was putting it on the wrong side of the sheet. She said the top sheet should be put on right side up. Wrong side facing the bottom sheet. I said no way the top sheet goes right side down so the pretty side is facing the bottom sheet. So when you turn your bed back the pretty side is showing. Okay give me your take on which side is up or down. She also says you dont turn the top of the top sheet back over the blankets.
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WOW I have never had a post go to the second page before.lol
7261well heres my 2 cents also....frankly it doesn't matter in my household, because the sheets never stay on anyway....First it was me with the hot flashes now its my hubby...most of the blankets are on the floor....no time to make the bed with all the kids going one way or the other and quite frankly, I get tireed of making a bed only to mess it up in a few hours....
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34246Oh thanks for this, I have had a great laugh which was greatly needed after a rather horrible day which ended with me burning the evening meal...
I will return refreshed to work tomorrow and when I am wading through all that has to be done I will remember this posting and laugh.
Nearly forgot to add my comments on the sheets - I use a duvet so the problem doesnot arise
Bunches of flowers to all- sorry it will only let me give one at a time
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115771I agree with you wholeheartedly. Did you know that there used to be a rule amonst the older people that the top sheet must be wrong side down. I was taught the same thing when doing my teachers dip. in Home Economics. It is so that when you fold it over, the right side shows. No one can see the wrong side once you have a blanket over it, but you can see the folded over side.
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by nonmusicmom
23 Sep 2009
This is true and I had a Great Aunt that would remake the bed if it was wrong she would not sleep in a bed that wasn't make properly as she would say.lol
15907LOL...Ladies I've laughed so hard my sides hurt..actually it's all in how we were taught at home. But if you want to make sure it's really done the correct way...use the same colors in your bobbin just as you would for fsl,then it would be on both sides and one of them is bound to be correct...besides who are we trying to impress other than ourselves. This has been a HOOT! Loving it.
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20661ROFLOL!! This may be the funniest post I have read!
I put the right side of the sheet facing down so I can fold over the pretty side even though my DH thinks that is wrong. He does not get up in the middle of the night and change it. I put the tp over the top and at one time or another I may have changed it in places other than my own home. I also have a compulsive need to change the light switches if they are wrong.
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by nonmusicmom
23 Sep 2009
I told my son about this post las tnight when I went over to watch the boys and he laughted. Then I went in the kitchen and the paper towels were WRONG. I told him as i changed then. He said WHO CARES! I said I do.lol
3705I agree with you. Tell your neighbor to check out the sheets next time she stays a a hotel. Also, my sister had a professionl cleaning business her clients were the very wealthy who had vacation homes she took care of. I used to do as your friend says until my sis pointed out that I was incorrect.
This whole post is a hoot. I had tears of laughter. As for the TP, I like it over the top too, by my left-handed hubbie likes it down the wall. I have to admit that kids and cats did get me doing it his way.
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7293Well .. I guess I have to add my 2 cents .. although this is really NOT funny. As a kid, we never had top sheets either, and we were really on the poor side. However, one time I sent a night at a friends house .. she lived in Cincinnati, IN THE CITY, and they (a family of about 9 children) used an outhouse. It was winter, and they piled their coats on top of their bed, and slid under a blanket to keep warm ... 3 or 4 kids to a bed. Also, the girls dried their long hair in the winter by turning on the kitchen oven, and opening the door. BUT THEY WERE GREAT KIDS, AND WELL WORTH KNOWING. After I spent the night there, I appreciated sleeping with my two sisters in a regular size bed. We did have a coal furnace for heat. I NEVER FORGOT THEM OR THAT NIGHT.
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by nonmusicmom
23 Sep 2009
It's always an eye opener and a heart toucher when you visit others. It makes us appreciate what we do have. Thanks
8287I do it your way. When you turn the top back, the pretty side must show.
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21222this is quiet a discussion : bedsheets, toiletpaper ....
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743310First - print this page and give it to your neighbor! Second I always make my bed with the sheet right side up - becauseeeeeee my mom was an r.n. and when they changed bed linens in the hospital (way back when) it was square corners on the bottom (anybody still do these on top) and flat smooth on the top. Didn't matter which way was up there was no design just starched white. So I always make my bed top sheet up and my dh hates it and has been know to reverse it in the middle of the night while I'm in the loo! MEN! Like they say can't live with em can't kill em! (kidding) Anyway it's all about doing it the way you want it, it's your home, anybody not like it doesn't have to stay. As for the tp, my goes over but when Pogo gets an urge it's completely unrolled and pulled throughout the entire house. Then if I have put in on backwards, he gets a little attitude and literally shreds the entire roll. I have been known to re-roll toilet paper but not for company!
