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To leave bedding on for two weeks?

347 replies

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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LegoComplex · 17/08/2015 19:50

weekly for sheets and about 2 uses of a towel before it's washed.

RiverTam · 17/08/2015 19:51

I think people simply sleepwalk into doing stuff however their mum did, without considering for a second if it needs to be done. Personally I've got better things to go with my time and my money than endless amounts of totally unnecessary washing, but whatever floats your boat. I reckon if water was metered people would change their habits sharp enough.

LegoComplex · 17/08/2015 19:53

perfume on the bed? Hmm wow

TENDTOprocrastinate · 17/08/2015 19:54

People who wash their towels after every use- so in a family of 4- you must be doing a wash just for towels alone almost every day!?
If you all shower every day, that's 28 towels a week. Seriously?Hmm

Christinayanglah · 17/08/2015 19:57

Ohhhh I love a fresh bed especially when it has been out all day when windy. Yes I like it all ironed too and changed twice a week

Towels washed every time and fresh Jammie's every night

sugar21 · 17/08/2015 19:59

We should all have water meters, that'll sort everyone out.

Starbrite00 · 17/08/2015 20:02

I dont use a dryer as I hate them so when weather is uh kl xp crap.. Most days as I'm in Scotland, I dry them indoors, either on a clothes horse or on bedroom doors ect. I have five sets of bedding so you don't need to wash and dry in one day.

Starbrite00 · 17/08/2015 20:05

whatever floats your boat. I reckon if water was metered people would change their habits sharp enough.
Not really, if you prioritise hygiene then it would be worth the cost.
Same as daily showers.

RiverTam · 17/08/2015 20:05

I don't understand that, even if you don't need that set of bedding back on the bed that day, you still need to wash and dry it in one day? Or do you leave wet washing lying about for a few days before drying it? Even I think that's rancid!

Starbrite00 · 17/08/2015 20:07

family of 4- you must be doing a wash just for towels alone almost every day!?
If you all shower every day, that's 28 towels a week. Seriously
Depends on the amount of towels you own, I wash towels every 3 days and still have spare so could go longer.

Christinayanglah · 17/08/2015 20:08

Star

I am in Scotland too, it's a treat at the moment to get " a good drying day"

RiverTam · 17/08/2015 20:09

Starbrite depends on your definition of hygiene. No-one's ill in our house so clearly the amount of washing I do is perfectly hygienic? I mean, Washing bedding more frequently wouldn't make us more hygienic, would it?

Some people seem to have utterly skewed ideas about hygiene. I'm not performing open heart surgery in my house but judging by what some MNers think necessary you'd think they are!

Starbrite00 · 17/08/2015 20:10

don't understand that, even if you don't need that set of bedding back on the bed that day, you still need to wash and dry it in one day? Or do you leave wet washing lying about for a few days before drying it? Even I think that's rancid!
It takes a day if that to dry inside. Do you not own a clothes horse? Its what people did/do without a dryer. Not rancid as all clean and Laid out properly it doesn't smell or go fusty.

Starbrite00 · 17/08/2015 20:13

River.. Each person has own standards. Was just trying to say it wouldn't matter about meters if that's what you thought a priority.

WorzelsCornyBrows · 17/08/2015 20:13

We both work FT and life is just too short to care about this shit. Do you think your grandparents did this? Nope, beds fortnightly towels weekly/twice weekly if we're lucky.

shiteforbrains · 17/08/2015 20:16

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Starbrite00 · 17/08/2015 20:16

Do you think your grandparents did this? Nope, beds fortnightly towels weekly/twice weekly if we're lucky
My gran is worse than me, she even irons pants Smile so yes she does change weekly still at 75.

BolshierAyraStark · 17/08/2015 20:17

Fortnightly for bedding & towels maybe weekly.

RiverTam · 17/08/2015 20:26

Star which is probably where your mum and now you got it from. My mum's 79 and has never done bedding weekly or fortnightly, though she did towels every week. Always been a pants-ironer, though (but I am not!).

Starbrite00 · 17/08/2015 20:30

River
I'm not a pants ironer, in fact I hate ironing and rarely do it unless I have to.
I wash sheets often and clothes, towels because I like feeling clean and my kids to be clean. It's all personal preference, not what parents influenced.

Mrsmorton · 17/08/2015 20:34

I'm boggled by this. Towels after every use? Your electricity bills must be massive and your time must be almost entirely taken up by laundry. As if it's unhygienic to use a towel more than once Confused I guess working a six day week means I really prioritise my laundry and a daily towel wash certainly isn't up there.
Who the fuck wipes poo crumbs on their towels? PP who said that perhaps needs a lesson in personal hygiene rather than housework.

MN, the land of the downright odd.

Sallystyle · 17/08/2015 20:36

Yeah there is 7 of us in this house. If I washed the towels after every use I would not have time to wash actual clothes.

nokidshere · 17/08/2015 20:36

Oh dear - my sheets get washed every couple of weeks or so, more if necessary. Towels when they need it but not after each use!

I have however been telling my two teenage boys to bring their bedding down for was for at least a month but still haven't seen it! WinkShock

BlueBananas · 17/08/2015 20:42

I love these threads - brings out all the crazies Grin

Christinayanglah · 17/08/2015 20:42

I'm wondering if anyone else has heard of this new fangled contraption called a washing machine, it's means I am no longer spending all of my time washing, unlike when I used to have to drag it all down to the river and beat it against the rocks