To leave bedding on for two weeks?

[Eliza22]

Not riveting this topic, I know!

I've been unwell recently, still not great but a bit better. I'm a SAHM and care for my ds who is 14 with autism and OCD. It can be exhausting.

Obviously, as I'm not working, I do all household jobs/gardening/errand running etc and DH is often away. This weekend, I though f**k it! I'm NOT changing the beds (I usually do all beds on a Sunday). My question is: do you strip and change your beds weekly? Also towels... We each have bath sheets which get changed twice weekly. My niece recently stayed and went through 4 bath sheets in 2 days. We shower morning and evening (though ds just showers and hair wash each morning).

Oh, I wasn't judging, Naboo! Just trying to be helpful. We don't have a tumble drier, either, and find the heated airer very handy. Sorry for any offence caused

Until I got with my DP I had NO idea that people re-used towels without washing in between. I thought it was minging that we would have to hang them up to dry and then re-use, when we lived with his mum.

But now I'm used to it and it's perfectly normal to me

I have absolutely no idea how often I change the bed.

When I feel like it I suppose.

If someone were to do it for me, then every day would be lovely.

I hate changing the beds. I have arthritis in my fingers and it really hurts me when I do.

Good for you Weebirdie perhaps, for the sake of others you could sound a little less smug about your routine. It's not everyones. For example. I timed myself this morning. I took me fifteen minutes to get everything off the double bed. A further ten to sort out the single bed, I then had to get a pile of wet washing downstairs and in the machine, which took another seven minutes. Back upstairs to make both beds with clean bedding, twenty two minutes. 53 Minutes in all. And yes it's a routine. I've been doing it for almost 20 years. Your fact of life is not the same as my fact of life.

Got to laugh, Weebirdie doesn't have to do their own washing!

Your fact of life is not the same as my fact of life.

Yes, which is why you life doesn't bother me.

Got to laugh, Weebirdie doesn't have to do their own washing!

Does anyone or does a machine do if for them?

I think its quite accurate to say the actual washing of the laundry is the easiest part of it.

Why be actively smug and unpleasant, what on earth does it achieve? FFS I'm Aspie and I'm damned sure I'm not this grim.

weebirdie that VERY easy to say when someone else is doing it for you

When you have to do the loading, unloading, hanging and pressing every day (as well as all other housework, which I'm guessing you don't do) as well and then still find it no bother, then you can come on boards and go "what's all the fuss about?"

However to come on a board and go "pffft, it's so easy-peasy, my HOUSEKEEPER does it for me, so it can't be that tough really, can it? I mean, if you think about it, the machine does the actual washing, doesn't it?"

so you don't sort the load, bung it in, wait for it to stop, take out and put to dry, iron, fold...?

I'd change my sheets much more often if there wasn't washing involved.

Whoops pressed enter to quickly!

by doing the latter (which is what you're doing) it just make you sound like a Knob... of the knobbiest kind.

Dawn whats wrong with you?

what is it Ive said that has angered you so much?

I hadnt even answered anything you'd posted so I fail to see what it is thats angered you.

I fully supported the OP not changing the sheets this week. And being the mother of a son who's severly autistic I totally get being exhausted.

As for answering posts and sounding smug - well Im very sorry I came across that way when all I was trying to do was answer some of the nastier comments about people who change their beds more often than normal without being rude.

I have been polite throughout this thread and have tried to have a laugh by seconding someone who said they'd vote on this thread being the strangest one ever. And whilst I now fully understand you are an Aspie please be aware I will take fuck all nonsense from you in the form of your last post.

I wonder what weebirdies housekeeper thinks of the constant daily onslaught of sheets that emerge out of the laundry shute for her* to deal with? I bet sometimes she just folds them up neatly and sends them back a few hours later thinking fuck that for a game of soliders I did that yesterday.

I bet she will be on housekeepersnet somewhere saying 'do you know what, they expect clean sheets every day'.

*Apologies for the gender stereotyping, but it almost certainly be a she.

My money is on weebirdie being somewhere in the Middle East. I hope your sheets are being line dried not tumble dried btw - tumble driers are incredibly wasteful if you are lucky enough to live somewhere with reliable hot dry weather.

so you don't sort the load, bung it in, wait for it to stop, take out and put to

The loads are sorted upstairs by me before they go down the chute. The housekeeper than puts it in the machine. When its ready she goes back and collects it for hanging out, or putting in the dryer if its too hot. When thats done it goes through an roller for pressing. Its then left on the side in the laundry room and I take it upstairs and put it away. And its me who makes all the beds and strips them.

I bet sometimes she just folds them up neatly and sends them back a few hours later thinking fuck that for a game of soliders I did that yesterday.(

No, that doesn't happen.

So your situation is fuck all like ours it's all well and good saying you change them all the time when you have someone to do most of it for you

Anyway, here's to all of you having a great day.

I certainly am.

And I wish all of you the same.

I don't understand the problem, wee birdie isn't telling anyone that this is how it should be done, she is sharing what she does

o your situation is fuck all like ours confused it's all well and good saying you change them all the time when you have someone to do most of it for you

No thats just what you would like to think because you cant take on board that bunging sheets in a machine isn't labour intensive. Its the easiest part of it all.

The hanging, pressing and folding is labour intensive though. Especially every day.

Genuine question, but how can it be too hot for line drying?

Hhahaha, you don't even do your own washing so how on earth can you comment? And the process of washing sheets isn't just putting in a washing machine is it, it's sorting, washing, pegging out (or putting in dryer), ironing and folding.

Grays

Why does it matter to you so much? Why isn't she allowed to comment?

She wasn't telling anyone that they were dirty she was explaining what her preferences were

Why are people being so nasty? For god sakes it's laundry

No, the hanging up takes minutes and if its going in the dryer it involves taking things out of one machine and putting it in one right next to it. The ironing of them involves putting them through a smaller on of these. It takes a minute or two to go through. Folding is perhaps another minute per sheet and in total it takes far less time than stripping and making the beds.

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Genuine question, but how can it be too hot for line drying?

Where I live it can be too hot to be outdoors in the garden even at 8am. So for about 3 months a year the washing is dried in the tumble dryer. It cant go our later in the day because the humidity makes it smell.

I'm replying mainly to her post at Mon 17-Aug-15 18:00:20 in which it's all 'easy peasy' which is easy for her to say when she doesn't actually do it and her constant 'well it's not labour intensive!!'