Sleeping Bag

 I bought a sleeping bag. Relatively cheap and advertised as being suitable for inside or outside use down to 0c.

It came with a list of instructions in booklet form, about 6 A5 pages.

The first topic on use was labelled: Washing the Sleeping Bag.

The first line: Don't!

Then followed two pages of how to avoid dirtying it, pretty much all saying : "Wash and change into clean clothes (including socks) before entering the bag  and "Don't wear dirty shoes in the bag".

Until now I didn't know you could fill up two pages with that, sans pictures. You can.

After those two pages the instructions call for hand washing and drying on a flat surface - they suggest three days drying should do the job.

So I've sent away for two liners for the bag. They cost exactly as much as the bag.

All because the bed I want to use for winter is fixed in place meaning I have to climb over it to make it and I am too lazy to unfix/rebuild it and too tight to have a replacement built.

MT_Tinman: Both miserable and bone idle lazy.