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).

I used to change sheets every week when I worked PT. Now I'm FT, its once a fortnight - there are 2 beds to change, and I alternate so there is just one to change every week. I'd rather change both beds every week but I spend too much time out of my precious weekend washing/drying clothes as it is and I'm getting a bit lazy

Like a tumble dryer?

Depends entirely on how hot each of them gets, surely? And the amount of time the towels are exposed to each. I'll confess I don't know how hot a tumble dryer generally gets. I would guess that a heated towel rail might not reach the 70-ish degrees I'd be comfortable with, and that people would leave towels on them for a lot longer than they'd put them in a tumble dryer for. Bacteria grow exponentially, I'd have thought?

Exactly... Towels and sheets should be washed at 95c to ensure bacteria free linen, preferably with anti-bacterial detergent. If transferred immediately to a tumble drier then the potential for germ breeding is minimised.

flash are you a germaphobe?

I'm not scared of germs, I just don't like them! Germs harm people... Why should I allow them to harm me?

Flash, what germs and diseases will you get from washing your bedding and towels less frequently?

Do your children have allergies?

Bacteria grow exponentially, I'd have thought?

It must be harrowing to think about bacteria everywhere you look, including towels used to dry a clean body (not necessarily the crack) and placed on a heated towel rail. I haven't got the energy to worry much about it, personally. If it looks clean and smells clean it's good enough for me.

My grandmother and mother washed weekly on mondays in the days before washing machines. They also bathed once a week. Now we have showers daily I think there is no reason to worry if you miss a washday with the sheets, especially if you are not well. Never understood this business of using clean towels every use. If you have just stepped out of the shower you are clean! The important thing is to dry them and keep them aired. Wet towels breed bacteria.

Funny how all the people who claim that doing it more regularly than everyone else is soo easy and not at all time consuming don't seem to be doing it themselves!

Once a week is the norm here, but I have gone longer when my back is out or shoulder or tendonitis are bothering me. I will change pillowcases though. Just leave them be until you are feeling better.

Bedding- fortnightly (1 weekend mine, 1 DS). Occasionally, slips to 3 weeks. Only weekly if very hot.

Towels- weekly.

I wash my bedding weekly, sometimes more often depending on how much my husband decides to sweat. He has type 1 diabetes and sweats terribly. He also works in a factory with metal, so sweats out horrible rusty smelling yak! Not nice, and if I don't wash the sheets after a particularly sweaty night, I end up with ruined bedsheets as once it dries it won't wash out (sorry if TMI!)

Towels - I change hand towels daily and wash once weekly. Bath towels, I use mine & DS uses his 2-3 times as I'm not really 'manky' but DH has his changed daily due to the nature of his work. (Everything stinks of metal, even after a shower!)

DS bedding is normally washed anything between fortnightly to monthly. He sleeps out 3 nights a week at my parents house due to my working hours so his bed isn't particularly dirty.

We both shower twice daily - Morning to freshen up before work and evening after work to wash away the day - DH for obvs reasons as he smells like steel and is filthy when he gets home. I work in a school with SEN children and am often covered in various bodily fluids, and I also work in a bar - so take your pick as to what I'm covered in - lol :)

With all due respect though, if you're poorly, you need to rest. Sod the bedding, unless it's walking to the washer itself, it's all good :)

Do people really dry their crack with a towel? Like, give it a good scrubbing? I just wrap it round me and let the air dry me. Why would I need to rub my spotless arse crack?

I had a relative who used to say he changed his bedding once it "becomes itchy". I do it slightly more frequently than that.

I wash towels at every use too. We buy them in a set so they are identical, I don't want to use his towel after him! Same goes for him ????

Full bed change every 2 weeks and a half change (bottom sheet and pillowcase and duvet cover turned over) every week.Towels whenever.Maybe every 2 days.

I say i'll do it weekly- but realistically its every 2-3 weeks. Nothing better then getting into nice fresh sheets though- and you don't quite realise how bad the old ones actually smelt until you do . I have at least one bath a day- sometimes i'll have a shower too.

I knew someone when I was at school who washed three times a day- shower before and after school and bath before bed- it was to be believed because he was a germaphobe- he used to carry one of those miniature bottles of hand sanitiser round with him and use it at every given opportunity

Flash- your name is very apt for this thread. why do I sense someone name changed to post on here

funny how all the people who claim that doing it more regularly than everyone else is soo easy and not at all time consuming don't seem to be doing it themselves!
I do it all myself and don't employ a cleaner, its just routine.
I have done it with a ft or pt job. Strip beds takes 5mins, wash them put out to dry, remaking a bed another 5 mins, what's the big deal?
I have two children, one a baby.
Cot bedding is changed everyday. That takes seconds.

Every 2 weeks or so. Super king size bed, no tumble dryer and no washing line allowed makes it hard to dry stuff

I have never ironed bedding. What a pointless waste of time that would be.

weebird with the laundry chute - who actually does your daily bed linen washing? And if you didn't have that service would you actually be arsed to do it yourself?

I suspect flash is taking the piss.

weebird with the laundry chute - who actually does your daily bed linen washing? And if you didn't have that service would you actually be arsed to do it yourself?

I change my bedding every day and It takes 7 or 8 minutes of my time to make the bed and about 3 or 4 minutes to unmake it.

I shower and I put my moisturiser on and when its settling in I make my the bed. I then take it along the hall and bung it down the chute into the laundry baskets. My housekeeper then spends perhaps 2 minutes putting it the machine and pressing a button to make it go. The machine makes quick work of getting it all done and perhaps 5 minutes at the most is spent hanging them up to dry which takes half an hour in the summer and maybe an hour and a half in the winter. Things are then taken off the line and run through a laundry press which takes maybe another 10 mins in total so as far as I can see this huge job takes about 15 mins. At some time during the day I collect the laundry from the laundry room and put it back in cupboards. The bedding part of it only takes minutes. Its hardly a mammoth task.

And would I be arsed to do it myself if I didn't have help? Yes. I would and I did prior to getting help. The children, all 5 of them, also had clean bedding every 3rd day.

Sorry, someone mentioned a steam roller and a laundry chute??

No I dont live in the Uk but where I do live laundry chutes are like loos - they come with the house.

Do I have help? Yes, I do but it hasn't always been the case and my bedding was still changed daily.

perfume on the bed? hmm wow

Its lovely. It makes having disturbed nights more comfortable. You kind of wake up thinking oh bugger it, not again, not another loo trip, not another hot flush, not more restless legs - and whilst you're in that negative spiral you suddenly smell the perfume and it gets you back into positive thinking.

How 'wow' is that?

Funny how all the people who claim that doing it more regularly than everyone else is soo easy and not at all time consuming don't seem to be doing it themselves!

All of the people?

I change them if they're grubby or fail the sniff test.
Same with towels.

Thank goodness I'm past the stage of tearing my hair out with runs of several days of 2 wet beds to strip and get in the wash before work!