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?

I fail to see where my sheets are dirty from one day to the next, particularly as we are on pjs.

What do you value about freshly cleaned sheets? Is it the smell? The crispness?
The smell is mostly chemicals. Nothing to do with cleanliness.

Oh crap, I have no steam mop, will go out tomorrow and purchase one, in the mean time my hot breath will have to do.

FGS, just make different beds and switch between them every hour during the night.
Although making the bed with 8 sets of sheets and peeling off might work too.

Hot breath? Bacteria? [Faints]

Lweji, I made this point oooooh around 448 posts ago. I do not wash my coat more than once every 6 months, because I actually wear clothes underneath it. (Perhaps flashers wash their coats more often). I fail to see how the bed gets that dirty if you're wearing PJ's unless having sex every night.

Surely it only takes a few minutes to take off covers, bung them in the machine, then tumble drier/hang up and put another cover back on?

I do them weekly, but would do twice a week if I had a housekeeper.

I wear pjs and wash daily. I don't think I get the sheets very dirty after 8 hours sleep. Also, whilst I quite like absolutely fresh sheets, I don't like them so much that I'm going to attempt that much washing.

If doing the sheets was all we had to do, or cared to do.

Weekly works fine, although I often don't if I don't see the need for it. Pillow cases are changed, though.

*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.*

Or have a tumble dryer, and get them washed and dried within 1.5 hours.

And a massive washing machine. To do ours and the DCs takes three loads.

a few minutes

1 double bed:
4 minutes to strip bed (1 min pillows, 1 min sheet, 2 min duvet)
2 min to walk to washing machine (it's a long way in my house)
2 min to put in machine, set machine, put in washing powder
5-7 min to hang out (remove from machine, carry upstairs, attempt to extract pillow cases from somewhere very deep inside the duvet cover, wrangle with duvet to get it straight so it can be hung nicely, wrangle with drier as it topples over).
3 min to fold and transfer to radiator to fully dry out
2 min to put away
5-10min to put on fresh covers (find ones that match in cupboard, 1 min, sheet 1 min, pillows 1 min EACH always struggle to get my large pillows into small pillowcases, duvet cover 5 min (it's kingsize)

TOTAL:
Minimum 23 minutes, Maximum 30 minutes

And that's without small children 'helping'.

Right all you lazy non weekly washers. The sun was out today. No excuses for those freshly laundered sheets not to have been drying beautifully on the line by 8am this morning. But me no buts, bring me no excuses about your lack of tumble dryer or your high bacteria tolerance.
Slatterns!

No way. Sundays are a lie in until 10am (festering in dirty sheets).

2 min to walk to your washing machine? Do you live in Downton Abbey? My goodness people can run half a mile in that timeframe. My washer is in the cellar - I timed 15 seconds at a leisurely pace.

As to scent -no, I use 7th Generation scent-free. Not concerned about skin flakes, oils, dust mites etc. But I like the feel and crispness of newly washed sheets.

If one does not, one needn't bother, eh?

"The sun was out today. No excuses for those freshly laundered sheets not to have been drying beautifully on the line by 8am this morning."

It was perfect window cleaning weather today, but instead I went to the bay. I have no regrets, it was like being on holiday for a day. You can get up early to wash your sheets if you want, I have life-enhancing things to do.

MerryMarigold you haven't included drying time, which for someone living in a flat is time of hanging around in a humid, unhealthy environment.

Used to be once a week without fail. Im too tired, work full time and putting quilt cover on and,fitted sheet drives me nuts. Its now once a fortnight
I do bath every night before bed and wear pyjamas

iwouldgoout love it

merrymarigold so true about finding the pillowcase

Tumble driers are v expensive to run and mine makes things very creased!!

Yes merry , you should run

For the clean sheets' sake and to maintain the argument laundry is a 5m job

Hope your lifestyles choices aren't "helping"

I work full time, have hobbies and kids with very demanding hobbies too, it takes me approx 7 mins to strip bed, put new bedding on and put old in washer. It then takes a further 5 to put wet washed sheets in tumble dryer or on line depending on weather. My 2 kids are 7 and 12 and they do their own. I will hang them out/put in tumble dryer for them. I don't get how people don't have 12 minutes spare a week you need to get your kids involved, single beds are easy peasy! If you choose not to do it that's a different Kettle of fish, your call. But to suggest only 'sad' people or those who 'have no job' can be arsed to change their bed sheets is just weird.

Did we establish what a'dust cover' for pillows was?!

Ivolunteer, you forgot to time the bringing them in, sorting them out (cause I at least don't wash a single lot of bedding all by itself), and putting it back on the bed. Another 12m?

And that's just one bed.

My kids are 4 and 6 and not that helpful (though they try)

I'm sure changing sheets is easy when you've got older kids (7 and 12). Less so when they're toddlers.

it takes me approx 7 mins to strip bed, put new bedding on and put old in washer

I see a new Olympic sport ahead. Washing and Changing Sheets on a Bed. I give you the Single Bed Challenge, the Double Bed Challenge and the Kingsize Challenge. All Challenges to include washing with other items (Dark sheets and light duvet covers which cannot be washed together), hanging out, bringing in, drying on radiator (or a last bit of tumbling if rads are off in early Autumn, which is the worst time to dry clothes), and folding/ putting away.

I most certainly will not win, but I'd love to see what the World Record is, and who holds it. I bet this is a Sport the Brits could win. Yay, an extra medal.

Having older children who help is a disqualification matter though I'm afraid.