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To think changing bedsheets once a week is ott

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Moomoomango · 10/03/2016 05:39

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?

OP posts:
Gabilan · 14/03/2016 21:24

Standard double and I find duvets quite easy. I just don't want to evict the residents.

To think changing bedsheets once a week is ott
wiltingfast · 14/03/2016 22:16

King here I find duvet ok, the mattress is a bitch though. Too thick, total pain, had to buy super king sheets in the end Shock

Ooh look a Star

Pipbin · 14/03/2016 22:55

King sized here which I don't find a problem.
I have help.

DrHarleenFrancesQuinzel · 14/03/2016 23:02

I change my sheets once a week, but thats only cos there's nothing I like more than getting a nice bath, clean PJs and into a nice clean bed. Every Sunday I do ours.

There once was a time when I went weeks if not months between changes Blush and I didnt explode or die

each to their own

wiltingfast · 15/03/2016 09:05

A lot of helpful cats on this thread Grin

LumelaMme · 15/03/2016 09:32

Once a fortnight. Vile boring job only made bearable by getting into a lovely clean bed.

I do the inside-out corner trick with the duvet, and I've written all over the almost-but-not-quite-square duvet so I know which edges are the sides and which the ends. That has saved some swearing over the years.

Gabilan · 15/03/2016 09:53

Who wants to come in with me on my Black Cat Laundry Service? We could take it to Dragons Den.

Lweji · 15/03/2016 09:55

Not me. All mine does is fill the sheets with black hair. (yesterday)

MissRabbitHasTooManyJobs · 16/03/2016 06:15

My ginger mog has been banned from the bedroom due to hair issues!!
He just moves and it flies off, he's almost 18 and the sod still acts like he's a kitten Grin

BarbaraofSeville · 16/03/2016 06:38

Haven't RTFT but I see the cat pics and say that many a time I go to change the sheets and one of the cats is asleep on the bed and I think fuck it, I'll do it later. Sometimes it is quite a challenge finding the bed cat free.

I also feel the need to point out that there is another thread running now in AIBU where the OP sends hers out at a cost of £115 pw.

limitedperiodonly · 16/03/2016 21:06

I don't hoover when the cat is asleep BarbaraofSeville. That doesn't give me a lot of scope.

I'm going to search that £115 a week thread because my husband does it much cheaper. He gets trade rates though.

loosechange · 17/03/2016 17:40

OK. So courtesy of MN I vacuumed the mattresses yesterday. Not sure what I was expecting, but there was no great change. Might be as they are primary school children with mattresses under three year olds, but I was morbidly expecting gore! Shall drop my expectations for when I do mine.

NightWanderer · 18/03/2016 10:13

Ah, but did you time yourself loosechange?

loosechange · 18/03/2016 17:56

Bugger! I shall have to go back and do them again. Grin

millimat · 18/03/2016 19:41

loosechange feel free to time yourself doing my sheets instead!

MissRabbitHasTooManyJobs · 19/03/2016 06:49

I posted earlier in thread about changing my dc bedding 3 times a week.
Realised that it wasn't because it was dirty but just looked creased.
So.... Have taken a MN tip and ironed the bedcovers whilst they're on and it takes 2 mins!
I'm so proud that they're being changed today with mine, once a week.
It's a small step but massive for me...

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