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Bed linen is one of the most
important essentials.
When shopping for
bed linen,
know the depth of your
mattress
before you buy. Measure your mattress with
mattress cover
or
mattress pad
or
mattress topper
on, to make sure the fitted bed
sheet you
are buying has deep enough pockets for your pockets for your
mattress.
If the pockets are not deep enough you may wake up in the middle of the
night with your sheets off the mattress, and we know how frustrating and
how uncomfortable that is.
When buying bed linen, take a
look at the
thread count
also. Yes, you can buy a cheaper bed sheet set, but they will not service
you as long as quality ones, and the cheaper ones also pill, that is very
uncomfortable. When you move your feet you feel this roughness and is not a
very pleasant feeling.
When buying bed linen, as mentioned before, look at the thread count. The
higher the thread count the more the bed sheet will cost.
However, in the long term, they will give you years of wear. In the end they
are cheaper than the cheap ones to start with.
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Think of how many years of wear you get from quality bed linen. Divide that
into the cost and it is mere pennies per week that the bed linen costs you.
Bed linen like the Egyptian
cotton, the thread count goes as high as 1000 or more threads per square
inch. That is a lot of threads and that is quality and luxury. No need to go
that high, you can get
Egyptian cotton bed sheets
from 300 thread count per square inch and they too will give you many years
of wear. I only use Egyptian cotton as an example here.
Be sure you do look at the
depth of the pockets and the thread count before you buy any bed linen or
bed sheets, as they are also called.
You might consider the many
advantages of having at least two sets of bed linen per bed. This way, while
one is being laundered, the other bed linen set is being used. Needless to
say, they will last longer and will be labour saving.
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