to ask how often you wash your curtains?

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Mine are put in with the towels and bedsheets on their annual wash.

AIBU to be minging?

I think I did the living room curtains when we moved, (8 years ago). None of the others have ever needed it.

Never. You shouldn't wash them.

I can't reach mine to get them down: will they be full of dust mites and fungus?

I will wash them when they look dirty. So far, never.

To some extent it depends how near the road you live. We live on a relatively quiet road but with no front garden. The net curtains soak up the road dust so they genuinely do need washing - ideally more than the once a year I give them. The back window curtains don't get nearly so dirty.

If you lived on a main road then unless you had treble glazing at the front that you never ever opened your curtains would get properly filthy.

Never washed them 30 years old

Never they would shrink/ disintegrate. They are not made from washable fabrics.
They are hoovered every 2 months though.

"Mine are put in with the towels and bedsheets on their annual wash."

I hope the towels and bedsheets are done more often than annually!

My family live close to a Next seconds shop so when I visit I buy new curtains at a ridiculous price for my French doors (only curtains in the house). Saves any washing and it's good to ring the changes. Btw ridiculous price = less than £25 for 60 x 90s