Truthfully, how often do you change your bedsheets?

[as141]

1. When you were a child?
2. As a university student (or equivalent) ?
3. Now?

Any difference between being single/ sharing a bed with a partner?

As an adult, always weekly. I think similar as a child, it does seem like a law of nature that it should be weekly.

As a child - went a good few weeks and I HATED it. Washing clothes / sheets was not a priority for my parents and I hated it so much. I never felt clean and felt really scanky sleeping in dirty weeks old sheets.

University - 1-2 weeks depending on whether I could get to the launderette.

Now - weekly. Every Friday. All the beds in the house. Would never let my children sleep on dirty smelly sheets like I had to. Love a freshly made bed on Friday night for a lie in!

It has always been weekly unless I've been sick in bed and then it is more often. I love clean bed linen!

Always every weekend.

I don't remember what my mum did when I was a child and I didn't go to uni.

As an adult, weekly when I shared a bed with a partner. These days it's just me so fortnightly.

No idea as a kid or at uni. Now weekly when I clean my bedroom.

1. In the school holidays (mum was a full time teacher and dad did naff all at domestically)
2. Can't remember - probably very infrequently!
3. When either of us remembers but not as often as we should - once or month or even less.

We don't have a tumble drier so to they get draped everywhere and it's a massive faff. Honestly, it's just not a priority.

As a child: weekly
As a student: whenever it occurred to me. Probably fortnightly/monthly.
Now: weekly - I have a routine and do all the beds on a Saturday morning. It doesn’t take 3 days, but we do have a tumble dryer.

To be fair, DH would go months between sheet changes when I worked away from home (both in our 20s).

I strip the bedding one day, wash them the same day then hang up to dry which takes a couple of days at least so thats atleast 3 days

This isn't normal, it shouldn't take that long to dry. I'm guessing you live in a flat so no outside space to line dry. Does the property have a damp problem? That's the only time I've known washing take so long to dry. Unless the place is cold because you can't afford to sufficiently heat it? If a room is warm washing should be dry by the end of the day if on an airer or within a couple hours if on the radiator. With the windows cracked open to let the damp air out too.

I can't stand washing hanging around for ages, if I've got more than one load in winter it goes in the tumble dryer, except the first load which goes on the radiator. I put washing on as soon as I'm up, if it's bedding I'll strip the bed before I leave the room, hung out after breakfast, dry and put away by the end of the day.

Every week, but I don't know what my mother used to do. I have a system - first floor bedrooms on Mondays, second floor bedrooms on Wednesdays. Then it's easy to remember and I don't have too many sheets to deal with at once.
I can't imagine going months 🤢

Do the sheets and pillowcases once a week and the actual duvet once a fortnight but in summer just use a light throw and that's weekly or even more often.

As a child I’m going to say weekly
Never went to uni so can’t answer that one
Now - once every couple of weeks - sometimes weekly depends on how much washing I have and if I can be bothered to strip the super king bed by myself - I do aim for weekly as the cats love to sleep on my bed and I get fed up with the fur

Weekly. Leaving the same ones on for months is fucking gross.

Does the whole process not take you a few days?
No - they go on the line to dry or in the tumble drier if it's raining. Put clean bedding on. Then iron them with everything else on Sundays.

Every week, because we have a cleaner and she does it. If it wasn’t for her, probably every fortnight. As a student it’ll have been a lot less I guess; as a child I’ve no idea as my Mum would have done it. She’s houseproud so I’d guess every week.

Children every week. Ours twice a week, I like fresh sheets so don't find it a chore
I think some of you are minging

@AlwaysLatte

Does the whole process not take you a few days? No - they go on the line to dry or in the tumble drier if it's raining. Put clean bedding on. Then iron them with everything else on Sundays.

Oh I can’t imagine ironing them though. What a lot of effort for nothing! (I’m not being critical - in awe of your put-togetherness. My Mum definitely irons hers too).

Ten days for me sheets and pillows

Duvet monthly- I’m a cold creature and not very sweaty at all

"This isn't normal, it shouldn't take that long to dry"

It's pretty normal in my experience. It could take up to 3 days for all my clothes to dry in winter and with heating on. I wouldn't put a sheet on a radiator because it would get scrunched up so it would be on a clothes horse next to a radiator or hanging off the doors.

1. went to boarding school where sheets were changed weekly and it’s a habit I’ve carried around with me
2. probably fortnightly because we had huge laundrette washing machines and it took me a fortnight to get a full load to fill the machine!
3. once a week most of the year, twice a year in peak sweaty summer months

I don't iron the fitted sheets though. Just 4 duvet covers, and only then if they were tumbled dried - Egyptian cotton doesn't do well wrapped up in a ball in the drier! If it's nice weather I hang them out carefully so I don't have to iron them.

I probably fall into the MN minger category.
As a child I can't recall, definitely not weekly.
We had a twin tub and I remember it breaking and helping to wash bedding in the bath.
Now, 4-6 weekly? Less in winter, more in summer.
Everyone loves a clean bed but I don't have a housekeeper and work ft. So I do it less often than I'd like but often enough I'd say.

1. When you were a child? - probably never I think my parents did it
2. As a university student (or equivalent) ? - I honestly can't remember
3. Now? - about once a fortnight

I change the bottom fitted sheet 2-3 times a week because I like the feel of a fresh sheet.

Duvet cover and pillowcases once a fortnight.

Always weekly both as a child and now, apart from at college, I can’t remember what I did then but don’t think it was that often to be honest.
now to be fair, I don’t do them, the cleaner does rhem every Friday, and guest beds are changed after anyone sleeps in them snd made up again.