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by nonmusicmom
21 Sep 2009
At the price of toilet paper I would reroll too! Yes I also make hospital corners on all of my beds. My neighbor doesnt tuck her top sheet in on the side of the foot of the bed eighter.
by maryjo
21 Sep 2009
Navy brat here and we have square corners. DH used to try the bouncing quarter bit on our boys beds. They never did get them tight enough to bounce that quarter.
by blhamblen
23 Sep 2009
YUP, my mom is a RN too...she cringes that I don't make my bed EVERY morning!!! Dad would bounce quarters, just to show us (8)kids that MOM knew how to do it right!!
17161I searched in google and this is what it can up with.
Step1 Secure the fitted sheet onto your mattress, making sure to smooth out any wrinkles.
Step 2 Place the top sheet over the fitted sheet, with the print side facing down. Be sure the top of the sheet is aligned with the top edge of the mattress and that equal lengths of the top sheet are hanging down each side of the bed.
Step 3 Tuck the bottom end of the top sheet under the mattress. Tuck both sides of the top sheet under the mattress, stopping halfway down each side. Let the remaining half of the top sheet hang freely on each side.
Step 4 Place your quilt or comforter on top of the top sheet with the patterned side of the quilt or comforter facing up. Fold the top third of the quilt or comforter back.
Step 5 Fold the top sheet back over the top of the folded section of the quilt or comforter, leaving at least two inches between the edge of the sheet and the edge of the comforter.
Step 6 Arrange pillows in a decorative fashion to cover the exposed fitted sheet where the comforter and top sheet have been folded back
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by nonmusicmom
21 Sep 2009
WOW they made it sould so complex. Thanks I was thinking about finding my old edique book and seeing what it said. Thanks for the info.:0)
52685I have never laughed so much. The comments to the right side up or down is just so funny. Who would of thought that this question would bring out the humour in every one. I personally would prefer to sleep between the right sides like I have done all my life. *4u all.
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by nonmusicmom
21 Sep 2009
I was just thinking. When this neighbor went to Tx for her husband funneral I went over and cleaned her house and washed all the bed sheets and remade the beds. I put the sheets on the RIGHT way and she never said anything about it. I guess when I make some one elses bed I should look at the sheets and put them on the way they do RIGHT OR NOT.lol
by sandynavas
21 Sep 2009
Either that or just switch the sheet end over end and leave the same sheet on. That is having the bottom at the top and the top to the bottom . . . why oh why do you have to make me laugh so much? Don't you know I'm on diuretics????????? P.S. I am NOT going to check this post again. P.S. I am NOT going to check this post again. P.S. I am NOT going to check this post again. P.S. I am NOT going to check this post again. P.S. I am NOT going to check this post again. P.S. I am NOT going to check this post again...
3594It just occurred to me that if you use the same color/colour bobbin thread that it definitely does not matter which side you embroider on? But, be certain that you use a two-way design because if your gift recipient doesn't put the sheet on the way it was embroidered it will be upside down when folded down.
Something else to consider. This 'ain't' no easy job. Why don't you just buy them some darned sheets??
(I am laughing).
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by nonmusicmom
21 Sep 2009
I want to put thier names on them because they are so funny about which side of the bed they sleep on. It would be like a placecard for sleeping.lol
2182I'm with you, in fact one of my sheets sets actually has an additional border stitched onto it and it is stitched on with piping, in such a way, that you have to put the sheet right side down so that when you fold the top part over the pretty border and piping is showing.
Otherwise, you would have to only bring the sheet up to within pillow distance from the top end of the mattress and then when you get into bed it wouldn't cover over your shoulders, let alone be able to snuggle it up around your neck.
Hugs n roses, Meganne
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by sandynavas
21 Sep 2009
I keep someone else in my room to snuggle up around my neck. Reminds me of why the newlywed had fur around the bottom of her nightie!!
122864I feel the same way as you. the right sdide down and when you turn it over the pretty side is on top Enjoy your bedding Love Marie
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11877You are right. On the right side, the embroidery upside down when you stitch it, so that when you turn the sheet over the blanket it shows the right way up.
When I got married 45 years ago, I had separate bottom sheets and embroidered top sheets with matching pillows, plus woolen blankets. They were shop bought and embroidered on the right side. And I made and embroidered some linen ones as well, nice open seams and all. I still have a number of them I was very proud of and only used on special occasions - like my parents or in-laws staying with us. Should have used them more often as now it's all duvets and covers (do you call them duvets in the States or comforters?) and they are sitting in the back of the cupboard.
