Under the Covers - Round 2 - Tucked or Flapping in the Breeze?

This topic makes me sad... :( I ALWAYS tuck the sheets in and do hospital corners. "Then what happens," you may ask. Why, then my husband gets in bed and on his side INTENTIONALLY untucks it.... AAAHHHHH!!! THE SYMMETRY IS GONE!!! As a result of his un-tucking (combined with the fact that he rolls around like an alligator trying to drown its prey) my side eventually becomes untucked and I CANNOT sleep like that... So, every few nights I end up having to fix my side (and his if he's not there yet!)

I do "hospital" corners, as you put it. I know how to do it all fancy, too, and I love the look and feel of it. :) I guess I'm civilized!! Lol.

We tuck at the bottom. I don't like the sheets/blankets to feel loose. And hubs steals the blankets.

I haven't been on here much lately... Where's the top sheet Q? Soooo not finding it! (Watch it be 3 Q's down and I'm blind).
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I'm ex-military. I CAN 90 degree corner fold both top and bottom.

I don't.

I have a fitted bottom sheet.
I have a duvet wrapped down comforter, 2 actually.
That I curl up in and is never tucked in.

In the morning I just loft the comforter and Voila! Finìs.

Both get washed once a week.

My feet always poke out.

((BTW... In the military we often slept on TOP of our bedding (in sweats) to keep from messing up the bedding. Reveille. Up. Out the door for formation to run in 30 seconds. We DID have to remake those sheets once a week when we washed them. And weekends were extra awesome for getting to sleep INSIDE our beds. So PERSONALLY I'm thrilled I can sleep inside my bed, loft the comforter, and be walking downstairs in 40 seconds instead of 30.))

LONG LIVE HOSPITAL CORNERS!!! I think of my mom and grandma every time I put fresh sheets and blankets on the bed. I taught my BFF about the corners the other day!!

Sheets and blankets are tucked in. They come undone on my husband's side, but who cares? As long as my side stays tucked, life is good!

I didn't answer your previous question, but we are a top sheet family here!

Tucked, with hospital corners, and the top sheet folded down six inches over the blankets and comforter at the top. My mom was a stickler for a properly made bed, then I spent seven years in air cadets as a teen. At air cadet camp if you didn't make your bed properly you had to do push ups. My husband also needs the bed to be made, or he can't sleep.

If my husband had his way... They would be tucked in.

I can't sleep like that. I need the blankets bunched up around me so I can twist and turn and (as mu husband puts it) do the blanket death roll... Which is essential like the crocodile death roll except I use my body to wrap the blankets around me repeatedly. Then my husband wakes up freezing and mad, unwraps the blankets in a sleepy mad state, and goes back to bed. In my defense I do not realize I am doing it. Again, this is why we have started sleeping with different blankets

We tuck in the sheet or blanket that is closest to our bodies using hospital corners when we make the bed. Half the blankets get tucked using hospital corners. The other half and the quilt are tucked only into the end of the bed. Our bed is sleigh style, so no choice but to tuck. My side stays tucked at the feet, unless my husband pulls them off of me in the middle of the night. His side almost always needs to be retucked in the morning. My side stays tucked provided my husband doesn't steal the covers. On very cold nights, I've woken up with almost all the covers laying on the floor on my husband's side. Then he has the blanket closest to our bodies wrapped around him like a sardine. It is a mystery how he does this. When spring arrives, he does the opposite and I get his half of the blankets thrown on me. I wake up feeling cooked. So, that would be a yes to tucking.

No tucking at my house. No top sheets and no tucking. Call us heathens.

tucked, how does anyone sleep with sheets untucked at the bottom? I'd have to completely remake my bed every morning, the bottom of my sheet would be at the top or side of the bed. in the summer I sleep with my right leg stuck out the side and on top so untucking the bottom is not necessary to stick feet out.
Do people that sleep with them untucked sleep stone still?

I can't stand tucked blankets. I like to be able to pull my feet out at night. When I sleep somewhere with tucked sheets (hotel, hospital, in-laws), the first thing I do when I get in bed is pull all the blankets from being tucked.

i just can't figure out hospital corners!
but i do tuck the sheets. i get how uncomfortable it is to have one's feet constricted, and i do loosen 'em up when i get in so my piggies can flop around at will, but i don't get making the bed and NOT tucking things in neatly.
when i was a single young 'un i was totally in the camp of 'why make it? i'm just going to mess it up again.' but then i lived with a fellow who absolutely could not sleep unless he climbed into a smoothly-made bed, and out of consideration for him i got in the habit. and it stuck. now it feels so nice to me that i could never go back to the rumpled way, even to the point of NOT tucking my sheets.
no flapping here!
:) khairete
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Nope, tucked in here. Of course I am a nurse and those hospital corners are habit!

I am from northern Europe where most people each have their own personal down comforter that is not tucked in but your sort of roll yourself into it like a burrito when cold, or lay it half over you when it is warmer (although we sleep with the windows open most nights so it is cold in the bedroom). Hotels also have a comforter per person on the beds there. We also do not "make" the bed but just open the comforter over the foot end or over the balcony outside to air out the bed. I do not understand the American need for immediately closed and tucked beds right after getting up, I prefer to air out my bed and get back into a clean smelling cool bed at night.

