Changing bedding - how often is too often?

[SorryButThatsAFact]

So, a friend of mine recently popped over for lunch and as she stayed a little longer than expected, I asked her if she wouldn't mind giving me a hand to change the beds.

Somehow we got on to the topic of how often bedding should be changed and I said I did mine twice a week. She was completely aghast and said she only changed hers once a fortnight and that twice a week was 'far too often'

I've always done mine twice a week, just like my mum did, so have never given it much thought.

So now I'm wondering what's a 'normal' number of bedding changes.

Any thoughts?

I don’t think “Normal families” do change sheets weekly, though. I think that’s a bit excessive.

Fortnightly.
And that seems normal amongst my group of friends.

Right now I do it every week (on a Friday so I have snuggly clean sheets when I have a lie-in on Saturday). However, I also shower every night before bed for maybe three minutes max - in, body wash, out and always lukewarm not hot. (Proper shower every morning!)

Debating on if I skip the showers and wash sheets weekly or keep the showers and I wash sheets fortnightly.

Sheets are the only thing I wash at 60 degrees.

I have no idea which is better for the environment.

There used to be a poster who changed hers daily many years ago.

I do a Saturday morning clean and they get done then. Sometimes I just switch sides in my bed and do them fortnightly.

I change mine once a week but I'd probably do it every other week if it was just me in the bed.

Same here.

Once a week on a Sunday is the norm for a lot of people I know.

I don't think I have ever picked up a bacterial infection from my bed. I don't think my own dead skin cells have ever harmed me. I don't sweat a huge amount at night. Not all bacteria are bad. In fact your natural fauna are a whole lot better than detergents and chemicals unnatural to the skin. I change sheets when they look dirty or to quote @BeautifulElephant when a shooting star manages to capture my gaze.

Once every 5 days. I love fresh sheets.

Surely you do it as often as you can be bothered and no amount is too often. You could do it every day if you wished. Personally for me once a fortnight is plenty but whatever suits!

People sweat at night if the room is hot. Otherwise, minimal:

washingtoncitypaper.com/article/221338/straight-dope-do-you-really-sweat-one-liter-each-night/

Is there a possible overlap between the heating on at night people and the sheets changed daily people?

I sleep with windows open all year round and change bedding ... less frequently than most on this thread

Two weeks of sex, sweat, farting, sleep drooling and dead skin cells? Sounds fine. As I said you wash your clothes because your body touches it. Why doesn't this apply to bedding? Shudder.

This!
i would be mortified at asking a friend to look at my bed sheets. Unless I was disabled/physically unable to do it which you said you painted her house so guessing not.
weekly here

Weekly if I'm on top of things, try to take them to Johnsons in a big purge and have fresh bedding for weeks. 2-3 weeks if I am struggling.

When it starts to stink!!! 😃(fortnightly if I can be arsed)

Once a fortnight, I have two pillows that both get a turn being under my face and both get turned both sides up so that would be a clean pillow side every few days.

Ideally weekly, realistically fortnightly.

Once a fortnight unless they’re actively mucky. We shower/bath before bed and wear pyjamas.

Don't forget poo crumbs 😱😱

Like a PP, have never got a bacterial infection from my bedding, nor come to any harm from it. So again, what's actually grim about it, other than you just thinking it's grim? What harm am I going to come to?

Skin cells - maybe 1.5 grams a night max. Doubt they all sear through pyjamas onto bedclothes too. If sheets smell or are dirty of course change them, but I wouldn't worry about skin / sweat apart from that.

Weekly but sometimes if it has been a really busy week it will slip to fortnightly (I have to do a clothes wash daily for four of us)

Well I don't have sex in my bed, fart, or drool that I'm aware of and I'm not a sweaty person - am generally cold so I do fail to see how any of those things could actually be harmful in any way on sheets not changed for a few more days than some would like ...

Also the washed clothes you speak of are a barrier too

Once a week, should do it more but effort!