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?

Well good for them, give them a fucking medal.

i dont iron sheets and i dont do anything to stop them looking crap. I leave them looking crap, but tbh, the wrinkles all go away by themselves after the first 2 or 3 weeks on the bed

First day of line drying today ( Liverpool ) it looks lovely!!
Long may it continue...

Do you really Lea? Is not something I've ever discussed with anyone outside of MN. I actually don't know how often my dsis changes her sheets, never mind pals.

I did bring up the plastic sponge thing with her once after s thread here and it turned out she did occasionally throw it in the wash but I've never brought up sheets.

Would have to agree my own speed depends on my "helpers"

I think I should be given a medal from Greenpeace, for protecting the environment by using less water, less electricity and less cleaning products.

People who wash sheets weekly should be taxed or something.

I can see a sheet ban during a Summer drought.
As in: wash only if peed, vomited or sexed on.

Please. Having a child is an Eco-disaster, esp a child raised in a western consumer society. Any other day-to-day lifestyle choices pale by comparison.

Those who like to wallow in the same sheets for weeks or months on end aren't saving the environment by doing so. Especially if they have produced offspring.

I have high efficiency washer that can just as easily do two sets of bedding in the same cycle as one set, so my conscience is clear. And my overall lifestyle creates a far lighter footprint than most of my socio-economic peers. I look forward to my crisp, cool sheets tonight.

Having a child is an eco disaster????? Is a life style choice more blameworthy than clean sheets every few days? Think I've heard it all now

Clearly we should all die off instead. Much better for the planet.

Would stop all the sheet changing arguments too.

Just to let you know, I washed the sheets today. See you in two weeks.

Clearly we should all die off instead. Much better for the planet.

Well, yes. Except for all the rotting corpses.

TheCrumpettyTree

Me too. But had changed them yesterday.

I wash my sheets fortnightly, don't have a tumble dryer and have no children. I'm going to give myself an eco

Point is, preaching to others about minutia like washing sheets while choosing to balloon one's carbon footprint by adding to the 7 billion humans living now is the height of hypocrisy.

And yes, producing offspring is a lifestyle choice.

I know plenty of people with small children who nevertheless change sheets weekly.

I bet they're lying to you and their sheets are minging really.

I wash my sheets every week. Routine is stripping beds on Sunday morning. Clean sheets and duvet covers on. Washed bedding is ready for cleaner to iron on Monday.

If Dh is unwell he sweats like a horse, so sheets then can get changed nightly.

Kids are away every other weekend, so theirs get done fortnightly.

LeaLander

Point is, preaching to others about minutia like washing sheets while choosing to balloon one's carbon footprint by adding to the 7 billion humans living now is the height of hypocrisy.

Oh yes, and your comment below wasn't preachy at all

It seems to me if you were so OK with going weeks or months between washings, you wouldn't feel the need to lash out at those who wash more frequently.

I was thinking about this thread earlier as I ended up changing and washing our sheets and both DC's sheets today (wouldn't normally do them all at once but realised ours were getting a bit whiffy, DS wet the bed and DD had a nose bleed).

I've always thought I'm quite an organised person but I can't get my head around how it's possible to wash all bedding every week. All I seemed to do today was move damp sheets around between washing line, radiators, airing cupboard, trying to get them dry.

People who do it weekly must surely:

1. Not work full time
2. Live somewhere where it's not likely to rain half an hour after you've put the washing out
3. Have a very adventurous sex life.

Reading that back, I want to be you

Iwouldgoouttonight

Get with it, it's all about daily washing now, weekly washing is so last century.

(I love that song btw!)

Or work full time but be organized, energetic and value clean sheets.

Daily?? WTF?

I set myself an alarm for 2am so I can change mine half way through the night. Can't abide sheets that have been slept on for more than three hours.

Or work full time but be organized, energetic and value clean sheets.

Ahh thats where I go wrong then. Work full time, but no energy left as a single parent, which leads to not having the energy to give a fuck about changing the sheets every week. What a failiure. Never mind.

iwouldgoout, at the lifestyle choices of not working f/t, living somewhere warm (and dry) and having an active sex life! I fulfill only one of them which is possibly why I go so long between changing sheets!

Love how long this thread has lasted. Can we start one about how often people wash the inner part of their duvets?

Slattern, I set my alarm clock for 1 am. I might start sleeping on the floor, then they won't get dirty at all.

You can wash the inner part of the duvet???

Ah, but Vulcan, then you will have to wake up at 1am and steam mop your floor.