How often do you replace your duvet?

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Just that, really. I’ve been getting the beds ready for winter and noticed our duvets are a bit lumpy. I also just purchased a new one for DD who’s now transitioned to a proper bed and realised how lovely a fresh duvet is!

Google tells me they should be replaced anywhere from every 2 (mad!) to 5 years. DH grew up with a mum who never replaced hers (in fact if we stay at hers, she’s still got the same duvets he slept with 20+ years ago, they’re like sleeping under rocks!)

I have asthma so tend to buy synthetic. I wash and air each duvet at the end of the season, if that matters.

Never. I’ve had this duvet for 30 years.

I find they go a bit flat and limp after a few months. I replace twice a year. So a lighter tog for summer say 10.5 and 13.5 or 15 in Autumn. We have king size and they don't fit in the washing machine plus with dogs on the bed feels better to replace them.

Never. Ours is also about 30 years old but it’s feather and down so hasn’t gone lumpy.

We've had ours for 20 and I've just swapped it for the guest bed one as it's lost a lot of volume/feathers I guess. You can see light through it and I was getting chilly! Now any guests will get chilly which I hope will mean they will leave quickly.

Ours are about 25 years old (feather). The summer ones (4.5 tog) are washed when I change to the winter ones (10.5 tog) & vice versa. Still lovely & fluffy.

Every 6 months

25 years or so for ours but it was a fairly expensive feather one. It's still
gloriously snuggly. I agree that synthetic ones go lumpy sooner, the DCs have them and we do replace them every few years.

I had no idea you needed to replace them. Dh and I have lived together for 26 years. We originally got a 2 part duvet thst was a 10.5 tog and a 3.5 tog that you could button together to make a 14 tog (or something). The 10.5 tog bit got stained by an accidental biro in the wash so I replaced it but the 3.5 summer bit is still going. Washed a couple of times a year.

Currently have a superking that is Hungarian goose feather and down. It was very expensive, and is about a decade old. It might need replacing in a few years.

DD has cheap synthetic ones as she will still
occasionally have an accident or vomit on hers. They get washed but don’t always survive it. I’d say hers average 2-3 years.

Had my two about 5 years, change every 6 months (seasonally) and wash. Still seem ok, M&S washable ones.

Ours is about 14 years old it’s an all seasons feather one it’s been washed and tumble dried each year. It’s still quite fluffy and warm but looking to buy a new one soon. Been looking at reviews and still undecided on where to purchase a new one.

I recently got one for my DD too, she said it's like sleeping under a cloud! I definitely need a new one, mine is so heavy in comparison.

I have never replaced a duvet because it was old. I’ve still got the feather one my parents passed on to me when I bought myself a double bed and they upgraded to a fancier duvet. I used it for another 10y or so, until I upgraded to a 3-season adaptable one. Which I also kept when I upgraded to a kingsize bed a few years later. Now they are spares for when we have guests. That double quilt must be nearly 40yo now.

All our natural duvets get a good airing outdoors in the summer, and are laundered and tumble-dried if they get dirty (essentially, bodily fluids). The quilts also get aired for at least 24h before guests come, and for a few days after they leave, before we put them away again.

Until our dc were reliably dry at night, they had synthetic duvets. They were laundered a lot! IIRC I have thrown out a couple over the years, but the rest are neatly packed away as spares.

What the fuck? You buy new duvets twice a year? Am I misreading?

Every six months sounds crazy. I think my current one has been going for about twenty years.

I've had mine since 2008 and have no plans to get rid of it. It's a John Lewis breathable synthetic duvet. I couldn't afford a proper down one, so got the best synthetic one that I could. I paid just under £200 for it. A down one would have been 3 or 4 times that.

Current one is about eight years old, and is absolutely fine. Spare bed one (infrequently used) was bought in 2007 and still looks as good as new.

Replacing every six months is insane. Is it any wonder the planet’s fucked?

Had our last one about 10 years and recently bought a new one because the old one had gone lumpy and it was very annoying! I go for synthetic hypoallergenic though, I think the feather ones last longer but they give me the sneezes and wheezes!

Our duvet was a wedding present, over two decades ago. It's a feather/down one, the kind with a 4.5 one for summer and a 9 one for spring/autumn, and you can button them together to make a 13.5 tog duvet in the winter (we never do). I wash both parts each year and it's still lovely and warm and fluffy.

It seems very wasteful (and expensive) to be chucking them away every few months. Have you considered buying a better quality one and keeping it for longer? If it's too big to fit in your washing machine, launderettes usually have large capacity washers and dryers that will take even a super-king quite happily,

I have never washed a duvet, and the previous one was only replaced after 20 yrs because we needed a bigger one 😳 But we always have a top sheet, as well as the duvet cover. I fold it down over the top part of the duvet. So I’ve never really felt that the duvet itself gets dirty, I just give it a good airing once a week !

Ours was a wedding present and still going strong. We got married in 2004…

10.5 for summer? I'd melt. We use our 3.5tog feather one all year round, with a crochet blanket over it in winter.

I have one which is around 50 years old and still in occasional use as a spare. Yes really. It has shrunk a bit.
The others are around 20-30 years old.

I hate being too hot at night so have a variety of different togs that I rotate throughout the year and sometime cart off to be cleaned. Most are still going strong after 10-15 years. (Totally recommend the Scandi habit of two single duvets for couples incidentally…)

I have an ancient, 22 year old, 12 tog, down and feather, which is still lovely. I use it all year round. It has been professionally washed twice.

My mum used to de-feather pillows, air the feathers out, and put them back in clean new pillow cases every few years. They knew how to be sustainable in the old days. These were farm feathers from their own flocks too!

I can't fathom the waste of changing duvets every 6 months, or every year, just awful.