Simplify!

For every regularly-used bed in your home, you need 3 sheet sets. Some may want special seasonal sheets, or keep an extra set out of nostalgia, but if you want a linen closet you never have to clean or neaten, stick with 3 sheet sets. Because you only have 3, this is license to splurge on sheets that make you happy to crawl under the covers each and every night. You spend nearly 1/3 of your life in bed (or we should!) so get the best you can afford. 

Sheets should breathe, be of excellent quality cotton, good thread-count, be a colour you love. Thread count is a good indicator but can also be misleading - how fabulous is each thread? Egyptian and Turkish cotton are good (there are many grades and types of cotton), but don't let that alone be your deciding factor. FEEL the sheets... do you love them? Do you like the super-soft feel of very high thread counts? The crisp of medium thread-counts? Do you want the added durability and wrinkle-free life of polyester-cotton blends? Do you like cotton, cotton sateen, silk, blends?

I've learned my lesson: I don't buy sheets online. I bought a set of 450tc Egyptian cottons sheets at a decent price. They are too thin, with less-than-sturdy construction, and I just don't like using them. I am giving them to my mom so they will hopefully get used.