The Long Weekend...(and a Revealation About Sheets)

I'm off celebrating the long weekend and as a result, I won't be back to regular posting mode until Tuesday morning. Sorry to disappoint my legions of fans!! But even a serial blogger needs to take a break now and again. I do, however, want to make a very quick comment about sheets. Yes, sheets.

On Friday, for the first time EVER, I was able to put the fitted bottom sheet on our King-sized bed without a single corner bunching up at the top or side...in one try. Perhaps you are Martha Stewart. Or incredibly talented in the sheet department. But for whatever reason, I am almost completely incapable of putting our sheets on the right way. I cannot, for the life of me, figure out a reliable method to determine which way is correct. This usually means I have to try multiple times until I get it right. I've looked for tags or subtle signs. But it never, ever works. So I'm still feeling a bit smug, if baffled, after Friday's unexpected success. I think the people who make sheets should put some sort of directions on fitted sheets, like "bottom here" or "this way up". It would be SO helpful.

Which brings me my next comment...still related to sheets but not to my experience on Friday. Is it just my in-laws or have the Europeans really not embraced fitted sheets? This is a question I've had for years. And it's not just my Irish in-laws. I cannot recall seeing a single fitted sheet in a hotel or private home anywhere I've had the pleasure of staying in Europe or the UK. Why?! Is there something bad about fitted sheets that I'm not aware of? Or are they simply not cool? Too American? As in, "Typical lazy Americans. Can't be bothered to take a few extra minutes to tuck in a bottom sheet. No wonder they are [fill in favorite American slur here: a) so fat b) so obnoxious c) so stupid d) all of the above]."

Do you have the answer? Or maybe you have proof that fitted sheets DO in fact exist in Europe? If so, let me know.

PS While writing this post, I found several links with detailed instructions on another basic skill that has eluded me for years: how to correctly fold a fitted sheet. Take a look for yourself.