Do you always wash new bedding ?

[Lardlizard]

Or do you just stick it on the bed !!

Yes.

Always. Supermarket bedding doesn’t come in plastic anymore, it’s just got a piece of cardboard wrapped around the fabric 🤮

Yes, for all the reasons already mentioned.

I also wash new underwear after reading about someone whose job it was to remove cockroaches from knickers before they were packed 🤮

No.

I can't even keep up with my clothes washing. I definitely don't add to it.

Yes wash everything new before putting on bed or wearing. It’s been through countless hands and would be gross to just use immediately.

Yes to get rid of that crisp feeling and to soften it a bit.

Nope. Never.

We had the same thread last week. I had no idea people did this and no amount of talking about weird smells (that I've never experienced) or whatever "chemicals" are possibly on it has changed my mind.

Always, who wants to go to bed on sheets smelling of plastic/cardboard, not knowing where they have been, much nicer to have the fresh sheet feeling with a clean smell.

I’m not in the least bit fussed about hands or insects touching them, I just don’t want to sleep in sheets that feel a bit stiff and smell strongly of chemicals

I just don’t want to sleep in sheets that feel a bit stiff and smell strongly of chemicals
The stiffness is the best bit. That's what makes it feel so lovely and new! I really need to start using starch to try and get my washed bedding feeling newer I think.

Ah you see I love sheets and towels crisp from washing and line drying - I like an abrasive towel - but sheets out of the packaging are different

I like an abrasive towel
Nothing finer! Line dried are far superior to limp tumble dryer towels

yes
they are absulutely filthy.
plus they have thd ugly creases from the packaging
plus they stink

Nah. Straight on the bed. If I start overthinking about whose hands have touched them, I'll be back to the days of my OCD. And there are chemicals everywhere, every day. I can live with the smell in my bedding for a few days.

Ok thanks for v mixed replies I’m just going to air it on the line

When I took it out it stank, so I’ve washed it
It looks so creased though
Because it s100percent cotton
So now I have to iron too !🙈🙈🙈🙈

I am intrigued by this smell people talk about. I've bought a lot of bedding over the years from a lot of different shops and never once noticed any particular smell.

I do, because it smells fishy to me.

Couldn't sleep in a funny smelling bed.

Yes definitely. To me it's pretty yucky to just put it on the bed

I do wash new bedding (and underwear) but I just put it through a quick wash rather than the wash I’d use once it had been used.

@DappledThings

I am intrigued by this smell people talk about. I've bought a lot of bedding over the years from a lot of different shops and never once noticed any particular smell.

to me it smells like a mix of 'chemical' like a hair dye or fake tan and mould/cellar mixed together.

Yes, and towels.

to me it smells like a mix of 'chemical' like a hair dye or fake tan and mould/cellar mixed together.

That does sound pretty gross. I'm usually pretty sensitive to mould/damp type smells but never got it from bedding.

No, never noticed a bad smell!

No but I’m always too excited to see how it looks on the bed