To air the bedsheets?

[RocketAndAFuckingMelon]

Settle a not-very-contentious argument between me and DP.

I think that once sheets have been taken off the bed, washed and dried, they should be aired, and the bed remade with the other set of sheets. Then the aired ones go back on the following week.

DP thinks you can take them off, wash and dry them and put them straight back on the bed, so that the other set of sheets just sits forlornly in the sheets basket forever.

YANBU - of course sheets need to be aired for a week and the other set used, only a barbarian would think otherwise.

YABU - why waste energy folding sheets when you could just put them straight back on the bed toasty warm from the dryer?

Air for a week? Maybe an hour or two

What is the "airing" meant to be doing exactly? What benefit do aired sheets have that non-aired ones don't?

What is 'aired'?

Surely you wash, dry, put away?

How do you air a sheet? Isn't that what you would say if it was line dried?

They only need to “air” if they’ve been line dried and may be a little damp. Even then not for the week.

I think 'airing' sheets was only needed in the days before tumble dryers

YABU and he's right!

What do you mean aired? You tumble dry them and then hang them up somewhere for a week? Doesn’t that take up space? We don’t have a tumble dryer and hanging bed linen up to dry in winter is really annoying, they come down as soon as they’re dry.

I don’t know why you’d need to air sheets that have been freshly washed and dried. Although given that we don’t have a tumble dryer, we always put a new set of sheets on, because the old set won’t have dried in time, so we do it your way but not by design.

I air ours, always have done- not for a week though.

I think you're both bonkers. Seriously bed. Remake with fresh sheets, get all the hard work done in one hit. Wash, dry and store previous sheets at your leisure

Not 'seriously bed.' strip bed

I thought this was about airing the bedsheets on the bed when you get up ie fold duvet right back and not make the bed until later in the day. Which is correct.

But drying IS airing them...

By a aired do you just mean stored folded in the airing cupboard or do you mean left to hang unfolded for a whole week?

#teamdp

I'm with you on the airing (though things only need airing overnight in the airing cupboard, not a week) but only for line dried stuff. I learned this from my mother, who didn't have a tumble dryer.

However, the tumble dryer gets sheets so dry they are fine to go straight back on the bed, and that's what my adult DC do.

Old habits die hard with me though, I air everything tumble dried or not.

@Nosnogginginthekitchen

I think you're both bonkers. Seriously bed. Remake with fresh sheets, get all the hard work done in one hit. Wash, dry and store previous sheets at your leisure

All of this.

Surely 'airing' is hanging on the line or elsewhere - not folded? I only wash bedding on nice dry, blowy days - otherwise the old set goes into the basket to wait.

If I do wash the bedding and it dries in time I'll pop the freshly washed ones back on as they smell so nice and fresh. If the set I washed is still damp in the evening I'll use another. Nothing is unloved in the drawer for long!

Where do you 'air' the sheets for a whole week? Do you live somewhere sunny where they are on a outside clothes line for an entire week (with spider willies in them!) or leave them hanging inside the house somewhere???

I just alternate. Old sheets stripped and other set on. Then they can be washed, dried and stored during the week.
Following Saturday morning: repeat.

@NotImpossible

Surely 'airing' is hanging on the line or elsewhere - not folded? I only wash bedding on nice dry, blowy days - otherwise the old set goes into the basket to wait.

If I do wash the bedding and it dries in time I'll pop the freshly washed ones back on as they smell so nice and fresh. If the set I washed is still damp in the evening I'll use another. Nothing is unloved in the drawer for long!

This is exactly what I do.

I don't air sheets particularly. I do, however, have half a dozen sets of bedding so when I strip the bed I just remake it with a different set a bit later. The washed set goes away in the cupboard at the bottom of the pile.

I have 3 sets, one on one wash one on, so white grey birdsz.... this week is birds, next week grey goes on and birds is washed and dried and then white goes on...

In summer there is nothing better than sheets dried on the line and put back on the bed the same day.
If I put the sheets in the airing cupboard for a week after they've been on the line then they smell like the airing cupboard not like the outside. (They still smell nice, but not naice)

Your DH is a Barbarian for believing that the other sheets don’t deserve their turn. The sheets that have just been washed need to learn to take a back seat sometimes but they are being a bit precious thinking they need a whole week to recover from being used.

I'm one of the dinosaurs who one dries the stores the sheets in the airing cupboard for a week where the heat from the hot water tank completes the drying. I imagine a tumble dryer would make this unnecessary but having to wait until the sheets are washed and dried before you can finish making the bed sounds irritating.

´airing’ as in spend a week in the airing cupboard. I think your dp is technically right but you win because really this is about wanting to rotate the sheets.