I spent $52 dollars on a set from target and my husband is mad.
He thinks that’s too much money for sheets cause he found some on Amazon for $20
Every bed in our house except for ours has these sheets (cause they don’t make them for a cal king)
Our guest bed is also the same size as our travel trailer bed.
Am I bougie and out of touch with reality?
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I’m a dude. That seems reasonable for sheets, we buy the nice Kirkland 600-thread count for our king and I’m convinced they’re worth a Bennie.
Lol tell him to take a chill pill, no you did not spend too much on sheets , you spend like what 75% of your life sleeping? Why that fuck not make it comfy as hell ? Those 20$ Amazon sheets probably have the consistency of communist toilet paper and is something a college kid would buy not grown adults for their Cal bed , regardless of thread count just because of the size of the bed your gonna start at the 50$ mark regardless
I’m super frugal but $50 seems like a decent price for sheets.
Do you have a lot of extras? I might be annoyed with my spouse if he bought them when we already had a perfectly good set (or two).
52 is even cheap, I don’t think I can find sheets that price for a queen bed.
Just a reminder that it’s not about whether $50 is a reasonable price or not. There are sheets that range from $5 to $500 and people can spend however much they want to spend on those sheets. It’s about you and your husband listening to each other’s perspective with mutual respect and acknowledging that the other person may have a valid basis for their position. You may learn some interesting things about each other if you would focus on what the other person is trying to say rather than defending your own position.
No, that’s very reasonable for a set. Especially at target.
I have a ” purple” mattress which makes its own special sheets which are $400 give or take for a king so feel free use me to justify your sheets!
Well I just spend $220 on sheets for our sleep number bed as our regular ones kept coming off.
There is no objective answer here. The question of whether you spent too much is
1. can you afford and/or is it in the budget?
2. Do you get enough value from it to justify the expense?
is $52 sheets a *common* amount to spend? Sure. I’d argue its on the less expensive side for comfortable sheets… but whether its worth the money is primarily a values discussion.
Is he always this cheap?
Very reasonable price.
Does your husband often get upset when you spend money? How are your finances?
Nah, that’s a good price. The difference between $20 and $50 sheets is worth more than $30.
Honestly why? The nicer the sheets the better you sleep? The longer they last? Idk I prefer buy quality stuff that I use every day.
Ummm I thought you were going to say the sheets were $300. It’s all about perspective apparently!
$52 is not too much. $20 sheets on Amazon are crap. You’d end up needing to buy new ones sooner rather than later if you have guests often.
I’m a dude and my linens before I met my wife were roughly $500 sans comforter. My wife was all about the $30 target special till I bought her quality linens for herself. Now we only sleep on hotel level or higher quality linens.
You ain’t bougie lol. Tell your husband to chill TF out.
$52 on sheets is pretty modest. $20 amazon sheets probably don’t last that long.
I’m guessing they are Threshold sheets based on the price, and they are worth every penny. It’s all I use in my house – they are the best.
lol I can’t hardly ever find anything bigger than a twin for $20 😂
That’s how much they are now! The cheapest at target are like cotton fabric and they suck..
I don’t think you’re in the wrong or out of touch with reality. You deserve nice things! But…target sheets aren’t the greatest, even the $52 ones, and Amazon does have some shockingly nice-feeling $20 sheets. If anything, I’d recommend splurging on some nice ones that’ll blow the target ones out of the water.
Definitely not enough information. Is that too much for your budget? Did you replace sheets that were perfectly fine for no reason?
The silk pillowcases we use are $80 a piece…you are not spending too much on sheets.
I just spent 100 bucks on 2 sets of twin bed sheets for our guest room. They do come with comforters so that explains the price but I have no regrets. Guest rooms should be nice and comfortable! Why have one at all if it’s not an enjoyable place to be? My parents use that room. They are old! They deserve decent bedding.
My husband is just grateful I took the time to select them. It’s a mentally intense task with all the options out there.
The cheap Amazon one are garbage – polyester “microfiber” with cruddy elastic, thin fabric, etc. They are sheets for college students who will throw them away or make a ghost costume for a frat party. You wouldn’t even want to use them as guest sheets.
Does your husband usually get this spun up about $25?
Welllll lots of good advice here. Didn’t read all the posts, but this is a different angle from what I’ve read.
My experience with sheets is you get what you pay for. I remember a set we got a great deal on. Medium thread count, but the fibre must have been crap because within a few weeks I put my foot through them getting into bed.
