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washing bedding - how often?

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  • jackieb
    jackieb Posts: 27,605 Forumite
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    Lydia wrote:
    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.

    I've probably picked you up wrong but do you put your bottom sheet on the bed when it's still wet?
  • misty
    misty Posts: 1,042 Forumite
    Most people I know don't iron their quilt covers - I do though. I think they feel better than jsut folded - might be my imagination though? I don't mind ironing though - it's every other bit of housework I hate though.

    I change the bedding weekly - my son has a cabin bed and I find that a nightmare to do the fitted sheet. It's end up with him on the matress - me lifting a corner and him tucking it under - could happily leave that longer than a week.
  • My aunt told me that when she was in the WAF they were told to wash just one sheet each week. No fitted sheets, so the top sheet became the bottom sheet on week 2 while the bottom sheet got washed. 2 sheets total, the cleanest on the top and the other on the bottom, constantly rotated. Ive done this in winter but cant any more as Ive got fitted bottom sheets. I go 2 weeks.
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  • Louisepp
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    My aunt told me that when she was in the WAF they were told to wash just one sheet each week. No fitted sheets, so the top sheet became the bottom sheet on week 2 while the bottom sheet got washed. 2 sheets total, the cleanest on the top and the other on the bottom, constantly rotated. Ive done this in winter but cant any more as Ive got fitted bottom sheets. I go 2 weeks.

    This is how we had to do it at home when I was a kid. We also had this routine with the pillowcases:....

    1. Take off both pillowcases
    2. put top pillowcase out to wash
    3, put clean pillowcase on as the bottom pillowcase
    4. Put pillowcase that was on the bottom, now on the top.

    :rotfl: Sounds complex now, but we had to do it every week from the age of five. Hospital corners on the beds too and stand by the bed for inspection. :confused:

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

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  • comping_cat
    comping_cat Posts: 24,006 Forumite
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    I wash the pillow cases, top sheet and bottom sheet weekly, the duvet cover once a month as i feel the top sheet keeps the duvet from getting too dirty. Obviously, any dirt on the duvet, then its done sooner.
    I dont iron the bedding either!!!!
  • Becles
    Becles Posts: 13,184 Forumite
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    Once a week on Tuesdays for my bed, and Wednesdays for the boys beds!

    I tend to strip the beds when I get up and put the stuff in the washing machine while we are having breakfast etc. By the time I walk back from school, the washer is finished, so I either put it in the tumble dryer or the line depending on the weather. I give it a quick iron when I come back from work, and put it back on the beds. It's not really that much of a chore doing it that way.

    I adore going to bed on Tuesday nights and slipping inbetween fresh, crisp sheets, especially if they've had a good blow on the line. I have put the sheets back on un-ironed when I've been unwell, but it never feels as nice to me!
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  • Murtle
    Murtle Posts: 4,154 Forumite
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    I don't use two sheets :confused: but as a kid with sheets and blankets, now that was a weekly nightmare!!!

    However, if you don't want to change you linen weekly, try just changing the top pillowcase as this is where your face is and it's nice to have it on something clean!!

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  • wigginsmum
    wigginsmum Posts: 4,150 Forumite
    We change it approximately fortnightly and never iron bedding (don't iron anything, in fact). If it started to feel icky in the summer, I'd change it more frequently - I do love the feel of fresh bedding. But I don't love it so much that I'm prepared to double my workload in that area; handling kingsize sheets and duvet covers is no fun when you have a bad back.
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  • My bed linen gets changed every Saturday - I love getting into a nice new crisp bed. The patchwork quilts I have on top get washed every couple of weeks. Duvet cover doesn't get ironed but I do iron the pillow cases - gawd knows why!
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