Why are there holes in my friend's comforter?

A friend of mine asked...

“Why do I have holes in my comforter? I just got it a little while ago!” He went and bought this comforter set about a year ago. He looked at a lot of comforter sets and comforters. They all seemed to look about the same so he decided to get a full complete set which included shams, pillow cases, sheets and the comforter, all this for $99. Nice, huh?!... Well, it was until he washed it. The washing instruction said, machine washable, so what gives?

I helped him to do some research on comforters. What he were interested in was price and something that looked nice. So things like thread counts, cotton versus 50/50, down comforter, down alternative and so forth were not important in his decision.

Well, his comforter now has about 5 or 6 rips in it and the fitted sheet comes off all of the time. He basically needs a new one.

Now, at the time he did not think he could afford a higher priced set, maybe one with much higher thread count and 100% cotton. But in the end, it will cost him more because now he needs to buy a new one.

He also did not know about duvet covers at the time. This time he thinks he will go for a nice goose down comforter and a couple duvet cover sets to change things up.

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