Changing the bedding

Rosina never thought of putting dry sheets in dryer to smooth them, have I got that right? I use pairs of sheets so don't have to wash duvet, fortnightly.

My Dh and I love clean sheets and I do the bedding weekly on Fridays. I put clean sheets and pillowcases on my son's bed every week but turn his duvet over so I anly wash it fortnightly.

When my son went to university we bought him new bedding. He bought it home having used it for a YEAR unwashed. His sister and I took it to the dump with the car windows wound down. We also threw away the duvet. Utterly disgusting.

Now, however, though he doesn't show any signs of doing it himself, the DS seems appreciative of my efforts.

Bed linen weekly just like my mum did, and now my daughters do the same.

Towels every other day.. Normally bottom sheet and pillow cases weekly, quilt cover every two weeks.

I'm with Luckygirl not admitting to anything also had 6 children so became a slut!

I change my bedding twice a year whether it needs it or not! Seriously though in an ideal world I would have clean sheets and pillow cases every week but as this isn't necessary they get done when I think it's needed. Tea towels several times a week and hand towels a couple of times. No routine though. I am no slave to housework as long as everything is put away in its place and doesn't obviously look dirty. Life is for living

I wash our bedding weekly, towels about twice a week ... we tumble them after showering ... but I wash the hand towels every other day. I dread to think how long DH would leave before washing the bed stuff, or any stuff come to think of it!

The spare bed stuff gets washed after being used and then again to freshen it up before visitors ... mostly cos I love a fresh bed myself so feel the need to inflict it on others!

onneker with you all the way- I've found reading this thread incredible. Large bath towels washed every other day and bedding weekly -

you could get rid of one nuclear power station if people cut down to every week for bath towels and every two or three weeks for sheets- especially as most people shower daily these days and don't work down the mines...

Truly I do not feel either guilty or dirty for doing the above...

I change the bed when I feel like it/ when it needs it. Depends on how muddy the dogs have got! LOL
Towels.....oh my goodness. Probably not even once a month. My view is that they dry you when you have just washed so don't get too dirty. And my kitchen hand towels are black so.......
D who lives with me does her bed regularly every week, but she's an organised clean-freak, unlike her laissez-faire mother......
Takes all types to make the world.

Me too luckygirl. Life's too short. ?

Weekly for bedding and every 2-3 days for towels. I take after my late mother in this, both of us being of the view that if it stays still long enough it goes in the wash!

I am blown away by the idea of washing guest sheets after one use - and then washing these clean sheets again before a new guest comes!!!!

Most of our guests are family and they are well aware that sheets that have only been slept in for one night do not get washed!! They all seem to be surviving!

M with elegran, granhura and onneker on this. Im appalled at the amount of unnecessary washing and tumle drying that people are doing when water is being polluted and energy use contributes to climate change. I wash everything (sheets, towels, clothes, tea towels once a week and try to air dry as far as possible. We are aquandering the earths resources for the sake of luxury!

I am truly astonished, washing sheets weekly? Gracious, and are they are dried in a tumble drier too, what a waste of energy, of all varieties, both yours and the planet.

I do mine monthly sometimes less often than that depending on whether its a bright day and the sheets are able to dry in the garden. Hate them hanging round the house and what a fag having to constantly change sheets on beds.

Towels always hung up and aired after use, and reused for a couple of weeks, thought that was all fairly normal......what an eye opener.

Same here silverlining48 - don't forget there are probably hundreds more GN members who haven't dared to post on this thread because it seems everyone is more fussy than they are!

I wonder how many would be washing sheets and towels so often if they had to use a dolly-tub and plunger like our grannys?

phew ana, thank goodness its not just me. Come on ladies, and gents, be honest do you all seriously wash bedding every week????
i met a woman on a cruise and she washed her towels every single time she used them and her bed linen daily...i thought she was either completely mad or having me on, i just couldn't believe it.

I am another one on the side of the environment, though I do have to change OH's hand towel fairly often as he is another one who thinks towels are for removing the rest of the dirt ?

I do,however, not understand guests who carefully make the bed before leaving. Do they think someone else will use their sheets?

In our house they do!

For the sake of balance .... every whenever the sheets have been on a while and I think about or / when they are less than fresh.

Mr C is in charge of bed changing, every two weeks is average. Towels get washed each week, kitchen towels more often if needed - or we have visitors . Spare bed is changed as needed and yes, if the same body is going in there next time not after every overnight stay.

And how many people on here think it's normal to shower AND bath every day???

I'm also appalled about how much washing/tumble drying some people do, but then I live alone and have no set routines. Things get done when they obviously need it. I'm sure my towels last me a few weeks, after all I'm clean when I use them.

Towels weekly, sheets fortnightly. When DH was having chemo I was extra vigilant and washed sheets weekly.
I bath every other night ( don't have a shower and hate them anyway!)

One thing I ALWAYS do is pull the duvet back in the morning and let the bed 'air'. This means sometimes I have to make the bed before I get in it at night but I don't mind because I know all the moisture that gathers in the bed over night has evaporated. Am I the only one who does this?

Bedlinen,bath towels, bathrobes, weekly. Hand towels at least 3 times a week. Spare bed immediately after every guest. Don't like to leave slept in beds unchanged as I always worry about bedbugs or dust mites breeding unseen.