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[oyceter]

Gaaah. My sister's friend has been looking everywhere for a nice duvet, and so I have been sucked into looking at all these bedding things, and gaaaaaaah. High-thread count sateen sheets of Egyption cotton. Gaaaaaaaaah.

*drools a little more*

I think nice sheets are one of those wonderful, wonderful luxuries of life. I don't quite remember what kind of sheets I have, but I remember back in college, I got cheap sheets of half polyester, half cotton, and ick. They were just sort of scratchy, and even after much washing, they never developed that softness that cotton does, so much so that it doesn't even wrinkle, or so it seems. I switched to different sheets after freshman year (100% cotton, because I love cotton). The sheets I have now are relatively high-thread count (I think 300? Can't quite remember), but nowhere near the luxury sheets of 1000 thread coutn or something. Still. I've washed them a few times, and they're now at that slightly worn, silky stage, and just lying on them with my head on my squashy down pillows with cotton pillowcases and rolling around on the wonderful smoothness of my sheets makes me very happy.

Maybe this is why I end up oversleeping so much -- I am just so comfy in bed that I end up falling back asleep instead of waking up!

Silk sheets sound all luxurious and wonderful, but I wonder if they can match the warmth and coolness of really nice cotton.

It sounds a little odd that I have a favorite fabric, but I do. I am only sad because my cotton yarn is not high quality and somewhat rough when I knit. Le sigh.

Plus, cotton is so much easier to take care of than wool! And cotton jeans, and cotton shirts, and those cotton T-shirts you've worn and washed so often that they feel almost see through. And of course, there is flannel. But most of all, I love cotton sheets.

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[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

These just shipped to me-- I can't wait till they arrive:

http://www.thecompanystore.com/parent.asp?product=eq85x&dept%5Fid=3001

[oyceter]

Oooooo, so nice. You are also partially to blame for the sheet envy, actually ;).

[deevalish.livejournal.com]

Just a note on thread counts in sheets, you wouldn't need to go higher than 500, 350 and up is great. But going higher than 500, the threads are made thinner so that they can weave that many threads per square inch. Thinner threads don't last as long, wash wise.

[oyceter]

Hrm, cool, thanks for the tip.

[thinkum]

There really isn't anything quite like a really nice, silky, cotton sheet. Fred and I were doing the registering thing last month (well, actually, I was doing it, and he was saying, "okay, dear" *g*), and omg, it was so hard to keep the greed at bay when I saw the bedding department...

[oyceter]

Bwah, your icon rocks!

And I am jealous of the registering thing ^_^.

[thinkum]

Hee!

The registering thing: nowhere near as much fun as you would think, when you're a couple in your 40s/50s, trying to merge two households. We've already got furniture, dishes, appliances, etc., and don't really need anything else. I've been trying to (tactfully) encourage folks to make donations to charity in our honor, instead, but it's a really tough tradition to break; we were (tactfully) informed that if we *didn't* register anywhere, we would have no business complaining about receiving a chartreuse-and-neon-purple zebra-striped rug. Ack! So we registered...but it was tough finding things that we would actually need and/or use.

[oyceter]

Oh man.. maybe... appliance upgrade? I can see how it'd be difficult though.

[thinkum]

I also didn't want people spending gads of money on us, so I went for a pretty moderate list -- lots of little kitchen utensils to replace my hodge-podge collection, a couple of accent serving bowls, a few sheets and towels, and so forth. But it was really difficult, even so.