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Instagrammer reminding followers to change bedding on last day of month 🤢

268 replies

Travelfairy · 02/11/2025 12:45

This page I follow, she said she always changes her bedding on the last day of the month and reminded her followers to do the same....
I commented does she only change them once a month and she said yes unless they need before that.

I thought this was completely gross!!! I change mine once a week. Absolute max maybe 9 days if particularly busy etc

YABU- once a month is fine
YANBU - thats gross

OP posts:
Zov · 02/11/2025 13:19

Oh FFS another competitive hygiene thread.

Get a grip. 🙄

I change mine once a fortnight - usually - maybe once a week during June, July, and August, as it's hotter then, and they need it weekly usually.

But if others do it once a month, so what? Why do you care?!

Marylou2 · 02/11/2025 13:19

Every week. Once a month is disgusting.

CustardySergeant · 02/11/2025 13:20

MD2020and10LambertandButlerPlease · 02/11/2025 12:49

People change their bedding? 😲

Wash it, not change it as in replacing it.

Runningismyhappyplace50 · 02/11/2025 13:20

I aim for fortnightly but sometimes it is closer to a month (occasionally earlier). Personally think monthly is fine but you need to be on it as 6 weeks would be grim!

MummytoE · 02/11/2025 13:21

Every 2/3 weeks for me every 2 weeks for the kids.

MD2020and10LambertandButlerPlease · 02/11/2025 13:21

CustardySergeant · 02/11/2025 13:20

Wash it, not change it as in replacing it.

I know, I was joking.

Ilovepastafortea · 02/11/2025 13:22

therewasafishinthepercolator · 02/11/2025 13:15

@ilovepastafortea

I love that. You've inspired me to strip my bed today. I want that Sunday feeling. Now, to convince someone to go out to the shop to get me Horlicks...

Me too - not sure if you can still get it, the proper stuff I mean - the stuff that you mix with milk rather than instant stuff. My DCs preferred hot chocolate & Ovaltine.

ChocolateCinderToffee · 02/11/2025 13:23

I’m a once a week changer too, and I’m single.

BeanQuisine · 02/11/2025 13:24

I just shovel some fresh hay on it now and then.

WalkDontWalk · 02/11/2025 13:30

Ilovepastafortea · 02/11/2025 12:59

😂😂😂

I don’t know why everyone thinks this is funny. When first married I got into the habit of changing the bedding every time we have sex, and I still do.

Hobnobswantshernameback · 02/11/2025 13:32

Yet another bitchplop and run OP

Ilovepastafortea · 02/11/2025 13:32

I tend to change mine about once every 10 days or so, but DH & me shower before going to bed & wear nightwear. I tend to change it more often in the summer.

When I was menopausal & profusely sweating especially at night, the bed could be changed twice a night. I kept 2 spare duvets with the covers already on ready for a quick night-time change as then all I had to do was strip the bottom sheet off and chuck a clean duvet on with minimal disturbance for DH. In fact DD (a nurse) taught me how to take the bottom sheet off while he was still in bed - doesn't work with a fitted sheet though.

Idontknowhatnametochoose · 02/11/2025 13:32

Once a fortnight here. I'm not particularly sweaty, wear knickers in bed, no sex life.

PonkyPonky · 02/11/2025 13:33

Yep it’s minging. I’m surprised how many people don’t think that. There’s nothing better than clean smelling bedding. Why would you even want to wait a month for that

lalalapland · 02/11/2025 13:33

WalkDontWalk · 02/11/2025 13:30

I don’t know why everyone thinks this is funny. When first married I got into the habit of changing the bedding every time we have sex, and I still do.

Well that could range from 6 times a day to never 😅

Nowimhereandimlost · 02/11/2025 13:33

My bedsheets don't get dirty enough to wash once a week. What are you doing in yours?

WalkDontWalk · 02/11/2025 13:34

lalalapland · 02/11/2025 13:33

Well that could range from 6 times a day to never 😅

See above

GarlicBreadStan · 02/11/2025 13:34

My partner changes his bed every 2 weeks, I change mine every month (we don't live together) but only because we don't have a dryer so have to use clothes horses/clothes airers (whatever you call them) and other things take priority

lalalapland · 02/11/2025 13:36

WalkDontWalk · 02/11/2025 13:34

See above

🤣

Ilovepastafortea · 02/11/2025 13:36

It's surprising how many people don't air their beds or bedrooms these days.

Its a breezy sunny day today, I have my duvet & pillows outside in the fresh air & sunshine, in the meantime the bedroom windows are wide open & the mattress is getting a good airing. I do this at every opportunity.

Hankunamatata · 02/11/2025 13:37

If theres only me in bed I dont need to chnage that often as I sleep in full PJ and bed socks.
However stinky husband who sweats when he sleeps I need to chnage bed every 4 days.

WeCouldBeNiceToEachOther · 02/11/2025 13:37

I change mine once a week. I change my pyjamas four times a week, though!

BeanQuisine · 02/11/2025 13:38

Ilovepastafortea · 02/11/2025 13:36

It's surprising how many people don't air their beds or bedrooms these days.

Its a breezy sunny day today, I have my duvet & pillows outside in the fresh air & sunshine, in the meantime the bedroom windows are wide open & the mattress is getting a good airing. I do this at every opportunity.

As long as you shake the hedgehog shit out of them before you bring them back in.

ThrushorSparrow · 02/11/2025 13:38

Ilovepastafortea · 02/11/2025 13:12

One of the great pleasures of my childhood (I was born in 1962) was the Sunday night bath followed by clean PJs, drinking Bournvita, Ovaltine or Horlicks in front of 'The Onedin Line', 'Poldark' or whatever the 7:30pm Sunday evening series was that night, and getting into a lovely clean fresh bed.

Of course, my mother (like most mothers back in the day) had a twin tub washing machine, tumble driers were an expensive luxury so everything was dried outside so usually smelled of the fresh air-unless the weather was particularly bad when the house looked like the set for Widow Twanky's Chinese Laundry with items spread on airers, over the banister, on hangers on doors, picture rails, everywhere in fact - then they smelled of the woodsmoke from the open fires used to heat the house.

I once had a neighbour who put her children into clean PJs & bed every night. I felt that, not only was she making work for herself, but depriving her children of that lovely warm, clean, cosiness of a fresh clean bed as their bed was always a clean fresh bed.

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Jeez, talk about making a rod for your own back. Every night?! I feel tired just thinking about doing that.

Blanketfull · 02/11/2025 13:38

What do people think will actually happen if they sleep in a "minging bed"?

I change mine once a week(ish), but what would happnen if I didn't for a few weeks?