How often do you wash your duvet?

[kentishgodess30]

As summer approaches, drying a duvet becomes easier. I'm curious about how frequently you wash your duvet in the summer. Do you find yourself doing it less often in the winter? Also, how do you manage to dry your duvet during the winter months?

Me neither. The duvets I buy are expensive, certainly too expensive to be replacing every year, I expect them to last forever. And yes, I would hope you are donating them and not just throwing them out to clog up landfill.

Never and I don’t buy a new one unless it really needs it. Do people wash them at home or at a laundrette? Our washing machine would never fit a duvet in it!

I’ve never washed either part of mine, it’s feather and down. It gets a good shake and an air outside at the beginning and end of warm weather. I’m traumatised by sleeping under my parents down duvets that had been washed and clumped together. Really unpleasant.

The children have synthetic duvets and those are washed if there has been an accident, puking, or I feel like it and it’s a hot day.

We have a summer duvet and a winter duvet and wash them once a year before packing them away when we change over to the other one.

I nearly broke my washing machine last time so I've never bothered doing it since

Never, it won't fit in the machine.

It would be cheaper to buy a new one, than dry clean it.

Whenever the cats pees on it so about once a year.

Mines feather so never, I washed weather pillows once and they dried with a smell so had to chuck them away (had previously washed them and dried ok so was disappointed the second time)
Can't afford to replace so won't risk washing it
Might try airing it outside though

Never. Parents never did either and I can't say I've ever found a problem with it.

Wouldn't fit in the machine even if I wanted to.

Like the idea of airing it out for the day a few times over summer though so may do that.

I do buy a new one when it looks needed but honestly that's once every 5 years at most.

Seriously people get too hung up on cleaning ...

We need healthy immune systems. Cleaning everything all the time isn't healthy and there are better ways to spend life.

No-one on their death bed is going to wish they spent more time washing towels more regularly, washing duvets and fretting over whether they should or shouldn't have a toilet brush.

Actually, I lied accidentally.

We've had ours dry cleaned twice.

Once the cat weed on it when ill.

The second time the dog came into season and bled on it before we realised (that didn't come out and we replaced).

I don't.

Never

You're supposed to wash duvets?

Everyday is a school day indeed.

Mine would not be cheaper to replace. It depends on what douvet you buy in the first place.

Have never washed mine but might, prompted by this thread, as am clearly "minging"

You shouldn't get them dry cleaned because of chemicals lingering in them, they should be washed in a large laundrette machine. I used to take mine to the local laundrette but it has been closed for years now

The down ones every couple of years, the cotton summer one each autumn.

I would only wash them if I had had something spill on them.

No-one on their death bed is going to wish they spent more time washing towels more regularly, washing duvets and fretting over whether they should or shouldn't have a toilet brush

I mean, depends what they're dying off. Could be some sort of dirty-duvet-based disease... 🤔

Every time the cat pisses on it…

Of not off 🤦🏻‍♀️

I’m definitely not a person that does too much cleaning and I have a toilet brush. My DP is just a very sweaty sleeper and if I didn’t wash the duvet before storing it away, it would probably dissolve 🤢

Never. I don’t think it fits in the washing machine.

Which prompts my next question - how are all the duvet washers doing it? Do you do it by hand?!

@PromisingMiddleagedWoman mine fits in the washing machine. Double duvet, 7kg machine. The winter one is a bit of a squash but the summer one has plenty of room.