Duvet or sleeping bags to sleep and store?

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sweet caroline

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Hi Guys,

Just starting to embrace my new motorhome, and buying all kind of space and collapsable items, for dollie. Just wondering what is the best thing to sleep in, Duvets are far too large, and where do you store a 15 tog duvet in a motorhome for 2, without overhead sleeping to store them ? sleeping bags, far too restrictive for my irritable leg syndrome, so anyone out there with suggestions, on a new camper lady. Also, sleeping bags, need to be washed, and their huge, I like a bed linen twice a week at home ! hahaha thank you so much guy s
 
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sweet caroline said:
Just wondering what is the best thing to sleep in
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Far too many sensible answers. Didn't Marilyn Monroe answer this with "just five drops of Chanel No 5.."?
On the sensible side we use a thin "summer" style duvet with a sheet under it. We also have "snuggly buggly" which is a thin artifical fur "throw". In summer we use just the sheet, then add the duvet in autumn & spring. In winter we add snuggly buggly on top. When not using any if these we just fold them in half and put them under the mattress.
Inexpensive, flexible and not bulky.
 
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sweet caroline said:
Hi Guys,















Just starting to embrace my new motorhome, and buying all kind of space and collapsable items, for dollie. Just wondering what is the best thing to sleep in, Duvets are far too large, and where do you store a 15 tog duvet in a motorhome for 2, without overhead sleeping to store them ? sleeping bags, far too restrictive for my irritable leg syndrome, so anyone out there with suggestions, on a new camper lady. Also, sleeping bags, need to be washed, and their huge, I like a bed linen twice a week at home ! hahaha thank you so much guy s
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Our Duvulays are 2in thick and quite heavy ... so looking at a 1 in mattress topper from Dunelm at £35. Then a light duvet on top which is stuffed in a sack to reduce size. Extra blanket for cold nights is in the form of the iBeanie, a cushion the unzips into a blanket. This reduces the need for storage. (You could of course stuff a blanket into a cushion cover instead of an iBeanie.)
 
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son is an all weather tent camper, I bought him a new sleeping bag which is for -12 temps, its about the size of 2 toilet rolls, mummy style so not for everyone, can't remember where I got it, he sent the link, but they are not cheap, think they also do the normal oblong ones. Easy to store but would be much too hot in summer. I have a cargo net suspended at roof level in the doblo fine for short a***s like me fastens to the grab handles.
Forgot to say I use an open sleeping bag and carry a fleece throw, in the motorhome, we have a fixed bed, We have 1 and 3.5 tog duvets one each and a couple of throws for when it gets really cold.

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I love my Coleman sleeping bag. It is very cosy, has a brushed cotton lining, and is square ended NOT a mummy shape. The only disadvantage is that it says it is only hand washable, which is a bit of a performance. I actually emailed them to query this and got e really terse message back, saying ' if we say hand wash it, then you must hand wash it', but I am thinking of trying it in the machine.
 
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We are lucky to have a large locker above the cab enabling us to have two thickness of sleeping bags, two thickness of duvet, pillows and a mattress topper. Also we manage to squeeze in spare towels and toilet rolls.
We used to keep the bedding in the house but being out fairly frequently it was a pain having to load the bedding before every trip. Also I must admit to forgetting to pack the duvet and pillows one trip. Luckily there was a Wilco near the pub we were staying at so we bought what we needed.
 
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nicholsong said:
Yes I know but Avatar says 'looking' and if it already exists, in fact rather than imagination, then model and/or layout with description of beds and storage might have shortened the discussion.
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Many funsters forget to update their profile info, some have had different MHs for years and they still have the one they bought yonks ago in the info. 😄
 
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I just move my wool duvet from my home bed when I am away in the motorhome. Then take it back in the house when I come home. No need for storage then :-)

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Duvet for us. I made cushion covers for them to fold up into during the day ( now have fixed bed ).

Also you could use the vacuum bags to make them more manageable.
 
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sweet caroline said:
Hi Guys,

Just starting to embrace my new motorhome, and buying all kind of space and collapsable items, for dollie. Just wondering what is the best thing to sleep in, Duvets are far too large, and where do you store a 15 tog duvet in a motorhome for 2, without overhead sleeping to store them ? sleeping bags, far too restrictive for my irritable leg syndrome, so anyone out there with suggestions, on a new camper lady. Also, sleeping bags, need to be washed, and their huge, I like a bed linen twice a week at home ! hahaha thank you so much guy s
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Hi Caroline we bought duvalays many years ago there brilliant 🤩
 
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We store a double duvet and 2 duvalay mattress toppers under our seating/ pull out bed. They fit between 2 leisure batteries & the truma combi boiler. We have a front lounge pvc. Pillows live in an overhead locker or we swap them with the fleece knee blanket & the grey foam filler in the picture.
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Just had a look at the Stardream layout and you seem to have the same overcab locker we do in our Stargazer. That holds our two duvets (which we either use one over / one under as a double or folded for two singles), two pillows, two throws, the front screen insulator and two spare folding chairs. The trick is not to try to fold the duvet small, just roll them then push / punch one into each corner. All the other stuff fits in between.

If you've already filled that locker with other stuff, I recognise this isn't at all helpful.
 
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Trevor Wbm said:
Just had a look at the Stardream layout and you seem to have the same overcab locker we do in our Stargazer. That holds our two duvets (which we either use one over / one under as a double or folded for two singles), two pillows, two throws, the front screen insulator and two spare folding chairs. The trick is not to try to fold the duvet small, just roll them then push / punch one into each corner. All the other stuff fits in between.