You want to be hospitable to your guests. If you treat them like crap then soon you won’t need a guest room and look at all the money and time you’ll save not having to host them. Or them you. You know the “do unto others” thing has consequences….. Both ways.
So, I would say that there has to be a balance. Get something that will be nice to sleep in and not fail while they visit. Yet because they’re not used often, they don’t have to be super durable. The cheap sheets I bought certainly didn’t advertise that although the thread count was decent, the fibres were crap. The price did that.
Tell him your boyfriend likes these sheets that is why you got them for the guest room. J/K. Good quality sheets will last longer than cheap sheets. In the long run you are saving money.
52 ain’t much look at Saatva brand way more expensive
That isn’t too much money at all imo. So long as it works in your budget.
Well a 50$ sheet is not the same as the 20$ ones. Sleep is important and anything that gives comfort deserve to be splurge on
Look sheets up on macy or pennys website and show him the prices.
Tell your husband he could have a wife like me who spent $800 on a bed set and to count his blessings.
He is out of touch with reality! You spend a third of your life in your bed. You deserve more than $52 sheets.
I’ve gotten $20 Amazon sheets and they were absolute garbage.
Well you might be bougie, but that’s neither bad or besides the point…
I am a husband, and $52 is not too much to spend on a decent pair of sheets.
My wife is verified by several 3rd parties as bougie. She wears a jacket that says “DIVA” to the grocery store.
I wouldn’t be caught dead buying her some $20 sheets, even for a guest room.
$52 IS cheap….
He can sleep on the cheap ass sheets then
No I like nice sheets. I refuse to use polyester/synthetic because they make me sweat and my husband is a hot sleeper. I’ll pay up to $150 for 100% cotton sheets but they last us quite a while (like multiple years). Generally I’m very frugal but I believe “buy it nice or buy it twice” is true, especially for things we use on a regular/daily basis.
I actually just went through this this weekend.
Years ago, I bought all my sheet sets from Target. One day the fitted sheet got a hole in it so instead of Target, I just ordered a cheaper king fitted sheet from Amazon. This was maybe 2 years ago. Recently I noticed that the cheapo sheet is all pilled and scratchy so I go back to Target just for one fitted sheet. I stood there for awhile trying to decide is $30-$45 was a lot for just ONE sheet. I looked up my Amazon order and realized that cheapo sheet was only $15! For a king size! And it barely got me 2 good years. I have Target sheets going 10+ years strong!
Bought my Target sheet and am soo happy. You really do get what you pay for with sheets and cheap sheets will wear fast!
$52 is cheap. Why wouldn’t you want your guests to be comfortable?
Just because wish.com has sheets for $-34 doesn’t mean it’s going to be of any quality
Tell him Reddit said, “$52 is cheap for sheets” he loses…
That’s not unreasonable at all. My favorite sheets average $180
Actually those Amazon sheets rip super easy. Bought a set of cheap Amazon sheets for our guest room because we were doing a theme on a budget. It was ripped after the guest left- he slept on them 1 week. We joke about him having talons but those sheets were paper thin and of poor quality.
If you go Ross or TJ max can you find good stuff in a much less price?
I am going off topic, but let’s give you Americans some life advice on beds/sheets etc. from what is better here in Germany and uncommon in the US:
– use fitted sheets exclusively
– if two persons sleep in a bed, you need two duvets/blankets, one for each person. Sharing one is absurd and annoying. We had friends from the US visiting and they were surprised to get two in a hotel, and they immediately said it’s so much better than one.
I think you need to tell the hubs that he is really going to appreciate those higher quality guest room sheets when you kick his butt out of the bedroom for being a jerk!!! It’s not like your going to buy new sheets on a regular basis. Especially for the guest room unless you insist he starts sleeping in there A-LOT!
Cause he doesn’t know shit about sheets And thinks they’re all the same
Tell him he spent too much much on tools and you found some spanners online that were way cheaper (or whatever his hobby is)
Honestly the best sheets I ever had came from Amazon – Sonoro Kate I think? $35 for queen. I’ll never go back to buying expensive ones.
Not bad at all. I bought some super nice ones from Amazon for 47? I bought three different colors. Lol
Good luck, sorry your fighting about it.
Sheet snob here. I’ve bought expensive sheets and cheap sheets. The single best sheets I can find available to me are the members mark sheets at Sam’s club for $79.99.