How often do you wash your bedding?

[TheSpoonyNavyReader]

YABU Every 2 weeks

YANBU Once a week.

If you wash your bedding more or less please let me know why.

Do you wash them daily or do you have seven towels, change them daily and wash once a week?

Bed done weekly here due to night hot flushes and we sleep in the nip. Towels changed in the middle of the week as we do sport or cycle commute most days - washed together in a load at the end of the week. There’s just me plus other half who stays a couple of nights a week.

So if a trade person or neighbour popped in for a cuppa, and they used your towel in the bathroom you would not wash it. Gross.

You know that that towel could be throw into the washing machine with other items, its not on a boil wash by itself.....

You know being rude and virtue signaling does not help your cause, a towel being washed or not is not going to help the planet. Go and protest about China, USA, the UKs emissions are around 4.5% of the world emissions and that is most caused by heavy industry not my hand towel.

321... the silly comments start.

Once a week.

We have 3-4 hand towels that are put into the basket and then washed when there is a whole load.

The hand towel is not washed by itself.

Once or twice a week. Once a week for hygiene reasons, ( sweaty husband, baby sick etc) more if I feel like a change of duvet cover. I really like getting into a fresh bed.

Change bedding weekly, but wash bedding fortnightly as alternate clothes washing and textiles, towels, flannels etc as week 1/ 2.
Only one laundry day / week, doing 3-4 loads.

So why start the thread?

I care about the environment. I can not control what China or the USA emits but I can alter my own emissions and I choose to do so. If you look at the UK’s emission per person we are quite high up there.

Why do you think a tradesman drying his hand on a towel makes it gross? What do you think is happening on the towel? Your extreme reaction is odd!

I do laundry at the weekend, usually a dark load, a light load and sometimes a red one. Sheets every other week or so, don’t pay particular attention to it. Towels between a week and 2. That is a family of 3 adults. I also use the longer eco setting (which seems to upset a lot of people on here) as it uses both less electricity and less water!

Fortnightly generally, but more frequently of late (night sweats - bloody peri-menopause).

I'm loving that the weather is better and I can dry bedding outdoors, it smells so nice when it's line-dried.

Generally once a week. Occasionally it slips to once a fortnight.

They've clearly never met a gypsy then 😂

I also change hand towels at the end of every day OP. I think using a towel for a week and leaving it there damp in the bathroom is disgusting so let them lynch me.

Ideally once a week sometimes more like ten days. Because life and long shifts!

It’s not just trade persons though, you’re washing towels after every time someone that visits the guest loo.

You also wash all family towels after every other day.

And clothes after every wear.

You are a MASSIVE DRAIN on the environment.

If everyone thought like you the planet is even more fucked.

Shame on you. NO ONE admires you.

Honestly every few months...

OP you've now started a number of threads breaking down each of your cleaning behaviours to try and garner support you didn't get in your original thread, the cumulative effect of your habits and product consumption was what drew comments in the original thread, you're not giving people the whole picture in each of the individual threads, 12 toilet rolls a week, the volume of shower gel and shampoo etc, which is what people were commenting on and what your own husband thinks is excessive in addition to the utilities cost, glad to hear you're cutting down the washing and no one has died of dysentry yet.

Have you got some kind of laundry obsession, who discusses washing on a night out and what kind of persin gives two hoots about anyone else's bedding?

Don't waste your life on this

Same x

What even in a leap year!!🤣

Probably not often enough. We're still alive.

I commented this on another thread recently. I love how MN opens my eyes to how different people are. It seems that many people are very preoccupied with hygiene. I just don’t think like you do OP! And that’s ok. But the idea that my neighbour using my hand towel is ‘gross’ - I don’t get that.

I wash hand towels more often than body towels due to hygiene but never on a premise that a normal healthy person touching them is ‘gross’.

I wash bedding when it starts to feel like it needs it in my mind! Sometimes that’s after a few days if someone ill, sweaty or spillage, sometimes it’s a month. Towels about weekly. And - gasp - our family all share them. I know that is scandalous for many of you but we survive it somehow.

I like to do mine twice a week - not because I'm sweaty, but I love getting into a fresh bed. My sister-in-law does hers once every 3 weeks, which I think is grim.

Once a week. Would probably do fortnightly but the dog sleeps on our bed so weekly it is.

@Alwaysalwayscold

why are your towels damp?

I hang mine on the towel rail & they're dry by my next shower (if daily) when showering again the same day, if it's not yet dry I'll get a fresh towel & alternate Until they all go in the wash.

no need to put the damp one in the washing

do you air your bathroom?

Monthly in winter
Fortnightly in summer

We both shower before bed so are going to bed clean and we're not overly sweaty people. If they need done sooner then I do them sooner.

We have a small house and no tumble dryer so to wash more than that monthly would really affect my general laundry routine and I'd fall behind. In summer when I can get sheets on the line it's so much easier to get them dried quickly. Also try to reduce water wastage.

Duvet,sheet, pillow cases weekly. (Yes, the dog sometimes sneaks on the bed) Duvet and pillows,mattress cover.a few times a year, already done them once this year.