washing bedding - how often?

rev229

I wash all our bedding every week but hate doing it. Is every other week acceptable. We are clean people ie shower every day!!!!

elvis_bloggs

Mine gets done every 3 months whether it needs it or not.

tee_pee_2

do what is best for you, I think though it is not a matter of being clean people the bed gets full of skin which causes dust mites.

Not sure that really answers your question

MrsTinks

Hmmm i tend to go by a couple of factors SMELL if they smell fresh (of conditioner and the lavender I keep in the airing cupboard) then I think they're probably ok Also if I know that we have had a couple of warm nights where due to the temperature we have sweated more than usual then I'll change them each week. Otherwise i change them every 2 weeks (we usually have a bath in the evening before bed and a shower in the morning to wake up ). I also use matress and pillow protectors that are alledgedly supposed to be hyper allergenic thingy doofers and I intend to start on using baking soda I think it was on the matress at least once a month (and then hoover it off) to reduce odours (not that I have noticed any but hey )

elvis_bloggs

tee_pee wrote:

do what is best for you, I think though it is not a matter of being clean people the bed gets full of skin which causes dust mites.

Not sure that really answers your question

Everybody has dust mites and there's dead skin everywhere, it's the skid marks you have to watch out for.

rev229

can't see skid marks on dark coloured sheets!!!

tee_pee_2

elvis_bloggs wrote:

Everybody has dust mites and there's dead skin everywhere, it's the skid marks you have to watch out for.

Urghhhh you sound just like my husband :rotfl:

elvis_bloggs

rev229 wrote:

can't see skid marks on dark coloured sheets!!!

Sniff around a bit.

Dobie

rev229 wrote:

I wash all our bedding every week but hate doing it. Is every other week acceptable. We are clean people ie shower every day!!!!

I think anything is acceptable as long as you're happy with it. I wash ours every 8 days normally. I started doing this instead of every 7 days as a way of cutting down on water washing powder & electricity use as an environmental thing. I'm happy with that although I think I might feel the need to wash them more often in the summer just because fresh cool sheets feel so lovely when it's hot.

Lydia_2

I need to do ours once a week because I need a routine or I'll forget about it. I dont iron bedding if I can help it. The bottom (fitted sheet) I put on the bed as soon as it comes out of the wm in the morning. top sheet on the line or a radiator dries within an hour and the duvet cover also on the line or a radiator only takes two hours. If you give them a good shake and fold them as soon as they come out of the wm there is no need to iron.

MrsTinks

ironing bedsheets? Nope... I'm confused Actually I don't do ironing full stop I think it could be against my religion OH irons his own shirts and everything else is folded before it's put away and nothing usually needs ironing I take bedding sheets form the bottom of the folded pile (so they have been "pressed by the ones on top" and it gives me a fairly good rotation of bedding so we don't use the same one every time