Making bed
Hello all. New camper with silly question. We replaced our foam short queen with a regular quality queen mattress. Does anyone have any tips for applying the fitted sheets at the "tight squeeze" a...
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I have a rear corner bed with a memory foam topper that makes it even harder to make. My system is this:
-Fully make bed at beginning of season (or some frequency that works for you). This involves putting the mattress cover over the memory foam+mattress and then a flannel fitted sheet over the mattress cover. It takes some wrestling, but I typically only do it once a year.
-Use the flannel top sheet as your bottom sheet. Just tuck it around the bed (or under wherever you can reach - this is much easier than getting the fitted sheet on). Between the flannel-on-flannel and being tucked in, the sheet functions just like a normal bottom sheet; we don't have problems with it coming off.
-A spare flat sheet we had is now our top sheet, then add blankets.
After each trip, it's quick and easy to strip and remake the two flat sheets and we leave the fitted sheet on the mattress until the end of the season. Haven't tried this system with non-flannel sheets, so I don't know if the tucked-in sheet would slip off in that case or not, but maybe worth a try even if you're not a flannel sheet person.
As for fully making the bed once a year, hopefully everyone else's suggestion to slide the mattress down works for you.
-Fully make bed at beginning of season (or some frequency that works for you). This involves putting the mattress cover over the memory foam+mattress and then a flannel fitted sheet over the mattress cover. It takes some wrestling, but I typically only do it once a year.
-Use the flannel top sheet as your bottom sheet. Just tuck it around the bed (or under wherever you can reach - this is much easier than getting the fitted sheet on). Between the flannel-on-flannel and being tucked in, the sheet functions just like a normal bottom sheet; we don't have problems with it coming off.
-A spare flat sheet we had is now our top sheet, then add blankets.
After each trip, it's quick and easy to strip and remake the two flat sheets and we leave the fitted sheet on the mattress until the end of the season. Haven't tried this system with non-flannel sheets, so I don't know if the tucked-in sheet would slip off in that case or not, but maybe worth a try even if you're not a flannel sheet person.
As for fully making the bed once a year, hopefully everyone else's suggestion to slide the mattress down works for you.
