Duvets!

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Gorgeous weather today, so spring (autumn) cleaned our bedroom, new feather duvet & pillows ready for the colder weather.
My old feather quilt looked absolutely disgusting in colour in comparison to the new one! 😳
Be honest, how often do you buy a new duvet?

I'm amazed people can fit big duvets in a domestic washing machine!

Cost of dry cleaning is about the same cost of buying a new one in the sale. (Though I have a super expensive one on our king size bed that would be cheaper to dry clean)

@BumfuzzledMum If you care about the environment as you seem to, how can you possibly justify this? Not sure the "offset" works when that is still a totally unnecessary way of doing things. Even every 3 years would be better than that!

Honestly can't remember last time I bought a new one but probably somewhere between 10-20 years ago. Wash it at launderette (very) occasionally. It goes in a duvet cover so don't really care if it's grubby 🤷‍♀️

Well, some of these make me feel a bit better 😂
I’ve had mine 12 of so years…. Too big to go in a washing machine, but have taken it to be laundered a couple of times, pleased I’m not the only one to have had it so long!

Watched 4 in a Bed yesterday and a guest was whining about the quilt being old. Tried to recall how old mine is. It's goose down and about 28 years old. Still feels good to me. Shocked me though . Will be keeping it.

I can't believe how many people have different duvets for each season. We have one for all.
Also wondering what gargantuan washing machines people have, mine can't even fit a single duvet in never mind king size.

I've had a wool duvet for eleven years, used year round. It's not been washed or dry cleaned in that time. It's not stained or obviously dirty and it looks much the same as when I bought it and it doesn't smell. I think one of the selling points of wool is that it's naturally anti house dust mite and anti microbial.

We never would have a feather one ever . ( story we heard put us off for life) I won't say as so many own such.
We have had various ones over the years. Had a lovely baavet wool one which was expensive and lasted ages until Dd being kind took it to the dry cleaners when we were on holiday and it shrank badly. Apparently it was not dry cleanable. We now just buy nothing to expensive as due to illness dh sweats a lot in bed. They get refreshed and reused for bedding sick animals (shelters are usually happy to take them )

I work for a retail company and you would be surprised how much bedding we sell on a daily basis. It’s like some people must replace all their bedding all at once . We sell A LOT of duvets . Some days it’s like we are supplying a hotel lol .

I'd also like to point out I have eiderdowns from the 1920's in daily use - they get washed a couple of times a year

So that's a 100 years old...

Unbelievable that anyone would throw things like this out

Our block has a communal laundry in the basement, with commercial machines that take loads far bigger than domestic ones, so a duvet or mattress topper fits no problem.
I bought a weighted blanket last year though, which I love, but still have to google washing instructions - always use a cover, but feel it probably needs to be washed.

I have an all seasons duvet, so like a PP a 9 tog one and a 4.5 tog one. They were bought in 2009. When I swap them over twice a year, the one I've just removed goes to the launderette to be washed. Both show no signs of wearing out any time soon, no bunching of the filling, no rips or tears. One does have a small pink stain thanks to a nail polish accident.

I’ve got feather ones that I wash regularly and they fit in the machine. I’ve got cheaper man made that I air on the line every few weeks but have to be washed in the laundrette. I did turn one that was weed on in the winter in to dog bed because I could only wash part of it due to it not fitting in washer and the laundrette being closed

Is it bad that I didn't know that washing duvets was a thing?!
Ours get aired out a few times a year. We have a summer and a winter duvet. As long as the bedding gets washed regularly surely the duvet is fine? I'm wondering if I should wash ours now!

Binning duvets every year/3 years? Is this a joke? I've a feather duvet on my spare room bed that came from my parents house, it's at least 40 years old. Its really warm.

If you look after stuff it lasts. No wonder the planet is fucked & everyone's skint if people are chucking stuff after a year.

Bubblepond it's a thing for the kind of people who wash towels after one use.

We have a 24h outdoor laundry nearby with a huge washer so we wash ours on occasion. We replace it about once a year with the old one going as dog bedding.

But that's synthetic materials, not feather. I can't stand feather duvets. They give me the heebie jeebies when touching them. Part disliking the feel and part childhood memories of staying at DGM's where I hated it. She had one.

Every 2 years, but wash it in between obviously. X

I'm not sure how old our feather duvet is. I do know that it's on to its third casing . Shop here that you can take them into and they will top up/ combine two into one, make new case/ whatever is required. It does also get washed each spring and then put away until the cold weather. We have a newish lightweight wool one that we use in the summer. If feather one ever goes to duvet heaven we will get a winter wool one.

@BumfuzzledMum

I will admit that I bin all our duvets in the late spring when I take them off for the summer. I’ve learned that washing them makes them go to shit (same with pillows). Buy new cheapish ones every Autumn.

We rarely fly, recycle everything (duvets are taken to the recycling centre) and drive zero emission cars so that kind of offsets it!

Surely you could donate to charity, rather than adding to landfill?

I don't tend to change my duvets unless they go all thin or lumpy. We still use a flat sheet though, so the duvet (which is in its own washable cover) rarely touches us. Definitely not on the top of my list of things to spend money on.

My all seasons duvet (4.5 & 9 togs) is at least 15 years old and going strong. I see no reason to replace it yet!

I feel no shame at all to say that I bought a costly down duvet cover 29 years ago and it is still being used every winter on my bed. I have it dry cleaned every spring and it comes back puffy and like new. I have no intention of replacing it.

We have a 4.5 tog down double for summer and a 4.5 tog down king for winter. They get washed and dried when we change over. We have a 9kg load washing machine so even the big one fits in. We’ll keep them until they fall to pieces, I don’t believe in chucking things when they’re still useful.

Oops 20 year ago!