in my heart that the duvet cover will not be washed all semester. It’s a sorry state of affairs…</p>
<p>Weenie, I know that my son would not bother washing a duvet either. He would wash a light comforter, so that is what I will buy for him. Laundry in general will be interesting. At home he can go through 3 outfits a day, showering a twice/day and then putting 2 bath towels/ day into the hamper. I told him that his habits will need to change drastically at college!
I had him doing his own laundry for 3/4 of the year at home, and his habits have not changed, but using laundromat machines will change this situation!</p>
<p>Jersey sheets! Jersey sheets! I could not possibly love these more or recommend them more highly!!!</p>
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