David Haggerty couldn’t sleep. “This bed is too warm,” he said to himself, flinging aside the flannel sheets from his sweating body.
Next to him, his wife slept like a swaddled log. Perpetually chilled at night, she insisted the flannel sheets stay on the bed year-round.
The couple had argued about it that evening as they changed the bedding.
“There’s got to be something I could do to make us both happy,” he thought.
Suddenly a light bulb went on in David Haggerty’s head. “What if I bought a length of fuzzy flannel and a length of lightweight cotton and sewed them together with the warm flannel half on Jeanette’s side and the cool cotton half on mine?”
So he did.
Haggerty’s patent-pending, sheet-and-pillow-case sets, Split the Sheets, have shown up on KING-TV’s “Evening Magazine,” in a demo booth at the Tacoma Holiday Food & Gift Show and in a USA Today article. Split the Sheets had a short run of sales on Target.com.
On ABC’s “Good Morning America,” co-hosts Diane Sawyer and Robin Roberts, lay in a bed fitted with Split the Sheets. The consumer editor of Woman’s Day, the magazine, went on NBC’s “Today” show and called Split the Sheets “the smartest product ever.”
Photo by Peter Haley.
Jaclyn on October 27th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
I agree with the editor from womans day, this is the best idea ever. My fiance and i have this problem where i’m alway’s cold and he’s alway’s hot, same thing with my parents…she is alway’s hot and he’s alway’s cold. I don’t think there’s one couple out there who has the same temperature comforts as each other…and we all fight over if your gonna stay too warm or if i’m gonna stay too cold…and you know something, i’ve noticed that it’s usually the cold person who wins. to have split sheets would most definitely save quite a few arguments and uncomfortable night’s of sleep.
cassy on October 27th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
I can’t wait to buy one for my parents as I always heard them arguing when they sleep because mom wants warm temp and dad into cold so i think this product is really good and well all want to have a good and comfortable sleep after the whole day of hard-work.
I’m sure this product will hit the market. Good luck and more power!!
Matt Helphrey on October 27th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
Wow. More proof that any idea can make you money if you take action to make it into a product.
Johnny Coates on October 28th, 2008 at 12:17 am
The first lines was like a part int the story GOLDILOCKS and the THREE BEARS…
“this chair is too hard… this chair is too soft… this chair is just right!” LOL!.