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?

Lea

Have you been to a laundrette? It is such a hassle lugging stuff there, then so boring to sit there and wait, then lug it home again. However my flat was it would be marginally preferable for the place to look like laundrette than actually go to one. Especially weekly! What a waste of time!

I do sometimes send all mine out. Pricey though, £10 for a load. So don't do it much. That's a pick up at the door and bring it back all clean and folded price btw. Bliss!

The burrito method of changing the duvet cover was a revelation. It's so much easier!

All these people who obsess about sweat and skin - why don't you change the sheets every day? Or even half way through the night? Surely a little sweat and skin is as bad as a lot?

I'm sitting here quietly and not admitting anything :-). :-)

That means it's either once a day or once a year.

MissRabbitHasTooManyJobs I also think it's fascinating to read about other peoples lives. Whatever our differences may be it's still interesting to me, is also a bit like therapy

Totally agree with you Rabbit!

Pipbin That made me giggle!

You're supposed to take the duvet off every morning to air the sheet and the duvet

Portuguese lady across the street from us puts her pillows up on the window-sill, with window open, first thing every morning. Don't know what she does with the duvet, though.

It's not a Portuguese trait, I assure you.

Although I always pull the sheets back to let the bed dry properly. The same work as making the bed immediately, but healthier.

Changing my bedding is one of the most difficult blooming housework tasks I do (disabled), so I do it every two weeks for pillows and sheets, and monthly for a duvet.

With a visual/sniff check in between, so if it looks dirty or smells bad and it's before the usual cleaning times, I'll do it.

I tend to use a lot of blankets rather than the duvet nightly, I have five or six double blankets in rotation, they are easier to wash and dry, so I manage them better.

Kids duvets are a weekly/fortnightly thing depending on how often they stay with me. Towels get used maybe two to three times and hung up/dried on radiator between.

There's a balance to be found between EW DIRT and OW LIMBS, it takes me an hour to change bedding, with extra time in between for rest stops (where I have to lie down panting until the pain stops and I'm not longer at risk of fainting).

In the interests of science, this thread, and spring cleaning, I have just vacuumed my mattress (with the small brush reserved for furniture.) Man that's a lot of skin cells. Evidently it's the sort of job that needs doing frequently, or not at all.

Such a shame you can't get a mattress in a dishwasher.

oh, you can get a mattress in a dishwasher. just take the racks out.

It's not a Portuguese trait, I assure you

Probably Spanish then. She's been there over a year and keeps herself very much to herself. We have only spoken once!

Dammit, I missed a trick there exwife.

My boarding school changed sheets once every half term unless you soiled them.
at the memory.

As well as the bunk beds aspect of it, the really tedious part is removing 20+ cuddly toys from each child's bed, then replacing them all at the end.

These details should have been factored into how many children I had. I didn't think that one through.

I never wash my bedding, just turn it inside out and put back on. Job done.

I alternate and do different peoples at different times.

Ds2 absolutely stinks in bed and his have to be done every few days.
Dd is once a month as she is hardly here.
Me and dh every 2 weeks.

We change bedding and towels every two or three weeks. I don't actually count. Just when they look grubby or don't feel fresh. I was brought up in a household with well water that sometimes got low in summer and septic tanks. I've grown up thinking about how much water I'm using/wasting.

I am definitely not OCD when it comes to housework. Weirdly my stables are spotless, there is definite OCD about them.

Going back to the launderette questions. I can't think where there even is one around here anymore, the two I knew have shut down in the last decade. I've spent many a boring day at them while a student, queueing for machines and praying that my most boring knickers wouldn't stay at the front of the viewing window in the dryers (the swines always did!).

It's not a Portuguese trait, I assure you

Probably Spanish then.

She may well be Portuguese. It's just not something that most of us do. Or anyone I know, actually.

When we first moved to Portugal we had a maid every day in our rental villa, and she used to open the shutters and Windows and air the pillows on the windowsill

I would like to do it weekly but just can't find the time and always have so much other washing to do. So it's more like every 2-3 weeks and I don't think it smells or is particularly dirty.

In my job I see people who are genuinely filthy living in awful housing conditions. Changing our beds every 2-3 weeks isn't going to worry me!

Have not RTFT but those who don't iron bedsheets may I please ask what you do to stop them looking like crap? I tend to buy 100% cotton with high thread count but even after a tumble dry it all looks like it's been crimped 80's stylie. Do you all buy polycotton or am I missing a trick?

YoungGirlGrowingOld I don't iron my sheets - thought of it makes me feel tired (DC and DH ironing is enough as it is). As soon as sheets are washed I hang them out straight, flattening out creases, then I fold them carefully before storing away so they don't get crumpled. So when I take the sheets back out some of the fold lines are there but they come out after the first night of use.

I line dry sheets.