I live in the tropics, so I use linen sheets. usually the top sheet is the only layer on the top of the bed. A blanket is rarely needed or used. I get my very high quality linen sheets from a woman in No. Caifornia, who does not make fitted sheets! The sheets are oversized so I just put them on, tuck the bottom sheet in at the head of the bed and let the other 3 sides hang on the sides and foot of bed.

This is all new to me , is this a part of the fast society ? Fast food and fast bedding. Flat sheets where always used and will be used by me duvet or not

Love a flat sheet, on our bed we have 2 ... My husband is a sheet hog!

Learn something new every day! (At my age, that's amazing.) I never considered NOT using two sheets!

Like kristinaandreau, we use a linen flat sheet for the bottom sheet, and a linen "summer cover" year round for the top sheet, no duvet, a couple of throws for each of us if chilly, a blanket if it gets cold. The linen sheets are from Rough Linen, the same place kristinaandreau got hers. The owner sews the linen into various products. She is getting quite a wonderful reputation with designers and bloggers. Expensive, but for us, worth saving up for. They will outlast us! We have had other linen sheets, RH, Garnet Hill, but they have not held up well.

And for those of you who have trouble with keeping the top sheet tucked in, here's what you do....don't tuck it in! Leave it hanging all the way around the bed. If you have more sheet than bed (the bottom end drags on the floor), and have a footboard, fold the sheet up a foot at the bottom, accordion style, and tuck the ends between the footboard and mattress, leaving most of the sheet free. I broke my leg and ankle, and having a tucked sheet was very, very painful. Have never gone back.

never realized it was an option or that people WOULDN'T want to use one!

It is rather useless and hard to manage at times. Unless you are doing something clever like this:

Either way, I'm OK. During the summer I only use the flat sheet for cover so I don't make the bed up any further than that. However, I'd be OK with any other lightweight cover. I'm not tied to the sheet idea.

If you're talking about how you were raised...You'll all love this! My mom used flat sheets, and still does to this day, for BOTH of the sheets on the bed. The woman can use a flat sheet on the bottom, tuck and fold with "hospital corners" and somehow that sheet stays put for the week! She also ironed all the sheets and towels after each weekly wash and before putting them in the linen closet.

I use a flat and fitted sheet and always did so on my kids beds. But both my son and daughter never liked the top, flat sheet and I'd find them stripped off each of their beds. So eventually, I just stopped using them for the kids' beds :) Why bother if they don't care for it...and it does make the bed much easier to make, especially when they were younger!

Nothing better than sleeping under cool thin sheets on a hot summer night!

I still use two flat sheets sometimes, since I have extra white ones. I think sheets were used to protect the heavier quilts or blankets, as those were a huge PITA to wash before the days of automatic washers or even running water. With clean water supplies dwindling and water rates constantly going up, we may need to reconsider bringing back such common-sense conservation in our day-to-day lives.

I don't think this really has to with culture as some people have mentioned, I think it's more personal or maybe even household preference. I personally hate flat sheets, but other people I know like them. Since I was a kid I've always just kicked it to the end of the bed and I recently (now an adult) had one again and I'd still be kicking it away or twisting it around me in my sleep every night until one morning when it was a ball on the floor and I got annoyed with it and left it there for a few days until I decided to just wash it and fold it and put it away forever (until maybe summer if it's really hot and use it instead of a comforter or duvet).

I will use one like the person above in the summer if there is no A/C for some reason. I just change and wash my cover everting I change my bed and have the same two sets in moss and white. They’re amazing from eBay . All different colors and so soft you would think they were very expensive