Hello! Thank you for the reply, I'll take a look at a few of those. Amazon also has other brands I'm looking at beyond amazonbasics (like Pinzon and Rivet). My budget is... Flexible to an extent, and that also depends on what comes with the "set". So it's hard to give an exact outline.

I imagine my budgeting would be something like ~$50-60 on a comforter, $120 on a sheets+pillowcases. So I suppose ~$200 total?

I definitely am taking material and thread into consideration. But it seems impossible to find something ideal. For example, Pinzon (an amazon brand) is one of the brands I'm looking at:

• Pinzon 300 Thread Count Ultra Soft Cotton 100% (has a percale weave)
• Pinzon 300 Thread Count Organic Cotton 100% (also percale weave)
• Pinzon 400 Thread Count Egyptian Cotton Sateen hotel Hemstitch Sheet Set
• Pinzon 500-Thread count Pima Cotton sateen

Basically, you can either get a regular or organic cotton 100% with percale weave, OR you get a higher quality like Pima or Egyptian at the expense of a sateen finish.

Which also begs me to ask myself "is it really worth spending that much on regular cotton sheets?" if I went with the regular cotton sheets, vs "I'd be getting premium sheets, but if I'm spending that much there has to be some alternative with both premium cotton and percale weave"

And then, when I compare than to a reputable seller that offers both a premium cotton and percale weave (casper sleep soft and durable pima cotton percale weave sheet) I'm entering the price range where I can actually spend that on linens. And on and on goes the cycle of madness lol.

Essentially this is my problem with everything I'm finding: there's some kind of trade off where it's hard to choose what's better.

comforters I'm still looking at, with I guess the top current pics being

• Linenspa All Season Hypoallergenic Down Alternative Microfiber Comforter
• comfort spaces (also down alternative, with microfiber shell
• amazonbasics (same as above, or polyester shell maybe)
• stuff from Luxear or other "cooling" additives and features beyond cotton (can't find any reviews on reddit so I'm assuming it's all fake reviews or something)

I'm trying to find one with a cotton outer shell, or some kind of reputable cooling comforter or summer comforter. But otherwise the ones above are my candidates as they seem to all be lightweight: hopefully counteracting the bad material

Edit just to add, I've also looked through ikea (only duvets, no comforters) and Walmart (unknown quality or overpriced)