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).

Fortnightly? Weekly?? I think I last changed my bed linen around January/February 2015

Do you have children MARTIN? If so, were their beds last changed in Jan/Feb?

Given the thread with the poor 5 DCs who lived in squalor, I think a little DC in clean pyjamas in a bed with sheets ten days old is hardly a problem. I never used to change my DCs sheets weekly - it was usually 10-14 days. They bathed every night so why would I...

I pretend it's weekly but it's usually two..sometimes three

The bedding is fine but we never ever use towels more than once, each to their own but it is just so wrong to me to reuse a towel that has been in nooks n crannies! Yes, the nooks n crannies will be clean but it would still makes me feel yuk drying my face on the same towel later.

Oh n I am not odd, as so lovingly described by pp, I just like to be hygienic thanks!

But I have a bath towel and a face towel so I'm not drying my face on something dodgy! I just CBA to wash huge bath sheets every day, I shower once to twice a day and god knows what I'd do with all the towels. I don't agree with constant use of a tumble dryer.

Oh good, lord, don't worry. You're not going to catch anything.

I had a friend at university who didn't change his bedding for the entire academic year. Now that was gross. Two weeks? Meh. You're totally fine.

Three weeks in our house - sometimes a few days longer if really busy. Never been a problem.....Towels a bit more often, but as long as nothing smells, why stress?

Beds are done fortnightly and towels weekly. I'm a sahm with 3 dcs and dh works abroad most of the time so it all falls on me. But if I'm ill then sometimes it takes a few more days for me to get round to it.

I often leave mine for three weeks. I am sure it has been more throughout the years if I have forgotten.

We have not been harmed yet and neither do we smell.

1 bed gets done weekly, others fortnightly
i shower every day though and wear clean pj's every night so don't feel bed needs done more often than 1 xfortnight

I also gasp sleep naked on mine and don't wash them every week.

having a child with difficulties is no excuse not be a clean person. YABU not to change your or children's bedding for 2 weeks - that's grim.

Oh do fuck of dear.

Bed gets changed every other week. Towels get used 3 times and then washed.

MIL does her towels after every use but she has far more than us and a tumble dryer so much easier!

Oh good - Weebirdie said it for me.

Nowt wrong with twice weekly bedding changes. We have someone who does all that stuff for us including towels but I'm not that fussy about it. I would probably wash them on a weekly basis, towels less so probably.

Nobody dies from non-weekly washed linens.

Once a week in the summer when I can get the sheets dry easily and everyone is generally more sweaty. Once a fortnight when the heating on unless accidents/illness.

It's ok Bleach, ds had his bed done today instead of yesterday. As for my having 'no excuses' because I have a disabled child? I'm not making excuses. My only excuse is I've been unwell.

weebirdie got there first.

Seems we have a goady fucker.

Anyway. 2 weeks, 3 weeks, 4 weeks. Depends.

You are absolutely allowed to be ill and not change the sheets. You are also avsolutely allowed to be the picture of health and not change the sheets.

I do ours monthly perhaps. Unless you sweat excessively (and if Young DC do surely a trip to the GP is in order) and have a lot if bedroom action involving wet patches agogo, I have never understood why it's necessary to change them do frequently. But then I rarely understand the laundry and cleaning habits on MN anyway .

Three-four weeks for bedding, as we all bathe daily and wear clean pj's every other night. Obviously if beds are wet, or children are ill in bed - they are changed immediately, and I have plenty of spares.

I honestly wouldn't worry too much about it OP. In fact, I'd maybe get a few cheap bedding sets to have washed and ready to use and then the dirty ones can sit in the washing basket until you have time/energy to do them.

Towels are washed after two days use and we each have our own set in different colours.

It's ok Bleach, ds had his bed done today instead of yesterday. As for my having 'no excuses' because I have a disabled child? I'm not making excuses. My only excuse is I've been unwell.

Glad he has a clean bed! It takes about 90 seconds to load a washing machine, so there is no excuse to be honest.

Bedding gets changed, well, when it starts to smell a bit suspect, so more frequently in the summer, less so in the winter. The duvet is way overdue for a wash though

Towels when one of us remembers and is passing.

Oh do fuck of dear

Right back at ya!

Why exactly is it grim, Bleach?