Last week I decided it was time for a new mattress and figured that's as good a time as any to move up from a full size to a queen. Naturally this means I needed new sheets.
Now, I'll readily admit that I'm a n00b when it comes to linens. Until now, I'd pretty much stuck to buying cheap stuff on sale. I think the best sheets I owned were 220 thread count. So today I decided I'd splurge and get some 350 tc 100% cotton sheets. "Hey," I figured "my 100% cotton shirts are nice and comfy so the sheets should be too, right?" Wrong. Even after washing them 3 times they're not much softer than a paper towel and nowhere near as soft as my current very-used-but-much-lower-tc sheets (which, I've found, are all cotton/polyester blends).
While on the topic of comparing sheets with shirts...why is it that cotton sheets and pillowcases come out of the dryer so badly wrinkled when 100% cotton shirts have nary a wrinkle if you remove them before they cool?
So what's the trick? Is thread count just a gimmick?
Now, I'll readily admit that I'm a n00b when it comes to linens. Until now, I'd pretty much stuck to buying cheap stuff on sale. I think the best sheets I owned were 220 thread count. So today I decided I'd splurge and get some 350 tc 100% cotton sheets. "Hey," I figured "my 100% cotton shirts are nice and comfy so the sheets should be too, right?" Wrong. Even after washing them 3 times they're not much softer than a paper towel and nowhere near as soft as my current very-used-but-much-lower-tc sheets (which, I've found, are all cotton/polyester blends).
While on the topic of comparing sheets with shirts...why is it that cotton sheets and pillowcases come out of the dryer so badly wrinkled when 100% cotton shirts have nary a wrinkle if you remove them before they cool?
So what's the trick? Is thread count just a gimmick?
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