No, not about Cindy-Ella’s dog in my book The Godmother (shameless plug). This post is about the kind of buttons that fasten up through buttonholes (or not).
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Why do duvet covers have to have all those buttons that take forever to do up (when you’re already shattered from stuffing the duvet into the thing)? Why can’t they all have zips?
The worst scenario is when I get to the end and find I’ve missed a buttonhole somewhere along the line and have to unbutton my way back to find it. Even worse, when the mismatched pair was at the start of my buttoning. (Maybe you’ve had even worse experiences, such as the budgerigar, or kitten, or puppy creeping inside unnoticed and getting trapped and panicking…)
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Another pet hate is long shirts that designers insist on fitting with tiny buttons. I have a couple of these. The buttonholes always seem smaller than the buttons, especially when new, and mine rarely get past that newly tight-buttoned stage, because I rarely commit to wearing them. Who has so much time to waste in the morning, even when retired?
Even worse is when you get to the bottom of the buttons and – you guessed it – there’s one left over! I suspect mine will be candidates for the charity shop soon.
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Writing Wrinkles, and Random Ramblings 
A zip sounds like a good idea on a duvet, but I wonder how long the zip would last before you can’t get past a certain point? Or you get a piece of fabric stuck in the zip which, no matter what you do, you can’t undo.
However, my question is, do you have a recommended easy way of getting a duvet into its cover without ending up having a lumpy duvet or no duvet at all at the end without the buttons?
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Ah – I hear you! Although I buy king-size covers for a king-size duvet, there always seems to be an empty section on my side of the bed. Even if I sneak up to realign it during the day.
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I was very surprised to find a zip on my granddaughter’s duvet cover when I put it on at the weekend. I have a duvet cover with a missing button, it came like it! I always intend sewing one on, then forget when I wash it. I find my tops and dresses ping open if they have buttons on as the holes are too big! The opposite from yours. I stitch the holes up a bit, or sew them closed, depending on their position.
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My tops’ buttonholes are mostly still tiny because I can’t be bothered to do them all up so never wear the things. Not to be confused with the loose buttons and stretched buttonholes in my trousers, trying to hang on to each other across my non-existent waist
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I have a friend who insists on zips as he says he’s fed up with getting up in the night to check that the buttons/poppers are still done up. I can’t comment on what else is important to him but some people have strange priorities
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Perhaps he’s worried about what might get in and make its home…
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Although I struggle with shirt buttons, on the rare occasions I wear them, I am conscious of my brother’s struggle with them, he has rheumatoid arthritis in his hands and fingers. I think he now has a device to assist him to thread them through the holes.
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Indeed, there are gizmos available for most everyday manipulations now. I’ve found some of my husband’s useful – especially the picker-upper for getting things down from the top of the kitchen cupboards.
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My life would not be worth living without my gadgets. When they don’t work or I can’t find them, then I rely on my husband. He is also very good at putting duvet covers on duvets. I haven’t had to do that for at least the last fifteen years.
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Mine is always otherwise occupied when I have a duvet to change (perhaps I should bring it downstairs to change it and demand assistance, but I’d probably trip over it on the way up.)
We have those picker-upper thingies in practically every room, Even since his hip replacements he still used them, but I’m still trying to pick things up from the floor without the gizmos for as long as I can
Use it or lose it.
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You reminded me of the button box I loved to play with when I was sick as a child. Where had all those buttons come from anyway? Why hadn’t they been reattached?
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I am not anonymous despite WordPress saying I am! Elizabeth Slaughter
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I have one of those now!
I even amused myself recently by organising them into little plastic bags of similar buttons. I’ve no idea where they all came from.
Sadly there never seems to be one that matches the one I’ve lost or broken and want to replace. 😦
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I also became anonymous when I commented on someone’s post from my phone instead of my laptop. I suspect it had failed to log me in to WordPress.
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