aibu to not change sheets for a while...

[Cactuar]

Having a discussion with dh and friend about how often it is normal to change bedsheets. My mum cannot go for a week without changing bedsheets and we think this us excessive. We feel, as disgusting as is it is, that it is far more normal to leave it for weeks and only do it when it gets absolutely necessary. We think more people are like this than are willing to admit. Are we being unreasonable?

How do you define absolutely necessary? and how would you know when you had reached this point?

In the old days before fitted sheets and duvets, it was normal, once a week to put the top sheet to the bottom and put on a clean top sheet. On that basis I now go for once a fortnight. I think that is reasonable if you wear a a nightie or pyjamas and air your bed in the mornings.

My mum used to do that CecilyP, but in these days of automatic washing machines I just change the lot once a week. Sometimes it is after 6 days or sometimes after 8 or 9. It depends on the weather as I like to get my bedding out on the line to dry.

God I am awful then, I do them once a month! I can't believe people do them weekly - my washing basket is always full as it is.
However, when we were dtd more then I did change them quicker. Since dtd is more of a monthly occurrance since DD, I don't feel the need!

Weekly. I just like a clean bed.

twice a week in the summer, once a week in the winter.

What? Do people actually change their sheets...?!

I wait till mine get to the point where they can walk to the laundry basket themselves....

Every 4 or 5 days for me. Feel uncomfortable if left any longer, and really love clean sheets. Since I found MN I've come to realise that a lot more people are manky than I would have thought - there are always threads on here with people being all competitive about how little they wash themselves, their sheets and their DCs.

Where's Getorf???

I usually wash mine once a week, sometimes fortnightly if I'm busy/its raining a lot so they can't line dry. It only takes a few minutes, and I always remake the be straight away so that there is no risk of coming to bedtime and being faced with an unmade bed.

Every few months.

Weekly.
A midweek change in the summer if its very hot and beds need freshening

I am clearly slovenly as some of you describe. But I'm happy and clean and have a wonderful OH so I won't be feeling too bad about my sheets!

Weekly during the winter, 2-3 times a week in the summer if weather really hot

Every 1-2 weeks. You spend a third of your life in bed.

Every week for all of us do that's 4 beds.

Just love the feel of fresh washed sheets.

Don't think it's manly to do it less often but weeks is a bit yeuk.

When the crustiness is no longer cumfy.

Yuk! Once a week definitely.

Weekly for mine, minimum of twice a week for dd as she still wee's the bed and pull ups seem to leak a couple of times a week. I love clean bedding!!

Strangely had this chat with a friend last night, we both change once a fortnight. Once a week would be nicer I agree, but realistically once a fortnight is what happens.

Is getorf around?

Every 2 weeks here

"But I'm happy and clean and have a wonderful OH so I won't be feeling too bad about my sheets!"

What the heck does having a nice partner have to do with having dirty sheet??

Fortnightly for the bedding, weekly for the towels.
Don't iron either.

And what is 'a while'?

Every weekend

DH changes ours and the kids change their own

Result for me

Oh crap... am going to get of bloody mn and go wash the sheets.

I always shower before bed and sometimes in the morning too and I always wear PJs and socks. I still change my bed weekly. These threads always baffle me because I love clean sheets and also, because I don't get competitive dirtyness on MN.