White Sheets

[singleentendre]

I've been using the same set of cheap, white bedsheets for four years, purchased from IKEA a couple weeks after I moved to SF. The pillowcases have turned yellow in the spot where my head rests, and they're starting to tear. The next wash will most certainly destroy them

Comments

[rosiedee]

Eh, for as many hours as we lie around in bed every night, nice sheets are a perfectly good excuse to spend some money. AND you waited until they were on sale, didn't you? There you go.

I sleep on Ikea sheets, but I bought a really nice down duvet a couple years ago and had to talk myself out of the guilt.

[singleentendre]

I didn't so much wait for a sale as one popped up at an opportune time. Last weekend after I washed my sheets, I popped a pillow into the pillowcase, and the case almost split open down the middle. I thought, "Well! I guess I'm buying new sheets next weekend!" Then I put the pillow on the bed with the torn side facing down.

I bought a great duvet from IKEA the same time as the sheets four years ago. Perfect during the winter and almost too much for the summer.

[gangrel_pri]

Yep, midwestern stoicism strikes again. Probably with the little voice going "You may ned that money later on...buy sheets from Wal-Mart just in case."

[singleentendre]

My little voice never says "Wal-Mart." It's more like, "Invest! Don't waste money on bling! Buy some Apple stock with that money instead!"

[gangrel_pri]

Ok, Wal-Mart is a bad example, but yes, the little voice does say "save or invest, don't spend".

[boilingbabies]

I can't bring myself to buy nice sheets because I ruin them so quickly. They get all discolored and gross. I guess I sweat a lot at night.

[singleentendre]

I'll probably sweat more now. If I picked up one of these sheets in the dark, I'd swear it was a somewhat thin blanket. Heavy, too.

[fleur]

One night sleeping on those and you'll forget all of this. They're like suede almost .. you will NEVER go back to cheap sheets. Swear.

[singleentendre]

My last year in Ohio, Qwest sent me on a business trip to Denver and put me up at the Hotel Monaco, which had beds with sheets like these.

I said to myself, "I need to reproduce this bed in every detail once I get home." Only took me five years for the sheets!

[scienter]

My office at the last firm was across the street from Hotel Monaco. Interesting coincidence.

My new office is down the block from a number of hookers and meth addicts.

Sometimes you have to splurge. In my case, I have the opposite problem you do. I need someone to give me an allowance and tell me "no."

[singleentendre]

Sometimes you have to splurge.

And lord, did I ever.

I keep thinking of my paternal grandmother, who was sitting on a half-million dollar inheritance, yet insisted on buying those awful $50 "bed in a bag" packages. You know: sheets, pillowcases, and comforter, all in the same hideous design, and constructed of scratchy, scratchy polyester.

[tasty]

You will never regret sleeping on fancy sheets!

[singleentendre]

I just got back from my bedroom, where I was running my hands over the sheets (which aren't on my bed yet).

They are so soft! I'm going to feel like the Queen of England.