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To leave bedding on for two weeks?

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Eliza22 · 17/08/2015 15:44

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).

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SuperFlyHigh · 18/08/2015 17:13

sheets and duvets every week or 2 weeks. towels every week. nightclothes every week.

Weebirdie · 18/08/2015 17:32

Of course it's easy when you only have to shove it down a shoot and put it back on later.

Yes. Taking one set of bedding, a nightie, and 2 towels out of a laundry hamper, turning approx 4 foot to place it in a machine that then washes the clothes, going back a wee while later when they cycle is finished, unloading the machine, hanging up the clothes approx 12 foot from where it comes out of the machine or placing it in another machine right next to the washing machine is really really really hard work. Putting the items through a press is also really hard.

Not that it actually is but I think its important to you that you keep telling yourself it is.

As for the press that is way smaller than the one I linked to - Im lucky in that I have a laundry room outside and don't have to worry about about the aesthetics of it all.

Lizsmum · 18/08/2015 17:33

We have a huge number of face flannels which are used for drying hands after the loo and for drying cracks and crevices after a shower. These are only ever used once before going into a hot wash with disinfectant. But the proper towels get changed according to the weather for drying and general air of mingingness.

00100001 · 18/08/2015 17:35

Ahh, I want someone to do half of my housework for me :(

GraysAnalogy · 18/08/2015 17:38

I didn't say it was hard work, that's where you're getting me wrong. It's tedious, annoying even. Not physically hard. although lugging the laundry basket down my very steep stairs is difficult

What I'm saying it's like saying 'oh yes I cook every night it's easy peasy' when you're getting a chef to do it for you and the only thing you're doing is plating up. That's my point 'dear'.

Weebirdie · 18/08/2015 17:39

What I'm saying it's like saying 'oh yes I cook every night it's easy peasy' when you're getting a chef to do it for you and the only thing you're doing is plating up. That's my point 'dear'.

Whatever makes you happy love.

Mrsmorton · 18/08/2015 17:40

But weebirdie if you work every day, it's not easy to strip the bed, put the washing on and get it out to dry before you go to work. Same as when you get back so all the shite about the washing machine doing all the work is fine if you have the hours it takes to wait for the fucking thing to finish.

If you leave the house at half seven and get back after six, that's a fucking nause.

Weebirdie · 18/08/2015 17:45

But weebirdie if you work every day, it's not easy to strip the bed, put the washing on and get it out to dry before you go to work.

I didnt say it was. I have only referred to my personal circumstances on the thread. Its others who have decided I was having a go at them when nothing could have been further from the truth.

Ive spoken about what happens in my house and at no time have I said others should be doing it.

Weebirdie · 18/08/2015 17:51

Ahh, I want someone to do half of my housework for me

I would love for my son to not be severely autistic, and have Tourettes and mental health issues to boot. I'd love to go back to the days when he didnt need 24 hour a day, 2-1 round the clock care with a third person present for back up. I'd love to be scooting around doing it all myself as I previously did but its not possible. So for now I will just thank my lucky stars for the people I have around me who make it possible for the both of us to live a life all things considered, no matter what it takes.

Sallystyle · 18/08/2015 18:16

She said it was easy, for her.

She still has to make the actual bed. The putting it in the wash is the easy part (for me!!), and it seems to me that birdie is the one actually making it.

She never said everyone else should find it easy. Perhaps posters now need to end each post saying they are talking about their own circumstances and not everyone else's so they don't get a hard time.

Hygellig · 18/08/2015 18:22

We don't have a set routine for washing the bedding. I know I last washed DD's on 23rd July as I had a friend staying in her room. So that's three weeks (although we were away on holiday for one week). She doesn't sweat a lot and has a nappy on at night-time so I don't think it's a big deal. DS's gets changed when it looks like it needs it, so probably about every 3 weeks unless he wets the bed. Ours gets changed about every couple of weeks at the most. Towels we wash about once or twice a week.

