If it’s riding up the sides of your mattress, it’s probably not big enough for your mattress. Sheets say on the package something like, “fits mattresses up to 11 inches tall”. If your mattress is taller than that, it’ll ride up.

Bed Sheet Suspenders, 100%

Deep pocket sheets work wonders. Suspenders never worked for us.

4-point suspenders. The adjustable kind for big boys.

Lay it on your box spring, with the 4 clips pointing at the 4 corners of the bed. Lay your mattress back down. Put your fitted sheet on, and clip each suspender clip to each corner of the sheet, under the mattress.

Life hack you didn’t know you needed.

there trick is to pull the elastic down far enough so it reaches over the bottom edge of the mattress.

forget folding it neatly. you can adult without that skill

I didn’t see anybody else share how to fold a fitted sheet, so here you go. This is how I’ve been folding mine for several years now. It’s a game-changer.

https://youtu.be/GM1744rHPBM?si=oA12JDTDxq0HdbIi

I am the bottom sheet in my bed. I feel you, I can barely deal with myself.

I feel like I’m failing adulthood after being bested by a bedsheet.

Don’t worry - most older adults people aren’t going to quiz you by bringing a fitted sheet to watch you fold. If you want to bunch it up and shove it in a cabinet, just go ahead!

A lot of times when I wash our sheets I just put them right back on the bed. Now there’s a life hack for ya!

This is a cool community. I never expected so many helpful replies to this. Thank you all.

I’m currently laying in a crumpled up mess of sheets that came off the corners. This is my life now.

There should be enough give to tuck the corners and sides underneath your mattress.

If not you may need deeper sheets.

I just fold them corner to corner as normal and accept it’s shit haha

Glue it to your bed. To wash, hose it down every few months. It takes about a week to dry the mattress, so you just have to get used to sleeping on a damp surface. Apply Febreze liberally.

They sell elastic with clips you can use to hold your sheets in place. They’re a pain in the ass to switch if you don’t know how.

My technique is to stretch the clean fitted sheet over the old one and move the clips one side at a time, then pull out the old sheet from under it.

I feel like I’m failing adulthood after being bested by a bedsheet.

Don’t worry, no one can actually fold the fitted sheet nicely. I channel Lorelei Gilmore when I fold mine (jump to 0:45 for the relevant part, there aren’t many videos of this scene apparently).

When I wash and dry my sheets it inevitably spirals up in the washer and dryer so it never washes or dries properly.

I got about 8 wool dryer balls that I tossed in the dryer and it has kept the fitted sheet from wrapping and bunching up. Dries MUCH better.