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by sandynavas
21 Sep 2009
Mine are called duvets - I always thought you put the comforter in the duvet cover and it then became a duvet . . . what does this old country girl know?
by nonmusicmom
21 Sep 2009
It depends on where you were raised I think. In CA where I grew up in a fairly poor family it was called a comforter but we only had home made quilts. When I moved to CO they most people called them comforters now we live in AR and evryone calls them duvets.
145304I'm going to ramble on here, so just hold on. =]
If you just have plain sheets, it really doesn't matter at all which way you put them on the bed. My grandmother would put them on one way and after a week, turn them over the other direction so that she didn't feel that she had to wash them as often. And if your pillow cases are plain or don't match, you tuck them under the blanket so that they don't show, which precludes being able to turn the sheet over the blankets. This is probably your neighbor's situation.
If, however, you have nicely embroidered sheets and matching pillowcases, you are probably going to want to show them off a bit. That is where the idea of placing the pillows on top of everything and having the sheet edge folded over came from.
As someone else mentioned, embroidery and lace were once the privilege of only the rich and royalty. Of course you would like to have others feel like you fit into that group, if you can. Why do you think that so many people who do genealogy want to find out that they are related to long-gone Kings and Queens?
So, if you embroider the top sheet, you will want it on the "right" side, and have it folded over to look pretty, just like you have said. To anyone who says differently, you can just smile and nod graciously, while you secretly pity them, as they are not as classy as you obviously are. =D
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by meganne
21 Sep 2009
ROFLMBO!!!!!
Did poor peple even have sheets? I thought they used sacking on their beds.
I, of course have always had embroidered, lacy or silk sheets. One of my great GM's was Spanish nobility.
But we won't talk about the rest of my ancestors! LOLOLOL!!!
Thanks Cutiepie, lovely to see you here. hugs n roses, Meganne
by cutiepie
21 Sep 2009
I'm glad that you got a kick out of my response, Meganne. It was kind of tongue in cheek at points.
Personally, I have no idea if the commoners (poor people) had sheets. I try to keep a proper distance from them. Can't have any of that "poorness" rub off on my perfect, porcelain skin or anything. :D
by sandynavas
21 Sep 2009
I have never been one who was so proud that there was lace on my sheets to parade friends, family and neighbors through my bedroom . . . In fact, I have never even wanted lace on my sheets - they scratch. Did you know that if you stay in a hotel and the previous occupant has not stained the sheets they can just pull them tight and you wouldn't know the housekeeper was too lazy to change them out? Except at the Marriott because their mattresses are too thin to hold the sheets in place anyway.
Just an unpaid advertisement . . .
I'm so glad everyone here is so funny.
by nonmusicmom
21 Sep 2009
That is why an Aunt of mine thats her own sheets to motels and changes the sheets as well as wipes down everything with disenfecting wipes before she even lets her familly in the room. Maybe she has royalty in her blood. I always thought she was just a little craxy.lol
by bokkieborduur
21 Sep 2009
I hate it to go sleep over in hotels or motels for the same reason, sometimes you can even smell the smoke in the bed, specially if you don't smoke. Marie
by daisy530
21 Sep 2009
My MIL hurt herself last year in a motel, because she flushed the toilet with her foot! Really--she is 90. She also wears her flip flops in the shower.
by crafter2243
21 Sep 2009
Talking about sheets. I bought some satin sheete. Ooohhh, they felt so slick when I put them on. That night I kind of bounced into bed and slid right out and landed on the floor on the other side. I gave them to one of my children. Haven't heard anything about broken bones yet.
by blhamblen
23 Sep 2009
HA HA HA I did the same thing...I sleep in a water bed...so had a good bounce....Glad I'm not alone on this one...boy are they expensive give aways!!!!
6653Paula, I am sure you are righ - but nonetheless - if the bed is getting made - it should go the way - the person making the bed wants it - Hehehe! *4U
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by nonmusicmom
21 Sep 2009
So your saying different folks have different sheets as well as strokes. :0)
by shirlener88
21 Sep 2009
No - all I was saying - is get the bed made - no matter how it is made - lol
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27608Right side faces down so when you pull the top part you see the embroidery on the good side, just make so you embroidery it upside down so when you turn the bed open, the design will be right side up.
