Making bed

Open the closet door if your bed is parallel to that. We pull out mattress down about 18" and tuck the top in and then push it back where it belongs and do the rest of the bed.

My husband use to try to get me to change the direction of the bedding when he couldn't get the camper quite level (our bed is horizontal). I told him to knock himself out. I already made it once. This isn't tent camping, where our heads go is already set in stone. Amazing how he can get the camper level.

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.

Real simple, don't make your bed, JMO

Just did ours yesterday. Always pull the mattress down and do the top corners first. Then slide it back up and do the bottoms. DW used to help but found I could do it faster and get corners of fitted sheets in better by myself. She comes up to put on the pillow cases and spread.

I slide the mattress , do the headboard corners and then the foot corners. I slide it a little diagonal do that corner, go around to other side, slide opposite diagonal to bring the corner closer to me, then slide the whole thing back up. Slides very easy on the board that supports the mattress.

In my TT that had bed in front corner, I used a cheap plastic ruler to shove the sheet down along the wall. I got the idea from a slipcover catalog, they sell a slipcover tucking device, but the picture looked just like the quarter plastic ruler, so I went the cheap way. With my current TT, I slide the mattress down to tuck the top then work my way to foot.

I am DONE executing the moves of a Ninja Warrior gone contortionist to change my camper bedding! It's just insane! I have decided to put a light weight double sleeping bag on top of the bed and toss a pretty quilt over it to hide it. It's just a fiasco changing the sheets, and it has done MORE to increase my vocabulary then Webster's dictionary! :M ARUGH!!!

I know the sleeping bag will be toooo warm in the middle of the summer, but I'm going to sew up a knock off of those "As Seen On TV" Dreamies, and use those during the summer. I also love the feel of sheets for sleeping so I'm totally experimenting with the sleeping bags. I just know that my neck and back nag me for a few days EVERY TIME I change the sheets on the camper bed.

The hard part is that we keep the camper fairly warm at night so I'll probably regret the sleeping bags somewhere along the line. I'd prefer to sleep chilly at night, but my hubby and the dogs outvoted me.

There are the "Dreamies". I think a person could just sew the necessary sized sheets together on 2 sides and make your own sheet pocket. Just a little measuring, and 2 quickie seams...and presto. NO MORE TUCKING sheets in!! I'll still keep my fitted sheet on the lower mattress, but now I'll only have to change that &*&^%$#$$@% sheet once a year. Having said all that... I do have a camping friend who ordered the "Dreamie" and she's happy with it. So, you guess could do that too.

I hope it's okay to post this photo here.. if not someone wise me up and I'll delete it.

JohnBoyToo wrote:
Dang !! Dang !!!! that's a thought as long as they stay on over each other !!!!

but my wife will never go for it - I can hear it now!
"the germs migrate down to the bottom one "

Well then buy some high thread count sheets so the little germies can't get through the fibers.

98coachman wrote:

BuckBarker wrote:
If you have room, pull the mattress away from the headboard area, tuck the head first, push the mattress back and then do the foot. Yep, it can be a back breaking job but someone's gotta do it.

X2 ours actually slides quite easily.

x3 - BUT I have my husband on the other side to help!