How often do you wash your bedding?

A couple of times a week. My medication and being perimenopausal means I sweat a lot. I have to shower morning and night and wear clean pjs each night too for the same reason.

None that I'm aware of. I don't live in the UK and people usually use two sheets here, in fact most sheets are sold in packs of two, one fitted and one flat. Having to constantly take a duvet cover off, wash it, then put it back on sounds like utter madness to me.

In winter more like every 3weeks (I aim for 2 weeks doesn't happen often) it's such a hassle trying to dry sheets/duvets. I end up with them draped over chairs in dining room or play room. In summer more every 1-2 weeks as it's easy to dry them outside.

How would you possibly know this
Do you visit people and sneak into their bedroom to sniff the bedsheets
How many have you done this to in the aid of research
Do you have spreadsheet of friends beds whiffiness to when they last changed the bed sheets

Towels and pillow cases once a week.
Sheets once a month in winter. Once a week in summer.
I sleep on my own and do not get into bed dirty.

Do whats best for you.

Towels once a day is nuts. Utter waste of time.

Yeah this ... I don't really like the 'competitive cleanliness,' that you get on these types of threads, and I think washing the bedding every 4 - 7 days (as a few people have said,) is a bit much. I can't imagine anybody needing to do it that often, unless it's very, very hot and they're sweating a lot. And washing towels once a day? WTF? Who does that? No-one I know!

But the other end of the scale is batshit. Only washing your bedding every 3 months? Really?! That is actually gross. There's no way in hell that the bedding won't stink after that amount of time ... No matter what time of year it is, and no matter who you are/what age/what weight etc...

I know this word's overused on Mumsnet, but it is actually grim to only wash your bedding* *four times a year. God, it must stink by then. 😬

OP, personally I think the towel-washing is excessive too, but that aside (and I don't mean this to sound snidey) you're defending your choices so robustly that it appears they're working for you... so maybe just own your choices and don't bother what anyone else thinks? I mean, if you ask for opinions you're going to get them... just saying.

What's the connection between clean sheets and feminism? Aren't feminists allowed to want clean linen?

Why wouldn't I be allowed to comment?

About every 10 or so days for ours. Kids around 3 weeks ish. Sometimes more in summer, or nice weather.

Have started washing DS1s more around 2 week mark as he's almost a teen.

Every couple of months.

I wear pyjamas and change them regularly, the sheets don't smell. Or at least they don't to me and I'm the only one smelling them.

Once a week and sometimes I change the bottom sheet during the week too if it is warm. Only because I am a very sweaty sleeper! I've tried going two weeks but I could smell the sweat

In summer when it is very hot and dh is on nights I might change it twice a week because between the two of us it is being slept in constantly.

When I was at uni I gifted my (then) boyfriend a duvet, as his was rubbish. Sent it with white bedding for the whole bed. About 10 months later I pulled back the duvet to see a brown smear all down the centre of the bed. I asked when the last time he had washed the bedding was... he said never 🤢🤢

I use my bedding two nights before it gets washed. I get really bad night sweats though, so it gets a bit smelly quickly. If I left it two weeks or even a week the whole bedroom would reek...

Trust me, after 3 months, it smells, regardless of who you are

It can get tangled, especially if you're the sort of person who cocoons themselves in their duvet. Otherwise, it's the same as hotels, or using sheet + eiderdown/blankets used to be, before duvets became common.

I am curious about using a top sheet. It would be easier to wash!

what are the downsides?

Well the reason I said it was for context in terms of cleanliness, not to suggest that people only launder their bedding as they don’t shower before bed. I may sweat in my sleep (although not noticeably), and so wash my pjs regularly, but I’m willing to risk any shed skin that might remain after my shower and towel dry.

Once a week,twice in summer

Clothes…I used to change them each day but I now consider the environment and get a strange thrill out of wearing them as many times as I can before washing…

I mostly change them every day, but I'll hang them to air rather than washing them before wearing them again (unless they are actually dirty, like yesterday's trousers have mud on them.)

I don’t get folks pointing out they shower before bed, so? You sweat in your sleep, shed skin. It also attracts dust mites and bacteria, you don’t launder your bedding as you don’t shower before bed,

Bedding- around once a month…I come to bed clean after a quick shower! Towels, keep the same two all week and hang them to dry then wash weekly. Clothes…I used to change them each day but I now consider the environment and get a strange thrill out of wearing them as many times as I can before washing…this depends on whether I’m working from home or out, or I consider if I’ve been on public transport etc. Each to their own I guess but perhaps this thread could invite people to consider if they really do need to wash their clothes/towels/bedding quite as often - less detergent, less water usage, electric etc

Some people just don’t smell.

If you do, then that’s you.

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