DH not changed bedding for 4 weeks

[peachescariad]

He's in a separate bedroom. Flithy f**ker not changed his bed for 4 weeks, so this morning I asked him if he was thinking of changing his sheets as he's been in them for 4 weeks.....he doesn't have a clue how long they've been on....If I had not mentioned it, I wonder how long he'd have kept them on.
He's in our son's room and he's coming back end of July so have ordered some nice new bedding for him 😄

The skanky types always mention the planet -and water usage, when in fact, they’re probably just lazy mingers who don’t like to admit it.

Bed sheets do not stay clean just because you’re clean when you’re in them. They’ll still be full of sweat and dead skin cells - exactly what mites find delicious.

A clean bed is one of life’s greatest pleasures and an essential part of good housekeeping.

Washing towels even weekly seems a bit of a stretch. I have to say that is a bit minging!

At the risk of derailing the thread (sorry op), I have found those pet cooling mats a life saver when placed at the bottom of the bed for my feet. They help cool the body down even though it's only your feet on them. Plenty of places are also selling cooling pillows now. Good luck

Some of the skanky types just can’t be bothered and already have enough washing to do.

My stepsons is done weekly as a minimum, because he’s frankly gross. If he soils the bed, it’s obviously done immediately, but otherwise they’re done at the weekend before he comes back from his mums, or on the Friday before he comes to us if it’s our turn.

Mine and my partners - probably monthly, don’t keep a calendar. When we can be arsed in amongst all the other things that life involves. Need a cleaner really, or some extra energy!

I see no wrong here 🙄

Yuk

beds changed weekly, more often as needed, occasionally a bit longer if other priorities come up.
one person in a bed doesn't matter.
it's gross to me otherwise.
pillows go in a hot dryer for 10 mins, too and are steam cleaned every couple months.

Who says though? Would 9 days be too long? It seems like an arbitrary number - just convenient to remember. I'm sure it really doesn't matter if you leave them longer and the same rule wouldn't apply to everybody.

Exactly. As I said, some people must get really grubby and dirty and not shower often enough of if they are having to change their bedding every single week on the dot. Grim, 💀

Speaking from experience are you? Do you have a lot of sweat and mites in your bed?

URGH! 😖

We both shower every night, without fail, just before bed. So I must admit our sheets go ages without a wash sometimes. Big family, both work full time. SO much daily laundry for other things - something has to give and it’s our sheets 😅

We turn mattress 4 weekly and change them then. It's fine they don't smell as we are clean going to bed

It isn’t necessary to wash stuff that often, so it’s an easy environmental win. That not my main driver though. It’s that I don’t want to do unnecessary work. That’s not laziness. It’s simply not wanting to do things that aren’t necessary.

At no point did this poster ever say they washed theirs weekly?

It’s not the bed you’re sleeping in though. He’s an adult and it’s his house too.

🤣🤣🤣

No massive deal really. I mean not great, but far worse things

Love a good bedsheets and towels thread. Just adding my experience: when my STBEXH and I were separating and he started sleeping in the spare room, he never washed his sheets. The day he finally moved out for good, I stripped the bed and took the minging sheets, duvet and pillow to the dump. Reader, he had managed, within the space of a couple of months, to turn sheets, duvet and pillow BRIGHT YELLOW with his sweat.

I think I saw some in B&M not long ago, ill pop down tomorrow, thank you for the tip 😊

The hilarious thing is that if it was YOU not changing the sheets for four weeks you'd get a good few different responses. The bar for men is non existent.

Oh FGS- how would we have managed in the old days with a wash tub, or a boiler and a mangle? How does it take that long to lift off the bedding and throw it in a machine that does the job?

You still sweat during the night whether you have had a shower or not.
It's not about dirt getting on the sheets.

And if your kids are old enough they need to learn to strip their bedding and change the sheets.

Nope. I don’t care who does it. Change your bed when you think it needs changing, not on an arbitrary schedule.

Unnecessary is an opinion. Yours.
Not a fact.

Sweat, bacteria, dead skin cells accumulate and sheets need changing weekly or close to that.

But 'when it needs it' in your case is 'not very often' 😂