AIBU about changing my sheets?

[CarmineRose1978]

I had a conversation at work this week with a few of my colleagues about how often we change out bedding. I and several of my friends say they should be changed once a week, once a fortnight at least. But a couple of my younger colleagues (I'm talking 28, so not teenagers!) said they change theirs every couple of months to every four or five months. Ditto their towels because "they are clean when they get out of the shower". Were we unreasonable to a) practically boak and b) tell them they're old enough to know better, in no uncertain terms? Should we have held our peace instead of hoiking our judgey pants sky high?

Oh...if I could afford it I would employ someone to change my bed everyday! That fresh crisp feeling and a fresh just off the line on a sunny day smell...Oh well I can wish. In reality, 2 weekly for us and now the kids do their own.

Carmine - I have just seen your comments about sleepwear on the mysteriously reappearing thread! Maybe that has an impact on how often you change your sheets, as I go to bed dressed and ready for night wakings with a youngster for whom my bare arse being peeled from the chair in his room is sufficiently loud to wake him up!

Sheets every month in the summer, every 2 in the winter.

I just can't deal with all the drying.

Could be! :) My darling DP has very greasy skin too so I need to change the pillows regularly because otherwise they go a bit minging.

Apot In the episode where they all have colds and they use Riks laundry bag to go over Neils head, he said "Its me they are going to be calling bogeybum!" :o

if I could afford it I would employ someone to change my bed everyday!

That is top of my Lottery Win Luxury List!

I don't see how it concerns you unless you are sleeping over at theirs or they actually smell or spread diseases in your workplace (which presumably they don't if you only know about their manky towels from them telling you now).

I think a conversation about changing sheets would be preferable to the ones about F1 and the like at work.

Also, I don't care if they don't change their sheets very often, because I have no intention of sharing any of their beds.

I also have multiple sets of bedding (maybe 8?) so when I strip the bed I don't have to wash the bedding straight away, which probably makes it easier to be strict about changing every week. Though my borderline OCD means I hate leaving them in the wash basket and do try to get them washed and dried that same day.

Towels smell. Irrespective of how clean you are when you get out of the shower they smell after about 3 days!

When ds was a baby I changed sheets daily,I LOVE the feel of a freshly made bed. Now it's weekly at the most, more like twice a week.

Sheets and duvet covers every week, towels every 2/3 uses, the remainder of stuff as and when I have enough for a full load.

Ahhhh Bogeyface ... the young ones :)

I was having a Drop Dead Fred moment...

All were genius, of course

I vividly remember the episode 'Snot'

Bedding once a fortnight, towels when I remember-no they don't smell.

Not fussed what others do tbh.

I'm another one who admits to changing sheets every 3-4 weeks...
It is the one job I really loathe with a passion ...probably because in our house it is an absolute pain...
DP is a nest maker so we have 'grippits' (2 clips on a piece of elastic) on the 4 corners of the sheets - without them even the best fitted sheets end up at the bottom of the bed and DP sleeps on the mattress protector - in fact that ends up all rucked up too so on the mattress...
And we have two duvets - one king size one double - again because DP wraps himself in one - kingsize was because I thought that might help but it didn't ...
If I get DP to do it he is really slap dash - sheets with big creases, pillows not square in the pillow cases, duvet not straight in the cover & not fastened at the bottom etc etc - in fact if he straightens the bed he often puts the duvet the wrong way up (clips next to your head) - so it irritates me ...and I end up remaking it anyway...

Remembers fondly single days when it took me 20 mins and I did it weekly! (and longs for old age and twin beds...)

BettyBolognese

Maybe in your bathroom, but given that I still have the bloodhound sense of smell I developed when pregnant, I can confirm that this is not the case in my (admittedly occasionally over-ventilated) bathroom (glares at husband who left bathroom window wide open whilst out all day today!).

Bogey that doesn't seem so mad then! There are only 2 of us here.

Ooo, what about ironing sheets?! I just cannot be arsed. I can't imagine a bigger waste of my time... AIBU?

The less other people change their sheets and towels the better for you. You don't have to use them and the environment is so much the better. I'd rather everyone else changed theirs every few months and the polar bears weren't dying.

I'm 29, bedding and towels washed weekly, possibly more.

This is always a divisive subject on MN.

We change our sheets twice a week, and our towels every 2 days.

Just the way we like it - fresh and clean. Anything more would seem a bit yuck to us, but this is down to our preference more than actual dirtiness.

Once a week for sheets and duvet covers. In this hot weather pillowcases are going in the laundry bin every morning or other morning but only coz we're having some incredibly hot nights.

Towels whenever they stop looking inviting - hand towel goes in the laundry basket daily, shower towel about every 3 days (perhaps longer for the kids' ones) and sometimes if I've just dried my hair on a separate towel I use it a few more times for hair drying

I change the kid's bed covers weekly, our bed gets changed twice a week as dh has hyperhidrosis in his feet and it makes the bottom of the bed smell (bleurgh!).

I use my towel for 2 days (so get 4 uses out of it), the kids use a towel once and inevitably leave it on the floor somewhere in a soggy, smelly pile so they need washing after one use and dh changes his towel every day cos of aforementioned rank feet.

I'd rather everyone changed theirs every few months and the polar bars weren't dying

This YYYYY There aren't many who think like that though

sheets once a week towels... depends on how many people are using it
I hope that is a joke.

I use a clean towel after every shower. Sheets on the other hand.... can't remember the last time I changed them, must be over a month.

If you changed your sheets more often you wouldnt need a clean towel every time!