Not to change the sheets??

[Mooghulempress]

Next week my parents are coming to stay for a night, so I’ve just cleaned the guest room sheets and made the bed fresh for them. Two days later, we are having a dinner party and a friend has just asked if she and her partner can stay over. AIBU to think that it’s OK not to change the sheets?? It just seems insane to change the sheets after one use, and both my parents shower before bed. But part of me also thinks this isn’t OK. Advice please!

Not for couples. I admit to having neglected to change the sheets on a guest bed when the previous occupant had worn pyjamas. But i did change the pillow case.

I wouldn't risk it. Nobody but me knows that my DH is the sweatiest sleeper on earth. I've leaned over to spoon and found him wrapped in cold wet sheets more times than I care to remember. An hour or two later and all evidence is gone.

If it looks and smells clean, it's clean.

I have a friend other friends refer to as Hairy Sheets Cathy. And it’s 30 years since I slept on someone else’s sheets.

Change the sheets you midden!

@Toottooot

Gadz min.

😂😂not heard that for so long 😂😂

That’s disgusting. Change the sheets

This is a fantastic goady thread for MN

Has nobody thought to mention poo crumbs?

Oh wow, totally unreasonable.

My MIL never changed the sheets between guests and also bought 2 sleeping bags for when the different grandchildren visited- these were never washed either!!
DH mentioned it and MIL couldn’t understand why we didn’t want to sleep in the same sheets as her previous guests. 🤢

I have a friend who stays over most weekends and I don’t change the sheets more than once a month since it’s the same person sleeping in them 4/5 times. But with a different guest, yes I absolutely would.

Please change the sheets!

It’s grim to expect your parents to sleep in linen your friends spent the night in. They could have skin conditions you don’t know about like athletes foot or scabies or fungal toenails. People dribble on pillow cases and shed hair and skin. Sweat etc.

Your parents will know if you give them used sheets!

Go for it OP! I know I just love snuggling down into a pillow that a stranger has dribbled on. If their sweaty bed sheets are still there all the better.

Omg you are dirty

Put the sheets on your bed if you want to and put clean ones on the guest bed.

Changing the bedding will take you less time than it did to post this question and read all the replies

Absolutely YABU I would not be at all impressed to sleep on sheets strangers have slept on for any period of time.

Oh even considering not changing them is manky

Why don't you ask your friends and see if they mind 🤣🤣 yuck

Urgh.

YABU I think. I wouldn't mind if I was a family member of the previous guests but would think it was a bit ick if not. I don't know why it matters, but it does to me at least.

@Mooghulempress

Next week my parents are coming to stay for a night, so I’ve just cleaned the guest room sheets and made the bed fresh for them. Two days later, we are having a dinner party and a friend has just asked if she and her partner can stay over. AIBU to think that it’s OK not to change the sheets?? It just seems insane to change the sheets after one use, and both my parents shower before bed. But part of me also thinks this isn’t OK. Advice please!

I am very relaxed compared to MN with washing, but you can't do that. Clean sheets for each person.

I think it'd be ok if you asked your DP if they'd had sex the night they stayed over.
Change them if there's sign of a wet patch

And offer to change them if your friend asks you to when you tell her they're not fresh sheets.

When you say you have “cleaned” the guest room sheets I have visions of you scraping them, or brushing them off, or giving them a wipe down!

I’m not overly particular, but even thinking about doing what you suggested make me itch a bit. What have you done previously when people stay over?