# Do you prefer bed sheets tucked or untucked? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 5, 2009, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-bed-sheets-tucked-or-untucked/498854 "2009-06-05T18:05:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Terraplane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Terraplane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terraplane)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-bed-sheets-tucked-or-untucked/498854/21 "2009-06-06T05:08:44Z")
Untucked, unless it’s freezing I have to have at least one foot outside the blanket. I toss and turn so the outside foot changes depending on which side I’m laying on, but with both feet under the covers I feel stifled. It’s dumb since I suppose moving the blanket off my torso does more for my body temperature than a single foot, but for some reason it’s the only way I can sleep. ---
**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-bed-sheets-tucked-or-untucked/498854/22 "2009-06-06T05:37:30Z")
I used to have to have tucked or (easier) tuck the sheets under my feet. (Monsters under the bed, you know. I was in my thirties when that ended. (Yes, I have some anxiety issues–why do you ask?) Now, I’m just for the coolth and less anxious. Summertime in Houston? Feet out! ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_C](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Captain\_C](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_C)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-bed-sheets-tucked-or-untucked/498854/23 "2009-06-06T06:45:38Z")
I don’t even own sheets. I just toss a blanket or two over the bed and get under them. So I suppose that is a vote for Un-tucked, even though there really isn’t anything to tuck. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-bed-sheets-tucked-or-untucked/498854/24 "2009-06-06T07:28:35Z")
I don’t have a topsheet, I just sleep under a doona. And it MUST tucked, but not under the mattress. Rather, I kind of wrap it around myself. I can’t get comfortable with tucked sheets, it feels restrictive and there’s two little cold-air vents to either side of you. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-bed-sheets-tucked-or-untucked/498854/25 "2009-06-06T07:52:44Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > Untucked. It’s the first thing I do when I walk into a hotel room. > > I also prefer the top sheet and blanket to be bigger than the bed (King sized for a full sized bed) that way I’m less likely to end up uncovered. > > Someone mentioned not touching the blanket - I’m that way too if the blanket is acrylic. Since I switched to layers of cotton blankets instead of one acrylic comforter I haven’t been awakened by the horror of acrylic touching my feet. > > My idea of Hell is a wool pillowcase. I also prefer the top sheet and blanket to be larger than the bed. My husband prefers tucked, and I prefer that the top sheet and any covers be tucked under my feet, not under the mattress. I’m diabetic, I have poor circulation, and my feet are almost always cold, even in the summertime. So I like to have my feet snuggled in the sheet and blankets, and in the wintertime I use a heating pad or hot water bottle at the foot of the bed. Mmmmm, my feet feel so warm and loved when I use a heat source. Otherwise, they feel like they’re gonna drop right off from the cold. It’s a good thing I don’t live where it gets really cold! ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-bed-sheets-tucked-or-untucked/498854/26 "2009-06-06T10:26:38Z")
I like my bed sheets like I like my women - soft, sensual, and getting tossed around all over the bed. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-bed-sheets-tucked-or-untucked/498854/27 "2009-06-06T10:33:41Z")
> [@sandra\_nz](#): > > Untucked to the extent that we don’t use a top sheet, we just sleep directly under the duvet! ditto. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-bed-sheets-tucked-or-untucked/498854/28 "2009-06-06T12:00:29Z")
The bottom one, tucked. The bottom of the top one, tucked. The rest of the top one, untucked, as otherwise I can’t turn around comfortably. I don’t really “move” when asleep, “fight with the bedding” may be a better description, so often by the time I wake up the top one is completely loose and the bottom one is doing its best to come off. A couple of times when I was in my teens I managed to slide the mattress off the bed… ---
**Author:** ![lolagranola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ea5d25/32.png) [@lolagranola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lolagranola)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-bed-sheets-tucked-or-untucked/498854/29 "2009-06-06T14:22:06Z")
> [@sandra\_nz](#): > > Untucked to the extent that we don’t use a top sheet, we just sleep directly under the duvet! Another one. I can’t STAND tucked in sheets. Every hotel room, I usually crawl under the covers and then kick viciously until comfortable. ---
**Author:** ![StuffLikeThatThere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@StuffLikeThatThere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StuffLikeThatThere)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-bed-sheets-tucked-or-untucked/498854/30 "2009-06-06T14:40:55Z")
I’m a tucker, and my husband is an untucker. I had no idea there were so many mixed marriages out there. ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-bed-sheets-tucked-or-untucked/498854/31 "2009-06-06T14:59:06Z")
