How often do you wash your bedding?

It’s not just trade persons though, you’re washing towels after every time someone that visits the guest loo.

You also wash all family towels after every other day.

And clothes after every wear.

You are a MASSIVE DRAIN on the environment.

If everyone thought like you the planet is even more fucked.

Shame on you. NO ONE admires you.

Ideally once a week sometimes more like ten days. Because life and long shifts!

They've clearly never met a gypsy then 😂

I also change hand towels at the end of every day OP. I think using a towel for a week and leaving it there damp in the bathroom is disgusting so let them lynch me.

Generally once a week. Occasionally it slips to once a fortnight.

Fortnightly generally, but more frequently of late (night sweats - bloody peri-menopause).

I'm loving that the weather is better and I can dry bedding outdoors, it smells so nice when it's line-dried.

So why start the thread?

I care about the environment. I can not control what China or the USA emits but I can alter my own emissions and I choose to do so. If you look at the UK’s emission per person we are quite high up there.

Why do you think a tradesman drying his hand on a towel makes it gross? What do you think is happening on the towel? Your extreme reaction is odd!

I do laundry at the weekend, usually a dark load, a light load and sometimes a red one. Sheets every other week or so, don’t pay particular attention to it. Towels between a week and 2. That is a family of 3 adults. I also use the longer eco setting (which seems to upset a lot of people on here) as it uses both less electricity and less water!

Change bedding weekly, but wash bedding fortnightly as alternate clothes washing and textiles, towels, flannels etc as week 1/ 2.
Only one laundry day / week, doing 3-4 loads.

Once or twice a week. Once a week for hygiene reasons, ( sweaty husband, baby sick etc) more if I feel like a change of duvet cover. I really like getting into a fresh bed.

Once a week.

Do you wash them daily or do you have seven towels, change them daily and wash once a week?

Bed done weekly here due to night hot flushes and we sleep in the nip. Towels changed in the middle of the week as we do sport or cycle commute most days - washed together in a load at the end of the week. There’s just me plus other half who stays a couple of nights a week.

Mean to say @exomoon That there needs to be a balance surely between environmental considerations and hygiene

@exomoon

I would do the same @Alwaysalwayscold if anyone else has used the towels otherwise I leave hand towels and bath towels a few days

Closer to 2 weekly. The beds do get aired every day.

I need to get out of bed so I can wash the bedding!

I aim for weekly but it's often fortnightly however I usually wash the pillows and sheet after a week even if I don't get around to doing the duvet.

Once a week in Winter, sometimes twice a week in Summer, if it’s not at night.

As little as possible, around every three weeks in winter and two in summer. I like doing anything as long as it’s not a domestic chore. I also have a set of clean clothes on the go that turn in to my scruffs for a couple of days for hiking and walking.

I am retired before that I had six years in a nurses uniform, this was in the days of the belts with silver buckles so that was a wash every day. Then smart casual for most of my career.

When my husband was alive it was weekly. Now every couple occasionally longer. Should do it today in fact....

without fail

It is a fail though.

It’s an environmental fail.

It’s a common sense failure.

It’s not admirable or aspiring behaviour.

I’d feel sorry for you but it’s the environment that needs our sympathy.

Between 2 weeks and a month depending on when they seem to need changing. I’m the only one in the bed and pets are banned from the room. My daughter does hers weekly because she lets the dog up with her.

When we had a double, usually once a week.

Now we are staying somewhere temporarily that has a Superking it's once a fortnight as a) it doesn't all fit in the machine in one go, b) I don't have space to hang it all to dry in one go and c) I'm heavily pregnant and feel like I need two weeks to recover from putting the sodding duvet cover back on, even with DH's help!

When the weather is warmer so we're sweatier and it will dry faster I'll try to up it to weekly again.

Once every 2 weeks.

It would be more frequent if I didn't wear pyjamas. I think once a week is fine too, though.

If you look online I think there'll be guidance that really it should be once a week or maximum every two. With towels it's recommended 3-4 uses, I think (I don't do this though). I think what this shows is that after every use is just not needed, but equally perhaps most people 'should' wash towels more than they do. But what is it that people think will happen if you don't...there are millions of people washing less frequently than what would be considered hygienic, but nothing bad is happening to them because of it!