For Christmas this year my mom gave me money to go buy myself a new set of sheets. I decided that it was about time to pass down my current comforter to the dog as well so off to the sales I went to purchase new bedding.
My first goal was to find sheets that actually fit my mattress. The sheets that I have been using continually slip off, obviously not all sheets fit all mattresses. I also was looking for a bargain.
First off I looked at all the bed in a bag sets that I found, but none of them really took my eye. I did notice that they all said that they fit mattresses up to 14 inches deep. Of course I hadn't actually measured mine before I left to see for sure how deep mine was.
Luckily for me I didn't find any combination sets that took my eye in the five stores I went to, none that were in my price range anyway! I know there are readers out there that might think that a $400.00 set is a bargain at $299.00 but not this single mom.
I finally decided to just look at sheets by themselves. I saw all different thread counts and materials that I could get. There were what I would call regular sheets, flannel sheets, and Egyptian Cotton sheets. I decided on the Egyptian cotton type since I really don't care if they get a bit wrinkled and I have heard they are very comfortable sheets to have on your bed.
I also noticed as I went up in thread count, so did the price. This didn't surprise me because the higher the thread count the better the sheets. But what I did take note of was that the higher thread count sheets would fit a mattress up to 16 inches deep. Now maybe those high dollar bed in a bag sheets also said this, but after I saw the prices on some of them I never looked that far.
So I made my decision on the sheets and even found a comforter to match. I even sprung for an extra set of pillowcases to match. I usually just put the shams on the extra set of pillows on my bed but I decided to splurge and do it right this time. So by the time I was all done I ended up purchasing this all at Wal-Mart for right under $100.00.
The one thing that I didn't get was a dust ruffle or bed skirt. I probably would have but they didn't have one to match. I was pleasantly surprised when I got home that not only did the sheets fit and stay on the mattress but the comforter was large enough that it almost went to the floor anyway. If I would have been thinking I would have bought the king size comforter to help with this but as it turns out I didn't need to. I love the Egyptian cotton sheets and I am convinced that the next time I buy sheets I will go with them again.
The down side of the whole thing is that my niece had gotten me a thoughtful gift of a roll of what I would normally call silverware liner. This was to put above and below my old bed skirt to keep my mattress from sliding. I say this was thoughtful because it was, I had asked for something to do just that because my mattress was always going off kilter. But now I don't need to use if for that purpose since my mattress stays where it is suppose to. Since my daughter got me new silverware I will reline my drawers and cupboards with it.
