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?

[NellyJames]

@MonkeyToesOfDoom, we not literally but frequently. When there’s 6 of you in the house, 3 adults and 3 children including a teenager and all their clothes, school uniform, various sporting kits and all the towels then yes, it mounts up.

[ThePresence]

exactly, its not just the changing of the bed that is the problem, it is all the extra washing, the machine is on every day and if I do the bed, it is on again and I need the dryer on too as there is nowhere to dry them.

[vanillandhoney]

[quote NellyJames]@vanillandhoney, not hours just on stripping but washing 5 sets of bedding, 1 x super king, 2 x double and 1 x single. Ours takes up most of the washing machine. Plus 2 more washes as the other 3 sets don’t all fit in at once. Then, unless weather is great, they all need drying. Our duvet cover is so huge it needs to go in by itself then various loads of all the rest including 9 pillowcases! It takes me forever to make our bed as it’s huge and the duvet in winter is almost too heavy for me to lift. It just all takes a long time.[/quote]
Fair enough!

I just bung everything in the machine and switch it on - three hours later everything is washed and dried and ready to be put away.

[GennyCrabby]

Every couple of weeks. I intend to do it more often at the moment because I'm so sweaty but in reality it's one a week or two still. I can see the logic,
need even for daily changes in this weather, but in all honesty sod that for a game of soldiers.

[GennyCrabby]

I did go for doubling up of pillowcases and changing them daily though, because it's my head that sweats the most and my pillows are fairly new!

[Waytoomuch82]

@MonsteraCheeseplant

Sleeping on sheets with dried sweat accumulating day after day as you say you air your bed to “dry it” out from sweat, yes - that’s pretty gross

Aside from changing your sheets daily, it's inevitable...

Inevitable that your sheets are actually damp with sweat and need to “dry out”?

Speak for yourself

[MonsteraCheeseplant]

Everyone sweats in their sleep, no point shaming people about it. I'm not talking about wet sheets but there will be sweat, it's just natural. Thanks for your contribution though, incredible sweat free woman. You and Prince Andrew should be studied

[Port1aCastis]

I have 32 beds to change (I run holiday lets) plus the three in this house so weekly is a must to change beds or bi weekly sometimes, I send all the sheets to the laundry but the beds still have to be made up Im quick and very adept at putting on clean sheets these days.

[peakygal]

Twice a week at least unless something is spilled etc

[Waytoomuch82]

Read my post!!!

I said sweating every night wasn’t gross!!

What I found gross was idea of sleeping in sheets soaked in sweat and then dried night after night

[Trashtara]

Inevitable that your sheets are actually damp with sweat and need to “dry out”?

Everyone sweats in their sleep. Often your body heat then dries the sheets before you wake, but the sweat remains. Airing your bed goes someway to reducing the bacteria.

[Waytoomuch82]

And fact I don’t soak sheets in sweat every night doesn’t mean I don’t sweat

[vanillandhoney]

Inevitable that your sheets are actually damp with sweat and need to “dry out”? Speak for yourself

Everyone sweats in their sleep - no point trying to shame other people who may sweat more than you - you do it too!

Sweating a lot doesn't mean a person is dirty or unfit or gross - it's totally normal to sweat, some people just do it less than others.

[MulticolourMophead]

Every two weeks in the cooler weather, but at least weekly right now.

[Port1aCastis]

Well but of sweat is nothing in comparison to what some folk do or leave behind on the sheets in my holiday lets, I won't go into detail and gross everyone out but suffice to say a fair few sheets go straight in the bin.

[Port1aCastis]

* bit of sweat !

[vanillandhoney]

@Waytoomuch82

Read my post!!!

I said sweating every night wasn’t gross!!

What I found gross was idea of sleeping in sheets soaked in sweat and then dried night after night

But your sheets will have dried sweat on them as well - just because you don't wake up feeling damp, doesn't mean you've not sweated all over your bedsheets!

Add in drool (most people drool in their sleep), hair, plus bodily fluids from when couples have sex, and it's safe to say that beds aren't the most hygienic of places

[BadTattoosAndSmellLikeBooze]

Well, I don't think anyone is taking their sheets down to the river with a washboard. Takes me about 3 minutes to strip bed and get to washing machine.

When you have 3 or 4 beds to change and have to put them in the wash in a few different loads and then peg out or put each load in tumble dryer it takes time. It’s not that you have to do stuff constantly but you have to be changing stuff over throughout the day. We have a super king size bed so the duvet cover, sheet and pillow cases have to be split between two loads, then the kids have king size now so it does take time.

We do 3 loads most days without bedding. It’s never ending.

[TracyBeakerSoYeah]

Basically we air beds to kill dust mites. Dust mites are invisible to the naked eye & there are over a million in your bed overnight. They thrive in a warm & moist environment.
Leaving the bed unmade with a window open in the day a removes moisture from the sheets and mattress so the mites will dehydrate and eventually die.
Also kills of any other microscopic mould & fungi.
All these can cause/exacerbate allergies & asthma.
And everyone loses moisture from their body at night even if we don't think we have sweated.

Before anyone says I don't have dust mites in my bedroom because I clean & hoover my bedroom everyday, yes you do they are everywhere.

[TracyBeakerSoYeah]

Forgot to add it's the dust mite poo that is the main problem.

[Alexandernevermind]

Every couple of weeks here. We have showers at night anyway, so it fine. the two dogs whi come in for a cuddle each morning are totally hygienic ;-)

[SoloMummy]

@GoshHashana

Once a week I change the sheet and pillows, and turn the duvet over. Duvet cover changed every two weeks.

Why bother only doing half the job? Doesn't the duvet suffer the same as the sheet?

[Yeahnahmum]

I do it monthly. Sometimes i even skip a month and do it 2 monthly because i hate.doing.laundry.

Plus i am to busy doing other bullshit laundry and cooking dinners and raising kids and trying to live somesort of a descent life outside of my house.

I always shower before going to bed though, heck i even wash my hair every now and then ...

Am i lazy? Yes. Should i do it more often: yes. Do i love laying in my own filth: apperently 🐷 😎

[Redhair23]

🤢 I am starting to get a bit judgemental but apparently lots of us are SO busy compared to everyone else.
Monthly is a bit grot tbh.

[CherryPavlova]

I have been doing them every other day at the moment, you are as it’s so warm. I don’t do the washing and ironing though. It only takes a few minutes for two people to make a bed and that starched, fresh feeling is so nice.