OH YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS ISSUE MY FRIEND!  My husband wants NOTHING to do with down anythings...pillows, comforters, mattress toppers...NOTHING.  Why?  Well, for this very reason you mention..."they are all pokey and annoying”.  Of course down here there’s also the problem that down stuff is really a bit much temperature-wise, but even if it wasn’t I would lose the battle.  I would suggest though that you might consider getting a cover for your comforter so that there would be another layer of fabric between your hands and the evil poking feathers. Good luck.

A duvet cover will help tremendously.

I must agree with you on this feather thingie.My hubbie wanted feather pillows to sleep on.I gave in and purchased some.He sleeps on his..mine lays on the floor at night.It makes my head hot and them damn pokie thingies drive this princess( I could feel a pea if it were 10 layers deep) crazy too.From what I’ve been told, the better quality down has had pokie’s removed..I haven’t found pokieless yet to this day!!Must be a myth.

my friends, I am grateful and appreciative of your support.  A duvet cover has felt like an admission of weakness to me in the past, but then again, what does this whole rant represent but my own failure to overcome a tiny piece of insulation? 

Next time I’ll be a bit more activist for permaloft.  You can toss it in the washer and fluff it dry for those occasion when the bedtime beer bubbles furiously and unexpectedly over, and all I’ll lose is the thrill of the prickerhunt!

Wait a minute. You don’t use a duvet cover?!!

Get a duvet cover, buddy. Problem solved.

OMG - I go to work EVERY DAY with tiny feathers all over me. I look like I live in a chicken plucking factory. I have 2 pillow cases on each pillow, plus a seal of rubber cement around my whole face and STILL they get in my nose and eyelashes. Obnoxious!

Even worse, my mom was doing a Very Nice Thing and bought us these really expensive feather pillows which don’t have the ‘stems’ (do you call it that on a feather?) so they aren’t pokey—these pillows are heaven—but the fluff is cut from the stem part so it’s even TINIER and the little thingies are floating all over my whole world. I live in a snowglobe.

Must be the fabric - I’ve been using a down comforter for 5 years and never felt one stickernub. So invest in a duvet. Not just a duvet, be sure its a high thread-count duvet, (400+). Also, read the label on your comforter - my guess is you have a mix of down and feathers.

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