Reverend Conehead
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I got a new queen-size bed after the old one was super kaput and hurting my back. Very nice bed from a local company here in Omaha. I went ahead and got a nice new fitted sheet for it, you know the kind that has elastic corners and you put it on before the main sheet. Well, now all the bleepin' time a corner keeps popping off, and then of course that one place not covered is where the cat decides she wants to sleep. I can just be getting up at night to take a leak and one of the dumb corners pops off.
So I went on Youtube looking for a hack to make this stop happening. One dude got a couple of hooks and some twine from the hardware store, and he would hook the upper left corner and attach that to the twine and then run it under the mattress to the lower right one and then make sure the twine was holding those criss-crossed corners tightly. Then he would do the other criss-crossed corners. Ingenious and inexpensive, pretty cool hack. A woman had a different hack. On the fitted sheet itself, she sewed a piece of elastic at an angle in one corner to hold it in place so that the sheet's own elastic wasn't the only thing holding it in place. Also a pretty cool hack. Problem is I suck at sewing.
I finally decided to invest in a product that purports to solve the problem. There were a lot of choices. One of them has a cord go around the entire mattress tightly and then has clips to clip the sheet onto it. But I went for a different one similar to the hack that the dude did. This one was a set of straps that you would attach to one corner with clips and then send under the mattress to the criss-cross corner, also attaching that with clips, and you can adjust how tight the strap is. Then you use another strap on the other criss-crossed corners. I'm confident this will work. The thing got good reviews on Amazon, and it wasn't that expensive.
I'll let y'all know if it works well or sucks. I'm excellent at the housekeeping thing. My home is so tidy and organized it could be featured in Better Homes and Gardens. (And if you believe that, I've got a slightly used moped to sell you.)
Now if this aching back from sleeping on the old crappy bed would just heal up. I also ordered off for one of those round yoga wheel thingies that you can lie on to stretch out your back and hopefully make it feel better. God, I hope that helps. I've had bad back pain for several weeks straight now. I should have replaced the crappy bed long before I did. This yoga wheel ting is supposed to arrive tomorrow. Hope it helps. Back pain sucks.
So I went on Youtube looking for a hack to make this stop happening. One dude got a couple of hooks and some twine from the hardware store, and he would hook the upper left corner and attach that to the twine and then run it under the mattress to the lower right one and then make sure the twine was holding those criss-crossed corners tightly. Then he would do the other criss-crossed corners. Ingenious and inexpensive, pretty cool hack. A woman had a different hack. On the fitted sheet itself, she sewed a piece of elastic at an angle in one corner to hold it in place so that the sheet's own elastic wasn't the only thing holding it in place. Also a pretty cool hack. Problem is I suck at sewing.
I finally decided to invest in a product that purports to solve the problem. There were a lot of choices. One of them has a cord go around the entire mattress tightly and then has clips to clip the sheet onto it. But I went for a different one similar to the hack that the dude did. This one was a set of straps that you would attach to one corner with clips and then send under the mattress to the criss-cross corner, also attaching that with clips, and you can adjust how tight the strap is. Then you use another strap on the other criss-crossed corners. I'm confident this will work. The thing got good reviews on Amazon, and it wasn't that expensive.
I'll let y'all know if it works well or sucks. I'm excellent at the housekeeping thing. My home is so tidy and organized it could be featured in Better Homes and Gardens. (And if you believe that, I've got a slightly used moped to sell you.)
Now if this aching back from sleeping on the old crappy bed would just heal up. I also ordered off for one of those round yoga wheel thingies that you can lie on to stretch out your back and hopefully make it feel better. God, I hope that helps. I've had bad back pain for several weeks straight now. I should have replaced the crappy bed long before I did. This yoga wheel ting is supposed to arrive tomorrow. Hope it helps. Back pain sucks.
