• themeatbridge@lemmy.world
    40·
    10 months ago

    WASH THE BEDDING SEPARATELY, DIANE!

    Jesus fuck, you wonder why everything smells like mildew, it’s because they ball up in the wash and don’t rinse properly, and then they stay balled up and damp in the dryer.

    • TheSambassador@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      10 months ago

      Do you wash only a single fitted sheet or duvet cover at a time? Because the problem still happens when I wash my fitted sheet and normal sheets in the same load.

      • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
        2·
        10 months ago

        That can happen, but I find that if you separate the sheets as they are going in, and kind of scrunch up the fitted sheets and duvet covers so they don’t start wrapped around the flat sheets or blankets, then they are far less likely to ball up in the wash.

        I had a roommate in college that would wrap his sheets in the fitted sheet (along with other laundry) and throw it all in like a package. His laundry always smelled like mildew.

    • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      10 months ago

      Or just get some laundry bags. Its honestly so much easier to just shove the offending item in a bag, throw it all in the wash, then I don’t have to care about it until I take it out of the dryer. Come in handy for other items that love to ball up and evade washing.

    • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
      31·
      10 months ago

      I pick them out of the machine and put them into a dryer or set them out to dry. Seems to avoid part of this particular problem.

      If we’re out here handing intructions, you preferably shouldn’t uses a dryer for your stuff anyway. It can damage them. Especially everything that’s supposed to be elastic.

      But then again, I don’t always follow that rule. Some stuff with an elastic band I’ve put in a scorching hot dryer for close to a decade and it’s fine. Some garbage shit lose the elasticity after a year or so even though you’ve washed them at 30 and don’t ever put them into a dryer.

  • AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    10 months ago

    Thanks for reminding me to zip up the duvet cover next time I wash it, now if only there was an easy solution to the mattress cover doing the same thing…

  • TengoHipo@lemm.ee
    41·
    10 months ago

    Dislike duvets with a passion. Just put a thin blanket on top of your comforter same thing.

  • M137@lemmy.world
    45·
    10 months ago

    Just another thing that’s only exists as a problem for idiots. As said already: you wash bedding separately and at 60°C, which you don’t wash other clothes at. And few washing machines are big enough to effectively wash duvets with anything else.>!!<

    • Bombyk0l@sh.itjust.works
      71·
      10 months ago

      The duvet cover, not the duvet. The duvet cover fits all good with a bunch of other things in most machines.

    • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
      2·
      10 months ago

      you wash bedding separately and at 60°C, which you don’t wash other clothes at.

      I think all my socks and boxers say to wash them at 60. I think it’s a common temp for towels too, if you follow the tag. I mostly wash everything at 40 nowadays.