For real, mattress depths have just gotten ridiculous. I’m still using what used to be standard 12-ish inch mattresses on box springs. Today’s sheets are all loosey goosey on my formerly normal depth mattress!
@katbyter Well, there’s not a ghost of a chance that “spirit linen” contains any actual linen. OTOH, microfiber tends to be lifeless, cold and clingy, so …
Looks like they are made from an unknown plastic 90 gsm microfiber (from the comparison site).
Microfiber is a textile made by interweaving very fine threads of a typically artificial fabric like polyester or nylon. Microfiber sheets are generally not the softest on the market, but they are cheap and durable.
And from another site:
Are 90 GSM microfiber sheets good?
You will want to look at GSM (grams per square meter) the higher the GSM (100 GSM and above) the stronger and more durable your bed sheets will be. Buying low-quality GSM (90 and below) microfiber increases the chances of your sheets ripping and falling apart after just a few washes.
This Spirit Linen Hotel Collection six piece solid sheet sets are made of microfiber fabric for a comfortable, luxurious addition to any bedroom. The beautiful colors along with the solid contemporary style adds elegance to the bed, while protecting from wear and tear. Offering luxurious softness, this sheet set is available in common sizes and several popular colors to complement any decor. This sheet set features an exceptionally smooth texture with a 16" deep pocket.
Strangely they undersold the original prices. Who’s writing this stuff? This is meh even for meh.
@Copaseticverve@mike808@stinks at and who knows what KFC is since they don’t even refer to chicken directly in their name… not a wonder the recipe is “secret”
@mike808 it would have been better if they WERE made from candy corn. The sheets would last forever and in a natural disaster could sustain you until help arrived…
@commonhero@Copaseticverve@mike808@stinks Actually back in the first “low-fat” marketing craze about 30 years ago, KFC dropped their full name not because of chicken but because of fried.
@ironcheftoni
Just to edify: percale is equal number threads vert and horiz. Sateen is more 1 that the other. Im not sure but ratio is 3:2 i think. So percale for crisp and sateen for soft and billowy. Percale last longer & soften w each wash. No longer easy to find outside hi end retailers. Rarely discounted.
@starfieldroad Yes, cotton percale is my preference for bedding, because It’s crisp and sturdy. I wish it were more common, but people seem to prefer sateen nowadays.
@gary566@ironcheftoni@whogots
You won’t be finding any 1000+ thread count combed cotton sheets here on Meh. It’s kinda not their thing, and expectations are right in the name.
Yesterday it was a comforter, today is a load of sheet. Are you trying to tell me something, meh? Is my current bed too good, what with the memory foam and cotton? At least my comforter is from meh. It’s… Comforting.
@n8mack33 sounds like at the 90 gsm cal king might just be pushing the limits on tensile strength of this magical microfiber. One hangnail on a toe and the whole bottom sheet explodes like an over inflated balloon.
How come we never see anything marketed as MACROfiber? Aside from AllBran… surely there are situations where people are all, “Damn Microfiber such and such. What I’d do for a good old American macrofiber so and so!”
@commonhero Easy peasy. Just buy a bed made from poured concrete and you will likely get one made with macrofiber. You might want to add a mattress topper.
I almost clicked because it said “linen” in the title, and didn’t specify anything else in the specs. Recently I got some linen towels and they’re pretty spiffy, so I thought… wait… so… it’s not linen? It’s polyester product named “linen”? Wait, it’s specifically not the thing it’s named?
THAT’S GENIUS! What’s tomorrow, more polyester sheets called “Spirit Cotton”?
@blaadnort A few years ago we were seeing lots of “Egyptian 200TC” sheet sets here and around other deal-a-day sites. They were neither Egyptian cotton nor anywhere close to 200 thread count. It seems that misleading advertising is particularly heinous in the bedding industry.
There is still a lot of cold weather to deal with in the upper states. For $20 for a queen set is AOK to me. If they last the rest of the winter/spring I’m happy. Gonna try a set.