Amusing post writing - made me smile.

my sheets and blankets are tucked in at the bottom (hospital corners) and stay that way. They are also tucked in around the edges when I make the bed, but those come out when we go to sleep, or I wouldn't be able to kick my feet out. My bedspread is untucked completely.

Tucked top sheet for sure!

Untucked quilt and blanket....the husband requires ability to throw off covers onto me or the middle of the bed. Freak!

Oh, I can't sleep with the sheets tucked in. I have to have the sheets tucked around my feet. So no hospital corners in my house.

I'm cracking up! You are too funny :) Glad to see you have electricity and are doing well out there in NJ.

My husband and I are opposite. He likes just a comforter that he wraps himself up in like a burrito, with feet sticking out the end. Ugh! Even when it's cold here in Chicago. I can't stand it.

I, on the other hand, like a neat bed - with the sheet firmly tucked in and a blanket or two over it. I don't like my feet to hang out because they get so cold. If for some reason the sheet becomes untucked and my feet are exposed, I will wake up and have to fix the problem immediately.

Plus, I hate when he is lying on top of my sheets (makes me feel closterphobic) so half my bed is made nicely and the other half is a pile of comforter.

Okay, how's about this:

My side of the bed: tucked in. I only tuck in the flat sheet/top sheet. Not blankets.
Hubby's side of the bed: Not tucked in.

That is really, what I do. Per our preferences. And its fine and a simple solution.

I tuck it in.when I first make the bed in the morning. But if it untucks in the night, I leave it and deal with it later.

My side of sheets is tucked, while my husband keeps his untucked. I can't stand when the sheets go all over the place from not being anchored down, where my husband has to have his feet sticking out of the bed. When I put fresh linens on the bed, I Tuck both sides, and my husband will pull it out to go to bed. I don't usually retuck until I change the sheets, unless they are hanging weird and fall below the comforter.

As for blankets, We only use a comforter, which does not get tucked under the mattress. If it was cold enough that both of us wanted an extra blanket, Then I would put it under the comforter, tucked with the sheets, but usually only one of the other will want an extra blanket, so it goes on top of that person's side while sleeping, and folded and the end of the bed when made.

I tuck and use a top sheet, call me crazy :-)

Yeah, my husband is too kicky. His side of the bed - always untucked. He just kicks at it until it untucks anyway. I always tuck my side. If I didn't, he'd hog all the bedding onto his side.

Tucked. With hospital corners. And I have taught my kids how to do it, too.

Husband's side never STAYS that way... he always sticks his feet out and wraps them around the sheet (so they are on top) and he fights with it until the sides pull out... I guess he has hot feet. lol

ETA: Ohh Sherri G. You are so like me. I have to have the sheet folded down over the quilt several inches too. I never measured it before, but I'm guessing 6 inches sounds about right. :)

They get tucked in at the very bottom but the sides are open.
My feet always get very warm when I'm sleeping and have been escape artists as far back as I can remember.
I get cozy and warm under the blanket then my feet peek out round the side edge near the bottom.
My husband will cover them up if he gets up for something but even deeply in sleep, they'll be right out again within a few minutes.

Victoria are we with the same guys and sisters separated at birth?? Lol i do the death roll and freeze my guy almost every i do not know im doing it until he yells at me n takes em back n puts his arms around me in turn freezing me n it's a bad cycle n he isn't having the separate blanket thing at all

Not to blow your mind or anything, but we sleep with a duvet which has a removable cover I wash every week like you wash your sheets. It does not tuck in at all. One flick of the wrist and the bed is made beautifully, we have all kinds of pretty covers for a new look each week, and you never wake up with a sheet all scrunched around your feet.
That said, I can make a hospital corner that you could bounch the proverbial quarter off. But I love, love, love my duvet. And my husband has his very own, so no more midnight wrestling matches in vain hopes of getting a piece of the blankets.

Yep, everyone's different. Our house is even worse. My son sleeps like I grew up sleeping and prefer sleeping with the bottom tucked in and the sides loose. (Sorry, I gave up on hospital corners...My dad would have a fit, especially when he used to bound quarters on the bed to make sure everything was pulled tight...military.) MIL doesn't use a top sheet, because she says it reminds her to much of a hospital. She doesn't like the sheet tucked in at the bottom, because she says it pulls the feet down. (How many people sleep on their backs? Not in our house. We're all side sleepers, so there should be no problem with the sheet tucked in!) Hubby and I have split the bed...one of MIL's unsavory ideas. (Hubby is an insomniac regardless.) I sleep with my feet tucked in and one side loose. The other side is folded under. Why? Because hubby uses the "sausage roll technique." (lol, something else for you to think about.) The "sausage roll technique" is to swaddle yourself in the blankets until you look like a "human sausage." He doesn't use a top sheet, what a pain when it comes time to wash the linens. His feet are loose and his body is completely rolled up in the blankets....some of his blankets fall off in the middle of the night and I wind up throwing them back on top of him after I've tripped on my way to the potty. (lol, just like a kid.)

No tucking here. I like my feet out as does my husband.

A lot of the time our sheets start out tucked in but don't stay that way. The fitted sheet stays fitted but the flat sheet depends on whether or not one of us pulled up the sheet just a little farther in the night. I don't routinely remake my bed in the AM, either. Shhh.