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Post by crazy4scraps on Jun 4, 2016 16:01:23 GMT
No no bottom sheet just sounds like the people on the shows are suuuuuuper lazy. I could see my lazy college age son skipping the bottom sheet-but only because he can be lazy and doesn't have a single clue about what grossness is. Ha ha ha! There was a company on Shark Tank a while back that was trying to get investors for their idea which was basically a giant bed sized Post-It Note type stack of throw away fabric (think reusable grocery sack stuff) that would stick on the mattress/bed. When the top one got yucky, you'd just peel the top layer off to expose a clean sheet underneath. They thought it would be great for lazy college students and even mentioned them as one of their target markets. I don't think any of the sharks bit on it though!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2016 16:07:05 GMT
Never.
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Post by pierkiss on Jun 4, 2016 16:15:44 GMT
I could see my lazy college age son skipping the bottom sheet-but only because he can be lazy and doesn't have a single clue about what grossness is. Ha ha ha! There was a company on Shark Tank a while back that was trying to get investors for their idea which was basically a giant bed sized Post-It Note type stack of throw away fabric (think reusable grocery sack stuff) that would stick on the mattress/bed. When the top one got yucky, you'd just peel the top layer off to expose a clean sheet underneath. They thought it would be great for lazy college students and even mentioned them as one of their target markets. I don't think any of the sharks bit on it though! Wow. I'm glad they didn't bite on that one. What an incredible amount of waste that would create. There needs to be at least a sheet on top of the mattress. Otherwise it's just gross. I have to have a mattress pad on top of the mattress too.
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Post by KelleeM on Jun 4, 2016 16:33:28 GMT
My mattress is covered with a zip on cover that encases the entire thing. That is topped by a mattress pad and then a fitted sheet. This is what we have as well. No bottom sheet is gross to me.
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Post by craftsbycarolyn on Jun 4, 2016 17:04:50 GMT
That's just gross. I always have a bottom and top sheet.
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Post by quinlove on Jun 4, 2016 17:10:57 GMT
I have to ask - what kind of reality shows are you watching ??
( this is in no way judging, just a cute comment )
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Post by just PEAchy on Jun 4, 2016 17:17:55 GMT
All our beds use a bottom and top sheets and a mattress pad.
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Post by myboysnme on Jun 4, 2016 17:36:22 GMT
My first husband came from a very poor family. When I visited them we slept in a bedroom shared by his brother and sister - it was a 2 bedroom place and 5 people lived there. There were no sheets on the bed. There was a pillow case because their dog crawled into it to sleep. His sister told me she was saving up to buy a set of sheets.
I have no idea what I did, but I like to think I went out and bought her a set of sheets. But she just didn't seem to think it was necessary. Just something nice to have.
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Post by mirabelleswalker on Jun 4, 2016 17:54:55 GMT
I think this would be an appropriate situation in which to use the word "squick."
That's disgusting.
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Post by CarolT on Jun 4, 2016 18:05:44 GMT
I've noticed that, too and it always grosses me out a little.
Neither of my kids sleep with top sheets, which I think is weird! When they were little kids they would get tangled up in the top sheet and end up with it shoved to the bottom of the bed, sleeping under only the blanket/comforter and the habit just stuck! But always on a bottom sheet. That's a non-negotiable!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2016 18:16:19 GMT
That's just yuk! I've never heard of anyone sleeping just on the mattress!
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Jun 4, 2016 18:30:57 GMT
Sometimes, I feel like I'm being punked here. Like... is that really a question? Because the answer is unequivocally "No." It is most certainly not "a thing" to be gross and unsanitary.
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Post by mellyw on Jun 4, 2016 18:33:20 GMT
It kills me that my DD doesn't use a top sheet (what is up with this generation not doing that?).
Can not imagine not having a bottom sheet & mattres pad & the top sheet, which is what I use most of the summer as my blanket.
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Post by anniebygaslight on Jun 4, 2016 19:04:28 GMT
ALWAYS a bottom sheet.
