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Wed, Mar 19, 2008

Linens

Posted at 10:27 pm MDT to Miscellaneous

When I was living in corporate housing in Minnetonka a few years ago, all of the sheets and towels in the apartment were brand new, and decent quality. The dishes and utensils in the kitchen were new, too, but limited, so I was glad I had brought some of my own kitchen equipment from home.

My sheets and towels at home were several years old and pretty poor quality to begin with. Waterbed sheet sets are made of cheap, poor quality cotton. And the towels were from Target and not their best price range.

I had heard online that deep pocket fitted sheets would work on waterbeds. After I moved back home I went over to the Bed, Bath and Beyond near the mall and spent a lot of money on some better than mid-range towels and some bed linens with threadcounts measured in triple digits, including two new duvet covers for my down comforter.

Today, in honor of spring starting tomorrow, I switched out the duvet covers, so I have a nice fresh one on the bed for the start of the new season. The other one, with its load of a winter's cat-hair and germs from when I was sick will be washed and then folded away in the cupboard to await the next changeover. (Which may be caused by a season change, or hairballs).

The TCO of decent quality linens is actually not too bad over time. They last much better than cheap bedlinens and towels: the good bed linens I bought are not showing any signs of wear and the towels are not disintegrating at the seams, unlike their cheaper predecessors.

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