To think it’s unhygienic to change bedding every six weeks?

[Lycidas]

Had this discussion with SiL. She insists we can do it fortnightly because we only have one DC (they have three), and it’s too much effort to do it more often with so many beds to change. Pillowcases do get changed weekly. She’s obsessive about cleanliness in most other domestic areas so it’s quite surprising to me...

I so couldn't care less.

seriously 'wtttttaaafff' that people don't change their bedding weekly?!

ewww - you've sweated and skinned all over the sheets! minging

The less often I clean them the more special it is getting into a freshly laundered bed. Every couple of months at the most often.
I sleep on my own, no one else knows or cares.

I wash every 1-2 weeks. I'm sure I've gone through busy periods where it's been left for 4 weeks. I think it's fine.. People are too obsessed with hygenie these days. World won't end and as a PP said, not like you work in the coal mines. I do love the feeling of fresh clean sheets ..

I don’t have figures to back this up, but am going to conservatively guess that at least quarter of the people in the world ( i decking more like half) don’t have easy access to a washing machine.

It’s not unhygienic to not wash sheets all the time ffs

Our bedding is changed about every 3 weeks or when our wonderful cleaner gets to it.

I do change our pillow cases more often as I do think those get manky fairly quickly (and I may or may not drool in my sleep)

Change yours more regularly then - your bed your rules. Not sure anyone else's bed is your business though. Do you ask people how often they change their underwear?

I'm in the 'can't see the problem with 6 weeks' corner, as long as it doesn't smell bad... I try to do it once a month but it probably gets to six weeks a lot too.

Also hardly ever ill, last fever must've been about 14 years ago. And no allergies either.

Plus better for the environment (wave to the person wondering where the eco people are - here!).

Human animals sweat whilst sleeping

Human animals sweat whilst sleeping

That will be disputed by some on MN!

I only wash my sheets once a month. Sometimes once every three weeks.

@KatherineJaneway Is Prince Andrew on mn?!? I bet his staff change his skanky sheets daily.

Once a week for us, everything less is gross.

Id rather be gross than obsessive and make unnecessary housework

Once a week in our house.

When I was younger it used to be fortnightly.
I think every 6 weeks is really poor but just my opinion.

When I was a student there was a boy in my halls who left it for 12 weeks once 🤢

I definitely live there too. No issues and don't bath my child every night to the horror of some MN's

My sister even irons her sheets, who has fucking time for that madness.

@Alicesweewonders I bathe my 16 month old 3 times a week - you're not alone!

I’m sure that in some time in the future when I’m not working and commuting and out of the house 12 hours a day I will be changing my sheets weekly. When you roll in at 8.00pm the priority is dinner and not sheets quite frankly.

I don't keep track! More often in the summer when it's easier to dry the bastarding stuff. It's two tumble dryer loads, plus airing on the bannisters in the winter otherwise it balls up and stays wet in the middle and the sensors lie about it being dry.

It gets washed if there's a particular need such as after illness, sweatiness, or it's just been some time and goes stale/ grubby, but the bed is frequently aired and we wear pyjamas. We survive healthily enough with the bedding, the sofa and carpets up to 30 years old, and we still have frienships and no one visibly recoils in our presence

Change them often with adults and adolescents, but small children? Really? They are not sweaty beasts who have sex

I just don't get why what other humans do in their own home and which has zero impact on your life is worthy of being bothered about?

Every 1-2 weeks here. I change my pillow case a lot more often because I have oily skin so I turn it over and then change it every other day. But to each their own.

How often do you lunatics people who wash your sheets a lot wash your duvets. Unless you do them as often they are manky and disgusting because sweat and particles of dirt and germs deep through the cover and contaminate it. I do mine twice a day.

I’m one of the heathens here, probably change every 6-8 weeks, obviously change if anyone ill or an urgent need but that’s when they start to feel unfresh to me. What’s going to happen to us?! I have too much else to do, to be changing sheets every bloody week! Who made that the rule?

Twice a week but I accept this is unnecessary and more to do with a)me enjoying fresh bedding, b) having a tumble dryer and c) being a SAHM