How often do you wash your bedding?

Once a month or when I remember. Actually I’ve changed them today because your post reminded me 😁 . Actually I’ve read your other posts OP and although we’re poles apart on our approach to these things, I say each to their own. You received a pile on for your previous post and you took it in a really good natured way, I don’t think you deserved so much shit. Just do you.

No one is saying leave it damp and stinky for a week though, you are being deliberately obtuse

It's unbelievable. What in God's name do you think will happen if you don't wash them every 2 minutes?

It's a total environmental fail yes. You clearly don't give a hoot.

Id like to say fortnightly, but honestly if its monthly im happy. I always wear t-shirt at night, and am single. I change pillow cases weekly. And do change the bedding more often in summer.

And look, you're here too so I'm guess you have little going on in your life?

your post was horrid & unnecessary.

Once a month. I am widowed, so no nights of wild passion. I wear pyjamas which soak up any sweat. I am trying to avoid using the washing machine as much as possible to save the planet.

Those who wash sheets frequently because of germs are carrying those germs around with them all the time anyway - they are meant to be there.

That's very wasteful - why is it necessary?

@Iusedtobeapenguin

i don't have a 'routine', I go by the weather, I can get them out on the line pretty much year around and it's a bit of a wind tunnel. Even if not bone dry it gets most of the water out and I finish them on the airer.

I just pick the best drying looking day & do them between 4 & 8 days. It just happens, no rota.

so once a week in winter & twice a week in summer (Sometimes more if really hot. Duvet usually sits folded on the chair all summer, so it's just sheets & pillow cases. the mattress protector maybe once a month in summer every spontaneously on a good drying day in winter!

Sounds like OP has little else going on in her life than washing barely used things and starting countless threads on MN about barely used things.

Am I the only person who doesn't have a routine for this kind of thing? I haven't got a clue what day I last changed the bedsheets, just that I do it when I think they need it 🤷‍♀️

Duvet,sheet, pillow cases weekly. (Yes, the dog sometimes sneaks on the bed) Duvet and pillows,mattress cover.a few times a year, already done them once this year.

Monthly in winter
Fortnightly in summer

We both shower before bed so are going to bed clean and we're not overly sweaty people. If they need done sooner then I do them sooner.

We have a small house and no tumble dryer so to wash more than that monthly would really affect my general laundry routine and I'd fall behind. In summer when I can get sheets on the line it's so much easier to get them dried quickly. Also try to reduce water wastage.

@Alwaysalwayscold

why are your towels damp?

I hang mine on the towel rail & they're dry by my next shower (if daily) when showering again the same day, if it's not yet dry I'll get a fresh towel & alternate Until they all go in the wash.

no need to put the damp one in the washing

do you air your bathroom?

Once a week. Would probably do fortnightly but the dog sleeps on our bed so weekly it is.

I like to do mine twice a week - not because I'm sweaty, but I love getting into a fresh bed. My sister-in-law does hers once every 3 weeks, which I think is grim.

I commented this on another thread recently. I love how MN opens my eyes to how different people are. It seems that many people are very preoccupied with hygiene. I just don’t think like you do OP! And that’s ok. But the idea that my neighbour using my hand towel is ‘gross’ - I don’t get that.

I wash hand towels more often than body towels due to hygiene but never on a premise that a normal healthy person touching them is ‘gross’.

I wash bedding when it starts to feel like it needs it in my mind! Sometimes that’s after a few days if someone ill, sweaty or spillage, sometimes it’s a month. Towels about weekly. And - gasp - our family all share them. I know that is scandalous for many of you but we survive it somehow.

Probably not often enough. We're still alive.

What even in a leap year!!🤣

Same x

Have you got some kind of laundry obsession, who discusses washing on a night out and what kind of persin gives two hoots about anyone else's bedding?

Don't waste your life on this

OP you've now started a number of threads breaking down each of your cleaning behaviours to try and garner support you didn't get in your original thread, the cumulative effect of your habits and product consumption was what drew comments in the original thread, you're not giving people the whole picture in each of the individual threads, 12 toilet rolls a week, the volume of shower gel and shampoo etc, which is what people were commenting on and what your own husband thinks is excessive in addition to the utilities cost, glad to hear you're cutting down the washing and no one has died of dysentry yet.

Honestly every few months...