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?

If I washed the beds weekly I don't I would have to do an extra wash every day as there are six of us plus dog. I already do at least two loads a day so am I supposed to up that to 3-4 loads?

Sod that.

I'm saving the planet instead.

I can't imagine why anyone needs clean towels and pyjamas everyday. Unless your DC wet the bed. I think some people must like making work for themselves. Especially ironing bedding.

I wish I could change it every three days but I absolutely haven't got the energy and time for that. I hope I get a cleaner /maid one day to do it for me. A week tow two weeks will do at the moment.

Would you wear the same knickers all week? Well pyjama bottoms cover the same area thats why my dc need clean ones each night.

I do have a live in maid (live abroad) and we don't change the sheets every 3 days because it's stupid. As for towels, apart from impetigo, do people really ever get ill from using a towel they used before? I rather like the dampy smell of flannels and towels.

I don't wear pyjamas and my naked body certainly doesn't seem to seep as I sleep. Sometimes I change my sheets weekly, sometimes fortnightly.

Put your kids in nighties and you won't need to stress about the state of their pyjama gussets.

Washing pyjamas after one wear and changing sheets twice a week sounds like a massive waste of time and resources to me.

Daily pyjama changers must bring a heck of a lot of luggage on holiday with them.

Would you wear the same knickers all week? Well pyjama bottoms cover the same area thats why my dc need clean ones each night.

If you wear pants with PJ bottoms, there's no need to change them every night, mind you, wearing pants at night is another thread.

Plus I don't mind admitting how often I change my sheets because you can love me or leave me. I don't care what people on here think of me.

No not really, a resort with either a laundry service or laundry room is a must when we book a holiday. Who wants to come home to 14-21 days worth of dirty washing.

Ours tend to get done around every 9/10 days. I will change the pillowcases every week though.

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.

Yes, awful. You grim people!
With your bacterial colony ridden towels. And with all the dirt left over from washing.

Fresh towels daily???? Just the sniff test here.

YABU! Or you don't have a teenage son! By day 5 the musk starts to get noticeable, They're definitely ready to be washed by day 7.

Plus I have a funny non-absorbent pillow and if I don't wash my pillowcase once a week I start to get spots...

I agree, daily washing of bedding /towels, even without using a tumble dryer, uses far too much water. My DDs are in the habit of using a towel only once but I won't wash them until there are enough to fill the washing machine.

VulcanWoman About 4 times a year.

^this made me happy

and whos to say your get the same towel twice.

We all have our own towels, which we keep in the bedrooms.

I make sure I wipe my bits in the middle (just in case there's a few random bacteria after washing with soap and hot water) and my face at the edges. Yippee.

I don't know how any of you ever leave the house, go on a bus, go to the supermarket - let alone use a public toilet! How often do you dryclean a coat?

And yes, I do wash my pants daily, but that's the ONLY thing (even socks get worn a few times except dh's!!).

Sheets, pillowcases and duvet cover once a week
Quilted mattress and pillow covers every three or four weeks
Mattress turned end-to-end every week, and completely over a couple of times a year
Ourselves showered every evening

I tend to air dry my 'nads. Plus I figure that I only wipe my body with the towel immediately after cleansing myself, so surely it can't be that bad. Towel air dries after that. All used towels get boil washed every couple of weeks.

I'm a microbiologist by the way!! Bugs are good, you need a few innocuous ones around as the first line of defence against nasty ones.

Reading this I think I am happily occupying the middle ground

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

This sort of attitude makes me LOL, especially when the person in question is using her precious life energy to read and post on Mumsnet!

Maybe some of us just move quicker. It takes me about a minute to strip a queen-sized bed & four pillows, about one minute to run the heap downstairs & load the washing machine, one minute to transfer to tumble dryer or line (my laundry room is large with four 18-foot clotheslines) and about five minutes to place on the bed. Less than 15 minutes effort twice a week is worth it to me to have fresh, crisp sheets.

I use a fitted and flat sheet with light blanket, topped by a comforter inside a duvet cover. The duvet cover never touches skin so is washed only about once a month.

It's not about absolute cleanliness - my sheets stay quite clean - it's about the aesthetics of fresh and smooth and crisp vs. several days of wrinkles and creases - and the "feel" of the fabric does change over the course of a few days. Just as some people are content to scrub themselves with basic generic soap and others enjoy luxury products, or some people are content with basic no-frills food and others enjoy special cuisine. Some of us appreciate the aesthetics of fine bedding frequently changed more than others, Same with towels - I've seen people with grubby threadbare rags hanging in their bathroom and they don't even notice or care; I prefer fresh, fluffy towels as part of my routine. There are areas these people probably indulge themselves that wouldn't make sense to me. To each her own.

I don't do wash any more often than I would if I only changed sheets once a week because two sets fit in the washer. And except for the most humid weeks in summer I line dry 95 percent of my clothing, linens and towels. My household is very light-impact and eco-friendly and has been for 30 years so have zero qualms about treating myself to fresh sheets twice a week.

As to ironing - I don't do that but it seems to me that folding a sheet into a manageable size and ironing through several layers would work quite well and take very little time. I do sometimes iron pillow slips especially for guests or when it's very warm in the summer. Also fold them, put them in a plastic bag and store in the freezer until just before bedtime - nothing better than a cool linen case. No deep freeze here but know people who keep pillows in there for the same reason, at the peak of summer.

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

I'm pretty sure the dustcover person was joking.

I see we are back to fear of 'germs'. We are covered from head to foot in bacteria, billions of them; they are passed on at birth and happily live with us until we die.
Still, I'm sure a daily wash at 90 degrees of anything that comes into contact with our filthy bodies makes some feel better.

Every 3-4 days here. I'm much happier knowing I've got a lovely clean bed to get into.
On the other hand, I'm a bit rubbish at changing ds bed . That happens every couple of weeks when I remember.