Duvet- wash it or buy a new one??

[lostmymind]

This is an ongoing debate between DH and I, that rather than replace our 5 year old superking we [yet again] have it washed. Now I maintain that duvets, like pillows, should be replaced every so often, and that washing will flatten the loft and reduce the tog value. What do others do? Wash? Replace? Not bother?

I wash ours.

Wash it.
Our winter one won't fit in the machine so I have to take it to the dry cleaners. I could probably have bought a new one with the money I've spent getting it washed. Didn't know about it reducing the tog.

Mine is over 20 years old, gets washed and is still warm.

I have this debate with my self every year!

We use cheap, low tog (summer weight) King size duvets all year round. It's too big to fit in the washing machine So washing is either by hand (and hoping for a very good drying day) or the laundrette. If it goes to the laundrette, then what with the cost and the petrol and my time sitting waiting for the thing, it is actually cheaper for me to buy a new one!

But my conscience battles with me every year!

Buy a nice new feather one: how anyone can sleep under a synthetic duvet is beyond me.... (Preeny Princess)

I cannot stand feather duvets! Much prefer the feel of a synthetic one.

I can't stand feather ones either, got to be synthetic.

As with SageMist my conscious says wash it, but having done so every year I could easily have bought a new one - which is what I'm going to do this year (and cut up the old one for dog bedding to appease my environmentalist DH!).

Our local Morrisons have an offer - 2 duvets any size laundered for £20. How can this possibly be more expensive than buying a new one? I wouldn't even consider it unless the duvet I had was dirt cheap and very thin.

Well you can buy a new kingsize duvet in asda for £13.99. And I can't wash one here in a laundrette or dry cleeaners for under £15. So it's really hard!

I'm allergic to feather duvets and pillows, so i wash ours when they're changed each season. My mum has a Dyson washer that takes even our king size winter weight duvet! No laundrette for us!

I got a brilliant double duvet for £8 in Asda which fits into any normal size washing machine. So it would still be cheaper for me to buy 2 of these than get it laundered! Madness really.

I like synthetic duvets. Feathers make me all allergic.
Tesco value duvets are great and similar price to the Asda ones quoted here.
Vomited on duvet = bin here!

Ours was £130 from the white company, couldnt afford to buy another one! its synthetic but weighs a bloody ton.

£130 on a duvet????

Yep. DH swears blind he is allergic so I got the synthetic one but every hotel we have ever stayed in has had goose down pillows which havent affected him at all, apparently only some feather fillings set him off.

It is the fluffiest duvet ever though, I took it to be washed (£15) and they couldnt believe how big it is, and its only a king size. It's at least twice as thick as other duvets they had waiting for collection.

I use smartprice duvets for the cats bed and for my sofa snuggler (not the same one obv) and I can just about fit the cats in the washing machine if he throws up on it.