Fleece sheets, heavy comforter and 4 cats. Oh, and a wife.
I like it cosy warm.
In winter, I have flannel sheets, two woven cotton blankets, a cotton quilt, and whatever extra heavy fuzzy things I feel necessary (right now, an afghan and a new microfiber blanket) on my side of the bed. Also I have an electric heating pad under the bottom sheet for my feet, and one on my pillow.
My husband serves as a heater; he doesn’t need the extra things. If he’s traveling or something I get really cold.
I don’t know what I’d do if I lived someplace really cold. Buy a lot of wool, I guess.
Sheets, down duvet, and a fleece blanket over everything. In the coldest weather I use the heated mattress pad to preheat the bed before getting in. I don’t like being cold.
Even in the summer I like having the weight of blankets on me. I feel exposed and weird if it’s just a sheet - I need to have something to pull up on my head to cover up my ears or I don’t feel right.
Summer- Sometimes a sheet, sometimes nothing
Winter - Flannel sheets and a down comforter
Sheet and comforter all year round. In the winter we switch to flannel sheets.
Yep. Depends on the time of year. A sheet and blanket at least. Then we will add a quilt and sometimes another blanket in winter. Our room gets down to about 50 degrees.
Depends on the time of year
Warm/Hot (April-ish through mid-October) - just a sheet, but sometimes even that gets kicked off
Cool months - sheets with an old fashioned wool blanket (the kind with silk on the edges)
Cold - flannel sheets, wool blanket, light weight down comforter
It never gets seriously cold here, but we really don’t like to use the central heat.
I always have a sheet + medium-thick comforter. But in warm weather they are thrown back completely or I sleep on top of them with a very light blanket. In cooler weather I cover 1/2 to 3/4 of my body and usually have at least a leg exposed to throw off excess heat.
I hate being hot in bed, which has historically been a mild issue when sharing it. Cuddling is fine until I start to overheat.
A thin blanket with no sheet under it for all seasons. I hate sheets under blankets unless I’m in a hotel than it’s a must. It’s too confining.
Just yesterday I switched out the summer mattress pad for the winter heated mattress pad and put on the jersey sheets. Come later in December or January I’ll break out the flannel sheets.
Right now, we’ve got the sheets, the quilt, and a thicker bedspread on. Soon enough I’ll swap out the bedspread for our down comforter, and maybe add another blanket/afghan under the quilt. That’s the winter bedclothes, with either jersey sheets or flannel ones.
A summer bed has regular cotton sheets with the quilt, but the quilt’ll get kicked off as often as not. It’s there for looks, definitely not warmth.
Spring and fall beds have the sheets (usually regular cotton), the quilt, and maybe the heavier weight bedspread, depending on the warmth.
Yes, I live in the Great White North, why do you ask? Winter can get wearing, but I do like the four seasons.
In the winter my room is often quite cold (high 50’s-low 60’s). I have percale sheets, an antique quilt and two down comforters (winter weight and summer weight) and 4 cats stacked on the bed. In summer I use the same sheets and the light down comforter. I don’t like flannel sheets because I feel like I’m velcro’d into the bed.
I answered “A few blankets”, but you can draw your own conclusion.
StG
I like a cold bedroom and a couple of heavy quilts; I have an extra quilt on my side, and my husband has just the regular quilt on his side. We had an electric blanket with the dual controls that worked beautifully for one winter. Then it stopped. Stupid crappy modern products.
I also toast my feet on my portable heater before going to sleep - I can’t sleep with cold feet, and my feet just don’t seem to warm up on their own. Ah, warm, toasted feet - nothing better in winter.
Our bed covers consist of a sheet and a mid-weight duvet. During the summer, the duvet invariably ends up pushed onto the floor at the end of the bed (the cats seem to like this). During the winter, we usually have the heat on, and since our bedroom is rather small and we insulate the windows, that duvet is usually sufficient for our needs. Occasionally, we’ll add an extra blanket, though rarely for more than a night or two.
It does depend on the season.
I don’t need a bunch of covers to be warm, but the feeling of weight on me helps me sleep. I’ve posted before that the lead apron that the dentist puts on me for x-rays works like warm milk or a sleeping pill for me and i wish I could buy one (an old heavy one. Modern technology has been lightening them up for a few years.)
It obviously depends on the time of year. It’s warming up into summer now, so a single sheet is sufficient. In the colder months (July, August), just the duvet is fine.
I recently put on my flannel sheets. Anybody else?
Try filling an old sock with uncooked rice and microwaving it for about 2 1/2 minutes and sticking it at the foot of your bed. It’ll create a toasty pocket when you get into bed, and then you can put your feet against it. It’s wonderful! and no worries about an electric blanket catching on fire.
StG
Luckily my boyfriend and I like the same bedding arrangements.
We have a headed bed pad, high thread count sheets, a blanket, a comforter, another blanket (to protect the comforter from the dogs). We’d both like a really heavy blanket in there too but we haven’t found the perfect one since the demise of the king size denim Eddie Bauer comforter we used for 12 years. We both like the warmth and the weight. I unplug my side of the heated pad in the warm weather. He does not. He doesn’t like cold sheets. I do, as long as I’m not already cold.
We use AC in the hot weather.
In summer, I just use a sheet, and have AC and several fans directed at me. In winter I turn off AC and fans. I open the window when it’s above freezing, and use a sheet plus a flannel sheet. My SO sleeps under a heavy, heavy comforter with duvet cover year round. I wonder why.