And, yes, you should be using one.

First of all, I don’t quite understandnot using a top sheet.

If you aren’t using one, are you washing your comforter, quilt, coverlet, orduvet weekly?

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Credit: Photo: Laurey W. Glenn

Didn’t think so.

I paused my story, figuring I had absentmindedly draped the sheet over the bed the wrong way.

Once I surveyed the land, I realized everything was just as it should be.

The Folded-Down Sheet Trick

No, I concluded, this is right.

But the patterned side is down, he said.

quilt, comforter, duvet, etc.).

You would have thought I just convinced him that the world was flat after all.

He was shaken to the core and, I believe, was never quite the same again.

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