To think changing bedsheets once a week is ott

[Moomoomango]

Another week has whizzed past, feels like yesterday I changed all the beds. They look and smell fine, surely if I only change beds once every 2 weeks we will still all survive. I could spend 30 minutes with my feet up drinking tea once in a while. Aibu?

We have flat sheets under the duvets to save on washing - a few sets, works a treat!

There are 3 beds in our house. I do one a week in rotation. So every 3 weeks here and we've not died from it

Some people operate in different

Time zones where 5 minutes means something different...eg I have tried putting sheets on while pasta is boiling..I run out of time it's more than 12 minutes per bed.

Getting a duvet cover on is a ten minute job

every other week is fine. I do the kids one weekend and ours the next then back to the kids. we don't smell!

Doesn't it depend on what you wear in bed? If naked, yes they need changing a lot. I go to bed wearing wearing lot of clothes (v sexy! but I get cold otherwise) so I doubt much penetrates all that on a weekly basis.

I do ours twice a week. Our kingsize bed, double bed x2 (DDs 1 and 2), toddler bed (DD3) cot (DD4). Of course with little ones this can be much more frequent anyway! Only change both spare beds if we have guests. It doesn't take long and I love fresh sheets. Also Hoover and air the pillows/duvets once a week.

I change kids' bedding fortnightly ish - when they go to their dad's.

I change ours when I think it needs it - every 2-3 weeks.

I never iron bedclothes. What a waste of time.

I have also never hoovered either a mattress or a pillow. Or even considered doing that. Except for once when the catsgad fleas.

We are all alive & healthy.

This thread has made me gear myself up to change our bedding this morning.

cestlavie you need a new technique!

I change ours twice a week Wednesday and Sunday, we all wear clean pj's to bed every night. The thought of washing them once week I can deal with but the fortnightly, monthly every few months washers thats just gross. We have clean towels and bath mats everyday also.

I have changed my sheets this morning.. Looking forward to bed tonight...

My most annoying thing is to strip the bed..Leave it to air then forget till I drag myself up to bed and have to make it when I want to get in it.

Really? Yet another one of these threads? Yawn...

I also wash the mattress and pillow protectors at the same time.

Dust covers over pillows? Change sheets daily?

WTactualF is that all about? If we all did that the planet would already be dead.

I actually think to wash all sheets, duvets, towels daily is hugely irresponsible on a whole planet level.

Once a week here.
Just when I'm celebrating seeing the bottom of laundry basket. I go fill it again with bed sheets.

WhoaCadburys snigger

If you sleep in anything less than a dust cover, you're seriously risking your health.

Kids I do every week.

Master bedroom every fortnight.

I change ours once a week! It's my Sunday ritual unless I've had a midnight scoffing session & there's crumbs everywhere then I do it sooner.

And I steam clean the mattress every month.

I obviously have too much time on my hands...

DUST COVERS? Okay, the world has actually gone mad. Also (damn it, I swore I wasn't going to rise to the bait, but...) washing your sheets and/or towels every day, especially if you're then tumble drying them as well, is utterly fucking irresponsible on an environmental level and actually makes me really angry.

I shower or bath every night before I go to bed. I change my pj's every other day so I think I'm ok to change my bedding every 10 to 14 days. Though tbf I do it more often in the summer.

Is a dust cover something different than a pillow case?

Am I meant to have a pillow case and a dust cover?

I've far better things to do with my time than constant washing and ironing. I'm surprised that anyone would boast about wasting their life on doing twice as much of this than necessary ( and I'm afraid ironing bed linen is just unbelievable to me) No one ever lay on their death bed thinking they wished they had done more housework.

I'm shocked at people admitting to only changing their beds monthly and fresh towels daily is a must. You wipe all round your bit and pieces with it then leave it damp on a towel rail for 24 hours breeding germs and whos to say your get the same towel twice.