My friend Bud, who lives in Florida half the year and in his North Carolina cabin the other half, recently texted me with a baffling problem. Literally, he was baffled by the lousy baffling in several down comforters he’d purchased. Bud knows inferior bedding is a topic I do not take lying down, so he wrote: “I have a possible column topic for you.
You may not find it interesting, but it is to me!” Bud is 80, a widower, and skinny. He gets cold at night. So, as winter approaches, he wants a good down comforter.
He then shares that because he wraps up in these comforters while watching TV and eating, the white ones aren’t practical. He bought four colored down comforters online at a retailer we’ll call Company C. He returned all four because many of the sewn-in squares meant to keep the puffy down in place were flat, as in empty.
“You are sleeping. In the night your legs feel cold,” he said. “You put a blanket over them and go back to sleep.
This happens again the following night. By the third night you say, ‘Wait a minute. Why are my legs cold and nothing else? I have a brand-new down comforter.
’ So, you get up in the middle of the night and stretch out the (expletive) comforter and discover 30% of the pockets have no fill.” Who knew down bedding was such a shifty business? He ordered two more colored comforters from Company L. Same problem.
Dead spots. He returned them. Determined to figure out what was going on, Bud (a retired attorney who specialized .
