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

[FickleFairy]

...... 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 hoover the mattresses once a month as well.

No, I don't iron sheets.

But barf at the thought of not changing them for months.

That's just utter laziness and mingingness.

Goal is weekly, but, like Yuno, rarely last that long!

2 or 3 MONTHS?

sheets start to smell manky and feel grubby if you don't change them every week - at least once a week!

Shaz10 does that mean I shouldn't have changed mine for the last 2 years !

Mine are changed weekly DS ar changed twice a week as he had severe hives on his face and I like to know they are clean. (not sure it makes any difference but anything to help me feel like I'm helping )

2-3 months is beyond yuck. Mine used to get done weekly when I lived with the ex as he was really sweaty and smelly. Now they are done fortnightly as its me (and sometimes a small child) in my bed so it doesnt need doing as often. The kids are done fortnightly too, as they just dont seem to get dirty or sweaty in their beds.

Yuck, can you imagine as a student if you'd have gone to a bloke's house for a bit of slap and tickle and found a dirty, smelly bed?! You'd run a mile, wouldn't you?

Hideous. I am a self confessed slattern, but change my sheets weekly. I think the longest I have ever left it is a fortnight and I felt absolutely minging and ashamed of myself!

Things I wish I haven't read

Once a week and hoovering and turning mattresses?? Over one week but less than a month...never hoovered but occasionally flipped, we are all fit n healthy with no bugs or allergies.

I dont hoover my mattress, as I have a mattress topper thing, but I do turn it once a month. Actually my mattress topper probably needs replacing as its 3 years old and seen better days, and there's no way of cleaning it.

Mn is obsessed with sheet changing ....

Months?! Foul beyond belief.

We change sheets weekly, every Sunday or Monday. Mattress aired every week. Waterproof mattress cover changed 1st Monday of the month, when mattress is vacuumed. Mattress turned 4 times a year.

Nasty, nasty, nasty.

If we don't change our bedsheets every three-four days I feel dirty. I can't bear a stale smelling bed.

I don't have a specific day or time to do them, they get done when they are done but at months!

Oh dear, I was one of those posters!!! I admitted I sometimes leave mine up to 2 months. (hangs head in shame and pretendsgoes to change bedding) I'm going to be asked to leave mn now aren't I for shaming by association?

I change mine every day. But then I do have a lot of sex.

hmmSleep, serious question: Don't you start itching after a while? I don't know if it's in my head, but I can't bear anything longer than a week, I start imaging (ok yes, so might be my head) things crawling... I blame the pictures of dust mites. Have you seen them?? Scary.

BitofFun and

How many of you vacum the mattress each week or two, there aint much point in putting clean sheets on a bed unless you vacum the matress for a good while

Also pillow cases can be changed much sooner if you wish as this can be germ ridden

i change the sheets around 10 days, i they start smelling sooner then they get changed sooner

MisSalLaneous, I don't itch, but I am a bit sneezy, maybe that's why! I always mean to change them more frequently, just never get round to it. They really don't smell though, I don't seem to sweat, not a good excuse I know!

On the thread I originally posted on it was in a 'confession' too embarrassed to admit in rl kind of way, so I am aware it's a bit revolting!

Dust mites are the best bed company I get

Shaz.

Ah, hmmSleep, if it makes you feel any better, I was deep cleaning my kitchen this weekend, and the filth there was something I should really get nightmares about - and I thought it was reasonably clean!

I only change ours about once a month