loganandliz.com: the mishaps of the mr. and mrs.

First off, I must preface this post by letting you all know that I am somewhat of a “sheet snob”. I admit that I’ve been known to be a little picky about the thread count a time or two, and rarely ever sleep on anything less than 400. I personally believe that anything over 600 is a sham, but I suppose that’s neither here not there. Anyway…while Logan and I were anxiously awaiting the delivery of our personal belongings to our new address, we decided to rough it for a few nights at our new place, as the heat at Presidential Towers was becoming unbearable, and well, we were just excited to have a place of our own. So we tossed the air matress into the trunk, and headed out.  Thinking ahead, we realized we’d need a few essentials to get us through these few days. So, we headed to Target for bath towels, a shower curtain, and sheets. As an aside, living in Chicago has made me extremely cheap. Basically because everything is so expensive here, I’m all about trying to find places where you can cut corners. FYI, trash bags are not one of those places. That being said, we decided that we’d buy the cheapest set of sheets we could find. After all, it’d only be for a few nights, right? When we made our way to the home furnishing section, the very cheapest set of sheets we could find were nineteen bucks. Not bad. I can handle that. But wait! To my horror, they were jersey knit sheets. I’m frantically scanning the package over and over, and no thread count was even listed. Are you kidding me? I didn’t even know sheet sets came without the thread count listed. I could tell this was going to “roughing it” in the worst sense of the word. Much to my unhappiness, our cheapness won out, and the jersey sheets made it in the cart.

When we got home, I was already disgusted, and it was entirely too late to even think about washing the sheets, so we totally slept on them right out of the package. Gross, I know, but whatever. Don’t judge. And to my surprise, they weren’t horrible. Not something I’d request, but not as bad as I had imagined either. Now, the second night, we’d washed and dryed them, and they came out of the dryer with quite a pleasant feel. I tossed them back on, and when I slipped into bed that night, it was like something out of a dream. I don’t know if it’s just because we’ve been insanely busy, and consequently worn out when evening rolls around, but those babies felt so delicious. Admittedly, they are more of a winter sheet set, but I find myself unable to take them off yet - even though our “good” sheets are here, and it’s been over a week. They’re just so snuggly. Sleeping in the jersey sheets are like sleeping in your favorite old, perfectly worn, gnarly t-shirt. Yeah, they may look a little nasty, but they feel amazing. Ahhh…Heaven.

I hear they even come in tie-dye. Sexy.

Posted by liz on Thursday, May 10th, 2007 at 4:37 pm.