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).

Towels are for drying wet clean hands and bodies. Surely they aren't bug riddled after a day
You clearly didn't see the 'he wipped shit on my towels' thread.

Weebirdie I've wanted a laundry cute for ages and now I want a sheet roller too!

We only have the chute because our house was custom built to suit our sons needs. Its like two houses within one to accommodate extended family living in the future when one of my children will come here with their family and live with us and my son, and what ever carer is on duty that day. It was built for efficiency and safety and we really had to think of everything. Our main kitchen is even outside the main part of the house due and the rule is if it has to be cooked you cant use the inside kitchen, thats only for snacks. My sons sensory issues make this necessary.

The roller is because an iron can be quite dangerous to have around and anything that cant go through the roller is ironed by me in my bedroom once my son is in bed.

Bloody hell, weebirdie is getting a kicking here! Everybody is giving their input of how they do things, and birdie mentions how she does it, offering no judgement in others, and gets slated for it for being different. It's like being in a school playground with a child coming in with a pair of trainers that doesn't fit the norm. It's amazing, vice versa if birdie was criticising people for being less thorough than her, and she'd be hung out for being judgemental and thinking she's above the rest. But it's ok for you all to jump on her.

My bedding, I probably change every 2-3 weeks but stay at DP's for half of the week so it's probably only used for a week/10 days in that time.

Towels though, I tend to get two uses out of then I use that used towel the next time I wash my hair, and then I wash it.

Just stripped all the beds thanks to this thread

just perhaps feel sorry for them

Honestly, its not a bother. The joy I feel at getting into a really nice bed every night whilst knowing that my hot flushes, restless legs, and 3 trips to the loo are going to make for a pretty miserable night means I will do anything to make it a nicer experience.

And am have all the towels ready to go in (60 deg? )

I usually do defer making the bed to dh, Christina

In my case, I email him to let him know which beds I've either syripped or started stripping and had to give up on and with details of what needs doing, so he can't claim not to have heard me.

I'm really surprised that no-one seems to be impacted by the extent to which they've had sex in the bed!

Does no-one else...leak?

ROFL at the industrial steam roller. Where exactly is such a contraption meant to go?

And the four washing machines / tumble dryers. They'd fill most if my kitchen!

Don't know how often it is monthly? Three weekly.

Sorry Weebirdie I see there are good reasons for the roller.

Neverknowingly - I always worried I would leak but I never do! I do try to use the bathroom after sex (not jumping up immediately) because I like to wrap my legs around DP when I sleep (I sleep like an octopus) and I'm not sure he'd like dribble on him. However, on the occasions where we have fallen asleep straight afterwards, I've never leaked. Unless I've been asleep for so long that it's dried and I haven't noticed?

ROFL at the industrial steam roller. Where exactly is such a contraption meant to go?

Who has an industrial steam roller?

Tbh, if you shower before bed I think it's acceptable to go longer without changing sheets. Then again I'm weird, and I shower the minute I get home if I've used a toilet that isn't mine, but could go a fortnight without doing the sheets with ease. (Dyspraxic, so not only is hovering in public loos impossible, but applying a bedsheet is nearly so.)

We are a family of six. Kids beds get changed twice a week, the kids do it themselves. They have clean cotton pjs every night as well. Our bed is changed two or three times a week, more if we have sex.

We all shower everyday (sometimes twice) and use clean towels each time.

Just to add, we are an household with kids who have ASD and excema, and this laundry regime has really helped. Excema has gone from severe to "managed" IYKWIM. I also find that if you iron sheets straight from the washing machine that the cotton fibres go really flat which really helps with the sensory side of things as well. (Just adding that as it may be helpful for someone.)

So, although it is a huge amount of work, it helps with the sensory and excema which means my kids get a better nights sleep.

Who changes sheets and not pillowcases as frequently? My desperate shortcut is changing pillow cases-I double pillowcase-it's a weird OCD thing I think. Surely they are the dirtiest; greasy/ product hair, dandruff, pimples, snot, earwax and dribble.

We find that it's the sheet that gets yuck the quickest. We don't generally have spots on our faces, we don't snot on our pillows, and don't use 'product' in our hair. I can't speak for dandruff, earwax and dribble.

I quite often rotate my pillow in the middle of the night to get the plumper side (non-UK pillows) and DP more often than not sleeps on his stomach without his head on his pillow. Perhaps that's why our pillow cases seem not to get besmirched as fast as yours? Perhaps you're assuming I have children? I would change these things more often if I had children who were snotting/dribbling/greasing all over the place.

Our beds are done fortnightly, towels once a week, during thr rest of the week i fit all other housework in ...hoover every 2 days (with a husband and a 21 month old its essential!) and keep on top of the washing x

I too feel that weebirdie had taken uneccessary flak on this thread!!

I change the beds every day, wash towels after every use, clean the carpet as soon as someone has walked on it and paint the walls weekly.

but, laptop, do you have a personal hoover to hoover after yourself as you walk around the house??

if not SLATTERN

Poor weebirdie

She dared tell people her preferences and got a heap of shit for it, and she managed to stay pretty calm and polite while doing so.

Sounds like jealousy that you have someone to do it for you, because I can't think of another reason why you would have been given a hard time.

And her first supportive post incase people need reminding.

I think you have to do what works for you.

You have a lot on your plate and as the mother of a now 25 year old who's very severely autistic plus a few other things for good measure I think a rest is better for you personally than changing the sheets

Yes, I have a hover hoover that sucks and blows simultaneously to keep the carpet pile clean and dry as it follows behind me.
I have to get up before I go to bed sometimes - the days just aren't long enough.

I think we should try & work out where weebirdie lives, and then LEAVE HER ALONE!! She is by no means one of the bonkers people on this thread who are clearly terrified of air. I love these threads but they reveal staggering levels of ignorance with regard to "germs", "hygiene", etc.

I'm not jealous of anyone, but thanks for that. I was a bit at all the posts of 'it takes two minutes' 'its easy peasy' from someone who doesn't do their own anyway.

Of course it's easy when you only have to shove it down a shoot and put it back on later. It'd also be much easier having one of those presses but I'll be fucked if I'm finding somewhere to store the ugly looking thing