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????

Reads and faints at people agreeing :o

Once a week? How do you do that? We are probable more like 2-3 weeks but in my defence we used to have a set of bunks beds and a cabin bed to deal with which were a pig to change - will do better now . DH and mine is a bit more often.

In a heartbeat isn't usually 'I will do it quickly' but 'I would agree to it straightaway if this situation were presented to me'.

Oh bloody cabin beds and high sleepers.

DD used to have one of those and it was a nightmare to change.

eww..but that reminds me i need to buy new bed linen.

I love buying bed linen (quite sad actually i know)

shall go in to town after next pay day

ROFL at you lot and your cleaner than clean bedding.

Although it did prompt me to change them this morning after 10 days.....I am a 2 - 3 week changer.

On the subject of bedding porn, White Company doesn't really do it for me. Toast have some gorgeous Greek style bedlinen I am hankering after, and this am got a Peacock Blue catalogue I haven't seen before that has some rather appealing Charcoal Gingham.....anyone used them before?

I change mine once every four years

I honestly don't know how often I change mine
And don't care.
It's my bed, why do other people have to have opinions about it?

Because they can smell you lljkk

I don't think we are likely to ever be in close contact LeQueen so no need for me to worry about my minging sheets and clothes

Would the smell still linger after a shower I wonder?

Because there might be mileage in asking the relative ecological merits or not washing sheets once a week against having to shower when you get out of them.

you mean you don't shower every day?

arrest that woman

Oh I do...because I don't change my sheets often enough

There is someone on DH's team at work who seriously reeks. He wears the same clothes all week and when the other blokes have taken the piss out of him (very blokey take-the-piss atmosphere) he says "But I shower every day!" He just doesn't get the need to wear fresh clothes AS WELL AS shower.

Some people really do need lessons in personal hygiene. When I first moved in with DH it was summer time and it was the first time I'd known a yucky aroma round him (prior to that when we'd met up for dates etc he'd obviously made the effort and have a shower before meeting up). When we moved in together, he would get up at 6am one day, shower, then the day after would maybe not have a shower until he went to bed that night. There was an aroma in his nethers one night before his shower on the "second day", so I questioned his bathing habits. His argument was "But I have a shower every day!" I told him "Yes, but if you shower at the very beginning of one day and then the very end of the next, then by the end of the second day you've built up 2 days' worth of sweat and er, other nether region-type secretions! It's not nice!"

That soon kicked him into touch!

Excellent . So much easier and ensures no one files a restraining order.

bum crumbs pmsl

I do them every 2 weeks, but if I forget and leave it longer, they start to smell musty and horrible to remind me. I imagine sheets left for 3 months would smell gross! The pillows especially - Grim!!

must say, I am really not in a position to luxuriate in fresh sheets (usually end up falling into bed at the end of the day, asleep before I actually hit the pillow).

That said, I think ours get changed every 10 days or so - sometimes up to 2 weeks if I am extra busy (DH has had major spinal surgery and cannot "bend, lift or twist" so obviously changing sheets is right out).

If I leave them longer they definitely take on an eu de DH's ballsack, even though he showers 1-2x per day. He is erm potent.

You can't see dust mites- unless you carry a microscope around with you.

Your dust mites will be very happy with two months worth of two people's sloughed skin cells to munch on.

Once a week. Twice in summer!

When going through a manky teenage phase, I decided that washing sheets was a waste of time. I was firmly of the 'wash when I can be bothered' school of bedlinen changes. Well I was until I found a dead, rather dessicated cricket all snugly tucked up at the end of the bed. I must have been sharing my bed with it for ages.

I'm a once a weeker now.

Spacehopper!

Please tell us you actually put sheets on the bed last night before you slept on it?

After reading this I'm glad I changed mine yesterday....was at least 2 weeks since I last did but have been on hols for week so does that count????

Don't have a shower so bath's only in our house, you have to start it running at least an hour before you want it, water pressure is crap.

Feeling v ashamed now :(