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?

variex , sometimes twice a week , sometimes fortnightly , just whenever it needs done. I do find it very strange you asked your friend to help , I would never do that , I would wait till they’d left

10 days to Fortnightly.. would prefer to do it weekly but would struggle to kept on top of all the other washing if I did

I once read an article about Jackie Onassis who allegedly used to haveclean bed linen if she had a nap in the afternoon ( obviously she had clean linen every morning as well) I thought a) that was excessive and b) she didn’t look like a grubby skank and c) she clearly had staff.

if I had staff I would go for once a week, but I don’t so it is once a fortnight, but unlike JO I am clean in my habits.

I change my pillowcases every day wash the mattress every so often and have fleece blankets that get washed regularly. Soo much easier than a duvet and duvet covers. They dry almost instantly and i just layer them up in winter and have a thin one in summer

You mention your mother, maybe she didn’t have a duvet but had blankets. Many years ago they used to take off the bottom flat sheet which was put in the wash and top flat sheet was used as the bottom sheet. Do you iron the bed linen as well?
It is a good idea to air your bed everyday instead of making it as soon as you get up and it isn’t very good for the environment, to keep washing articles when they aren’t dirty.

Mattress topper that is

This. Without the sarcasm.

Some of you must have astronomical electricity bills

This is us. Fortnightly would be great but reality is once a month 😂

Every 2 to 3 weeks.

I can’t imagine having a friend come for lunch and then asking her to help change the beds! How odd.

Anyway, we change ours once a week. Maybe twice a week in summer.

Once a week or else my allergies (dust mite) will flare up.

Change it as often as you want. I’m not a sweaty sleeper and don’t routinely shit the bed so I have no need of doing it more than once a week or more commonly, once a fortnight if I’m feeling slatternly.

Isn’t the consensus that we should mostly be looking to do this less often than we do - for environmental reasons.

So rather than stressing we don’t do it enough or judging others for. Not being clean enough and their sweat/dead skin/drool being in the bed and making it dirty and needing changing…..we just need to understand these things don’t actually matter that much, and it’s pretty petty to decide they do and sheet need changing every few days or even weekly or possibly fortnightly.

Maybe we all need to be pushing closer to the 3 weeks or 4 weeks mark. Some people would think that’s hideous and couldn’t contemplate it or imagine much worse…but that shows where we are with regard to the environment and where our real priorities lie. Some people said changing all the beds takes 3 or 4 loads of washing. So done monthly that’s 3 or 4 loadsper month , whilst weekly it’s 12-16 loads per month. That’s a vast difference in terms of water and energy use, never mind the financial cost too.

In the past, Inthiught Inwas a bit if a lazy Slattery with my fortnightly pattern. I ‘aspired’ to be ‘cleaner’ and fo it every 10 days or weekly. Rarely managed it through laziness. But now aim going the other way. I’m looking at 3 weekly. Can I tell a difference that matters? No.

Once a week, although if I didn’t have to change a super king size myself and didn’t care about the environment I would have clean sheets every day.

nothing beats getting into crisp, clean, white bedding.

2-3 weeks

Weekly for me.

I m going to be honest - I would love it to be weekly or even fortnightly but its more like monthly or occasionally I forget and it’s far less than that. I’m sure there has been times where 3 months have gone by and they haven’t been changed.
Wear the same pjs all week too- gasp.
No pets in the bed and we shower pretty much every day.
Surprisingly I’m still alive. The grim-ness hasn’t killed me off. We don’t get ill much and none of us smell so I think we’re good.

Fortnightly. (I go round my friend’s for a coffee and chat, I’d be a bit miffed if I had to help her change the beds, I hate doing my own, let alone someone else’s. I know you have no interest in people’s opinion about this.)

But you thought you'd give your opinion on it anyway 😅😅😅

Every 2 weeks. 3 at a push If I’ve been away or stayed out often.

These threads always make me chuckle. People seem aghast at how other people live... but we are all different and people have different things that bother them or things they fixate more over. Supposed cleanliness of sheets being one of them.

If I remember I change My sheets once a month ish. I'm not prescriptive about it nor do I care to much. How the fuck would I have time to remember to do it when im a single parent - I'm working full time, have 3 children and a dog to look after. I think some people create house work for themselves to be honest. I do what I can when I can, given the constraints of my life and only that.

No way I can be bothered or afford to wash it twice a week! Every two weeks. I hate changing the bedding, disabled, it takes a long time for me. But every two weeks.

On average probably every 4 weeks, the DC's the same unless they wet the bed.

<creeps away in shame>