Feather pillow owners: do ALL the feathers eventually work themselves out?

[Demit]

What on earth is happening inside a feather pillow anyway? Surely all the sticky pointy ends of the feathers couldn't be facing toward the outside. There's some sort of migration thing going on. Can it be explained by physics?

[Shakespeare]

1. They're obviously having a hullabaloo.

Or perhaps a brouhaha. Booya.

[mr_hat]

2. Don't worry -- your pillow is just molting.

Give it a season and it'll be all fluffy-new again.

[n2mark]

3. How about

if you try putting the pillows in the dryer for the feathers to move around, not more than 20 minutes though on low or fluff. Whenever this would happen to me, I would do this, it helped.

[n2mark]

4. Did I fall for a joke?

[Demit]

6. no, lol! I'm quite serious. I should be a little busier maybe :)

I think I'm avoiding something, and lingering on DU. So I decided to post a question that I've wondered about for a long time.

[Demit]

5. Oh. I'll try that, thanks. These are needlepoint throw pillows, and I

lean on them... but I swear, I just went into the living room and one was poking out that I'd swear wasn't there before. There's like a couple every day, and these pillows are well over a year old. But maybe they're feeling bunched and would like a little fluff cycle. Not to get too anthropomorphic about it or anything.

[bif]

7. Yep. A year from now you'll have an empty pillowcase

Then you buy another one and start over.

[n2mark]

8. I have feather pillows

they last for five years. They just need to be put in the dryer to fluff them up. I don't know the real life of a feather pillow, but all I can say they are better then the pillows that are on sale filled with styrofoam, feathered pillows are the best for neck, shoulder and other problems.

[Schema Thing]

9. No. Your long nightmare has just begun. eom

[Thor_MN]

10. If you can stand to keep it long enough

I just threw out several and haven't found a good replacemnet yet - might explain why I've been so crabby this week. I LOVEd my mushy pillows....

as for physics, the feathers with the pointy ends on the inside tend to not be able to work themselves through the tick or whatever the appropriate name is for the material that holds the feather in....

So that's why the sharp little pointy things sticking out your pillow produce feathers on pulling them and there ate no feathers sticking out that lead to sharp pointy ends.

[hollywood926]

11. I have a Martha Stewart feather pillow...

she's the only reason I ever go to stupid KMart. Her pillows rock. (Softly)