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chasd00 6 days ago

Why would you wash a fitted sheet if it was not immediately going back on the bed? I don’t think I’ve ever had to fold a fitted sheet…

hansvm 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

It's easy to accidentally accumulate more than you need. E.g., when I got married we each were previously living our own lives. Big things like mattresses we consolidated, but an extra set of sheets is zero maintenance.

It's also nice to be able to make the bed right away. Maybe you want to take a nap while the clothes finish. Maybe you have time now and not later (and can defer the folding to "later" as well). You could have one of those shitty high-efficiency dryers that incorrectly detects whether your clothes are dry and doesn't have an override to apply heat anyway, requiring 12h of air drying to actually have dry sheets. You could not have a dryer or otherwise prefer air drying more generally.

You could also have an extra set of sheets for a pull-out couch or other sort of place where you don't normally waste the space having the bed always down on the ground.

Etc. Life is complicated. There are 8B of us, and we're not clones.

cossatot 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Because it's for your kid's bed. At 3 AM the previous night, they peed the bed, so you got the other one out and put it on, throwing this one in the laundry room. Then, today you washed it but the one on the bed already is still in good shape.

Or, you have sheets of a few different colors, each paired to a comforter with a different weight that is changed seasonally, or biweekly, depending on the preferences of you and your bedmate.

ilikepi 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

One reason might be that one owns more than one set...for example, living in an area that has both hot summers and cold winters, we have summer sheets (sateen) and winter sheets (fleece).

ufo 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

If you plan on drying it on a clothesline.