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How often do you change the bedding?

51 replies

virgiltracey · 30/08/2011 15:58

I have asked the new cleaner to do it every week but I'm wondering whether that is overkill and whether her time would be better spent doing it every other week and doing something else too? Any views?

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QuinionsRainbow · 31/08/2011 11:54

No Cleaner here, and wouldn't include bed-changing in the task-list even if there was. Wouldn't want a stranger searching for evidence! DH and I shower morning and evening, DCs normally once a day, and we all sleep nude, so changing beds once a week and towels twice a week (or as required) seems to work for us.

forehead · 03/09/2011 20:13

When i had a cleaner i would never ask her to change my bedding. I personally think that it is a bad example to set for the children.

IwoulddoPachacuti · 03/09/2011 20:17

Once a fortnight. I don't have a cleaner but I wouldn't have an issue with them changing bedsheets if I did!

create · 03/09/2011 20:36

Once a week. DC's know they need to strip their beds and put the linen in the washing machine every Monday morning before breakfast. (I do mine on a Tues) Then I make them up again while they're in the bath at bedtime. We do have a cleaner, but seems like a waste to have her do that and I like that the DCs don't get completely waited upon.

kickingking · 03/09/2011 20:40

Weekly here. Maybe two weeks will pass if I am very busy at work.

LadyGrace · 04/09/2011 15:26

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Deesus · 04/09/2011 15:28

I leave my sheets until they get up and walk to the wash basket themselves Wink

learningtofly · 04/09/2011 15:40

Once a week.

Although if I was wealthy I would have clean sheets everyday!

RobintheRobin · 04/09/2011 15:51

I change my sheets once a month, I feel so skanky after all ur answers!
I like my bed a bit smelly and cosy.

(My housemate at the moment washes her bedding I think about twice a year, no lie, and then she washes it at 30 degrees - I find the washing tablet undissolved still in the drawer. Her sheets must never be clean!)

upahill · 04/09/2011 22:13

Bloody hell!! Who on earth would only wash their bedding twice a year!!

Twice a week here minimum.
My skin would be itching if I only did bedding once every 6 months!!!! (yeuk!!)

colditz · 04/09/2011 22:15

Oh my god Robin strip her bed and wash her sheets while she's at work!

ilikethesun · 05/09/2011 09:07

Once a week every week, sometimes twice.

Towels are changed everyday, someone said they change their bath towels every fortnight?? Surely that is a typo.

Stogan · 05/09/2011 09:10

Our cleaner comes once a fortnight to do the jobs I don't get to do, insides of windows, oven and changing bed sheets she is only here for 4 hours but is a huge help

cleanteeth · 05/09/2011 09:31

Sometimes I change our bedding every few days...is this too often?! Towels are done every week/fortnight.

I think I need to do my towels more often Blush

Stogan · 05/09/2011 09:35

I use towels twice and them wash them but OH puts them in the wash after every shower no wonder my washer is constantly on! Dont u find they smell after a day or two?

betterwhenthesunshines · 05/09/2011 18:18

Clean towels after every every shower !!!! Wow. I change our towels when they feel like they need a wash or when I have a wash load of that colour I need to fill up. Sometimes once a week, but more often fortnightly.

Sheets once a week, sometimes every 10 days if it drifts, but we both wear PJs. Kids beds usually every fortnight. Sometimes I do it, sometimes our cleaner does depends on how much time she has left. We don't have a dryer (DH disapproves for environmental reasons...) so often they get changed on days when there isn't other washing to do, otherwise I run out of drying space.

ilikethesun · 05/09/2011 18:21

After I have a shower or bath the towel is soaking wet. Do you just hang it up and then use it next time your have a shower?

MrMan · 05/09/2011 18:27

Everytime the kids throw up in bed which feels like all the time (3 under 4). Grrrr. This is my job since have agreed with DW that I am in charge of nights (what was I thinking...)

SuePurblybilt · 05/09/2011 18:31

Every Sunday - strip 'em first thing, let the mattresses air for the day and then re-make at night.
Clean towels as and when - a couple a week, more for hand towels. But there's only me and DD in the house anyway.

WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes · 05/09/2011 18:35

I do our sheets weekly, the DCs fortnightly, bath towels and mats once a week (they dry out again in 24 hours between uses - ours don't seem to get particularly wet and don't get smelly), hand towel every day.

BsshBossh · 06/09/2011 10:29

Once a week.

BarbieLovesKen · 06/09/2011 11:29

How many degrees do people wash bedding in? Was just talking about this recently - I wash ours at 90 degrees. Friend thinks this is excessive - I don't.

Disclaimer: this is the only thing I wash at this temp

BsshBossh · 06/09/2011 11:32

60 degrees for our white bedding.

nannyl · 06/09/2011 12:01

normally 60C

if im in a rush for washing machine to finish so can line dry before rain then 40C

i dont see the need to wash anything at 90c, (not even cloth nappies) other than the odd maintanace wash to clean the machine, and i normally chuck in a few dishcloths then

QuinionsRainbow · 06/09/2011 14:49

Bedding generally at 40C, although flirted with 30C briefly recently. We try to do a 90C towel wash weekly (with a Calgon tablet for machine maintenance) - otherwise towels at 60 as and when a machine load accumulates.