Tucked! ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-bed-sheets-tucked-or-untucked/498854/32 "2009-06-06T17:09:12Z")
Hospital corners, sides as well as the bottom firmly tucked in so that to get into bed you slide you feet in first from pillow level. Blankets tucked in as well as sheets at least on the bottom. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-bed-sheets-tucked-or-untucked/498854/33 "2009-06-06T17:16:23Z")
Oh, and another mixed couple here. We actually use his & hers sheets, each with our own set of covers on the same bed, mine tucked (at least on my side), hers not. She doesn’t really cover herself with her covers. Her feet stick out from about the knees on down, sometimes also only partly covered from the waist up… covers bunched up into clumps and pouchy pockets all over. Me, I’ve been known to get out of bed in the middle of the night and straighten mine out if the sheet and blanket aren’t properly parallel or one is bunched in relationship to the other. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-bed-sheets-tucked-or-untucked/498854/34 "2009-06-06T18:42:25Z")
His side tucked, mine gloriously free. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-bed-sheets-tucked-or-untucked/498854/35 "2009-06-06T19:29:26Z")
We tuck at the bottom only. If we didn’t my husband’s flippity flopping would result in him wound up in the sheet and me sleeping in direct contact with the blanket. Bleah! I also generally sleep with one foot out. There seem to be a lot of this. Any way we could get a grant and study why this is? ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-bed-sheets-tucked-or-untucked/498854/36 "2009-06-06T22:41:23Z")
> [@sandra\_nz](#): > > Untucked to the extent that we don’t use a top sheet, we just sleep directly under the duvet! And yet another. If I use a top sheet (like when I’m at my parents’ house and my mother makes up the bed before I get to it), I kick it down into the bottom of the bed by morning, so why bother putting one on? ---
**Author:** ![Sine\_Nomine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sine_nomine/32/513_2.png) [@Sine\_Nomine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sine_Nomine)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-bed-sheets-tucked-or-untucked/498854/37 "2009-06-06T23:18:12Z")
Ok, I have to admit something… until I read this thread I had no idea it was even possible to sleep under a tucked sheet. :o You’re talking about the edges of the flat sheet tucked under the mattress, right? I have a feeling I’m picturing this wrong. You make the bed and sort of slide in like a letter into an envelope? Isn’t it drafty by your shoulders? How do you get in without the sheet coming untucked? I sleep wrapped up like a burrito. I don’t even tuck anything in when I make the bed, just let the sheet and blankets fall neatly down the sides (well, the fitted sheet is tucked, obviously). I always hate all the extra work I have to do in hotels just to go to sleep. I usually end up leaving the “Do Not Disturb” hanger up the entire time so housekeeping won’t come in and put everything back. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2009, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-bed-sheets-tucked-or-untucked/498854/38 "2009-06-08T08:42:16Z")
A diligently tucked in my sheet and made “French” corners most of my adult life. And I put up with my feet feeling uncomfortable by that tuck, not imaging there was any other way. Then I accidentally discovered the joy of sleeping in an untucked bed. Free at last! My other recent comfort discovery was how much better my hips and spine felt when I tucked a small pillow between my knees. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2009, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-bed-sheets-tucked-or-untucked/498854/39 "2009-06-08T08:44:04Z")
> [@Sine\_Nomine](#): > > Ok, I have to admit something… until I read this thread I had no idea it was even possible to sleep under a tucked sheet. :o You’re talking about the edges of the flat sheet tucked under the mattress, right? I have a feeling I’m picturing this wrong. You make the bed and sort of slide in like a letter into an envelope? We’re talking about tucking in only the bottom end of the sheet, not three sides of the sheet as you’re imagining. ---
**Author:** ![Southpaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@Southpaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southpaw)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2009, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-bed-sheets-tucked-or-untucked/498854/40 "2009-06-08T16:47:35Z")
Gotta be untucked, my tootsies need to be free. I can’t stand sleeping under just a duvet. My body temperature flucuates enough during the night that having several layers of bedding means I can always be comfortable. I can take off or put on layers of bedding when necessary. I also must have at least a corner of the sheet on me or I can’t sleep. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-bed-sheets-tucked-or-untucked/498854.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-bed-sheets-tucked-or-untucked/498854.md?page=3)