If you've already filled that locker with other stuff, I recognise this isn't at all helpful.
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dot think she has over cab , there is a skylight I believe I read somewhere

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pjay said:
We use night owl sleeping bags, easy wash and store in a small overcab area, you can get a double too...

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I use them at home now too - love them
 
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Rosemary1 said:
I use them at home now too - love them
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this just reminded me when I was using a sleeping bag donkies years ago my mother made cotton inserts out of bedsheets so they could be removed and washed, funny I am using one now in the van and have cut it up as rags and dusters , why have I never thought of that for the van ...🤔
 
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Viennese said:
I love my Coleman sleeping bag. It is very cosy, has a brushed cotton lining, and is square ended NOT a mummy shape. The only disadvantage is that it says it is only hand washable, which is a bit of a performance. I actually emailed them to query this and got e really terse message back, saying ' if we say hand wash it, then you must hand wash it', but I am thinking of trying it in the machine.
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Flipping heck - couldn’t be bothered with that! I machine wash lots of hand wash item but I do have a ‘gentle wash‘ on the machine. I admire your patiences and would of either had a lovely machine washed sleeping bag or a totally wreaked sleeping bag in the first week. Check the materials involved, sometimes the supplier is over cautious to protected against the heavy handed customer who just shoves it the machine on a long hot wash.
 
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Viennese said:
I love my Coleman sleeping bag. It is very cosy, has a brushed cotton lining, and is square ended NOT a mummy shape. The only disadvantage is that it says it is only hand washable, which is a bit of a performance. I actually emailed them to query this and got e really terse message back, saying ' if we say hand wash it, then you must hand wash it', but I am thinking of trying it in the machine.
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In the Murvi, like you, I use a couple of, square ended, Coleman sleeping bags, 1 extra large and 1 normal size. I have the smaller one for underneath me and the other one, thrown over me, just like a Duvet.
In summer they are unzipped, but as it gets cooler, they can be zipped together and really cold (-10C) I can put one inside the other and put on a Balaklava OR zip up the XL to sleep in and cover with the other. (I hope that makes sense?)
( When I wash my Colemans, I just put it in my large washing machine and use the wool setting, so far, no problems except the drying, so do it in hot weather at the beginning and end of summer.)

During the day, they can be rolled up, long or short, and used as cushions.

Like sweet caroline , I too travel mainly alone so use the redundant passenger seat to carry my fold-up electric bike but I'm sure a heavy duty bag could be fitted.

PS. In my VW California, I carry a 4 season, XL down & feather sleeping bag that scrunch's up very small. (Cannot remember the make because I've had it so long the label is worn blank.) :LOL:
 
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Nanniemate said:
this just reminded me when I was using a sleeping bag donkies years ago my mother made cotton inserts out of bedsheets so they could be removed and washed, funny I am using one now in the van and have cut it up as rags and dusters , why have I never thought of that for the van ...🤔
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You can buy sleeping bag liners commercially, Scouts, fishermen etc. used to use them a lot, probably still do? :unsure:

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We use a duvet and shove it into a stuff bag in the day. The stuff bag then goes under one of the rear seats which slides forward to make a sofa - so once that seat has slid forward, there is a large cavity beneath it for bedding. I think you have to be a neat freak when living in a small space!
 
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L' Hobo said:
You can buy sleeping bag liners commercially, Scouts etc. used to use them a lot, probably still do? :unsure:
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Nothing would be as good as the ones my mother made . And a lot more cost effective. The thought of sleeping in something without washing it I agree with sweet Caroline pretty yuk. Depends upon how long I'm away for if its a weekend bedding stripped on return usually before departing so it can go straight into machine on arrival home cycle finished before van has been emptied . But any longer clean bed linen and towels I always carry plenty . 5 nights is about the longest before its changed same as home
 
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JoshnPen said:
We use a duvet and shove it into a stuff bag in the day. The stuff bag then goes under one of the rear seats which slides forward to make a sofa - so once that seat has slid forward, there is a large cavity beneath it for bedding. I think you have to be a neat freak when living in a small space!
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I'm working on the neat freak bit failing poorly the house is always neater than the van
 
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This is the night owl in it cover. You could store it in it in the day and use it as a booster cushion.

This is actually a king size (for my bed at home) so a single or double would be smaller. You just wash the whole quilt and tumble dry it

p.s. I have nothing to do with Fine bedding - I just loveeeeee their coverless quilts

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Nanniemate said:
Nothing would be as good as the ones my mother made . And a lot more cost effective. The thought of sleeping in something without washing it I agree with sweet Caroline pretty yuk. Depends upon how long I'm away for if its a weekend bedding stripped on return usually before departing so it can go straight into machine on arrival home cycle finished before van has been emptied . But any longer clean bed linen and towels I always carry plenty . 5 nights is about the longest before its changed same as home
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I'm curious, if one wears clean T-shirt and pants and they get often washed and changed along with the pillow case, leaving only one's bare legs in contact with the sleeping bag, how often does it really need washing when one is on holiday? :giggle:
I suppose it all depends on how much one is away and how many nights they are used?:unsure:

How often do men wash/clean their trousers and how often do you wash your bed mattress, and Pillow (not just the case) or vehicle drivers seat?

This cleaning can go too far for an old man, don't you know? :LOL:
 
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