to ask how often you change your bedding?

[dairyleadunker]

Am i being unreasonable or just nosey to ask how often you change your bedding and dc's bedding ?

Well in theory I change mine once a week but in practice it's once a fortnight. But seeing as how we both sleep in clothes and only have sex about once every three years these days it appears to be sufficient.

I iron my duvet cover when it is on the bed.

I accept I am odd but it is quicker that way.

Once a fortnight unless it looks at all dirty. Always have white bedding so I can see.

Kids once a week, they are dirtier than me

As for showering, I'd say 4-5 showers or baths a week, then a day or two of a quick whore's bath (pits and bits) I would never get dressed without washing at all.

DS's bedding - roughly once a week

My bedding about once every 3 months.

We share the bath water too DanJAR. And I usually make DH go first so I don't cook the baybee. Like I said he is not a sweaty bloke.

And as for ironing bed sheets? Well thank you MN, I never knew what a slattern I was.

That's my worst nightmare, nice clean hands and drying them on someone else's germs

no... no germs.... because the previous person will have washed the germs off their hands already... :)

I have a shower every day, and get out of it clean.. so there is no way I would used a fresh towel each time. There is just no need to at all.

actually no - I've been here a year - think I've changed my bedding twice - so I guess that's every 6 months

I also only change mine about every 6 months. Just can't be arsed. Towels get cleaned every week though and a cleaner does the rest of the house.

Once a week. Have the occasional lapse though.

Nice to see so many other slatterns on here - I was once deluged wit astonished comments on the good housekeeping threads when I mentioned I only changed my sheets once every 6 months.

Exactly squeaktoy. Although now this has got me thinking, I know myself and DH wash our hands properly but what if guests dont? What if your friends are wiping their pissy digits on your hand towels? I might be having a rethink on the hand towel front.

People are obsessed with this.

Actually Stan that is really, really grim.

And I'm not a prissy clean freak.

I know what you're saying squeakytoy but I can't be sure visitors or even ds(6) washed properly. Had friends round Saturday and the handtowels in the bathroom were pretty grubby at the end. How on earth can one last a week?

I never iron bedding though. Draw the line at that. My mother irons towels and tights fgs!

Dont; you send your bedding out darlings? God lord, how on earth do you cope?

I would change them more often if I slept in them - probably fortnightly - but I so rarely sleep in bed I changed them when I go into my room and think they'r elooking a bit dusty and unloved

A girl I know rented the flat next to me for six months and in all that time her bed wasn't changed. It stank even walking past the bedroom door. Don't kid yourself it doesn't smell, it's full of dead skin cells, you would not like to see it under a microscope.

To me, it's like wearing the same clothes for months without washing, you just wouldn't do it.

Ok if I don't get to fucking grips with this stupid tiny keyboard and stop with the semi-colons instead of apostrophes soon I'm going to explode.

Actually I don't have a hand towel in the downstairs cloakrooms. I have a little basket of folded face cloths and towels that are essentially single-use washable hand towels.

You slatterns will love this then - it'shealthier to leave your bed unmade too...

perfumed - I can assure you that my bed unchanged for 6 months doesn't smell - I mean - I wash/shower/wear clean clothes regularly - but my bed will not smell in probably even a years time if I din't change it between now and next Feb.

Once a week.

DS' bedding changed daily though because his Dry Nights Wet Dawns don't cut it.

Every 3 months? Every 6 months? How can you people go so long without changing your bedding?

I'm not neat freak,but that really is disgusting.And I don't believe for a minute that it doesn't smell.You may not notice that it smells,but it certainly does.

I have the same in my downstairs loo Duchesse. partly because I am an incredible ponce, and partly because any hand towel would be minging within two hours in my house, as my kids clean their teeth and gob all over it before they go to school every day, and my youngest can wash his hands and still leave the hand towel black. Which is embarrassing when guests use it.