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

And if your bed is full of old skin bits, you can bet there’ll be something sling to eat them in due course.

Along to eat them.

Sure, but you’re not just expressing an opinion on how often you like to change your own sheets. You’re also getting annoyed at other people and angrily insulting people who don’t change theirs to your schedule. That’s a very extreme reaction to something that doesn’t have any effect on you or your life whatsoever, no?

If your own self-worth and happiness is linked to things like laundry, that is absolutely fine. But not everyone’s is, and I guess I can’t see why you’d resent that? You don’t seem able to believe that it’s perfectly possible for other people to be happy and confident without putting as much effort into changing sheets as you do

Is it because you subconsciously feel like you have to work harder at domestic stuff than some other people do to attain happiness/self-esteem? i.e. Does it bother you that you need to change the sheets frequently to avoid feeling gross and depressed, while other people are able to feel clean and happy without needing to expend time on housework in order to reach that point?

Because otherwise it just seems odd to be so vitriolic about a stranger’s duvet cover.

I'm shit with housekeeping but sheets are changed every Friday. This is really gross

Monthly is fine for me. I wear fresh PJs every night so it’s not as if the sheets are getting dirty. If you sleep naked then that’s a very different story.

I’d love to do it more as I love the fresh sheet feeling but my god I hate changing beds!

Sarcastic replies because there’s a ‘how often do you change your bedding’ thread on MN every couple of weeks or so. Alternated with ‘how often do you shower’ and ‘shoes on or off’. It all gets a bit boring so a bit of humour livens the thread up.

I change everyone's every week and pull the covers back daily to air them. Your body has been in there for 8 hours or so, there will be dead skin, dirt, hairs, a bit of sweat (even if you say you don't sweat much, you will a little) etc, especially if you're having sex. Once a week is grand, maybe two weeks if you can't do weekly here and there. And I wear pj's. But that's just my opinion!

Every Sunday without fail here, twice weekly during heatwaves.

I do mine weekly , but my dog sleeps on my bed , sometimes more often if I can see the hair on my lovely white Egyptian cotton sheets 😂

🤣

Every 29th February for me

In my world, once a week is normal but not written in stone. I changed last Monday, but I’m having a new bathroom fitted tomorrow for a week, so I won’t be changing it as the bed is super king and I have to hang the duvet cover over the bannister to dry in winter, it just ends up in a knotted ball in the dryer.

It is what it is. It won’t kill me for a week but when the plumber is gone on Friday the bed is getting stripped.

I think if you shower every day, then monthly is acceptable. If you’re someone like Jonathan Ross who just showers weekly, then absolutely change weekly, if not more. It all depends on your personal hygiene.

I change the bedsheets every year - just before my yearly bath.

I wash my pillow cases weekly and the rest when I have the energy.

Showering daily is the bare minimum

I think Brillo is cruel.
My DH scrubs up quite well with those green nylon thingys.
I do keep them separate from the ones in the kitchen for pans.
I ran out once, & he was unhappy with bits of scrambled egg on his bits.

Every Boxing Day; whether they need it, or nay!

There’s a lot of things worse for the environment than washing your bedding once a week. Spending 5 mins chucking it in the wash and making it is hardly time wasting. It’s worth it to get in a nice clean bed

No skin in the game.

But some of you are grim.

Weekly, fresh bedding, should be a standard we all adhere to.

The grim will object to this. But, it is grim to not change bedding weekly.

I change our bedding, every other week.

Every Sunday here. Twice a week in the summer. I love the feeling of clean bedding. Once a month is revolting 🤮

I genuinely think it actually depends.

Some people are sweaty betties, or happily get into bed a bit grubby... They need more often.

But if you're the type to shower of an evening and wear clean PJs every night (or whatever) and you're not a sweaty... you really don't need to change a sheet very often.

Four times a year in my house - start of December for Christmas bedding, 1st of January to remove Christmas bedding, May-time to switch from a winter duvet to a summer one and October-time to switch back to a winter duvet 😇

I love how people are essentially arguing for lying in your own dead skin for a week as if it makes their argument 😂