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%

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.

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

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 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!

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.

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

Mattresses have an enormous variance in thickness, and sheets vary considerably in the depth of the “pocket.” If your sheets can barely fit over a too-thick mattress, then they’re going to pop off when you move on them. You might just want to buy some new sheets with a deeper pocket. Alternatively, you can buy elastic straps that go under the bed and clip onto the sheets. You’ll generally either find these as a four pack of short ones that are meant to go only at the corners, or as a two pack of long ones meant to stretch under the entire bed and attach opposite sides. Get the long ones; they generally perform much better.

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

Buy nicer sheets and you may need to buy the ones made for a deep mattress.

As a last resort you can buy clip on sheet holders that will make sure they won’t come off, but at some point you’ll probably end up ripping your sheet if you use them.

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

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 think some places you can buy sheets and pillowcases separately and not in sets. What this can allow you to do is buy a flat sheet and use it on your mattress instead of a fitted sheet. You might need to buy a size bigger for this to work, I don’t know.

The flat sheet should be better because you can tuck it under the mattress and it will not do that crazy balling up in the wash/dry.

I just talked myself into trying this someday.