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 change bedding and towels every week, and give the bedroom a nice air out and once over with the hoover at the same time. Don't wear PJs so less ironing there. Bollocks to ironing any of it though!
(unless we have guests... Guests get ironed bedding so it looks like we make effort all the time, and we actually bother to put PJs on for the good of their eyes )

If I had staff and / or a proper laundry room then weekly certainly.

As it's just me and I have no tumbledryer in addition to little enough drying space as it is, probably every 3 weeks. I remember as a student we had nowhere to dry bedding so we used to hang it from the bannisters!

Sheets towels and pyjamas changed at every equinox.

Iron is for fancy going-out clothes or the odd summer blouse.

I cannot be arsed want to help the environment. I couldn't give one shiny shit what others do or don't do. These threads are an eye opener!

Every two weeks here

And just to make the germaphobes cringe even more, I sleep totally naked as well.

We do ours fortnightly if I remember. When our cleaner starts it will be one of the things they do.

The bed gets aired before it gets made every day.

I like to do ours once a week/10 days, but we are now in a house with no tumble drier for the moment (and can't dry outside with this weather!) so I can only do one set a day, so that is three days of bedding hanging all over the house. And only if there is no other laundry hanging up to dry.

So I will change the pillow cases at least weekly, possibly bottom sheets if not much laundry that day and they dry very quickly, but the duvet cover will have to be very two weeks as I just can't do it any more often right now.

We all go to bed clean and yes, I am sure we do sweat and so on, shed skin, but I can't stand it all hanging all over the house the whole time.

I ask the cleaner to change ours every fortnight. Presumably since I'm not the one doing it I could just ask her to change them more often, but I don't really see the need.

AFAIK, hospital bedding is changed weekly if the bed is occupied by the same patient (obviously changed and bed, mattress etc cleaned on discharge). But then the bed is typically occupied for most of the day, so I reckon every fortnight at home is fine.

YANBU as they are your sheets so I can't get too het up over them.

I change ours once a week and I would do it more frequently if I had time. Nothing is nicer at the end of a long day than a hot shower and getting into a clean fresh bed.

I'm not a germophobe I just like things to be clean and smell nice. That isn't weird.

My mother's cleaner also cleaned for another family of FIVE who insisted the sheets were changed ......every day! (She no longer works there )

We do ours every 2 weeks. So does everyone I know. Never thought it was in any way weird.

But I cannot get hung up on germs, I am currently sitting with the cat letting her lick my hands.

When I was nursing we changed beds every day not every week.

Every 2-3 weeks bedding & towels, more often if they seem dirty. Beds are aired every day & towels hang on a heated towel rail.

Always change the beds before we go away so we come back to fresh linen. If we have an early flight I change them the night before so they're only slept in once.

Hospital beds are changed every day.

YANBU

I can't imagine changing all the beds every weekend. Fuck dat shit!

Plus all that washing is bad for the environment.

Every 2 weeks here - it's ample

If you live in a house with either a utility room, a tumble dryer or outside drying space (or all three) then weekly is easy.

If you live in a tiny flat with nothing but a clothes airer squashed into the corner and a washing machine with a very small capacity (think a double duvet cover alone being a full load) then weekly isnt really feasible.

Hospital beds are changed every day

No they aren't. Not routinely in children's anyway.

Every time I've been in hospital I've had the sheets changed every day, even when I was bedbound

I change mine when I think they need it. Life is too short for doing it weekly. None of us suffer from allergies, or seem to get ill very often.

They certainly are on my wards.

Hospital beds are changed every day

My DP spent 8 months last year in 3 different London hospitals. Unless requested, sheets were changed weekly.

Which London hospitals were these? I would certainly like to say something, that's really not on. I am from one of the London trust.

mine are more like every 9 days depending on OH work pattern. Never goes to 2 weeks' now but I think that is fine if it did.