# Does anyone here actually sleep with the sheets tucked in at the foot of the bed?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 15, 2007, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-here-actually-sleep-with-the-sheets-tucked-in-at-the-foot-of-the-bed/426553 "2007-11-15T16:22:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![cowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@cowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cowgirl)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2007, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-here-actually-sleep-with-the-sheets-tucked-in-at-the-foot-of-the-bed/426553/81 "2007-11-16T17:53:22Z")

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I’ve untucked for as long as I can remember. As a child I never understood the point of bedmaking, because every time I got in a bed that was made I had to spend a few minutes messing it up to perfection. My feet need to breathe.

Even if I started out in a made bed, I would dream about holding the covers by my face and kicking with my feet to get them untucked from the bottom, and then I would wake up, and you’ll never guess what had happened.

If I fall asleep with socks on I remove them in my sleep too.

So when I first encountered the duvet (and what I was told was the European style of bed making, which amounts to folding up the duvet at the foot of the bed) I was delighted. Now I use only a duvet, with a cover made of two bedsheets sewn together, and it is still MUCH too hot for me so I spend half the night half out in the open anyway.

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**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2007, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-here-actually-sleep-with-the-sheets-tucked-in-at-the-foot-of-the-bed/426553/82 "2007-11-16T18:03:24Z")

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I prefer the sheet tucked in at the bottom, but leave a pocket for my feet rather than tuck it tightly. Otherwise my feet cramp in the night and I wake up suddenly in excruciating pain.

I’m a very restless sleeper but seem to move around under the bedding rather than dragging it with me. Or maybe the anchor cats keep the bedding in place.

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**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2007, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-here-actually-sleep-with-the-sheets-tucked-in-at-the-foot-of-the-bed/426553/83 "2007-11-16T18:23:57Z")

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99% of the time I only sleep under a sheet so I tuck them in only at the foot of the bed because I roll all over the bed when I sleep and if I don’t tuck then the sheet ends up on the floor or all bunched up on one side of the bed and then I get cold.

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