How often go you wash your bedsheets?

[MonkeysAllGoWoo]

I put freshly washed line dried bedsheets on last night and it was lovely to sleep in the bed, as it always is!

I've just sat on a tube of moisturiser/tanning lotion and didn't realise (arse must be fatter than I realise) and half of it is now on my bed/shorts. I text my friend saying this just happened lol. Why is it always fresh sheets? Sort of message. I now wonder if I'm a bit of a rotter as she text back saying wouldn't you be putting fresh ones on tonight anyway?!

I change mine weekly. Usually a Friday task. Summer may change this but I don't sleep under the duvet if it's too hot so it doesn't automatically change in summer?!

And what about towels?

[MonsteraCheeseplant]

Approximately once every 15 minutes

[SenorFrog]

I have a coworker who does it daily but she's is always banging on about housework, I find her mind numbingly boring. I don't have time in my life for that shit, lol. I do mine either weekly or fortnightly if I'm busy during the weekend and miss the clean. I'll change pillows and sheets and not duvet sometimes too.

[TracyBeakerSoYeah]

You skanky lot using a bed & bed sheets.
I just levitate for 8 hrs each night.

And towels ewwww.
I have one of those giant human tumble dryers in my bathroom (like they have a Center Parcs) or I meditate dry.

[CorianderLord]

@TinkersTailor gosh that amount of product would have my skin bleeding (eczema). Although I miss the smell of line dried linens (live in a flat now)

[Wavescrashingonthebeach]

@CorianderLord

My face was itching reading it! Im allergic to all the fancy laundry products! A cheap sensitive skin laundry liquid and thats sufficient. Bedding and towels on a 60° wash too.

[Cakeorchocolate]

Not as often as I should I'm sure. Definitely not according to this thread.

No set amount or frequency. Has to be a combination of thinking about it, remembering long enough to actually do it and having time and energy to. (I have severe fibromyalgia so it's not very often all those things line up to actually do it.)

Probably every 3 weeks or so in cool weather, late autumn, winter. More often in summer. Hot weather, as often as needed.
We shower before bed so sheets are only desperate for a change if it's been a hot sweaty night. Or I'm hormonal and/or ended up in bed all day with migraine and need to change them

[HeronLanyon]

This thread has very unfortunately made me think about when I last changed my mattress.
And then I remember the horsehair mattresses we all had as kids.

Now feeling like throwing the whole thing on a fire and Making a bed of pine branches or similar each night.

[HeronLanyon]

And wouldn’t you know it up pops an advert for mattresses

[MonkeysAllGoWoo]

Sorry... how does one air the sheets?

[AWryGiraffe]

Two weeks or more often three weeks probably, unless there's been a baby-related incident or I've spilled coffee on them. I love clean sheets but not enough to be doing them weekly. Neither of us are particularly stinky.

Towels- god knows. We reuse them, and then chuck them in if the laundry basket has got pretty low so nothing else needs doing. Sometimes on 90 so I can give the machine a good clean (we use cloth nappies so we need to).

[MonsteraCheeseplant]

@MonkeysAllGoWoo Just fold the duvet back so the bottom sheet gets air. It helps it dry out and prevent bacteria breeding.

[yarncakes]

Once a week. I leave the bed to air all day (and hoover the mattress) and put fresh bedding on in the evening.

[MonkeysAllGoWoo]

Thanks @MonsteraCheeseplant I thought it was that but isn't that just an unmade bed really?

I remember my gran being really proud that my grandad had never got into an unmade bed and that it was aired every day. Made it sound like a big thing and wondered if people are doing more than my naturally lazy brain assumes.

[yikesanotherbooboo]

Once a week ideally but if it is wet and I can't get everything dried I would downgrade to fortnightly in order to get clothes, towels etc done. Towels weekly. I feel a bit extravagant washing sheets weekly I am sure fortnightly is fine.

[MNnicknameforCVthreads]

Proud to be skanky here: no set timetable but works out roughly every 2-3 weeks, possibly nearer 4 weeks in winter.

Shrug.

[FrenchBoule]

DH and DC are sweaty sleepers. I replaced all “easy care” polytottons with 100% cotton.

I change them approximately every 2 weeks. Maybe they crease a bit more but at least don’t stink of sweat after a few days. Can also wash them at 60 degrees.

[FrenchBoule]

*polycottons

[Redhair23]

@SenorFrog

I have a coworker who does it daily but she's is always banging on about housework, I find her mind numbingly boring. I don't have time in my life for that shit, lol. I do mine either weekly or fortnightly if I'm busy during the weekend and miss the clean. I'll change pillows and sheets and not duvet sometimes too.

As mind numbing as the ‘jokes’ about doing it every 15min on here? I am not sure which is worse tbh...

[NatashaAlianovaRomanova]

Once a fortnight but I air the bed daily, shower before bed, I'm not sweaty & sleep alone but I'd change them if I spilled moisturiser/fake tan over them even if they'd just been changed the day before

[Meganplays]

Does your friend do TOMM? could she have meant because it’s ‘clean sheet Tuesday’?

I can’t believe how many people change them 2 or 3 times a week. It take me ages to strip, wash, dry and remake 4 beds. It’s exhausting putting heavy SK duvets into their covers and climbing over mattresses to tuck sheets in.

I change ours as little as possible, 2-3 weeks as a minimum.

[Waytoomuch82]

[quote MonsteraCheeseplant]@MonkeysAllGoWoo Just fold the duvet back so the bottom sheet gets air. It helps it dry out and prevent bacteria breeding.[/quote]
@MonsteraCheeseplant

“Dry out”? From what? Sweat? Gross. Dried sweat!

[MonsteraCheeseplant]

Yup! Is that gross?

[MonkeysAllGoWoo]

@Meganplays what is TOMM? I can't say clean sheet Tuesdays is that catchy of a slogan, works equally well for all days. What does it all mean?

[StarlightLady]

Bedding - once a week in cooler weather. Twice a week in hot weather.

Bath towels, twice a week.

Hand towels, daily.

[whirlwindwallaby]

First weekend of the month, towels once a week.