Personal and bedtime hygiene

[BloodyDisgrace]

An interesting (and surprising for me) fact transpired from an innocent and unrelated discussion about cats: some people change their bed linen weekly. How often do you change yours?

Is it related to how often you / your partner have a shower? How often do you wash?

I have 2 showers a day, husband - 1, and I don't change bedlinen more often than every 2-3 weeks.

[I don't know if it's strictly speaking AIBU, rather than "are we being dirty-cunted?" Please, dears, let's be respectful towards each other in this sensitive subject ;)]

DH changes bed linen when he can be arsed. He showers once a week, I shower every other day.

Depends! If just me sleeping in there, probably once a month as I shower every day and don't sweat. They still smell nice before I wash them but feel I should do it!

When DP is in the bed, every week is needed as he sweats a lot in the night.. he's one of those gross yellow sweat patch leavers and it STINKS! He showers every day too.

Oh and think it also depends if you sleep naked or not, I wear pjs so no crotch/arse on the sheets

Shower and wash hair daily in the morning for me and DH, cleanse make up off at night, DS (3.5) gets a bath daily in the evening and hair washed twice a week, a wioe over in the morning and I change all the sheets once a week or more in the hot weather. And I work full time .

Bath daily, change sheets weekly.

Shower daily, change sheets weekly.

Who has time to wash bedding sheets every day / every two days?

I'd like to do ours (double bed, both kids' bed and sofa bed) weekly but more often than not it's fortnightly if not more because I don't have the time, energy or inclination to get that fussed about it. Unless of course child has wet the bed or something.

Can't quite work up the self righteousness of some people who CAN'T BELIEVE people go to bed without washing. Do they then get up and dressed without washing? With all your bed sweat and stuff? I mean, each to their own, but I'm not really awake until I've had my morning shower. And if you're bathing before bed, does that mean you have clean sheets, otherwise you're just putting your clean body into the bed sheets that contain your sweat, skin cells, hair etc from the night before. Seems a bit bizarre to me...

I shower twice a day (when I get up because I like to feel fresh and then again after I run/gym) and change bedding once a week to ten days if it’s just been me sleeping in it or every time a partner stays over (I have more than one, and it’s only polite.)

As long as you don’t smell and are in agreement with anyone else sharing your bed that the sheets are fine, then I can’t see what it matters to anyone else. I might think it was a bit yuck if somebody said they left their sheets on for weeks but as long as I’m not sleeping there then it’s not my problem.

Whenever they seem like they're getting dirty. So a lot more recently since my very spitty baby has been crawling.

Shower every second day (dh every day) and change bedding every week. Did I see someone has sex 3/4 times a week? Wow, what's the secret?!!!!

Bathe once or twice a day,dh once a day.Change bedding once a week winter,twice on summer

Aha, pretty much what I thought: people who have 1 shower a day change bed linen weekly. No one said they shower twice a day though.

Sex towel? There was a post recently. (Never heard of it before, but we have a "massage towel": husband gives me massage on weekend mornings and I put the towel on the sheets to absorb oil and not stain it)

I shower every birthday and change my sheets when I buy a new bed.

I shower and wear clean pj's every evening.
Change my sheets approx every 3 weeks.

this has been done to death on MN but, as you're asking...

Shower every morning, shower or warm relaxing bath every night.
DH- shower am and pm.

Sheets changed every week. I sleep wearing a short nighty, DH wears nothing.

If I don't change the bedding more often the pillow slips get grubby and are hard to get white again. It's 100% white Egyptian cotton bedding.

Interesting to me that no one has really mentioned the weather! In the hot place I live in, you'd want to change the sheets more often in summer, a little less in winter...

And if you're bathing before bed, does that mean you have clean sheets, otherwise you're just putting your clean body into the bed sheets that contain your sweat, skin cells, hair etc from the night before. Seems a bit bizarre to me

No, you just have a shower/bath before bed and sleep in the sheets you have on that bed. You are making it sound like people are putting themselves in a ditch :) I am particularly disturbed by "skin cells" here.

Bath before bed, shower before work, bed sheets changed 2-3 weeks (but im single so only my own dirt and I bath before bed each night!)

Sorry, I'm new here and haven't read all the previous treatises on the subject.

on another level, being single and sleeping alone is relevant as my bed sees less sweat and other substances that couples may have in their bed so be less dirty if that makes sense

One real reason to change your bedding more often is dust mites feed on your dead skin which is all over your bedding. This can trigger allergies like asthma and eczema. Washing bedding at 60C kills them.

I don't understand people who don't shower or bathe before bed. All the day's dirt, sweat and grime is on you and your partner.

I change my bedding once a week usually a Friday when I wash my hair, I love the smell of fresh bedding and my cat also sleeps on my pillow!

I shower twice and day and my boyfriend showers once!

Threads like this always turn into competitive hygiene boasts. And who actually ploughs through all the individual posts on them anyway?

Every Saturday all beds are changed.