No Stupid Questions

If it’s riding up the sides of your mattress, it’s probably not big enough for your mattress. Sheets say on the package something like, “fits mattresses up to 11 inches tall”. If your mattress is taller than that, it’ll ride up.

Bed Sheet Suspenders, 100%

4-point suspenders. The adjustable kind for big boys.

Lay it on your box spring, with the 4 clips pointing at the 4 corners of the bed. Lay your mattress back down. Put your fitted sheet on, and clip each suspender clip to each corner of the sheet, under the mattress.

Life hack you didn't know you needed.

there trick is to pull the elastic down far enough so it reaches over the bottom edge of the mattress.

forget folding it neatly. you can adult without that skill

Deep pocket sheets work wonders. Suspenders never worked for us.

I feel like I’m failing adulthood after being bested by a bedsheet.

Don't worry - most ~~older adults~~ people aren't going to quiz you by bringing a fitted sheet to watch you fold. If you want to bunch it up and shove it in a cabinet, just go ahead!

A lot of times when I wash our sheets I just put them right back on the bed. Now there's a life hack for ya!

Glue it to your bed. To wash, hose it down every few months. It takes about a week to dry the mattress, so you just have to get used to sleeping on a damp surface. Apply Febreze liberally.

I didn't see anybody else share how to fold a fitted sheet, so here you go. This is how I've been folding mine for several years now. It's a game-changer.

https://youtu.be/GM1744rHPBM?si=oA12JDTDxq0HdbIi

Buy nicer sheets and you may need to buy the ones made for a deep mattress.

As a last resort you can buy clip on sheet holders that will make sure they won't come off, but at some point you'll probably end up ripping your sheet if you use them.

Mattresses have an enormous variance in thickness, and sheets vary considerably in the depth of the "pocket." If your sheets can barely fit over a too-thick mattress, then they're going to pop off when you move on them. You might just want to buy some new sheets with a deeper pocket. Alternatively, you can buy elastic straps that go under the bed and clip onto the sheets. You'll generally either find these as a four pack of short ones that are meant to go only at the corners, or as a two pack of long ones meant to stretch under the entire bed and attach opposite sides. Get the long ones; they generally perform much better.

This is a cool community. I never expected so many helpful replies to this. Thank you all.

I am the bottom sheet in my bed. I feel you, I can barely deal with myself.

I'm currently laying in a crumpled up mess of sheets that came off the corners. This is my life now.

Wash bedclothes separately at at least 60°C. Germs die and salt and fat will dissolve. No folding, because who cares it won't make a difference after 1 night. And yeah what elbow said, pull the fittet sheets as far as possible over the mattress. The rubber ring should be as small as possible on the backside. The sewn corners on the bed sheet should rest on the mattress' corners that are on the underside, or even being stretched further

They sell elastic with clips you can use to hold your sheets in place. They're a pain in the ass to switch if you don't know how.

My technique is to stretch the clean fitted sheet over the old one and move the clips one side at a time, then pull out the old sheet from under it.

There should be enough give to tuck the corners and sides underneath your mattress.

If not you may need deeper sheets.

I just fold them corner to corner as normal and accept it's shit haha

I think some places you can buy sheets and pillowcases separately and not in sets. What this can allow you to do is buy a flat sheet and use it on your mattress instead of a fitted sheet. You might need to buy a size bigger for this to work, I don't know.

The flat sheet should be better because you can tuck it under the mattress and it will not do that crazy balling up in the wash/dry.

I just talked myself into trying this someday.

Do you latch your sheets below your matress' corners? They're usually meant to fully cover the top and all sides, except for those with no elastic.

Or, perhaps the elastic has gotten too lash, so they slip out from below and ride up the sides?

I don't have a proper solution for washing and drying, except putting them in a washing bag so they don't eat all the other laundry.

When I wash and dry my sheets it inevitably spirals up in the washer and dryer so it never washes or dries properly.

I got about 8 wool dryer balls that I tossed in the dryer and it has kept the fitted sheet from wrapping and bunching up. Dries MUCH better.

They sell straps that clip on and hold it onto the bottom of your bed: Use or make those.

Fitted sheets are awful. For a start they never fit.

I use a massive flat sheet and just tuck it under the mattress. If your mattress fits in your bed frame rather than on it, use a mattress topper and tuck the sheet under that.

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Dry a good thick blanket at the same time. It may stop the wrapping but if you check in ten minutes, it's a lot easier to unwrap. Much more likely, it wraps around the blanket and that stops the wrapping of the sheet around itself. Helps to do that wrapping around the blanket itself by hand before hand.

Edit: also...

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07WHKDH87

Deep pockets and clips!

I dry my sheets separately because otherwise yeah, a bunch of clothes get stuck in the fitted sheet and don't dry. Honestly I never have the issue of the elastic failing to keep it on the bed, and I toss and turn a lot. You might just need new sheets if the elastic is starting to fail, or better sheets. Or maybe they're not quite the right size for your bed.

I think if I got desperate to have my bedsheet to stop rolling up I would adapt a “Men’s shirt stay” to better hold things in place.

The fitted sheet? Never had issues with it. The "edges" are supposed to go under the mattress. It's not going anywhere.

Sheets that go on top of that? I don't use them because they are pointless. They always bunch up and end up at the foot of the bed anyway. I just use the comforter.

We only wash the bed linnen and then hang it out to dry (mynwife hates a dryi r, we got rid of it more them 15y ago). When making the bed, bottom and top are fitted around the matress in 1 go (I'm to lazy to lift the matress twice).

Keep it from riding up by buying an extra size bigger (sheet should be 1 size bigger than bed).

Washing it with other stuff is fine, but don't dry it with the rest of the load. Hang it to dry somewhat while drying the rest of the load (I drape ours over our dining room chairs), then once the rest of the load is done drying, dry the fitted sheet by itself.

I feel like I’m failing adulthood after being bested by a bedsheet.

Don’t worry, no one can actually fold the fitted sheet nicely. I channel Lorelei Gilmore when I fold mine (jump to 0:45 for the relevant part, there aren’t many videos of this scene apparently).

I don't even fold it. I use it until it's well past time to throw it away.