how often do you change ur kids beds???

[6inchnipples]

I only change my kids beds when they lose that fresh smell/feeling. I don't have a regular set pattern for doing it and we are away at least one or two weekends a month. Sometimes it can be 3 weeks, even 4 between changes.

My mum strips her bed religously every week and i'm sure she'd be horrified if she thought i wasn't changing the kids as often.

i'd be interested how often other people change their kids beds. (kids are pre school btw.)

nickschick - clean pj's every night?! Do you want to adopt me?!!!

Kids beds every 2/3 weeks. Undersheet a bit more often than duvet. Usually decide on when if for some reason I have no washing or a but of room in the machine for a couple of items. They are all pre school and have baths before bed nearly every night.

I do our bedding every weekend (unless there is for some reason a huge backlog of washing combined with awful weather). If DH is away with work I might leave duvet 2 weeks but would still do undersheet weekly.

generally once a fortnight but at mo sometimes twice a night (night time potty training)

Mine also have clean pjs every night. All still in night nappies/pull up so usually a faint whiff of wee on the pj bottoms. They eat breakfast in pjs too so coated in that as well.

I reckon some people have way too much time on their hands!!! All this washing bedding weekly or more, and clean clothes (other thread) every day. It isn't necessary on the whole. It is bad for the environment. It wastes water. It spoils your clothes. Seriously - it just isn't necessary. Find something more exciting to do than washing, drying, ironing and putting away!

Hulababy I could kiss you

Once a fortnight for everybody - Saturday morning. Dcs (9 and 5) strip their beds.

I can understand polluting the environment and all but it's got nothing to do with how much time people have on their hands!

Takes a few minutes to sort the washing, a minute or so to put it on and voila, the machine does the rest. Marvellous!

But it does take time - especially when talking about the clothes and ironing and putting away. And the duvets are a pain to put in. And you have to be in to do it all - to take it off and put it int he machine, to wait til it is finished and either hang out or load tumble dryer, and then wait again so it can come out and be aired, some people even iron it, and then put back on again. I don;t like leaving the machine on when I am out much so I do have to have time to spare during the day, wwhich isn't that often TBH.

Ah, I can see your points. I frequently go out with the washing machine on, otherwise I'd probably never do any and I most certainly don't iron the bedding!

Stripping beds doesn't take long in itself and I often remake the beds while the dc's bath is running or whatever. DH struggles manages much better than I do with our king-size duvet though, so that's a bonus!

In theory, fortnightly; in practice, it sometimes drifts to 3 weekly.

I always feel like a slattern on these laundry threads, but I honestly do not think clothes/towels need washing after a single use.

Its not the srtipping the bed that's the problem -its making them again

Hulababy - you wise one -fire brigade actually reckomend that you don't leave machine running when out or asleep due to strong fire risk. A fact the hair dressing department's machine proved many years back when i did night school. it was too cold to be stood outside for 30mins!

Mine are all under 7 and i change their beds every monday morning.

i have loads of time to spare and i love it iam rarely ever bored my washing does get on my nerves as it is neverending but i stand by my washing sheets frequently etc i just love clean fresh clothes and bedding it may be bad for the enviroment but i do lots of other eco friendy things to try and make up for all the water used

oneforward20back - it was a similar type of story that always makes me thing twice about leaving the machine on when I leave the house. And would def never leave a tumble dryer on.

About every 2-3 weeks, more often if the DCs are dribbly/snotty. They have a bath most nights and aren't sweaty children so I think that's plenty

Dad have fire brigade do a free fire a check of the house and the rules in place are a little ocd. Everything (except alarm clocks) gets unpluged when not in use. Thankfully not got to point of practising fire drills. Only ds not knowing what to do but going to teach as a bit of game. Not sure what sound sensitive ds is going to make of alarm - normally test it when he is out.

I do ours and ds' (2.6) every Sunday evening. He's a very dribbly sleeper and we've got a cat that likes to share ours!

created seperate thread for fire saftey bits thought would be best to keep this as light hearted a possible. If interested it is here

Sazzabear - ok lol....

lockets - i use the allergen scented febreze it just keeps everything 'fresh'

Hulababy- even when dc were small and later when I was working I still changed the bed linen every week if not more often - i have a system now...

I remove bottom sheets and pillowcases leaving duvet cover and matching pillow cases lay flat on the bed.....

as sheets dry and duvet covers are put in the wash I febreze mattress and duvets and open windows wide.

Once the sheets are dry or ive ironed fresh ones I turn the mattress and slip clean sheet and bottom pillowcases on

When duvet covers are ready (ironed or out of drier) I put duvet covers on and pillow slips put all bears and stuff on the bed and
the jobs done - 5 mins per bed tops.

I also never leave washer or drier on at night or if im going out.