Hotel bed at home

So, taking advantage of a certain someone’s nesting instincts — and the pre-move desire to toss out old crap — we got rid of a rather tattered quilt we’ve been sleeping under since before we were married and some sheets from a “discount superstore” that mostly cause me to break out and have anything but a pleasant night of sleep.

Jenn, in bargain-hunting mode, asked me what my dream sheets and quilt would be. I explained about high thread count and dragged her to Bed, Bath & Beyond to feel the difference between low thread count and high thread count sheets. (“What was the thread count of our old sheets?” “They didn’t say, which tells you how good they must have been.”)

So off she goes, virtually, to Amazon, where she finds a $300 quilt marked down to $70 (it may have been even cheaper when she bought it) and a 600-thread count sheet set that I’m totally unable to find on Amazon now, but which was marked down from more than $100 to under $60.

Years ago, I figured out that, if you’re going to spend money on shoes, they might as well be good ones that won’t wear out on the way out of the store and will actually be comfortable. Now I’m figuring out the same thing about bed linens. It’s like staying in a fancy hotel at home. Combined with the new mattress set we got last year, it’s awfully hard to get out of bed in the morning now.

If you’re in the market for new bed linens, look around for marked-down high-end stuff after Christmas. Totally worth it.

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1. These are the specific sheets we got. I only zeroed in on them because they were an “Amazon exclusive” — based on my shopping experiences in the past, I’ve found that it usually means I’m getting a high quality item at a huge discount. (That’s how I found your chili pot for Christmas, which you can’t stop raving about.)

   Since they don’t seem to be selling the 600 count anymore, they are still selling the 500 thread count version as a Amazon exclusive (over half off). I’m willing to order a couple more if you want since the 500 thread count comes in colors that wasn’t available at the 600 count! 😉

   Comment by Jenn — March 21, 2007 @ 10:51

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