AIBU to ask how often you change bedsheets?

[BeHappyAndSmile]

I have a friend who does it every other day! This seems wayyyyy too much for me, once a week is the maximum as far as I'm concerned (unless it's children's sheets and there's been accidents obviously) and more frequently it ends up being once a fortnight

So people of mumsnet, how long do you leave it?

@Nanalisa60

Every Sunday all the bedding, Six pillow cases, duvet cover, and fitted sheet. On Wednesday I change the two pillow cases we sleep on all night and the fitted sheet.

I often put on fresh cases between full changes, too.

Those who say sheets are clean because they shower before bed: we all sweat at night even if we think we don't.

@HoppingPavlova

When there are too many crumbs, weird stains or they smell. So several weeks at times. Same for the kids, I’ll ask them to chuck them in the wash and air doona’s/blankets once a smell starts emanating out of their rooms. We all change our pillowcase if we have washed hair that day though.

Will add no one has ever had a health problem, no skin issues and I’ve worked in acute services for way too many years and never once had someone ill due to unwashed bedsheets. The occasional case of absolute neglect with an elderly or disabled person who had been lying in their waste for long periods amongst other things but never anyone with just routinely dirty bedsheets.

It's not a question of health.

But waiting until things smell to think of washing them wouldn't work for me.

A friend helps an elderly academic couple with their shopping... She was shocked that the woman of the couple sleeps in a double bed, one half of which is piled with boxes of heavy, dusty books

Tbh I aim for this lifestyle

Every Saturday. In winter we have lovely cosy flannelette bedlinen which takes forever to dry, so we leave the bottom sheet a fortnight, and just do pillowcases/duvet cover weekly.

Love getting into a fresh bed!

Once a week, unless someone is ill when I will change daily (just their sheets). It always makes me feel so much better when I have fresh sheets if I’m unwell.

Fortnightly. I remember watching that housekeeping programme with Kim and Aggie, and that's what they advised so I stuck to it 😂

Usually once a week, sometimes twice

Not often enough... 😬

Weekly.

Weekly, at the weekend

Every Sunday

@Thefaceofboe

The people who change bedding every day - do you work??

It only takes five minutes.

@Thefaceofboe

The people who change bedding every day - do you work??

Yes.

It takes 5 minutes to strip/load machine/& hang out

& 5 minutes later on to make it
(Mattress airs in the day).

10 minutes & SO worth it!

Every other day, just love the feel of fresh crispy linen

Every Saturday.

Weekly. I can't believe it when I read hotel reviews & people complain that the cleaner didn't change their bed daily, like they do it that frequently at home 🙄

@MJMG2015 - so your house only has one bed and you are superwoman with an alien washing machine which takes less than 5 minutes to wash your bedsheets?!

Weekly but only because I am trying to be more organised and on a bit of a drive

Before this recent conversion...........erm..........when I thought about it

WIth a houseful I'd be leaving it 2 weeks at least. It's just me and the husband mostly. King size bed - so it helps if there's 2 of us to change it.

Sheets take 3 hours in the machine - then you have to be home to hang them out or put in dryer. A full bed set takes a couple of hours in our dryer and you have to be there to change it over as a full bed set won't go in at once...

EO Saturday when my DDs at her dads, I do change her sheet and pillowcase. She takes her duvet to her dads but I change that in the week when she's at school

Weekly on a Monday. I might be changing ours sooner this week though, the one I put on yesterday feels too big for the thin summer duvet and I felt as if I was getting tangled up in the excess cover all night last night 😤

[quote Walkaround]@MJMG2015 - so your house only has one bed and you are superwoman with an alien washing machine which takes less than 5 minutes to wash your bedsheets?![/quote]

It takes me about five min to strip bed and carry linens to washer. One min to transfer to tumble dryer or five min to hang in garden.

Later, five min to remake bed. So 11-15 minutes.

As to multiple beds, each person should be able to do his own from age 10. With direction. We certainly did. It's not brain surgery.

Weekly in the summer and fortnightly (maximum) in the winter (normally on Mondays), simply because drying three sets of bedstuff indoors is a pain in the ass in winter. I tried rotating them during the week but it got too complex to remember on top of everything else.

Weekly here, because I try to do Team T.O.M.M.

@PerveenMistry - no, you’re right it isn’t! Brain surgery is only undertaken when necessary .