What do you do with flat sheets?
 

I'm about to replace a lot of fitted sheets in this house which means we'll have a lot of flat sheets that come in the sets. We use them once in a while as the lightest blanket or to line a couch when a kid is sick bit hardly ever. Do you have a use for them. Should I throw them away or donate them?

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The last few times I bought sheets I could buy them not in sets. I know that at Target and Ikea they have ways you can buy just fited sheets and pillow cases.

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We keep a couple for forts and guests and the rest go to donations to animal shelters.

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We’ve been able to buy sheets separately. But on the occasion we get a set usually we use the flat as a table cloth. I’ve turned a few into hammocks for the kids too. Or local animal rescue is always taking donations of old sheets blankets and towels as well. Oh I’ve also turned a few into curtains before.

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I use them to cover the rug when the kids have food or messy things in the living room.

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I usually get the Threshold fitted sheets separately at Target, unless I find sets on clearance. We usually save them for kids’ sewing projects. I have heard of quilting guilds using them for the backing for charity quilts.

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You don't use flat sheets on your bed? Just your comforter? My daughter does that, drives me nuts. :giggle

Don't throw them away! We use ours for forts, drop cloth when painting, cover on van seats for pets, picnic outside.

If you don't do those things then donate.

I once took 2 sheets from the very top of our neighbor's trash when they moved. I've used those 2 sheets for so many things!

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All good suggestions above. They can be used to make clothing if you sew, or cut into strips and crocheted into rag rugs.

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If you don't buy them separately, donate the flat sheets. I sew for a lady who does 'trap, neuter, return' with cats and she needs the sheets (modified) to cover the traps.

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Nope. Even when I use the comforter that's hard to wash, I use a super soft fleece blanket under it. A thicker blanket stays in place better and if I get too hot, I cover less of myself.

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I'm going to order a six pack of gray sheets for the twin size. Then, I'll be done with picking up a folded sheet and having to wonder if it's the flat or fitted since gray = fitted. And I'll donate the excess flats we have around here.

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You don’t use flat sheets on beds? We use them to keep blankets cleaner so they don’t have to be washed as often. Flat sheets would make great tablecloths!

If you’re in the US I can send you a bunch of white twin fitted sheets that I just bought all new sheet sets to replace so I could have flat sheets. They’re used but fine.

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I'm in the US.

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This is me. I neeeeeed my flat sheets. I'm kinda in shock that others don't like them! I use them all year. Fleece in the winter. Cotton in the summer. I love my flat sheets.:giggle

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There was a big conversation about this recently with a bunch of friends on Facebook. Apparently a lot of people don't use flat sheets. :jawdrop

I don't think dh would if it weren't for my love of them, I love th cool, fresh, smooth feeling on top of me and having them tucked in tight at the end of the bed holding my feet snug.

My kids don't use them.

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I totally use flat sheets. I can't imagine sleeping without one! My kids mostly use them too, but not always.

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I was in Europe over the summer and none of the hotels had flat sheets. It was awful! It was way to hot to cover up with the heavy duvet, but I can't sleep without some sort of cover. So everynight before bed, I would pick up the edge of the duvet cover and shake the duvet down to one side and use the empty side like a sheet. I loooooovvvvveeee my flat sheets.

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You mean to say that there are more people out there than just my daughter that sleep "wrong"? :giggle

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I prefer to think of it a European ;-)

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It is European. Dh and I met in Europe and we tried the whole duvet thing both there and here. Turns out it is an enormous pain, at least to me. I don’t like stuffing the duvets into the covers every time I want to wash the covers. Comforters and flat sheets are so much easier! The only time my kids don’t use flat sheets is my little ones who just sleep with a smaller fleece blanket- then that is easy to throw in the washer with the fitted sheet.

But to each their own!

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Dh and I use a flat sheet and my oldest has for a few years, but the younger kids don't. They use a fleece blanket or a quilt.

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I’ve sewn 2 flat sheets together to make an inexpensive duvet cover that matches fitted sheets.

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That is what I have done with them as well.

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:lol My son sleeps “wrong” too. He doesn’t even like comforters.
Fitted sheet and then just piles on as many fleece blankets as the weather requires it him. Just so much no.

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I love my flat sheets. I have threadbare ones for hot weather and I often use 2 or 3 different weighted sheets in different combinations so I have just the right weight for the temperate.

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I think people who like flat sheets don't sleep like I do. Where my feet feel trapped and suffocated in my toes can't peek out, and then when I move the flat sheets wrapes its self around me like an unfreandly octopus trying to eat me.

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I don't actually tuck them in. : think But yeah, I am pretty still.

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Knitlove- without a flat sheet your feet are not protected from the monster under the bed. You know- the one that grabs any exposed feet or toes!! :giggle. Even on the hottest days, my feet must be under the sheet.

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I used to be super anti top sheet and never bought sets for that reason but a few years ago as an anniversary gift to each other we got nice bedding. I got a down duvet and cover (will never go back) and nicer sheets and so I started using the top sheet. It feels sooo nice.

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Much easier to wash the sheets than the duvet cover.

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Yes. We use the top sheet even when we also use the duvet with the cover.

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It definitely is but I still wash the duvet cover when I change the bedding because I switch covers for a new look. It’s one of the things I like about duvets.

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:haha I've been using the same plum colored duvet cover for the last 10 winters!

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Lol I only have 2. I switch them every other week when I am on top of things.

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We use flat sheets always! I recently heard that people didn't use them and I was like :jawdrop:hunh:giggle

We use leftover sheets as drop sheets for messy activities, for putting on our pets beds, sewing etc