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????

There are otherwise normal people who DON'T do all that as a routine thing, though, MisSall. There was someone in my circle of friends at uni who just didn't bother much wtih personal hygiene. Lovely normal bloke otherwise. In the end someone had to take him aside and give him a bar of soap and toothpaste as a giant hint. Things did improve from then on!

Because you shed skin. ALL people do. You sweat - again, all people do. Hell, you probably fart in your sleep! Oil from your hair and skin all rub off on your pillow / other bedding. Washing gets rid of this, it takes no time. It's such an odd question to ask imo.

No-one is saying you have to go overboard on the bedsheet-changing timetable, Spacehopper! Just suggesting that it may be better to do it more regularly than you do now. Up to you if you want to take note or not.

I must say, though, when I've lost track of when I last changed the sheets, and realise it's been nearer 3 weeks than 2, if I've had a deep sniff of them they smell disgustingly stale, particularly the pillowcase. You do lose lots of sweat from your head in your sleep whether you believe it or not.

I dare ya, Spacehopper, put your nose right into your pillow case next time your strip your bed and see if they smell fresh!!!

Oh I do agree with you, CurlyhairedAssassin, it's not that I think only weirdos sleep in filthy beds, I just struggle to get my head around the fact that some people choose to live this way. It's hardly trouble to wash your bedding, especially since you surely wash other clothes anyway. What is an extra sheet to the white wash?

That is totally disgusting, LeQueen!!! My MIL is a bit like that too, whereas my Mum always changes sheets between guests. It's just minging not to. Thought it was written in stone that if you're going to offer a bed to a guest then make sure it's got fresh sheets on, unless it's a dire emergency in the middle of the night.

I change mine when I can be arsed

Shudder at obsession with shed skin

I buy a new mattress every week

It isn't excatly difficult to wipp the bed sheet off and the cover of a duvet and throw another cover off on a friday mornign and shove the dirty sheets on a hot wash as you go out to work or gym or whatever.

TBH I clean/wash the sheets mostly after a good passion night as I couldn't sleep in sheets with to much passion, and to leave sheets or two months would make me retch

bed bugs aren't smelly but I really don't want their shit in my matress and hoover and change the bedclothes

Would you wear the same cloths for two days running? It wouldn't be much diffrent

I often wear the same clothes for two days running

The cleaner changes all our beds every week.

However a good tip, I picked up on here is if you are having guests in quick sucession, then you should double up.

'frinstance, in the summer, we slept at my sisters house for two nights, we were being replaced by her lovely MIL and FIL.

Before she went away on holidays, she and I changed the beds, we put two of everything on the bed.

The morning we were leaving, we got out of bed, removed the pillow cases, under sheets and duvet cover.

Et Voila, a whole fresh bed, it only worked because we had only slept in the bed for two nights, and we do not smoke, nor do I wear perfume.

You lot should talk to my son. He is 14. I make the bed, and the next morning the mattress is bare! I put it back on, off it comes! I think he just likes the feel of the mattress! my mother in law is a total minger! She offered DD a bed after a late BBQ the other day, apart from being covered in junk, the duvet cover had a fossilised cat poo welded to it!

Ah well, if you don't you don't. I didn't mean to bully anyone on here into doing anything - to be honest, I couldn't give a damn if you walk through the streets of London naked. Just not something I would do.

'It's not like my skin's peeling off me'

Oh it is.

I housekeep for a holiday cottage which has a wooden sleigh bed.It has a ledge on each side.

Every week that ledge is white with dead skin flakes,you can run your finger along it and get a nice heap.

Maybe I should leave it to build right up?

Hoover your mattress!

Sorry but you are going to smell if you wear clothes day after day and then a third day and as another poster said you may well have got used to the smell.

Most armpits smell and yours will aswell even if you use a good deodarent they will end up a bit wiffy on the second day - I shower twice a day and wear mitchum 24 hour and I know the arms of my clothes will be wiffey If i wear the same top a second day, I will not mention over private areas

Lol at "give over"

And at "hoover your mattress!"

Snort

once a week or fortnight, depending on who you are, who can be arsed and whether you have icky bedtime habits.
So ds2 gets changed every few days whereas ours (or dhs as I currently sleep elesewhere) can go up to a fortnight

I really am not going to be on my deathbed wishing I'd hovered my mattress at all more

ewwww
DH an I both work nights so sometimes our bed is in use continually over a 3 day period. Have to wash it after that!

HELLO! My mother in law has a fossilised cat poo on her guest bed duvet and she wanted DD to sleep in it! Isn't anyone going to say anything??