Pillow case mystery

[zdas04]

Friction. With a feather pillow (or ground up foam) when you move in the night the friction between your skin and the pillowcase is much lower than the effective friction between the pillowcase and the pillow casing because the pillow filling tries to move with the pillow casing. With a near fluid inside the pillow casing the pillow case, casing, and fill tend to want to move as a system.

With the monolithic fillings, the friction between the filling and the casing is a similar magnitude to the friction between your skin and the pillow case which decouples the system. So when you move, there is a lag between the movement of the pillow case and the pillow casing and the pillow case moves on the casing.

David

 

[MadMango]

Kenat, I am right there with you. There are 5 "real" pillows on our bed, and 2 stunt shown pillows that are never slept with. I never realized how disadvantaged I was as a child, only having one.

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[patprimmer]

I used to get into trouble for just throwing the excess onto the floor. My line of "well why do you put the stupid things in my way" never helped.

Living alone has many similar benefits.

to list a few:-

1) Wardrobe is less than 1/2 full.
2) Bedspread is plain black Doona cover. No lace anywhere.
3) All sheets are plain white. No matching required.
5) There are only 2 soaps in the bathroom, both functional. One removes thick layers of grease and one does normal duty and leaves sot finish.
5) One extra large bath towel and one large hand towel in bathroom and they don't necessarily match and they may or may not colour coordinate with bathroom decor. If they do it was random chance. No lace in sight.
6) One only body soap and one only shampoo in shower and one only shower anti mould spray bottle.
7) Big dark hand towel in laundry along with heave duty hand cleaner. No lace in sight.
8) Sharp knives still sharp and show no signs of cutting edge being peened over by contact with marble cutting board or porcelain.
9) All cutting boards polyethylene.
10 No metal impediment damage to Teflon coated cookware so it still actually releass. All Teflon coated cookware is inspected and if necessary discarded if a woman visits my kithen before I get a chance to hide all Teflon coated cokware.
11) Any style or colour coordination of cookware is by random chance as buying decision is based on price and funcionality cost benefit analysis.

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Pat
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[btrueblood]

Mad,

So THAT's what those things are - stunt pillows! Ya learn something new every day here.

 

[SomptingGuy]

Number 4 was the best. I soo agree!

- Steve

 

[SomptingGuy]

But more seriously, of that list I don't think any one of them ever really got my goat. Trips to garden centres at the weekend got me. Plus the washing machine running 24/7.

- Steve

 

[jraef]

I think the pillow case seam issue is yet another corollary of Murphy's Law, especially in that the seam will also always end up on the side where your face makes contact so that you wake up with an impression of it across your face in the morning, looking like a pirate scar.

At least it's that way for me... except I end up looking more like Al Pacino!

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