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?

My MIL 'airs' all laundry, I think otherwise she thinks they will catch the plague. She also irons absolutely everything, including pants and socks, then complains about how much work it all is. I've tried suggesting a simplified process without the airing and ironing but to no avail.

Then why didn't you just say you prefer to change the sheets and put different ones m than say they need airing??

This is madness. I'm team dh. Surely the best about fresh bedding is the lovely laundered smell? If sun dried in the garden, even better. Once they go in the airing cupboard they lose that a bit.

@JabNotInArm

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?!

This.

Weather permitting, I also hang the nude duvet out of the bedroom window to give that an airing too.

@godmum56

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

In summer on sunny days it’s often blazing hot in my south facing garden, and when my sheets come off the line they are hot to the touch. There’s no way they need a night in the airing cupboard to finish them off! On less good days of course they end up in the airing cupboard, but there’s just no need if they’re thoroughly dry from the line.

I used to love my bedding going straight onto the bed from the line until I managed to make the bed with a wasp or bee inside it. I found out what I'd done about 3 am! Since then everything gets 'aired' unless tumble dried

Ooh the smell of line dried cotton sheets😁. Mmmmmmmm

I would the air the sheets for a day, after washing, to make sure they were dry but also not put sheets back onto the bed immediately. The mattress should be allowed 'to air' before putting the 'fresh' sheets back on. But I have two sets, one on and another ready to go/in the wash cycle.

If you have a tumble dryer, then your dp is right - the tumble dryer 'airs' as it goes.
If you are line drying, then it may well be they need further drying on an airer in front of the radiator.
I can understand the thinking of stripping the bed and making it up in the morning (with the other set), whilst you are on "doing jobs in the bedroom" on sheet washing day, as I HATE going up to get into bed, having forgotten to put the clean set on, and having to do it when I just want to be getting into bed, so, for that reason alone, I prefer to put the clean set on before I leave the bedroom, BUT, if it comes out of a tumble dryer, bedding doesn't then need airing separately.

Yes, I think it’s more about sheet rotation and I have pinned it on an entirely unjustifiable assertion about airing them.

I see I’m an hour too late to comment that you’re not wrong, but you are wrong about the specific nature of your disagreement

Yeah, it's a time saver putting them straight back on the bed so I'm with your DH on this one. Nice to swap them over from time to time though. Once they are dry I'm not really sure what the point of airing is?

In the summer when I can line dry the sheets in an afternoon, I do your DH approach.

Winter, it's yours.

I don't have a tumble drier and love the freshly washed and line dried smell and feel. Only works in the summer though.

I’m saying YABU for only having 2 sets of bed sheets. I love my bed sets and picking what goes on next.

Also I care more about airing the mattress than how long it takes to air/dry the sheets.

Maybe I'm missing something or not understanding (I wan't born in the UK). You say you strip the bedding, wash and dry, then 'leave in the airer for a while or overnight'.

What is an airer and if the bedding is already dry, why the need to air any further??? Does it have fresh air going over the bedding? I agree- your question should have been 'do you put the same sheets back on or rotate?'

I have 2 sets of the same bedding, I can see where you're coming from lol. I think if one set is left in a cupboard for weeks, even if it's clean going in probably won't be very fresh after a few weeks.

Nothing nicer than freshly washed bedding on your bed , but I do put one if my several other sets on occasionally then it is ‘there’ shot to be used / washed repeat , usually twice a week in summer , until I feel like a change of duvet cover