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How often do you change your sheets?

68 replies

AdamAnt · 06/03/2008 19:28

I suspect I may be at the more slatternly end of the scale.

Name changing permitted for Dirty Gerties.

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DualCycloneCod · 07/03/2008 16:42

SO TODAY IS FRIDYA

its sheets day

GetOrfMoiLand · 07/03/2008 16:43

Every 2/3 days, not that I am a sweaty betty, I just like the feel of clean sheets. DD's bed changed once a week. D stepson's sheets come alive and crawl to the machine on their own like the Young Ones' socks (he is 20 and can do his own sheets!)

I have accumulated a lot of bedding over the years!

I don't bloody iron it, tough.

DualCycloneCod · 07/03/2008 16:43

dirtty slgas

FloraPosteschild · 07/03/2008 16:45

Poor Charliecat

I'm more amazed at the people who find time for a long hot bath tbh! I haven't had one for about 5 years!

Sheets, usually about once a fortnight, depending on whether one of the children has been sick on them etc etc. It can be 3 weeks I think. I have no real idea...

I rarely change Ds's in his room, as he never sleeps in his bed (I mean, never) so only about once every few months as I have a nagging suspicion his toy animals are not all that clean minded.

ggglmpp · 07/03/2008 16:46

I have told you - it is unlucky to do sheets on friday.

ours once week, baby two/three times at last, little kids every ten days, big kids when I harange, dss - all I can say is urgh.

charliecat · 07/03/2008 16:59

Im not joking.
We get bathed every day and I swear the sheets never look dirty.
I have mates kids whos beds are ROTTEN, looking but they change thiers often....so...I am too disorganised to think oh yes I will go and do that job, that I hate, again after only doing it a matter of waking hours before.
Really lifes too short.

McDreamy · 07/03/2008 17:00

Once a week for DD and us, usually twice a week for DS as his nappy always manages to leak at least once a week

pointydog · 07/03/2008 17:02

once a fortnight if I remember

pointydog · 07/03/2008 17:03

If it was n anny's job I might bump it up to once a week

harman · 07/03/2008 17:10

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charliecat · 07/03/2008 17:13

Good god no harman With your well made crisp beds its no wonder I always sleep on the sofa. Your cleanliness makes me nervous!

I am clearly in the minority here, but not seeing why its so criminal???!!!

MaryAnnSingleton · 07/03/2008 17:15

but you sweat in the night and bits of old skin sloughs off and gets in your bedding...

charliecat · 07/03/2008 17:16

from my face and my feet? Well you cant SEE it.

KerryMum · 07/03/2008 17:20

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prettybird · 07/03/2008 17:22

Us: bottom sheet, once a week. Duvet cover and pillow cases, once a fortnight

Ds: in theory, alternative fortnight to our duvet covers. In practice, when I remember . Which is not very often

AdamAnt · 07/03/2008 17:44

charliecat - I don't think that's bad!

I aim to wash mine every two weeks, but it frequently slip to 3 weeks and I have occasionally gone longer (much longer in my student days when I smoked in bed and shagged every night ).

KerryMum - we've never had beg bugs (I assume you mean the proper visible things, rather than the teeny weeny microscopic bugs that live everywhere...including your eyelashes? check em out!)

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AdamAnt · 07/03/2008 17:45

doh bed bugs

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llareggub · 07/03/2008 17:50

My son never, ever sleeps underneath the sheets. The only bit of him that ever touches his bedding are his cheeks on his pillow.

I unmake his bed every morning just to air it, otherwise it won't ever get wrinkled. I wash his sheets once a fortnight but it feels like a pointless task.

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