Cloey
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4271Back in the days when a person could buy pretty TP, those that had different colors and flower designs on them, were rolled so that when you put it on the holder the paper pulled the TP from over the top so the designs showed and made your bathroom look pretty. Nowadays, you cannot buy colored or printed TP so I suppose it doesn't matter. I'm an "over-the-top" kinda gal, hee hee hee.
Way back when hand embroidered linen was the hallmark of the very rich or royal, hand embroidered borders or elaborate monograms with or without a ton of lace on the right side of the top sheet tops was a must. The sheets were put on the bed right sides together, so when the top sheet was folded back over the edge of the blankets or when the bedding was turned back, the hand embroidered designs showed. Isn't it nice that this custom has not gone out of style>
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1012Hello dearest nonmusicmom, You are right! I have done some embroidery on sheets and that's exactly what I have done: embroidered on top sheet (right side up). You always lay the top sheet right side facing the bottom sheet. I fold my embroidered top sheet over the blanket (the folded edge about 1/4 hidden under the Pillow). Very neat... he.. Hugs, Mary
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3047I fold my bed down after making and my top sheet shows,shams and dec pillows go on and you still see the dec top sheet. Top sheet goes on right side down folded back to see dec edging.Your right.
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4292Whichever way you do it is right!!! We don't all make our beds the same way. If they're gifts for your kids you should be able to find out how they make their beds and do them accordingly.
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by nonmusicmom
21 Sep 2009
Thanks. I know how they make thier beds My daughter and son make it the way they grew up with. Right side down. My daughter in law never changes the bed sheets so she won't care and my son in law goes along with the way my daughter want it. When we lived with my sona nd daughter inlaw for 6 months after we movd to AR and our house wasn't finished and she needed me to care for the baby. she never once shanged the sheets on thier bed. 6 months no washing or changing.
by meganne
21 Sep 2009
I remember when I was a teenager I had a girlfriend stay over and my bed sheets were in the (clean) washing ready to go back on my bed.
Well, my Dad went past my room and noticed my friend had climb into the bed without any sheets on and was so disgusted he told me not to associate with her!!!
Now, don't you think THAT is overkill???
Of course I ignored him and we were friends for ages.
How was she supposed to know where the bed sheets were??
M
6832I think we all agree. do the design where you want. It is going to be a gift right. And if they are not gracious enough to accept your hard and loving work. Then they should be ashamed. although your neighbor may get a little upset. Look at the links. If you look in stores they have the bed made the way we do so we can't all be wrong. Have a blessed day. If the sheets are queen size and they don't like them I have a queen size bed. Ha Ha Have a Blessed day. Sara * to you
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by nonmusicmom
21 Sep 2009
Well since I want to put thier names on them... Her name is Sara but is your hubbys name Paul? lol
10191I just finished a set of sheets and pillows, a very simple design, for fall and I did it the same way you do it.***
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60484rite side down so when you ture it back it showa the design.
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3276724424You are right. You put the pretty side down and flip it over the blanket. The point of the sheet is it is something you can launder frequently so it goes between you and the blanket. That way the blanket stays cleaner longer and does not have to be washed as often.
Note number 4 of second link.
www1.macys.com[2] http://www.wikihow.com/Make-up-a-Bed-Neatly
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463420I do it like you do. I was taught fold over the top sheet over the blankets & quilts from a very early age. Maybe it's just a southern thing. I noticed my hubby's folks up in Michigan didn't do it like I do. LOL *
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by nonmusicmom
21 Sep 2009
Well I grew up in California but no one believes that because i do and act like a southern lady!!! Both of my parents were from Oklahoma. So I was raised with southern manners and ideas. Thanks :0)
145791Well - it depends on whether I make up the bed, or my hubby does. I put the top sheet on so that when turned down the pretty side shows over the blanket. Hubby says I am doing it wrong, but since he strips the bed, does the laundry, and makes up the bed, I will live with that until I retire. LOL *4U
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by nonmusicmom
21 Sep 2009
My hubby madeit the way yours does when we married. Now when he helps make the bed now and then he just stands there and says is this the right way? LOL :0) I'm just glad he helps out when he is home.
44904I think you are sooo right but I guess it is all what you are used to. My husband and I have been having this discussion since we were married... I'm a right side down and fold back. My husband is right side up and leave it. I think right side down and fold back makes a prettier display of all your handiwork... Good luck.
