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.

Cheaper than this and you can just stitch a front buckle on (I am old ish so grew up in the dandy brush only, straw for thatching under rugs era!)

https://www.redpostequestrian.co.uk/horse-rugs/liners-under-rugs/kentucky-300g-horse-duvet--navy__204026?currency=GBP&chosenAttribute=5425030833698&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=18076223248&gbraid=0AAAAADsbUtgOWDXmOWvyy38WcpOG5xm98&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIqpexibuykAMV_5VQBh1TPyATEAQYASABEgI1DPD_BwE

Elderly friends went to the doctor with bad backs. When he asked how old their mattress was, he misheard as 17 years and told them off a bit. Friend said gently, "70 not 17. It was my parents'."

There's being frugal, and then there is this madness.

I doubt the homeless people care if they're sleeping with a brand new duvet or not.

What?! How utterly wasteful, both of money and (worst of all) for the environment!

You can take them to the cleaners once a year or six monthly, as necessary.

I haven't replaced duvets in many years. Two of ours fit in the washing machine and get done yearly or sometimes 6 monthly, as necessary (covers and sheets changed every other week etc.). The other two that don't fit in my machine get taken to the cleaners.

Absolutely NO need to replace twice yearly!!

@Darknessoutside depends on the duvet. The newer ones, advertised as washable, squish down. My old duvet - not a chance of getting it into the machine. Laundrette or a wash in the bath on a day I could get it out on the line, was the only way.

I replace one or twice yearly… my “old” ones continue life as the dogs bedding for a good length of time.
There is also one wrapped round a spare tv in the loft, and one in the shed covering something of DPs.

Am I still wasteful, clogging up landfill etc?

I'm assuming the people who take their duvets to the laundrette or dry cleaners have cars to transport them there? It's an effort to lift my 15 tog duvet when I change the bedding, and it certainly wouldn't fit into my 6kg washing machine. No outside space to air it either. So I'll be throwing mine away.

Yes, but even in my little Scottish village I can get laundry picked up and returned clean for less than the cost of a new duvet.

I just looked that up for my area. I only looked at one company, but it cost more than my duvet.

Never. I pop it in the wash, dry it, and it’s fine again. I only have 4.5 tog so it goes in my regular machine.