To wash bed linen and towels once per week?

[permaquandry]

Hmm wondering if I am unhygienic or about average. We all have our own towels and separate hand towels (I change these 2-3 times per week), Also, we all wear pjs in bed and I leave the covers back with windows open for at least an hour per day.

What does everybody else do?

[Astelia]

I think a look at a towel under a microscope would reveal an awful lot of dead skin particles, bits of soap, handcream, hairs and the odd bug. I wouldn't want that hanging around for a week- especially as we live on the equator. Bugs multiply here very quickly.

[LRDtheFeministDragon]

I think it depends a lot on how well aired your house and your bedroom are. Our bathroom is a horrible little pit of doom that gets condensation as soon as you look at it, and has nowhere to hang towels flat. So they get washed after ever use or every other use. If you have a nice airy room or a hot rail to put a wet towel on, you'll get away with fewer uses.

I try for bedding once a week but I'm lazy, and DH is happy with once a fortnight with bedding.

[travailtotravel]

Towels once a week
Bedding once a fortnight, or less if I am being really slatternly or DH and i are both away a lot for work or at weekends.

[aquavit]

but LRD, doesn't drying washed towels take up more space/time than drying towels used to dry yourself, and make more condensation? (appreciate you are probably not drying them in your pit bathroom...)

though I am vair impressed by the dedication shown on this thread to clean towellage

[Mono1]

I must be a right midden but bath towels get washed weekly in my house but never more than that. They are only ever used to dry CLEAN bodies after the bath/shower. If the concern is that they harbour dead skin cells etc do you also have plastic sheets on your sofas? Washing towels daily seems like a totally pointless and expensive exercise. I have better things to do with my time.

[LRDtheFeministDragon]

They dry outside. I can of course put them outside while just damp, but somehow my fantastic organisational skills don't quite rise to that.

[elinorbellowed]

In my ideal world I would do them once a week and iron them (I love ironed sheets). In real life they are done every fortnight and never ironed. It's not time so much as drying them. I don't have a tumble dryer.
Towels after 3 or 4 uses. Cannot imagine doing them after EVERY skin contact. That seems insane to me, and I think I'm pretty clean.

[oohlaalaa]

I wash bed covers and towels about once a month.

[aquavit]

heh, fair dos, if I tried that I would forget to bring them in before showering and have to streak to the garden to retrieve towel

[AitchDee]

Mine are all tumble dried. None of my laundry reaches a washing line, or sees the great outdoors whilst it is still damp. They go from floor, to washing machine, to tumble drier within hours.

[oohlaalaa]

Never ironed sheets or towels in my life.

[KellyElly]

Why would anyone do it more than that?? People's bills must be sky high!

[LRDtheFeministDragon]

aqua, I think you must know me.

That's exactly what I do.

[apostropheuse]

Towels after every use
Bedding weekly

Doesn't take much effort - the machines do it for me.

[Amyo83]

Towels (each use our own) and tea towels are done once a week and bedding every other week. It still feels like I've got a permanent clothes horse feature in my living room drying everything.

I don't have an iron much to the horror of a friend the other day who cheekily asked us to iron his shirt - serves him right!

Used to live in a building where there were washing and drying facilities in the basement rather than each flat having a washing machine - I miss those tumble-dryer-soft-fluffy-towel days.

[FelixDaSouza]

Once a week for bed linen, every few days for towels but possibly a week at the most if they have been dried in between.

I can't imagine leaving my bedding for more than a week as DH slobbers when he's asleep and that leaves marks on the pillow cases. plus the bed would be a bit jizzy if it was left longer

[Absy]

Bedding largely weekly (depending on busy-ness/general slatternliness), hand towels weekly, and then we use bathrobes which are washed, erm, less frequently.

DH thinks I wash too much if he had it his way, he'd do laundry once a fortnight and change bed linen once a month, max. Thank goodness we're not doing it his way

[StuntGirl]

Weekly for everything. I do change tea towels every few days but they all just get chucked in a pile to be washed together once a week.

[Flojo1979]

Bedding about once a month, though can I quickly I'm single, no stinky men in my bed! and no strange stains, sorry!

[FelixDaSouza]

flojo Lucky you!

[echt]

Bedding once a fortnight. Towels get changed about every 4 days. Clean bedding for guests. Tea towel, kitchen top cloth and green scrubby thing, clean every day.

[runzombierun]

Bedding once a week, twice a week in the summer (we all sleep neked)
towels twice a week
Mattress covers/mattress toppers/pillows once a month
Duvets dry cleaned prob twice a year

[greenbananas]

I'd like to do the bedding once a week, but it is actually once a fortnight (or maybe even every three weeks if I am very busy, lazy or disorganised).

Towels get washed about three times a week - we all use the same one due to lack of space, and it does get horribly damp and smelly. The mats in the bathroom get washed about once a week.

Tea towels get washed a lot. Every time I put a load of washing in, I add all the tea towels.

My washing machine is on every single day, sometimes twice a day, but that's because we don't have many clothes and have to keep washing the same ones over and over again.

[Reky]

Our bedding gets done every 2-3 months. Towels every 6-8 weeks.

[FelixDaSouza]

Reky Tell me you're kidding?