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?

About every 2 weeks for washing but I do air the bed every day. Duvet is folded back to the bottom of the bed leaving the sheet exposed and the window opened.

I aim for every 2 weeks, but can end up after 3 weeks because I've forgotten whose sheets need washing lol - mine, or the DC! Cannot be arsed to do it any sooner than that. Hate dong sheets - the stripping, remaking, washing drying folding and storing away. Ugh...theres enough washing and cleaning to do with 3 DC around, don't want to bog myself down with extra sheet changes that are probably fine. And like other mumsnetters have posted - think of the environment.

No shoes indoors either but I don't change the sheets weekly. I hate cloth hankys too. scrumptious you are right. We do get bees in our bonnets about really odd things.

No shoes indoors - the thought of shoes trodden on dog poo/wee, snails, mud, etc coming into my house and then leaving those germs on my floors makes me feel sick.

There was a looooooong and heated shoes on/shoes off thread last week.

I do ours every fortnight. If I left it to DP it would be more like once a month, if that.

Oh really? Crystal I missed that one

We do get bees in our bonnets about really odd things.

My Mum is paranoid about beds and toilets. Otherwise, you should see the state of her kitchen! I find it so odd. She's really not a clean freak, only about toilets (she washes her hands before touching the flush so as not to get germs on the flush, till I told her no one else does that so she's putting germs back onto her hands).

I have said this before, I am sure one of the reasons, if not the main reason, so many people have allergies is that many people are obsessed by cleanliness and their bodies don't build up any resistance to germs. Mulitple showers per day, one use towels and daily bed changes mean lots of chemicals from detergents and shower products plus constant drying effects of water on skin. Before I came on MN I had never heard of people only using a towel once. It's actually become a joke in this house

I am an oldie and weekly bed changing in summer and fortnightly in winter (not sleeping naked) sounds about right to me and is definitely more than I experienced as a child as we didn't have a washing machine so the sheets went top to bottom then to the laundry which wasn't cheap. Still here and allergy free.

But it's not about health, it's about aesthetics & pleasure.

every week...... would love to be like the queen and have fresh bedding everyday .... but wouldn't find the time or energy to change them everyday ..... and would have to by a heck of a lot more bedding :) :)

How do you know she has fresh bedding every day?

Does queenie really have new sheets every day? All the more reason for a republic.

The germ obsession on here is quite remarkable... What actually happens to people who don't change their bedlinen weekly? Are they known to be ill more often? I doubt it.

Once a week on Friday. If the DC wet the bed in between then more.

I'm quite shocked that most people seem to wait 2 weeks I really thought weekly was the "norm".

What does everyone do for towels? I use a towel three times then wash. Maybe I am strange!

I do a round up on the weekend of towels and bedding. Whites with other whites and colours with other colours.
Towels that are used outside the home (e.g. football showers) are washed after every single use, but it's usually just once a week anyway, when they have a game.

Towels once or twice a week, sometimes more depending on my perceptions/tiredness levels. No set routine really. But def way more than the sheets!

tbh mostly I wait for things to appear dirty before I wash 'em. It's only on MN I've come across this "pre-emptive" style of laundry

at preemptive laundry!

Towels I do 3 uses max and they dry in the airing cupboard between uses. Everyone has an individual towel. Kids barley use theirs as they are great believers in running round naked after a bath air drying.

I think for me it is not so much a fear of germs as they start to look and feel and smell not fresh after a week and I'm aware of that fact. It doesn't bother me if it runs on for any reason. It's not really that people who change it frequently think there will be consequences in the form of disease, it's just that it's not pleasant. No one thinks anything will happen if they don't.

I don't drop down with some illness if I don't shower every day, but I feel better if I do and I like to. That's all there is to it really.

Full bed set every 3 days. I love clean sheets. The crisp cotton of a newly made bed is sooo lovely. If I had servants I would have my bed changed every day.

I sleep in my knickers so like to feel the crisp cotton (and not sweaty, snory dh) next to my skin.

It takes me about 10 mins to change the bed, and hour to wash the duvet covers etc in the washing machine while I drink tea and read the paper, an hour to dry in the tumble dryer (ditto) and 10 mins to iron the bedding.

Time well spent for the pleasure I get.

Once a year if I remember. New year, new sheets

Are DH and I the on ones who prefer their bed a bit "slept in" I don't really like very fresh bed linen except in hotels.

Holy crap I probably do mine once a quarter.

I'm wondering if fabric softener is to blame for the fresh feel not lasting?

I used to feel like bedding was only fresh the first night on. Then I stopped using fabric softener and started using white vinegar instead. My bed feels totally fresh for days. I think fabric softener goes stale.

I could not be arsed with that. No way, no how.

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I'm quite shocked that most people seem to wait 2 weeks I really thought weekly was the "norm". "

Ha ha. Thinking back to my childhood, it was more like once every 6 months and I'm not just talking about my family.