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Original poster

To air the bedsheets?

66 replies

RocketAndAFuckingMelon · 15/01/2022 21:55

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?

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RoseMartha · 15/01/2022 22:16

Well I strip dirty sheets etc off and put in the wash. Meanwhile I put the clean ones on that were in the drawer.

Washed ones are hung on a basic airer to dry. If damp next day I will stick them in the airing cupboard before ironing and then put in drawer for next time.

I wouldnt manage with one set as no tumble dryer or outside drying facilities.

I think he is bu, if you have more than one set alternate them.

CheeseCakeSunflowers · 15/01/2022 22:16

That should say, line drys.

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RocketAndAFuckingMelon · 15/01/2022 22:16

I don’t air the sheets for an entire week —even I’m not that bonkers—

My version is similar to nosnogginginthekitchen - strip bed, wash sheets, remake with fresh while washed ones dry. Then hang them over the airer for an hour or overnight. DP’s version is strip bed, wash and dry sheets, replace sheets.

I don’t think either of us are exactly wrong but she is adamant that sheets never need airing and for some reason I was taught they must be. Possibly because my parents didn’t have a drier.

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WhatDidISayAlan · 15/01/2022 22:16

My mum taught me to wash one, wear one, air one. So I have three sets for each bed.

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RocketAndAFuckingMelon · 15/01/2022 22:19

@Inastatus

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.
In proper Aibu style I’m going to ignore the rest of the thread in favour of this one comment that I fully endorse 😆
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elelel · 15/01/2022 22:24

Sometimes I put the same sheets back on and sometimes I put other sheets on. Depends how I feel. But I don't have an airer, is that one of those things you use to dry clothes in the house? Don't you just either use or put away once dry, why do you need to dry them again

SatinHeart · 15/01/2022 22:24

We don't have a tumble dryer so it often takes more than a day to get sheets washed and fully dried. Even of we did, it would be boring to just keep putting the same duvet set back on the bed?

godmum56 · 15/01/2022 22:25

yup, if line dried they need airing to dry completely, if tumble dried you just slap em back on

EBearhug · 15/01/2022 22:25

strip bed, wash sheets, remake with fresh while washed ones dry.

This.

The sheets I took off this morning aren't all dry yet. (I don't have a tumble dryer.) But in any case, I like to rotate them.

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RocketAndAFuckingMelon · 15/01/2022 22:25

@Diggersaursarethebest

´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.
Yes, I think it’s more about sheet rotation and I have pinned it on an entirely unjustifiable assertion about airing them.
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NotImpossible · 15/01/2022 22:26

In proper Aibu style I’m going to ignore the rest of the thread in favour of this one comment that I fully endorse

I like your style Grin

JabNotInArm · 15/01/2022 22:27

I air the bed. Strip in the morning, leave with sun and fresh air to get all the stank out then make it with another set of sheets in the evening. If I was using the same sheets again I'd just put them straight from the dryer thought. Why not?!

Luredbyapomegranate · 15/01/2022 22:28

You don’t need to sit them if they are dry. What would you do that for?? Confused they’ve just been washed..

Onthelowdown · 15/01/2022 22:28

I don’t wash the ones I’m taking off until the next week when they’re due to go back on. I don’t have a tumble dryer so launder either overnight Sat or on Sunday morning, pop onto the airers for a good few hours and then I strip the old, and make with the new immediately after. Old goes into the hamper until next weekend.

Bonbon21 · 15/01/2022 22:29

Strip bed. Wash everything. Turn matress. Dry everything. Make up bed with same ...clean .. bedding.

godmum56 · 15/01/2022 22:32

@Bonbon21

Strip bed. Wash everything. Turn matress. Dry everything. Make up bed with same ...clean .. bedding.
I have got a tempur mattress which you don't turn. Good job as it weights a TON
BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz · 15/01/2022 22:32

In my house it goes:
8.30am - strip the beds (all 3) in a smug manner of "Getting Shit Done"
7pm - take the kids to bed and remember I've not put fresh sheets on. Quickly fix while chuntering under my breath
10pm - go to bed and remember I've not remade my own. Remake in a rage full fashion.

4 days later - wash the old sheets

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RocketAndAFuckingMelon · 15/01/2022 22:35

Brilliant 🤣

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PinkSyCo · 15/01/2022 22:36

Either, or. What difference does it make?

FindMeInTheSunshine · 15/01/2022 22:40

We only have one set of sheets for our bed, so I'm clearly in your husband's camp. And, Bernadette's 10pm sounds a lot like mine!

Hellolittlestar · 15/01/2022 22:42

I strip my bed in the morning, wash and tumble dry the sheets and put the same set on in the evening.
Airing sounds utterly pointless.

RobotValkyrie · 15/01/2022 22:47

@Hellolittlestar

I strip my bed in the morning, wash and tumble dry the sheets and put the same set on in the evening. Airing sounds utterly pointless.
I do that, but I think it might depend on how well your dryer works. If the sheets still felt faintly damp, I'd want to air them.
Deadringer · 15/01/2022 22:49

I line dry whenever possible but even when i tumble dry the washing spends at least one night on the clothes horse. I wouldn't feel its properly dry otherwise.

Chocomelon · 15/01/2022 22:50

@Abracadabra12345

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...

Same here
Amandasummers · 15/01/2022 22:52

Mine are washed, dried and put back on the bed in the same day. I only have one set though 🤷🏻‍♀️