People who wash their bedding every week . . .

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Which exact items are you washing every week?

I took a day of annual leave yesterday to do some tidying and deep cleaning whilst DS was in nursery and did a full change of our bedding which involved 2 laundry loads with pre-soaking both in some Vanish beforehand:

1 x coloured duvet cover
4 x coloured pillow cases

1 x white sheet
1 x white mattress protector
4 x white under pillow cases

It took the best part of a day to get through everything and that was with quite warm weather so everything could dry on the line.

Do people who wash their bedding every week do all of this or are you just doing some items weekly and the rest less frequently?

We don’t have a tumble dryer. We do bedding fortnightly, NOT the mattress protectors though!! So it’s our bedding one weekend plus a generic towels wash (facecloths, dishcloths, tea towels, rags ) and the kids bedding and the towels the other weekend.
in summer we try and do all the pillows and duvets and the electric blanket on a hot week, or might use the laundromat.

Once a week. Strip my double bed and the dc singles on the morning. Double with pillow cases single sheet in for wash, then in the drier. Whilst that's drying , the singles and double sheet into wash then the drier. All back on the bed by lunchtime. 9kg washing machine and 10kg washer helps.

I used to wash our bedding weekly but then realised how bad it is for the planet. I now have a three week cycle:
Wk 1- full change. I have a kingsize duvet cover, six pillows (including V) a top sheet and a bottom sheet.
Wk 2- change the top and bottom sheet. Bottom pillow becomes top, V pillow is flipped over.
Wk 3 - change all bedding except for duvet cover.
Kids change own bedding as and when they choose.
I don't EVER hang the bedding on the line though. A colleague woke up to her son hoovering at 1am one day. Baby spiders had come out of the duvet cover and were all over his bed!!!!

Sheets and pillow cases - every six to eight weeks I guess sometimes longer.

Duvet cover and mattress protector - once or twice a year.

Fitted sheet, duvet cover and pillowcases weekly. Pillow protectors roughly quarterly, mattress protector twice a year.

Edited to delete as I posted on entirely the wrong thread! Sorry for any confusion

I wash the sheets, pillowcases and duvet (coverless ones) every week. The pillow protectors and mattress protector every couple of months. I do have spares for each bed so I normally strip a bed and put fresh bedding on then I'm not racing to wash and dry the other set all in a day.

Bath mats go in with the towels on a hot wash.

I have hung my bedding outside to dry my entire life. I live in Australia. Never ever had spiders in it before.

Bath mat goes in with the towels on a hot wash.

My neighbour washes her bath mat with her shower curtain and mat around the toilet.

I wash my pillow cases, fitted sheet and duvet cover once per week. Mattress topper and duvet itself get done once per month. My pillows are really icky at the moment and well over due.....they get done about once every three months.

I have a health issue that means my bedding needs washing more frequently than I would otherwise do it. Without the health issue, I'd be doing the duvet covers, pillow cases and fitted sheet about once a fortnight.

I did try to reply earlier, but it hasn't gone through.

I have a health issue which generates more laundry than I would like, so I wash pillow cases, fitted sheets, mattress protector and duvet covers once per week. They all get bunged in a hot wash (due to the health issue) with either bio powder for whites or bio colour powder for non-whites. They all come out clean with no stains (even the white bed linen).

If I didn't have the health issue, I'd probably wash them once a fortnight, at a 40 degree wash.

The duvet itself, and the mattress topper get done about once a month (hot wash, bio powder).

Pillows get done once every three months.

I use whatever fabric conditioner is on offer.

When I had a garden I used to always line dry if it wasn't raining. Now I either put them on a clothes horse with a dehumidifier or in the tumble dryer.

I love the look of white bedding and love my crisp Soak and Sleep 600TC whites. They're really not that difficult to maintain at all. I don't pre-soak, I just shove them in a hot wash with bio powder. They always come out looking like new.

I usually wear a top or trousers/leggings two or three times. Once it is out of the wardrobe, it does not go back in until it has been washed and so it gets chucked in the laundry bin. Underwear gets worn for one day and then put in the laundry bin. I have three laundry bins - whites, darks (I wear a lot of darks) and one for everything else. Once one of the bins is full, it gets put in the washer.

I most often do my washing at the weekend, as that is when I strip my bed. A bit icky, I know, but I shove my towel in the wash once a week, rather than after every shower. Likewise hand towels.

Tea towels and cleaning cloths get used for one use and shoved in the laundry bin.

Living alone here, which makes it simpler, but I did the same when I was raising my kids.

Really really miss the convenience of having a garden and washing line. I put my clothes on an airer with a dehumidifier, or alternatively, I bung them in the dryer.

Ditto. I have one set of white bedding which I got from Soak and Sleep and a a set from from Dusk and one from Ikea. I also have a couple of lightly used nearly new sets from Ebay which only cost a few quid. About 5 sets in all. Nice to be able to change up how my bedroom looks!

Brand Alley, Homescapes and Dunelm all seem to do nice stuff, as does La Redoubte.

I wash all bedding once a week, I don't do all beds in one day though . If it's dry out they get line dried if not I hang them on the stair banister.

I had a friend who had eczema and used to have blood on sheets that never washed out and took ages to soak with stain remover

I suggested she put a dishwasher tablet in with her normal washing powder, it worked a treat and all the blood just washed out no soaking and no time wasted

We only ever sleep on one pillow each, so twice a week, I wash -
Bottom sheet (we don't use a top one)
2 pillow cases
duvet cover.
2 pillow protectors
Nothing is pre-washed; I use a quick wash (15 minutes) on 40 degrees.
I wash the mattress protector about once a month.

In fine weather, it's all dried on the line. Otherwise, on a clothes horse in the spare bedroom. I've got about 8 sets.

All that wouldn't fit in my machine. I don't wash the mattress cover anything like as frequently as the rest. The fitted sheet and pillowcases most frequently.

I wash sheets, duvet covers and pillow cases once a week.

I used to do it less frequently and I've realised they really need changing that often IMO. When you think how many hours we are lying sweating in bed, it makes sense, also I think I slept better in clean sheets.

King size bed here, one bottom sheet, one duvet cover, 2 pillow slips.

Bed is stripped every Friday, washed same day and hung outside if dry. If wet, we wait a few days if weather looks better in a few days or we dry over the heated dryer.

Takes approx 15 mins to strip and remake bed with fresh linen.
5 mins to load machine.
59 minute wash.
15 mins to take and peg outside/10 mins to unpeg, fold and put away.

So roughly 45 mins total for the entire job.