Friday, March 23, 2018

Everything You've Been Told About Thread Count in Sheets Is Wrong

Have you, too, stood in the linens department, eyes glazed as you try to figure out the best sheets? It doesn't help that they tend to be folded up and jammed into a plastic container so that you can only feel a tiny corner of them. How are you supposed to know how it will feel on your entire body if only the tip of your finger can brush a sliver of the sheet?

Well there's always thread count, which is what it seems "they" want us to rely on. And the higher the better, right? I mean, if 200 is good then those $80 eight-million-thread count sheets at HomeGoods must be amazing, and what a deal!

Hold up. It turns out, we might be getting suckered. There's more to a sheet's quality than thread count, and kind of like sunscreen, there's a point beyond which you're really not adding anything. In fact, it could be even lower quality.

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from Apartment Therapy | Saving the world, one room at a time https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/what-do-thread-counts-mean-for-sheets-257113

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