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2260I can only answer for myself, but I always put the pretty side facing down so when I turn the sheet back over the blanket the pretty side shows. I would much rather snuggle the sheet under my chin than a scratchy blanket... and the sheet protects the blanket or duvet so it needs washing less often. The other way just seems strange to me. This is the way I have always done it, also my mum and gran :)
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by sandynavas
20 Sep 2009
I think your description of the sheet protecting the blanket is the true justification.
by nonmusicmom
21 Sep 2009
That makes perfect since. I am very allergic to wool so when we would go to my Aunts house to visit my Mom would have to take me a sheet and blanket to use on the hide a bed because she only had wool blankets.
8431I was taught as you were. Also, I was taught to turn the pretty part of the hem over on itself or put the blanket between the sheet and the turn down. You might go look at sheets that already have embroidery on them and you will disvover the manufactures do it as I do.
Hope this helps.
Mary
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1561I make my bed like you do, turn down the top sheet, so does my SIL. I would kindly thank the neighbor and move on! Blessings!
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by nonmusicmom
21 Sep 2009
Thanks she is a dwonderful person and I love her dearly so I have let it drop and will do it as I think is right. :0)
28105329Your neighbor is SOOOO wrong. You are SOOOO right! The top sheet is placed on the bed wrong side to the bottom sheet. Then the top of the top sheet is folded back so what you see is the top side of the top sheet. I bet she does her toilet paper and paper towels the wrong way too. Have a good week, and don't listen to your neighbor, who makes beds the wrong way!
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by sandynavas
20 Sep 2009
I may make my bed the wrong way, but my toilet paper is always on the correct way. I have even changed it in friend and relatives homes!!!
Now we have to have a discussion about the proper way to load toilet paper. And, while we are at it - had this discussion on another type forum - if you repaint or paper your bathroom, do you disassemble the toilet to paint or paper behind the tank? I tank not!!!!!!
by daisy530
20 Sep 2009
Sandy--I tank you are too funny. Are you the neighbor?! Does the paper go under or over? Inquiring minds want to know! Do you really change it in other peoples homes? If so, I'll call out the troops to help you. I just LOVE a good thread! Thanks so much.
by maryjo
20 Sep 2009
I like my TP rolling over. But someone once told me that she always put hers under so the kids couldn't spin off the whole roll. If it rolls under and they spin it it doesn't unroll. Try it, You'll see.
by dkjack
21 Sep 2009
I like my TP rolling over. I fold the first sheet under on the sides to form a point. hahaha This drives my DH crazy. Why else does he think I do it. Got to have a little fun :)
by meganne
21 Sep 2009
ROFLMBO!!! Tanks everyone, this is so very funny. I am also guilty of swapping friends t/p over to (MY) right way. LOL!!! HNR, M
by cinderoak
21 Sep 2009
I think we have an obligation to protect our friends from the embarrasment of upside down toilet paper! Yes I am with DK, change it and fold it into a point....sad but true.
For those of you planning to paint....must do behind, buy the skinny long handled roller from Home Depot and your done in a jiffy without disassembly!
i AM NOT COMPULSIVE, really. doesn't everyone do this stuff?
by sandynavas
21 Sep 2009
cinderoak - my tinks thou doest work too hard!
Compulsive or not, the sheet goes down, the T/P goes over, the tank does NOT get moved, and yes, i do change it in other people's homes.
Now, how many of you have this crazy idea about multiple light switches? If I have more than one switch to a light, unless the light is on, they all must point down. I've been known to walk the hallway in the dark to make certain they are. Now who is going to check MY HOUSE LIGHT SWITCHES in the middle of the night?????
by nonmusicmom
21 Sep 2009
OKAY I didn't know I was opening the box of compulsive behavors!lol Yes to the tp going over and yes to the papertowel sgoing over and no I don't fold the corners of the TP. But nothing bugs me more than to have someone finish of the roll of TP and start a new one then set it on the FLOOR and not change out the roll. Yes the light swithes need to be up when on and down when off.
by maryjo
21 Sep 2009
OH another can of worms. I get so aggravated by people not replacing an empty TP roll. All of the TP holders in my house(4) are designed so that the roll just slides on. No little bar to remove and replace. And some of the lazy bums who use my facilities still won't replace the roll. They balance the new roll on top of the old cardboard. I have gone so far as to tell certain people to "get back in the bathroom and put the new roll on the holder"
by marlakay
21 Sep 2009
I agree with you. I hate it when people don't replace the roll of toilet paper! Are they that lazy or what?????????
12707I think the solution to your problem is to find out if they turn the sheet back over or not ,then embroider the sheet to suit their preferences.You could end up doing both methods ,not everybody is the same .
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by nonmusicmom
21 Sep 2009
My kids do it the way i taught them. Since thier mates don't do the linens It's easy to know what way works for them. Thanks :0)
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