They don’t list one of the most important things in the s pecs ( unless I missed it ) what is the material the sheets are made from…I had to click the competitive price link to find out they were micro fiber… just weird when it references the brand name being Spirit Linen… just sayin…
@meh , if you have LINEN in the product name and then don’t declare the actual material (microfiber) anywhere in the product specifications, there are going to be a lot of unhappy customers asking for refunds.
I’ve been burned too many times with Meh sheets hoping for a quality product at a discount. Every time I’ve chanced it I’ve received a product that honestly isn’t even worth the price I paid here. I guess it makes good practice material for the sewing machine so there’s your glass half full. But that’s a hard pass for me, thanks.
@NadmanET
What part of “Meh” right in the site name are you not understanding?
“Quality”? Not so much.
“Discount”? Probably, but YMMV.
(I’m yanking your chain, so don’t bust my chops).
Maybe “Spirit Linen” is the name of the company that makes these? Anyway, microfiber: Yuck! Pretty horrible stuff to sleep on, but certainly cheap.
BTW, percale and sateen are types of weave. Which one you like is personal preference. When I was younger (and poorer), I always bought 180 TC cotton percale, and liked 'em. (Some of those sheets are still intact, 30 years later.) Now, I much prefer Wamsutta’s 625 TC pima sateen, and some similar sheets from Land’s End. The cheap microfiber stuff just feels skanky…
All the crap that nobody cares to read but not a word about what they’re made of. Geez! I guess they’re made of the same crappy microfiber as everything else on meh.
Why would I expect anything different today…
Specs
What’s in the Box?
Price Comparison
$69 at Bed Bath Fashions
Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
Monday, Sep 20 - Wednesday, Sep 22
More bedding?
…And tomorrow it’ll be pillows, huh?
@JamesEKohl Mattresseseseses!!!
@JamesEKohl MY Pillow!
@katbyter What?
@yakkoTDI mypillow.com
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Lindell
@katbyter I was referring to his hilarious NewSmax interview where he was ranting so hard he had no idea what was just asked of him.
Why such hatred for Cal-King here at Meh?
@jayman007 I need cal king as well, but I never see it on here.
@Sillicious I don’t think I’ve ever seen meh sell anything for cal King. Ever.
16” pocket is considered a deep mattress? What kind of weak sauce mattresses have you been using?
@seraphimcaduto how deep does a mattress need to be?? I would think 16" would be considered deep pockets.
@katbyter my 19” mattress scoffs at the puniness of a mere 16” mattress. Who could turn down an extra 4” of latex?
@seraphimcaduto
For real, mattress depths have just gotten ridiculous. I’m still using what used to be standard 12-ish inch mattresses on box springs. Today’s sheets are all loosey goosey on my formerly normal depth mattress!
@melonscoop @seraphimcaduto
@katbyter @seraphimcaduto Is that what she said?
@katbyter @seraphimcaduto Umm, 19 inches vs. 16 inches? That’s 3 inches difference.
@katbyter @melonscoop @seraphimcaduto Holy shit I think I remember seeing this as a kid.
Spirit linen sheets? Do they make good ghost costumes?
@katbyter Well, there’s not a ghost of a chance that “spirit linen” contains any actual linen. OTOH, microfiber tends to be lifeless, cold and clingy, so …
@katbyter @rockblossom Well, they might be evil spirits…
What are they made of? Rayon microfiber? Nylon? Plastic grocery bags?
@mike808 we probably don’t want to know…the leftover candy corn or Bluetooth speakers?
@mike808 Spirit Linen.
@mike808 “ Made of 90 gsm high-strength microfiber”
@jayman007 @mike808 spirit linen is pr speak for 50% polyester
@mike808 “90 gsm high-strength microfiber” according to the comparison link they posted. Strange they wouldn’t include this information up front.
Looks like they are made from an unknown plastic 90 gsm microfiber (from the comparison site).
And from another site:
@Copaseticverve @mike808 where’s that?
That’s not really linen at all, is it? Kinda like Subway “bread” and Taco Bell “meat”?
@ Copaseticverve @mike808 Got it.
Strangely they undersold the original prices. Who’s writing this stuff? This is meh even for meh.
