When you wash a duvet cover, why does other washing end up in it?
Mary Argent
Brentwood, Essex, UK
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The problem with the duvet cover is caused by a lack of preparation before the wash. The removed cover should be kept inside out to allow it to be correctly replaced on the duvet when dry. All poppers or other closing mechanisms should also be closed before the cover is put in the washing machine. In this way, a large empty bag is converted into a large double thickness sheet. There is no way it can capture other washing, as there is now no entry point.
Tim Stevenson
Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, UK
Finding itself naked and robbed of its proper innards in a threatening, dark, wet, frothy, swirly place brings out the protective parental instinct in a duvet cover.
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