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Post by bc2ca on Jun 4, 2016 19:11:14 GMT
It kills me that my DD doesn't use a top sheet (what is up with this generation not doing that?). Can not imagine not having a bottom sheet & mattres pad & the top sheet, which is what I use most of the summer as my blanket. Mattress pads and bottom sheets are a must in our house. I gave up the fight for top sheets with the kids years ago. They would kick them to the bottom on the bed every single night and wrap themselves in their duvets. The duvet cover is their top sheet and gets washed weekly.
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Post by katybee on Jun 4, 2016 19:19:14 GMT
In addition to the whole gross thing – wouldn't be highly uncomfortable? Mattresses tend to be scratchy, not soft… I couldn't do it.
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Post by peasapie on Jun 4, 2016 19:31:37 GMT
I've never heard of that. I've known people who only use a comforter...But never sleeping without a bottom sheet. Come to think of it, I've also known people who use a brillo pad to wash their dishes. People who keep their rabbits in a drawer. People who keep their clothes in cardboard boxes rather than a dresser, and people who tack their curtains to the windows rather than using curtain rods. (Just thinking of things, over the years, that seemed unusual to me.)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2016 19:46:43 GMT
Always a bottom sheet...always.
I can't imagine the filth that's builds up directly on a mattress with regularly changed sheets.
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Post by hollymolly on Jun 4, 2016 19:56:01 GMT
Always always always a bottom sheet. Always. If for some bizarre reason all of my sheets were ruined and I didn't have time to go to the store before bed, I would wrap up in something large, or lay down whatever fabric I could find to put between my body and the mattress. You can't throw a mattress in the washing machine.
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Post by anniefb on Jun 4, 2016 19:59:18 GMT
Always have a bottom sheet. That's weird to sleep directly on the mattress
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Post by scorpeao on Jun 4, 2016 20:00:26 GMT
For some reason the thought of a bare mattress touching my body gives me the heebs...can't explain it.
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Post by Grom Pea on Jun 4, 2016 20:26:17 GMT
That is so gross I hope it's all staged for tv and not real!
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Post by gar on Jun 4, 2016 21:30:33 GMT
It kills me that my DD doesn't use a top sheet (what is up with this generation not doing that?). Does your DD use a duvet cover? I have a duvet inside a loose cover and that gets washed every time I change the sheets etc.
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Post by Citygirl on Jun 4, 2016 21:34:45 GMT
Matress pad and bottom sheet in my house.
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Post by deafpea on Jun 4, 2016 21:40:04 GMT
Agree with everyone--mattress pad and bottom (fitted) sheet on all beds. I can't imagine that sleeping on a bare mattress is all that comfortable--scratchy and kind of bumpy with all the quilting.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2016 22:40:46 GMT
Holy shades of hoarders. That's just nasty!
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Post by stittsygirl on Jun 4, 2016 22:48:06 GMT
Bottom sheet AND a mattress pad. I can only imagine how quickly a mattress would get nasty without both of those, and I'm just talking about everyday sweat and skin oils not even taking anything else into account. Yuck. Just yuck. ETA: My kid is a little furnace and sometimes when she has darker colored sheets on her bed you can see a white ring of salt from her sweaty little head on the pillowcase in the morning! Yes, bottom sheet and pad for me too.
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Post by JustKim on Jun 4, 2016 23:07:54 GMT
mattress pad and bottom sheet. I just bought a new mattress last weekend and the sales gal said that after ten years a mattress will weigh twice as much as it did when it was new because of the dirt and skin that gets into the mattress. I thought that was interesting and gross
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Post by mikklynn on Jun 4, 2016 23:59:20 GMT
Always a bottom. Top is more optional. My kids never used them- after kicking them off they just use their blanket. That even took some getting used to as I never considered not using even a top sheet before. I'm ok with it now. Neither of my kids could stand top sheets as children. It took a while for me to just go with it. I would never consider not using a mattress pad and bottom sheet. In addition to being gross, it sounds uncomfortable.
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Jun 5, 2016 0:02:16 GMT
I go into people's homes for my job. Many people don't have bottom sheets but it is usually people who are very poor and have unclean houses in general.
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