@Copaseticverve @mike808 @stinks at and who knows what KFC is since they don’t even refer to chicken directly in their name… not a wonder the recipe is “secret”
@mike808 it would have been better if they WERE made from candy corn. The sheets would last forever and in a natural disaster could sustain you until help arrived…
@commonhero @Copaseticverve @mike808 @stinks Actually back in the first “low-fat” marketing craze about 30 years ago, KFC dropped their full name not because of chicken but because of fried.
@commonhero @mike808
I’d rather die of disaster than subsist on candy corn. The only thing worse than candy corn is people.
I hope everyone has an EXCEPTIONAL day! Mwah.
@commonhero @Copaseticverve @mike808 @pmarin @stinks
Kinda like Dunkin Donuts is now merely Dunkin. They’ve served more coffee than donuts for over a decade.
@commonhero @Copaseticverve @mike808 @pmarin @stinks @w_a_w
@mike808 @stinks Since when is a solid color a contemporary style? More like no style, if you ask me.
@commonhero @Copaseticverve @mike808 @pmarin @stinks @w_a_w That’s because their doughnuts suck. As a tea drinker, I have no opinion on the coffee.
Microfiber?
And I had to go to the linked site to learn this?
As was mentioned above: not even a temptation as they’re not offered in a CA King.
Come on peeps, we shouldn’t have to click out to the product page to find out what material they’re made of: microfiber fabric
The dreaded microfiber. In the 20th century it was percale. No matter what they call it, it’s still polyester.
@ironcheftoni it’s naugahyde all over again (for those old enough to remember that era)
percale can be composed of cotton, and is great when it is.
@ironcheftoni
Just to edify: percale is equal number threads vert and horiz. Sateen is more 1 that the other. Im not sure but ratio is 3:2 i think. So percale for crisp and sateen for soft and billowy. Percale last longer & soften w each wash. No longer easy to find outside hi end retailers. Rarely discounted.
@starfieldroad Yes, cotton percale is my preference for bedding, because It’s crisp and sturdy. I wish it were more common, but people seem to prefer sateen nowadays.
@pmarin naugahyde is now called vegan leather and four times the price.
@gary566 the only percale I have ever seen were polyester or cotton/polyester blends. Personally, I prefer cotton, no less than 1000 thread count.
@gary566 @ironcheftoni Percale mostly shows up now in low-end outlets like Wal-Mart, where it’s acceptable to mix plastic in with everything.
I agree with everyone else, real cotton percale is great.
@gary566 @ironcheftoni @whogots
You won’t be finding any 1000+ thread count combed cotton sheets here on Meh. It’s kinda not their thing, and expectations are right in the name.
@ironcheftoni b,b&b wamsutta 600 _1000 thread, or macys…ask the sales person. All $100+. Coupons at bbb knock it down to 75.
The people who bought yesterday’s Meh deal
The people who bought today’s Meh deal.
“Enjoy a cool and comfortable night’s sleep with this breathable wrinkle-free material”
Is this offer valid in South Florida?
@JT954 Yes, if you keep your AC at 72 degrees max.
Yesterday it was a comforter, today is a load of sheet. Are you trying to tell me something, meh? Is my current bed too good, what with the memory foam and cotton? At least my comforter is from meh. It’s… Comforting.
Cal King! Come on…
@n8mack33 sounds like at the 90 gsm cal king might just be pushing the limits on tensile strength of this magical microfiber. One hangnail on a toe and the whole bottom sheet explodes like an over inflated balloon.
/giphy mountainous-glorified-government
How come we never see anything marketed as MACROfiber? Aside from AllBran… surely there are situations where people are all, “Damn Microfiber such and such. What I’d do for a good old American macrofiber so and so!”
@commonhero Easy peasy. Just buy a bed made from poured concrete and you will likely get one made with macrofiber. You might want to add a mattress topper.
I almost clicked because it said “linen” in the title, and didn’t specify anything else in the specs. Recently I got some linen towels and they’re pretty spiffy, so I thought… wait… so… it’s not linen? It’s polyester product named “linen”? Wait, it’s specifically not the thing it’s named?
