And they sleep on flat bed trailers with mattresses for pillows. They must do. At least the sheet manufacturers seem to think so. 'Cause I mean...have you bought sheets lately???
When the kid moved out I bought her a new mattress and bedding. Really really really nice sheets. Bamboo. Expensive, but oh so soft. She couldn't wait for those sheets. So imagine my chagrin when I started to make up the bed and the sheets were beyond enormous. (What's the word for beyond enormous? Gynormous??) I figured, okay, just a little extra tucking. Let me tell you, no amount of tucking was going to make these sheets fit. The "fitted" sheet covered the mattress AND the box spring.
So back they went to the very nice bedding store where I bought them -- 'cause isn't it nice to support independent stores and not the big-box behemoths -- where I could only get store credit, no cash refund. So I went home and measured my almost new pillow top mattress, 'cause I was due for some new sheets, and went back to the bedding store (which is in another town so this isn't just a quick trip to the mall). Now my mattress measures 14 inches in height and I'm thinking that's pretty damn big. It sure looks big. Apparently not. Every set of sheets in every brand in this store fits mattresses up to 19" deep. Who has a mattress this big? And those that do -- is their nose scraping the ceiling? Oh, I'd need the extra inches for tucking. So I was told. No, assured. So I fork out so more cash on top of my store credit for some very nice Tencel sheets, 320 thread count. Yeah, yeah, eco friendly blah, blah, blah, with excellent wicking abilities and excellent temperature regulating properties. Apparently not tested on menopausal women with night sweats, however.
Let me tell you, no assure you -- you do not need five extra inches for tucking. I like a sheet with some spring. Snap those corners on and bounce a dime. Instead, I'm sleeping in wrinkles. I roll over, the sheet shifts and wrinkles some more. Oh, they are very soft. Temperature regulating? Not so much. And don't even get me started on the size of the pillow cases.
And the kid? I had to make a quick trip to Target to get her some sheets. Lovely and soft, 400 thread count, and the corners have two elasticized sections to fit a variety of mattress sizes. What a cool concept.
Oh, and less than half the price.
Just imagine how much angst this would have caused at Depot? One assumes all this merchandise is manufactured in China. They seem to have a thing about the average size of all items North American. What is medium by our measure is extra large in their terms. Size envy obviously accounts for the extravagance of 'tuck factor'.
ReplyDeleteHaha...you're right about Depot...perhaps, all these many years later, my psyche is still damaged by the experience! And yes, I checked, manufactured in China so you may be on to something there.
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