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[wickedflea]

My mom sent me some bedsheets because she's cool like that. And I think I'll really dig them if I can make them work on the bed. But there are two flat sheets (one bigger than the other) and no fitted sheet! How do you make a bed with no fitted sheet? Is there some sort of medieval style of bedmaking that I never learned? You folks are smart people. Tell me how to do it. And I want a method that's gonna ensure that the sucker stays in place, because I do a lot of moving around in bed.

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[ilfracombe.livejournal.com]

Industrial strength stapler.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Hmmmmm, good idea. Actually, I might just go ahead and weld that bottom sheet to the mattress.

[cynical5679.livejournal.com]

hahahahaha, I do a lot of moving around in bed.....sorry, yes Im a 7 year old tonight.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

I'm talking serious locomotion like you would not believe. You'd probably have to experience it to fully grasp what I'm talking about.

[cynical5679.livejournal.com]

I'll be over later to investigate

[carocrow.livejournal.com]

Heh. Can tell you were never in the service.

It's called "hospital corners". It's only been in the last decade that they have started using fitted sheets in the hospital, we always made the beds with flat sheets.

You take the bottom sheet and line it up with the bottom of the bed, leaving the excess over the head of the bed. Even it out on both sides. Tuck the sheet under the head of the bed. On the side about a foot from the head lift the side of the sheet to a 45 degree angle, tuck the excess, then tuck the whole sheet in along that side. Repeat on the other side. Then you put the top sheet on and do the same thing at the foot. Put the blanket with the top sheet and do the corners if you have a thin blanket (but not an electric blanket, you'll bend the wires).

I tried to find a page with pictures, but I couldn't find one. Maybe there is one somewhere in nursing assistant training or military training.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Kick arse--I'll give it a shot. Thanks! Wait, this doesn't mean I'm going to have to make my bed more often, does it?

It took you this long to figure out I was never in the service? ;)

[carocrow.livejournal.com]

*snort* I can't say you act much differently from most of the Marines I've dated (and for some reason they all seem to have been Marines).

Good luck with the sheets ;-) A lot of hotels still make their beds that way. They might stay better if you have a mattress cover, particularly if your mattress is slick.

[sida-al-hurra.livejournal.com]

That was a good explanation! I couldn't figure out how to explain it and wasn't going to try. I did a google and found this, though:
http://www.tutorials.com/06/0630/06304.asp

[carocrow.livejournal.com]

Neat... it made me want to go make a bed. Well, not really.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Rock--thanks!

[buscemi.livejournal.com]

I have yet to find a method to keep the sheet from moving. However, fitted sheets drive me crazy. I'll be sleeping and all of a sudden, I hear "snap!" "What the hell was that?" Half of the sheet is now off the mattress. Doh.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Hmmmmm, I hate that too, though my everyday sheets are pretty good about not snapping. I guess I don't mind if the sheet moves--I just don't want it actually sliding off the mattress. I'll see how this works.

[theodicy.livejournal.com]

Hospital corners, only President Summers sez boys can't do 'em. It's a girl thing, yanno.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

I suspected as much. At least now I can cite Harvard when defending my frumpled bed!

[sweetterrig.livejournal.com]

Once I bought a sheet size too large for my bed.... which sounds like it would be a problem... but, it wasn't. It works like a charm for fitted sheets... they stay on great.

Food for thought.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Wow, I always wondered how that would work. Sometimes I'll see marked-down sheets that I like in T. J. Maxx, but it seems like they're always queen, and I have a full.