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????

Hoovered I suppose , though I don't hover it either

Surely there is a middle ground between Bast who washes her pillows and duvets every other month (given my duvet cost £40 to dry clean, I'm sorry but it's really not going to happen that often) and spacehopper who changes sheets every few months. I was asked back to boys' rooms at university who changed their sheets once a term. There is a weird sweet, dead smell to dirty sheets which is utterly rancid. And you can only smell it if you aren't used to it. If your sheets are like that, wtf is the rest of your house like?!

it isn't easy to tell someone that they wif a bit and rarely people will say anything. It is soemthing that does come up at work places but rarely is soemone told they wif as noone is too sure how they would take it. If it is really bad HR can get involved but if it is just a bit wiffey it seems a but mean to say something

it is up to you whether you are washing clothes and bedclothes,

you can snort all you like at hoovering your mattress - but if your dc suffers from allergies or you suffer from hayfever you may find it isn't a snorting matter.

saggy that is awful...

Thank you ivykate! That is really manky, and nobody was listening! I want my 10 minutes of mumsnet fame!

ha ha at HR. Poor Spacehopper. I believe you don't smell.

and you think anyone would have the nevere to tell you that you smell with an attitude like that, fuck me and fecking this.

If someone does smell bad then yes HR will get involved as it isn't fair on other people at work or the public if the job is public facing

Snort

they don't have any of that partly i'm sure because they've been allowed contact with normal festering human and bug life of all descriptions

testy

Space tis ok i'm guessing there is w little control freakery built in to mattress hooverers and they can't bear that we won't all join in

Or perhaps fear that they don't need to and what a lot of wasted time :0

wow.
There is a wide range of normal bed changing habits, like others say it rather depends on how many in the bed, how often they shower etc. etc..

I change mine every month.

I don't get why everyone is saying changing sheets is easy. Taking them off is a piece of piss but putting sheets and quilt covers back on is a major PITA

lol, said. I am up to my eyeballs in morning sickness and feel as though I am crawling just to get out of bed at ALL. DD is lucky that she gets fed/dressed/changed because that's about all I can manage atm.

Changing sheets and duvet covers right now is really my definition of hell.

I agree it's a PITA.

I have a bad back and our mattress is incredibly heavy (the removal men called it a 'beast' when we moved in), so I struggle to change our bed, then there are the three others to get through as well.

I do aim for every week, though, but sometimes fall behind due to illness or general dis-organisedness.

Clean sheets are lovely, but I do find it a big chore, and mattress-turning is a rare event in my house.

Spacehopper........I'm totally and utterly with you. I've always thought that people who change their sheets every week are just weird. I don't understand it. Pillow cases maybe but not sheets and duvet covers. My sheets never smell, not ever and your post of 09.13 is the best post (in the comedy catagory) that I've ever read on MN.

I think people who NEED to change their sheets every week should get some therapy (and a life)

I'd much rather smell Bold than unwashed person wearing same clothes for 3 days on the hop.

People without allergies can stew happily in their own skin with the dustmites chomping away at it for more than a week. For those of us who are allergic to dust mites (or, rather, to their excrement in the bed) a daily airing and weekly hot wash for sheets, plus weekly airing of mattress is essential.
'Spundown' quilts are great too - they can be washed at 60 degrees. I have them for my two bedwetters and they can be washed and tumble dozens of times in a home washing machine. Very useful!

Spacehopper washes

WTF business is it of anyone's how often someone else washes their bed linen?!
It seems to me that people are more obsessed by crap like this than they are about how kind a person is, or how good a person is.
I get so pissed off with stuff like this. WTF does it matter?! Seriously?

Oh, sorry. Looks like the thread has moved on and there are some reasonable people about. I only read the first couple of pages.