THAT’S GENIUS! What’s tomorrow, more polyester sheets called “Spirit Cotton”?
@blaadnort can we even be sure that if we order a bluetooth speaker it won’t in fact be candy corn?
@blaadnort A few years ago we were seeing lots of “Egyptian 200TC” sheet sets here and around other deal-a-day sites. They were neither Egyptian cotton nor anywhere close to 200 thread count. It seems that misleading advertising is particularly heinous in the bedding industry.
Had to dig a little. Perhaps you thought the higher price would manifest the assumption that it wasn’t microfiber.
This is the company behind Bed Bath Fashions and the sheets: https://www.trade-linker.com/
Nothing nefarious, just a fact.
When nothing is listed about what it’s made from, I always assume it’s made from people. Hard pass.
@ColeSloth Soylent Linen is people!
Looks like when @meh copied the product specs from this website, they intentionally left out the material.
https://bedbathfashions.com/products/spirit-hotel-6-piece-ultra-soft-sheet-set
@ColeSloth @pmarin Soylent Linen is microfiber people!
Huge NOPE!
There is still a lot of cold weather to deal with in the upper states. For $20 for a queen set is AOK to me. If they last the rest of the winter/spring I’m happy. Gonna try a set.
After cancelling my Meh-mbership last week, there’s been nothing to make me wish I hadn’t. Thanks, Meh!
@richrauch I did the same about 3-4 months ago, and have not been tempted to buy anything since, either.
Give them a break…they worked really really hard hiding the base materials these are made of.
…
Any manufacturer that does this is an automatic skip.
@ScotD
MFGR did not leave it out, @meh did.
https://bedbathfashions.com/products/spirit-hotel-6-piece-ultra-soft-sheet-set
Sometimes I wish there was a middle finger ‘meh’ button…like every day in 2021 save 1 or 2
They don’t list one of the most important things in the s pecs ( unless I missed it ) what is the material the sheets are made from…I had to click the competitive price link to find out they were micro fiber… just weird when it references the brand name being Spirit Linen… just sayin…
vegan leather, er naugahyde
I miss the days where meh would own up to how shitty a product was.
These days they’ll copy and paste the description from the product owner website, and then remove material type.
https://bedbathfashions.com/products/spirit-hotel-6-piece-ultra-soft-sheet-set
@meh , if you have LINEN in the product name and then don’t declare the actual material (microfiber) anywhere in the product specifications, there are going to be a lot of unhappy customers asking for refunds.
@rypeter you should tag me a few more times to make sure i get the message.
Where’s twin XL?
I’ve been burned too many times with Meh sheets hoping for a quality product at a discount. Every time I’ve chanced it I’ve received a product that honestly isn’t even worth the price I paid here. I guess it makes good practice material for the sewing machine so there’s your glass half full. But that’s a hard pass for me, thanks.
@NadmanET
What part of “Meh” right in the site name are you not understanding?
“Quality”? Not so much.
“Discount”? Probably, but YMMV.
(I’m yanking your chain, so don’t bust my chops).
So they are not linen? Are they?
I got some cotton poly blend sheets from Wally world a few weeks back for $25. They’re serviceable for the price.
In what parallel universe is Microfiber "eco-friendly "? In other words, how is pure polyester good for environment?
But what is it made of? Cotton? Linen? Polyester? Plastic? What’s if it’s toxic? Polyester isn’t all that great for you.
Maybe “Spirit Linen” is the name of the company that makes these? Anyway, microfiber: Yuck! Pretty horrible stuff to sleep on, but certainly cheap.
BTW, percale and sateen are types of weave. Which one you like is personal preference. When I was younger (and poorer), I always bought 180 TC cotton percale, and liked 'em. (Some of those sheets are still intact, 30 years later.) Now, I much prefer Wamsutta’s 625 TC pima sateen, and some similar sheets from Land’s End. The cheap microfiber stuff just feels skanky…
All the crap that nobody cares to read but not a word about what they’re made of. Geez! I guess they’re made of the same crappy microfiber as everything else on meh.
Why would I expect anything different today…
These sheets are great! Very soft but not very thick. Just what we wanted!