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On that point, I wanted to share something you may relate to: my Filipino wife is always freezing in SF. I'm from Scandinavian descent, I could live as naked as a jaybird in the Bay Area weather. Where can't I find a blanket thick on the left, thin on the right? :)

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Things Americans do that completely baffle me: In a double bed, they have two pillows, but only one blanket, and end up having fights and struggles about the blanket.

You've already solved the problem with the pillows. You don't fight over a shared pillow. Come on, you can figure out how to solve the problem with the blanket as well.

"You can have two blankets in a double bed?"

Yes. There you go. You're welcome.

There is no rule you can only have two though, just saying. More than one per person can be quite nice, especially in winter.

Whatever floats your boat, man. I have friends who prefer the opposite, they have two single beds pushed together, but a shared blanket. Whatever.

But the crazy thing is that every single goddamn store that sells bedding, will sell you solutions to your problem. It's not like you go to one store for single-person beds and their matching single-person bedding, and then a different store for double beds with matching double bedding. No, the same store that sells pillows and sheets and blankets sells them in different sizes and you can mix and match as you please.

Oh, and that reminds me. Many people for some reason become aghast when they learn that my blanket/bedsheet/pillowcase don't match i.e. they're from different sets, and have very different visuall styles. Apparently, the colours must match or you won't sleep well.

Of course! It's very difficult for the bourgeois to sleep when consumed by the knowledge that they're not living their most bourgeois life.

>You've already solved the problem with the pillows.

This phrase will help me remember a very important concept.

Right? That's what's so incredibly baffling about this thing. The solution to the problem is right in front of everyone's eyes. And most Americans have no idea how to solve the problem. They keep complaining about it, but they never solve it. It's even a common sitcom trope, ffs.

I think it's mostly a sitcom trope, rather than a problem that ordinary people can't solve.

My wife and I figured that out right away, after about a week back and forth blanket stealing at night we just started keeping two sets of blankets in bed.

Tie, fasten to corners.

You cannot do spooning with two blankets.

Yes you can.

There may be ulterior motives at play: it is much harder to cuddle with multiple blankets between you.

> it is much harder

Yeah, if you have the fine motor skills of a two-year-old. Come on!

Even better - I have a Sunbeam six zone mattress pad. Three zones (head, middle, foot) for me and three for Ms. Wrycoder.

We put it on something like 3:3:4 3:3:4 to preheat for a toasty bed to climb into in the winter and then turn one side off. I like to have 0:0:2 to keep my feet warm.

To be fair, I've never been so cold than on a windy September day in SF. I'm from The Netherlands and we get the occasional cold spell in the winter, but the cold wind coming from the bay on what seemed to be a very nice, sunny day just went right through me.

In Yorkshire we call that a lazy wind, because it goes through you rather than around you.

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