So today I was going to write about the ‘Jesus t-shirt debate’ (or at least that is what I am calling it) which arose from a student in Nova Scotia (Canada) wearing a religiously fueled message on a t-shirt to school. To be completely honest, I think I will put that off for another week as I have had too nice of a day to get into something emotionally charged. Perhaps if I am feeling particularly productive I will write a mid-week blog post on that topic. For now however I want to talk about something simple which has improved my day tenfold: clean, fresh and bright white bed sheets. Yip, I am going to talk about bed sheets!
It all started in the fall when I bought a new bed and subsequently a new set of white sheets and a colorful patterned comforter with matching pillow shams, bed skirt…etc. The sheets were 800 tread count Egyptian cotton and for a few weeks I felt as if I was sleeping at a hotel. That is the thing about white sheets – they remind you of hotels and subsequently relaxing on a nice vacation. The comforter was very thick and fluffy – just what I needed to get through the cold Canadian winter.
Flash forward to a few weeks ago: it is getting nice out again. In mid-March we had gotten an unusual heat wave, with temperatures rising to around 27 degrees Celsius (80 degrees Fahrenheit) and then we went in cycles of cooler weather (around freezing) and back to mid-teens (around 60 degrees F). Eventually it leveled out and it is in the teens most days, and slowly getting warmer. I quickly learned that the new comforter was just not going to work anymore. It was much too warm now that spring has hit and so today I went looking for a bedspread of some kind that would not have me sweating all night long.
What I found: an all white cotton duvet cover with nice decorative rushing and pleats, as well at matching shams and bed skirt. This was all fine and dandy until I got home and realized that my nice white sheets I had purchased in the fall were no longer nice and bright. The pillow covers looked dirty in comparison to the new duvet cover. I needed help fast.
So off I go to my laundry area and low and behold I have a sample pack of Oxi Clean that I think came with my washer when I purchased it last year. I have never tried this stuff (mostly because the commercials are overly annoying) but I figured it couldn’t hurt, right? I tried it with my worst set of pillow covers and voila! They came out clean and stain free! They are still not as bright as the new bedspread but they are much, much better. To be honest, I am not really sure they were ever as bright as the set I bought today.
For those of you who are actually still reading this and didn’t run away when I first mentioned that I was going to write about bed sheets, have you tried Oxi Clean and what do you think of it? Do you love the feel of clean, fresh and bright white sheets as much as I do?
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