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.

but add up how much your spending on duvets a year and i guarantee your spending more money - i also have 5 duvets on the go, my own one cost 450e but then i handn't bought one for my bed in 8 years. The others cost between 150e and 250e - again not replaced for more than 5 years
Buy better

Mine too. Have to use a setting with extra water and it doesn't spin very well though.

We have a wool king duvet , probably had it 6 / 8 years . I once read that it benefits from being aired on sunny days so have always done that a few times during in summer .
This year decided to have a change so got an all season's synthetic one . The 3.5 tog one was ok during the summer , but when we put the 9 tog on the bed it was horrible and clammy / sweaty ( heaven knows what it's like poppered together ) so we have reverted back to our wool one .

See i have stables, working with horses most of my life and there are loads around here- I have never ever used a duvet with horses, They sleep on straw, which is high absorbency ( the love weeing in their stables) is dry and warm and easy to clean out every morning. They have their own horse blankets on now when out in the field, we use a dedicated washing service for that. What on earth are duvets used for ? Never ever heard of it

I don't know what they use them for I'll ask. Perhaps they take them home 😁

the replacement recommendation in the op seem to be from the duvet industry...

we wash our (synthetic hollow fibre from ikea) duvets twice a year. the oldest ones are 20 years old and as good as new.

People use them under rugs to add an extra layer of warmth, fold back at the neck and use a surcingle

I don’t understand what you mean. I have 5 duvets on the go because there are 6 of us in the house. We don’t have 5 duvets each.

wow never ever heard or seen that in my life - thats a new one - every day a school day

Just another idea for anyone thinking of throwing out a duvet, if it is stuffed with anything that can be used in textiles, we sewed a few toys/animals when DD was younger and we used an old duvet to stuff them. Might be a nice idea for half term activities so that at least some of it gets a second lease of life!

yes there are 5 beds on the go in this house too 🙄
Duvets are not replaced every 6 months

Probably every 5 years. I alternate Spring/summer and Autumn/winter duvets. Washed at a commercial laundry when removed for the change of season. seems to work fine.

We have a 4.5 IKEA easy to wash king size,gets washed several times a year, probably 20 years old
Nothing wrong with it. I did go for the coverless option a few years ago,it's a complete misnomer because they have a self covering I had a tenosynovitis flare up, and top sheet like when we were kids, and bottom sheet changed weekly..a few old synthetic duvets are kept. I make cushions,stuff toys (just made peppa pig for 3 year old dgd birthday. In the spare room is a feather and down very old indeed. I have a relative who throws away pillows and duvets every 6 months,is always banging on about waste and global warming, the irony!
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I can't fit my super king duvet in the washing machine so I do a yearly wash of it in the bath. I get in and stamp on it and pretend I'm in a lovely Italian vineyard stomping on grapes rather than a suburban bathroom

But I don’t replace ours every 6 months either? Where did you get that idea? Honestly don’t know what you’re on about, sorry. I think you’ve mixed me up with someone else.

I said I thought €40 expensive to wash a €40 duvet. You are obviously on a higher budget and don’t think it’s expensive. That’s fine. But it was condescending of you to tell me to ‘buy better’. As was the eye rolling. We can’t all afford €450/€500 duvets I’m afraid.

I often have to change mine when the weather changes and I go to find the lighter/heavier one that I carefully stored last time and can't. No idea where they go to as there's only one cupboard but then I head to Argos or somewhere, get a new one, put it on then anywhere between 2 weeks and 2 months later I will find the original one. So put it somewhere safe before the same cycle repeats 6 months later

The fact so many of us have had duvets for decades and never washed them, suggests all that sweat, dirt and dead skin cells are doing us absolutely no harm.
Buying a new duvet every 6 months is mind boggling. Of all the things to waste money on...

When I had synthetic ones I replaced them every two years. I have feather ones now and I will keep them til they go lumpy. They were expensive so I hope they last longer.

We've had our duvets (one summer, one winter) for 16 years. I'm asthmatic so prefer feather as synthetic makes me hot and itchy and makes my allergies worse.

Occasionally I remember to take them to the dry cleaners.

However they are emperor duvets so super massive and it's such a pain man handling them into the car and then walking to the dry cleaners!

So you donate a”dirty” duvet to a charity? That’s nice.

This rings true to me. When we downsized we seemed to have duvets coming out of our ears!

I saw a mattress company lorry on the motorway which had "you should replace your mattress every 8 years" on the back. I laughed so hard I almost crashed.

Are you a germaphobe who thinks not showering every 15 minutes is grim?

It’s a medium one, so either 7 or 10.5 tog but the label has washed off so not sure!

Not to mention that cheap duvets are mostly plastic so will never degrade. Some people have such little regard for the planet it’s actually horrifying.