Whose sheets are you sleeping on?
by Rachel Sarah
Filed under Single Dads, Tips & Advice
Many of you, such as Single Mom Says, said that sleeping on the sheets that a new boyfriend once shared with an ex wouldn’t really bother you. After all, many single parents still sleep in the same bed they shared with the ex, right?
“I don’t think it really matters,” added divorced dad reader, Bill . “The sheets are the least of your worries. They are just sheets after all.”
Bill, did, however, get inspired to go out and buy sheets. (Well, it was a necessity — since he was the one who moved out.)
“I got these awesome cotton T-shirt-esque sheets for the winter, in a chocolate brown,” Bill told us. “You wouldn’t want to get out of bed, trust me! I also picked up some nice 400 count white sheets for the summer.”
His recent purchase inspired us to check in with our readers: Are you sleeping on the sheets that you shared with your ex?
We’ve turned to White Lotus Home –”Handcrafting Natural & Organic Bedding since 1981″– for some tips.
Our personal favorites are the Organic Cotton Sheet Colors by Coyuchi, pictured here. They’re certified 100% organically grown fair trade cotton, with thread counts ranging from 220-300. The most popular colors this summer are “white percale” and “damask stripe.” Mmmm.
Do tell us:
Have you spiffed up your bedroom this summer?
Are you planning a bedroom make-over?
Are new sheets on your shopping list?
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Nope- I bought new sheets too and actually tossed the old ones. got a new matress too! I know it sounds weird but I didn’t want “bad vibes” wrecking my future relationships…
No point in getting new sheets for the 12 year old mattress. (insert “lipstick/pig reference” here)
First things first, and I’ll have to save up for a new mattress! : )
Twitter @ http://badmummynocookie.com
My ex got all the sheets along with the bed. I didn’t want any of them.
My fav sheets? Laugh and mock if you will, but I got my last set at Goodwill and they are lovely! When you buy new sheets, you never know what they are going to feel like after being washed. This way they are already washed and soft.
I am spending some time getting my bedroom in order. It’s been neglected so I’m finally putting art on the walls and looking for a nice piece of furniture for storage.
Twitter @ http://www.singlemommindy.blogspot.com
@ Anna – Too funny and I completely agree.
I buy new sheets if I need new sheets but not because they were on my bed for a prior relationship.
Sleeping on the dirty sheets of a new boyfriend would be entirely different though – ew.
Thanks for the link!
~Single Mom Says…
Twitter @ Singlemommyhood
@bad mummy No mocking from us for thrift and common sense. We’d love to see pictures when your bedroom make-over is complete. Send and we’ll post.
Anyone else interested in sharing their budget bedroom make-overs? We’d love to feature budget decorating by our wonderful, clever, thrifty readers.
Twitter @ thenicknick
When I first started dating S, we made over the bedroom. He knew instinctively that it would make me feel better and couldn’t hurt our relationship to rid the room of the ghosts of girlfriends past.
It made that room, which has evolved over time, feel much warmer and welcoming to us, the respite we need at the end of a long day.
And can you put a price on that?
To be perfectly honest, I did share my old sheets with a new someone recently. However, before his arrival I asked the steam cleaners to clean my mattress as they do for my carpet. For some reason this made me feel like it was a fresh start!
Now all I need are some new Pima cotton 400 thread count sheets and all will be right in the world!
Twitter @ http://www.singlemommyhood.com
@CC: Steam cleaning your mattress? We love it! A “fresh start” for sure!
@Nicki: How sweet that your guy involved in his bedroom make-over. You’re right: priceless!
Rachel, when I got my divorced a few years back, along with his favourite expensive jeans, suits and jackets and other stuff that went tatters (I cut them to pieces), included bed sheets. I since now have new sheets and revamp them as and when needed. I have now remarried and with that, comes along new sheets and mattress. Yes I do feel weird to be sleeping on the same ones as when the ex was still around.
3 years post-divorce and I finally saved up the money to replace the mattress that my ex and I shared. Sadly, I’m still sleeping on the same old sheets. Those are next on the list!
Replacing the things we shared with things that are just MINE has been extremely cathartic for me.
Twitter @ http://www.singlemommyhood.com
@Hanie: So thrilled about your remarriage to an amazing man!!
@Heidi: Congrats on the new mattress… here’s to sheets!
I could not stand the constant inner conflict of sleeping on the same sheets and mattress as my ex shared with me… remebering the good times and then being shaken by the flashes of the bad. New bedsheets, new mattress, new bedroom furniture… It ALL had to go!
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