I am very surprised that some people wash their bedding every day! That's a lot of expense, effort and energy use. Would they also do the same when in a holiday cottage or hotel?

Peshwari · 18/08/2015 18:36

Would they also do the same when in a holiday cottage or hotel?

Well we once stayed in 2 star apartments where people had complained on tripadvisor that the sheets hadn't been changed all week!

TheSnufflet · 18/08/2015 18:43

I am agog at this thread.

Surely the answer is, whenever everything is saturated with cum - that is when you change bedding

BlueBananas · 18/08/2015 19:51

weebirdie I need to know where you live! I didn't know a place even existed where it was too hot to even go outside

bigbumtheory · 18/08/2015 19:56

YANBU. Every two weeks unless I leak on my period, we get a lot of fluids on the bed or it's swelteringly hot.

bigbumtheory · 18/08/2015 19:57

TheSnufflet Those would be the fluids I mention!

Weebirdie · 18/08/2015 20:10

I didn't know a place even existed where it was too hot to even go outside

There are lots of places where in the height of summer you just go from the house to an air conditioned car to an air conditioned building because its so hot you feel your skin tightening on your arms and legs like pork crackling if you are outside for more than a couple of minutes. .

I live in the ME and very recently we had a few days where the temp reached 54 degrees Celsius which is about 129 degrees. That was a bit hotter than normal and I would say its more common for temperatures to reach about 120. Its very much a case of not going out if you can avoid it until later in the day because if the sun doesn't get you you'll burn the hands off yourself when you get back in the car. Holding the steering wheel is like holding a roast potato right out of the oven and you end up doing this really silly dance because your chair is burning your backside as well and no amount of clenching helps because if you try and raise your bum off the chair you have to hold onto the wheel and its bloody roasting.

There used to be a device that switched your AC on before you got in the car. so you'd be indoors and you'd aim this remote out of the window and your car would start and the AC would start - but so would the wipers, the alarm, the lights, the indicator, the radio, the cd, the dvd players etc etc etc!!!!!!! It didn't last for long as and idea and It really was just best to stay home and find things to wash.

BuggersMuddle · 18/08/2015 21:07

I think the level of bed changing is dependent on the occupants of the bed to a large degree. For example, when I was a non-sweaty kid, once a fortnight was fine. Now there are two adults, I much prefer once a week.

There are loads of factors that could influence why 2 weeks would be less than fresh for us, but okay for others:

time of life
do you shower in the morning or before bed?
if not showering, activity levels / sports / temperature
are you a sweaty person, because some people just are
what people wear to bed
what else they do in the bed and how often!

BlueBananas · 18/08/2015 21:15

weebirdie I've clearly lived a dry sheltered life, I cried when it got to 30 here a few weeks ago
I agree, staying in and washing all of the things is the only way to go

Christinayanglah · 18/08/2015 21:16

Oh god I remember that heat, don't miss that!

StampyMum · 18/08/2015 22:00

Our bedsheets probably every 2-3 weeks, but I do them sooner if I get a stale smell when entering the bedroom. Bathe daily and clean jammies every night, we never eat in bed, also. Towels, I try to extend their life by airing them outside or on the aga rail, but once a week would be the limit. but seriously, fellas who wash stuff more often, have you never heard of a carbon footprint?? What do you think is happening to the planet as you use all this bloody electricity? And have you seriously got nothing better to do with your time?

unlucky83 · 18/08/2015 23:02

I am no longer skanky ...really looking forward to getting into nice clean sheets tonight - and DCs are already in nice clean beds! Yay...
But ....nothing has been washed as it has pissed down all day today ...hoping for better drying weather tomorrow... (apart from eco reasons and not wanting to use the tumble I do prefer the smell of line dried bedding)
Actually I am a wee bit jealous of Weebirdie but only because at least if you live in a hot country getting washing dry isn't a hassle...

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