Easier Ways To Clean and Stuff Duvet?

[OldChinaHam]

Here is a topic I weekly wonder about.

I kid you NOT!

While in Thailand, some of you may have noticed that where ever you go, you have your Duvet, and then a bottom sheet.

I really like this because when I turn on the Aircon and pull the Duvet up to my chin, then I can, after lights out, pretend I am in whatever country I wish, all I gotta do is adjust the Air from 65 to 80 degrees F, or about 17 to 27 degrees C (don't hold me to this I just pulled these C numbers out of my head.)

Also, where I come from, we have not heat in the winter and it stays about 10 degrees inside, and if you do not have about 5 duvets and wear a hat and balaclava you freeze your lips and nose off.

So I love the duvet in any weather.

The only problem is that I hate washing them. And I hate even more stuffing them when they are dry.

1. Can anyone provide their best methods for stuffing different sizes from super king size to really heavy dense cotton wad stuffing you find in China? Don't ask, if you have been there you know! It is so heavy it presses you into the bed like being buried alive. And you find yourself sweating up a storm while doing the stuffing.

2. Do you start at the top, middle, all four corners stuck in first, and then put the middle in and shake it all about? Until even, and then you zip up?

3. This is one Topic where I hope you will post some videos of yourselves stuffing your Duvet. You may wear a mask or blur out anything that might give away your identity. But I bet this might amuse us to watch every weekend when it is raining too much for golf.

I do not think I have missed anything here,

Just to say the thing I dread most about my bedclothes is the duvet's stuffing process.

Hope you all can help!

PS: And how do you wash and dry it, too, before stuffing it?

Edited July 27, 2013 by OldChinaHam

[Crossy]

I was soooooo tempted to move this to the Ladies Forum and leave you to your fate.

Instead I went on YouTube, some interesting videos there

[OldChinaHam]

I was soooooo tempted to move this to the Ladies Forum and leave you to your fate.

Instead I went on YouTube, some interesting videos there

Only a guy who has been struggling with Duvet in all sorts of weather, humidity and mold producing conditions can truly know the pleasures and the trials of caring for Duvet.

I know, I have been doing this for at least 30 years,

Trying to get all four corners in, with the heaving heavy ones,

Then you got to push in the middle.

Then you need to try to find that tiny sipper, and pull it up without catching any of the cloth in the teeth of the zipper.

(All the time while hanging on with your own teeth, because you only have two hands, unless you have your squeeze.)

I just cannot go on,

I think I am going to cry, again.

The heavier and the thicker and the wetter is the humidity, the more interesting the times I have spent on this.

Edited July 27, 2013 by OldChinaHam

[OldChinaHam]

This young man reminds me of me in the days before I became more inventive.

4 hands is better than 2, obviously.

((I LOVE THIS guy, he has THE MINISTRY OF FUNNY WALKS POSTER ON HIS WALL!!))

Edited July 27, 2013 by OldChinaHam

[Crossy]

Then you need to try to find that tiny sipper, and pull it up without catching any of the cloth in the teeth of the zipper.

(All the time while hanging on with your own teeth, because you only have two hands, unless you have your squeeze.)

I had a mate in Bristol many years ago who caught his 'cloth' in his zipper (her parents came home unexpectedly), had to have stitches, had the rest of us in same

Derek, you still out there mate?

[OldChinaHam]

It makes me extremely uncomfortable to watch the above video of the young college man and his duvet stuffing.

It just takes me right back to the moment, to crying, and to just giving up and throwing the whole mess outside in the rain.

[IMHO]

I'll ask my maid how she does it all tomorrow

[OldChinaHam]

I was soooooo tempted to move this to the Ladies Forum and leave you to your fate.

Instead I went on YouTube, some interesting videos there

Actually, I would have preferred being in both places so that I could lean even more.

I have not actually checked though,

Is there a Ladies Forum? And what do they talk about over there?

I really cannot see why I would not like to be part of the discussion.

[jbrain]

I was soooooo tempted to move this to the Ladies Forum and leave you to your fate.

Instead I went on YouTube, some interesting videos there

Only a guy who has been struggling with Duvet in all sorts of weather, humidity and mold producing conditions can truly know the pleasures and the trials of caring for Duvet.

I know, I have been doing this for at least 30 years,

Trying to get all four corners in, with the heaving heavy ones,

Then you got to push in the middle.

Then you need to try to find that tiny sipper, and pull it up without catching any of the cloth in the teeth of the zipper.

(All the time while hanging on with your own teeth, because you only have two hands, unless you have your squeeze.)

I just cannot go on,

I think I am going to cry, again.

The heavier and the thicker and the wetter is the humidity, the more interesting the times I have spent on this.

Never seen a duvet cover with a zipper.

[OldChinaHam]

I was soooooo tempted to move this to the Ladies Forum and leave you to your fate.

Instead I went on YouTube, some interesting videos there

Only a guy who has been struggling with Duvet in all sorts of weather, humidity and mold producing conditions can truly know the pleasures and the trials of caring for Duvet.

I know, I have been doing this for at least 30 years,

Trying to get all four corners in, with the heaving heavy ones,

Then you got to push in the middle.

Then you need to try to find that tiny sipper, and pull it up without catching any of the cloth in the teeth of the zipper.

(All the time while hanging on with your own teeth, because you only have two hands, unless you have your squeeze.)

I just cannot go on,

I think I am going to cry, again.

The heavier and the thicker and the wetter is the humidity, the more interesting the times I have spent on this.

Never seen a duvet cover with a zipper.

Some are buttoned, like that in the video above, and some are tied, like the ones I have here, and then there are the ones that mother gives you which don't do anything at all, but do have zippers, and these are the worst because the zippers are often two small to be easily manipulated, and they also do get stuck about half way. The zippered ones, I do find mostly in China. China is also now the zipper production capital of the entire world.

[cmsally]

Are we talking about an ordinary Western feather type duvet or similar? Bit confusing!

Anyway

1 First work out the orientation, long side/short side etc

2 Get one of the two furthest corners from opening side and push corner into duvet cover corner and hold with a hand/ foot/elbow etc

3 Get next furthest corner and match with its duvet cover corner.

4 Now holding the 2 corners , shake so the cover should fall over and cover most of the duvet.

5 Now match up the 2 corners closest to fastening side and shake again; any duvet hanging out of opening space will now be inside.

6 Do up fastenings.

Should take about 3-4 minutes.

[OldChinaHam]

Are we talking about an ordinary Western feather type duvet or similar? Bit confusing!

Anyway

1 First work out the orientation, long side/short side etc

2 Get one of the two furthest corners from opening side and push corner into duvet cover corner and hold with a hand/ foot/elbow etc

3 Get next furthest corner and match with its duvet cover corner.

4 Now holding the 2 corners , shake so the cover should fall over and cover most of the duvet.

5 Now match up the 2 corners closest to fastening side and shake again; any duvet hanging out of opening space will now be inside.

6 Do up fastenings.

Should take about 3-4 minutes.

OK, Ka!

Thank you for your clear instructions.

But I really tried earlier this morning, and I got mine stuffed so that there are no bumps inside.

But now I see that there are all these tie strings coming off at the edges in the middle.

I have the bottom and top strings tied so that the stuffed Duvet will not come out.

But then where do I now tie these middle strings?

Your instructions, I followed to the letter.

And now I am thinking we might need you to post your video.

Can you do that please?

I am really here sweating away because it is the raining season and I thought I would not put on the Aircon and see how the other half live.

Hoping for rescue now.

Edited July 28, 2013 by OldChinaHam