Fitted sheets

Get yourself some 'sheet suspenders' - they're elasticated straps which clip onto the sheet and keep them in place. Total game changer.

Ive tried those, but my problem seems to be lots of extra, unwanted fabric on the mattress, and still the kind of corners that break my fingers trying to get them on.

I was wondering if perhaps i need to just pay a bit more and buy branded sheets?
I've tried the ones with the deeper base, and that doesnt seem to help.

I suggested those to DD at the weekend when GS was complaining that the sheets on his three quarter bed at uni wouldn’t stay on the corners. I’ll press the point home!😊

If anyone hss sheets that glide on, smooth out, and are reasonably priced I'd be grateful for suggestions, please.

Dunhelm, maybe?

MissA, I recently bought a new bed with an extra-deep mattress (37cm) so I had to buy new fitted sheets. I couldn't get the M&S ones I've had before in the colour I wanted so I thought I'd try Cotton Traders for the first time.
Why haven't I found them before? They're brilliant. The corners fit on easily, leaving the surface of the sheet perfectly smooth and taut across the bed - but without the need to 'wrestle' the last corner into place. No broken nails or sprained thumbs and they haven't shrunk in the wash either.Ten out of ten from me.

Oh thank you!
I'm sure mine isn't an extra deep mattress, so I'm really not sure what my problem is, but ive still not managed to finish putting a sheet on it.

I habe to do it in installments, and was almost reduced to tears earlier.

Well, our valance glides. It really has a mind of its own.

One side disappears and the other side drapes across the floor. Very strange. It's just an ordinary cotton one, Dorma!

Flat sheets and do hospital corners? My fitted MS/Tesco/Debenhams sheets do shrink after a while and the elastic loses its ping. Maybe I wash them a bit hot or the sunshine dries them out too much.Not much to go wrong with flat sheets even if they shrink a bit.

I buy sk for my king size bed & king for my double as I was fed up with shrinking sheets. Now both are a perfect fit.
M & S sheets I should add.
I also use a top sheet tucked in at the bottom with added pleat so that I have room to put my feet straight up.

Thank you all.i am taking in all all that's been said.
I like to consider it all before parting with my money.

I've been looking on Amazon reviews as well, as i don't want anything that's too hot to sleep on either.

I bought IKEA king size fitted flowery sheets for a double bed.
Because they are dark background I’m always clean, wear pyjamas and slippers etc., I washed them on 40deg, as opposed to 60deg. hung them on the washing line.
They still shrank. One side fits perfectly, the other curves upwards. They are meant to be deep but not any more.
I now fit two identical sheets one on top of the other which camouflages this effect.

I have considered flat large cotton sheets, an alternative as
elasticated corners take a while to dry, then the struggle to haul them into place as described, these fitted sheets which I believed would make bed making easier.

I fit the sheet around myself rather than the bed.
I find it easier. Bit like a pie crust. I'm the pie.

Like a cornish pasty?

Like Tom Kitten in the Roly-Poly Pudding, Welbek?

I have started buying deep fitted sheets in the next size up for my beds. Doesn’t work for singles, but for doubles get king-size and so on.

MissAdventure

If anyone hss sheets that glide on, smooth out, and are reasonably priced I'd be grateful for suggestions, please.

Dunhelm, maybe?

My bamboo ones do (By CUBE Home of London) online. I have quite a deep mattress with a topper though - I wonder if that's MissAdventure's problem - ie the depth of the mattress - I know I've had problems with this in the past before I got this new bed.

I'll have to get my tape measure out, but I'm pretty sure its just a normal sized mattress in terms of depth.
Perhaps it's on the brink of being deep?
I don't know.

I find duvet covers are often a little too big which is annoying as I end up with no duvet at the head end. Dunelm are particularly bad for this.

Fitted sheets are the work of the Devil👹 so I only use flat sheets at home.
At work, in my care home we use fitted simply because they stay taut on the bed.Several residents have beds that look like there’s been a fight in them but most stay smooth.

SueDonim

Like Tom Kitten in the Roly-Poly Pudding, Welbek?

I have started buying deep fitted sheets in the next size up for my beds. Doesn’t work for singles, but for doubles get king-size and so on.

Way to go 👍🏻
Although a lot of grans might find super king sheets hard to work with.
I find them easier than yanking sheets to make them fit over the corners

Is there not extra material on the mattress, though, if you size up?

I had to buy deeper fitted sheets after buying a king size mattress topper that wasn’t even very thick. And another for the double sofa bed the Gdcs share, since it’s padded with both a thickish quilted cover, and a thinly quilted waterproof one.

The old fitted sheet did still - just about - fit but it was a battle for dh each time. I just couldn’t manage it.

MissAdventure

Is there not extra material on the mattress, though, if you size up?

I haven’t found it so. I just pull the corners right under and any extra fabric can be tucked under the mattress.

It also means I don’t have to mess about looking at labels to see which are the double and which are the King size sheets. One for all!

I'm still checking out fitted sheets.
Its a whole new world!
Percale, wicking, full, emperor, i think i may have found one to try, but they havent got it in pink, whoch os what i want. (And cheap!)