To be shocked to read on another thread that....

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...... People don't change their bed sheets for 2-3 months?

I can't believe it. I change all ours weekly, not least because there is nothing quite like getting into a fresh bed.

But 2-3 months without clean sheets? Surely not????

i know it is grim

Minging!

that's gross.

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pass the bucket, riven! we were about to eat as well.

I read somewhere that they should be done weekly to kill off bedbugs - I think we do ours about every fortnight, but we have been known on the odd occasion to leave it a bit longer..

Depends what you get up to in there! In my case, I need never change my sheets :( - although I did today.

No Riven, I don't believe they are students! Me and my mate are sitting here cringing at how the sheets must smell and how the bed bugs must be in bed bug heaven!

eeeeeew

Oh dear - don't let Getorfmoiland read that - she'll die!

I change mine once a week - clean sheets are one of the great joys aren't they?

That's grim. I change mine once a week. If you leave them any longer, you'll get dustmites and probably bum crumbs.

When my brother was in student digs, he didn't change his sheets for ages. I don't know exactly how long but when my mum and I went to visit him close to the end of term, his sheets were minging! His pillowcase actually had discoloured where his head lay and the pillow had a permanent dent in that spot. My mum went mental. She threw the entire set out along with the mattress and then washed her hands a million times, screaming at him the whole time. I can't tell you how pleased it made me to see dear bro in trouble

The worst bit was that he kept telling her she didn't need to do it as he was moving out in 5 weeks and changing it would be a waste

The most I've gone is 10 days and that's if I'm not well usually all the bedding gets done on a Friday.

eeeeew how gross! [feels a bit sick emoticon}

every week here

I wish I could change our sheets once a week. I long for seven days in a row where someone doesn't wee or vomit on the bed. Unfortunately all our sheet changes are the 3am type and happen far more frequently than once a week.

Once a week here, too. Mattresses aired weekly, too. Turn mattresses once a month as well.

Would like to say weekly, but I suspect it's more fortnightly. Mattress gets turned every time sheets and mattress cover washed.

I normally do weekly in the Summer and fortnightly in the Winter, occasionally it may be longer but certainly not 2 to 3 months!

There's nothing like that first night's clean sheets, why would you (obviously not "you" as OP) deprive yourself that? I'm quite lazy too, never iron ours, that's only done for guests, but surely washing takes minutes - pull off, pop in washing machine, tumble dry / hang if you can, rough fold when dry. And if you're going to make the bed in the morning anyway, using a new sheet not exactly that much trouble?? I'm itching just at the though of months old bedding. Urgh.