Fitted sheets are the work of the Devil…
For a start, they are a lie. Often they don’t fit. They’re not deep enough. Or the elastic’s too feeble. They are a con. Get one corner on and another pings off, get two done, turn your back and the first slips triumphantly off – until you’re running around the bed trapping corners like a man trying to keep plates spinning.
Even if you get them done, there’s no guarantee of success. They’re not designed for real people in real beds. Just when you’re nicely dozing off they slip and slide and sneak up around the edge of the bed until you’re lying in a bumpy tangled knot. No fun at all.
First world problems yes – but the household advice columns of posh newspaper regularly feature niggles about fitted sheets – how to make them fit, how to iron them, fold them, make them look inviting.
The simple answer is not to use them at all. Stick to flat sheets. Tuck them in with hospital corners – hardly rocket science and YouTube will show you how – and they will stay in place. The weight of your body is keeping them down not dragging them out.
If you like to iron sheets, then flat sheets are the business and will look wonderful and reward your effort.
A well made bed is a thing of beauty. Many psychological studies have shown that making your bed every morning is a help to health and happiness – that sense of achievement, a pleasing neatness. An illusion of order in your life.
Getting into a well made bed every night is an even greater treat. Especially if the sheets actually stay where they’re put.
The Canny Time Traveller 