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

[Travelfairy]

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

Or who can outming one another the best. Nothing will top the sharing bath water one though. Dad goes first.

Depends what’s happening in the bed tbh

We sweat about half a pint a night. Where do you think it goes?

Live alone with no pets either and you won’t catch me washing it more than once per month except during any summer heatwave periods which is the only time I’m sweaty.

When I had a partner though was weekly.

It doesn’t matter to me. This is a forum, to discuss what people we do. Someone says ‘how often do you change your bedding?’ We answer if we feel inclined.

If people fester in stale bedding that’s their problem. Perhaps they were brought up in similar households, perhaps they’re depressed, perhaps they’re just dirty. I don’t care, but I do have an opinion.

So what? In what way does it affect you? I’m sure you do stuff that other people consider skanky.

Twice year - winter duvet and summer duvet.

Weekly but only because I sleep with a sweaty husband and we have sex regularly in it.

YABU to pay any attention to what some random person on Instagram posts. You may as well ask the old bloke down the pub for advice. Probably just as pointless. 😂

After a few weeks they might not even be 'minging',
so nothing will happen.

Earlier this year DP went away for work for 5 weeks. We changed the sheets just before he went and I realised a couple of days before he was due back that I'd not changed them while he was away. I'm a clean non sweaty person and they didn't smell.

If one of the cats hadn't just thrown up on the bed, I'd have left it until he was back as its a king size bed and a right pain to do alone.

Pre children, every week without fail, and I though what a hard household chore-ful life I had. Now, all the children later, I've no idea, whenever I realise I've not done it in a while or when someone rolls about on it still wearing school uniform, 😖 that gets me moving.

I have no idea how often I do it. When I think about it?

I used to wash the bedding once a month. Our dogs now sleep on the bed so I do it fortnightly. I have better things to spend my time on than obsessive performative laundry.

I brush off my sheets with the toilet brush. Well it's just sat there doing nothing.

I aim for once a week its how I was raised but if it goes longer it goes longer

I know someone who gets up strips all the beds and washes and dries them daily

That's a tad excessive in my mind

😂😂😂

Before duvets, Mum used to switch top sheets to bottom, in rotation, I assume every week, but I can't remember. They got collected every so often by a laundry service. The blankets and covers were never washed. Pillows were defeathered every few years, and the cases changed. The old feather's went back in. Also remember feather bolsters prior to duvets, which were passed down generation to generation. No-one ever changed their mattresses either.

Simpler times 😂

YANBU. But Mumsnet doesn't have a super high standard for hygiene.

each to their own. Some people can hardly face getting out of bed… I can’t face feeling superior or shamed depending on how often I change my duvet cover. You’re not winning becuse you change it once a week and you’re not losing becuse you change it once a month or more. I think you need to find more in life if you see a weekly change of duvet cover as a superiority win.

I sleep on straw... but it is OK as the cows eat the top layer every day.

The person I know who does that had a shockingly abusive upbringing and was left to fester in urine and blood stained bedclothes often.

She had the most brilliant system of washing and re-making that involved tricky arm movements inside the duvet covers. I was very impressed.

Me- I do the Dcs bedding every Monday and our bedding every Thursday. I might well go two weeks though. But, we have cats who sleep on the bed and as i have a chronic illness I am in bed a solid 12 hours a day.

I do mine every Feast Day of St Bede the Venerable right before my annual shower.
Works for me.

I change mine every week. Once a month wouldn't suit me.

I don't have a routine. I don't have a tumble dryer though so it has to be a sunny dry day if I'm going to wash bedding. Definitely not every week.