Do You Make Your Bed Every Morning?

ceridwen

Confuzzled wrote: »

you can do what i do sometimes... i wash the duvet IN it's duvet cover

not sure if your machine is big enough for that but if it can take the king size duvet i'd think it could also take a thin duvet cover too

course i guess this depends on how often you want to wash your duvet or covers, i wash my duvet covers about every 3 weeks, the duvet only gets washed every 6-8 weeks

One big mistake I made when I bought my washing machine was getting one that has turned out to be too small. It never occurred to me that washing machines came in different sizes:o - hence all I was concerning myself with was was buying a decent make. Having duly bought a Zanussi (back at the time when they were made by the original firm - not the case anymore:mad:) - its gone on for years and years and years...and never even had a repair in that time (unlike the one it replaced - a Hotpoint twintub as I recall) - so "touch wood quick" having said that it will continue for some years yet. I'm in no haste to replace a washing machine that doesnt seem to have "built-in obsolescence" programmed into it:rolleyes: - as its replacement probably would have been "built to fail". But - when that eventually happens - I will certainly buy the biggest one I can fit into my tiny little kitchen and hope its big enough for duvets - hence part of the problem: ie I have to stagger to and from a laundrette with it any time I want to wash a duvet (no car of course....and I dont know about laundrettes generally....but all the ones near me are GROTTY bigtime).

I think one solution to the washing the duvet thing would obviously be to just throw the duvet frequently and buy a new one - but I think that would be a bit too "consumerist" for my liking (usage of worlds scarce resources and all that...) and if you'd seen the price I pay for duvets then you'd understand why that would make me reluctant to throw them out frequently - good-quality feather ones is what I buy...so they're not cheap.

ceridwen

PasturesNew wrote: »

I must admit, I've been quiet on the issue of washing habits as I feel dirty when it's 2-3 weeks

If I was doing rumpy pumpy stuff I'd be washing it twice a week. All that sweat and fluids... probably I'd change it after each time ... who knows. Maybe she's changing it after every rumpy pumpy session ... once a year :j.

...errr...well...there is a top sheet between me and the duvet and its cover.....

The sheets get washed frequently...

"rumpy-pumpy" - whats that?:D okay....I know...I know.....and there aint any of that chez ceridwen........second thoughts......"am I bovvered?" - well....not really...

helyg

We don't use a top sheet, just a bottom sheet and duvet, and the duvet cover gets washed every weeks along with the sheet and pillowcases (kids beds sometimes get changed more often due to the obvious!).

I turn back all of the duvets when we get up, then I usually put them back properly when I get back from work at lunchtime. If anyone is in my house looking at the scruffy beds in between then they are clearly a burglar and I'm not too interested in their opinion of my housekeeping!

I have a "trickle vent" on my windows, so I can leave them ajar but still locked, which I do with all of the bedroom windows every morning.

Duvets themselves are washed 3 or 4 times a year. We replace pillows about once a year, after I watched Anthea... She showed that if you balance the pillow on your outstretched forearm it should sit straight, if it is weighed down at the sides then it is full of dead skin and sweat and it is time for a new one. As my son and I are asthmatic this is an issue for us. Also I quite like fluffy new pillows... I know it's probably a waste to throw them away, but I haven't found a way of washing pillows which doesn't ruin them (suggestions appreciated!)

Oh and the curtains are washed twice a year.

ceridwen

Actually - thinking further on the coupla comments I found hurtful on here - "wish I had time available for 1950s housewife standards.......". I guess the constructive way to think of this is that a lot of people arent going to realize that I have a combination of:
- full-time job
- no car (by choice)
- tiny washing machine in tiny house
- a busy life generally - whereby I'm constantly having to make compromises on all sorts of things in order to fit the whole reason for everything - ie "my own life" - in on top of the job and housework, etc.

...not helped by what I think is possibly a slightly depressive temperament (but then....how would I actually know? - no wonder I come back a lot of days too depressed to do anything much - with the number of attacks on my wages and conditions that have to be fought off/dealt with/etc:mad: - all for a job I hate anyway....)

But - being constructive here - I had thought that a duvet thats protected by two layers of sheeting (ie top sheet and the duvet cover) would be adequately protected for just having to lug it to the laundrette once a year - topped up by replacing those expensive duvets at 2 or 3 yearly intervals (lugging the old ones to the RSPCA for the dogs to use). Is it not the case that that is adequate? If so - all practical suggestions as to how to deal with the matter within the time/etc restrictions I have would be useful.

Oldernotwiser

ceridwen wrote: »

But - being constructive here - I had thought that a duvet thats protected by two layers of sheeting (ie top sheet and the duvet cover) would be adequately protected for just having to lug it to the laundrette once a year - topped up by replacing those expensive duvets at 2 or 3 yearly intervals (lugging the old ones to the RSPCA for the dogs to use). Is it not the case that that is adequate? If so - all practical suggestions as to how to deal with the matter within the time/etc restrictions I have would be useful.

I'd think that you could certainly wash your duvet cover less frequently if you use a top sheet, perhaps every month? Alternatively, forget the top sheet and wash it fortnightly, maybe.

missychrissy

ceridwen wrote: »

Ahh...but I dislike the struggle to get the duvet snugly back into its cover....(king size!) - so I think its easier to just have to change the sheet.

Hot flushes are STILL :mad: in evidence here chez ceridwen too - so its handy to be able to throw back everything except just a topsheet as well if required.

I'm with you on this one though I'm long past the hot flushes or rather the 'senior moments'.

As I live alone I sleep on one side of the bed one week and then on the other the next - so only change my bed once a fortnight. In addition, it is so much easier to change bottom sheet and top sheet than to change covers on duvet, or duvets in my case in the winter.

I read somewhere that we sweat a pint a night. Life is too short to be making beds when it is so much more hygienic to just throw back the covers every morning and let your bed 'air'.















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Reverbe

Flatmate has to - his bed's the sofa :rotfl:I sleep on the floor so don't have to

Reverbe

ceridwen wrote: »

...errr...well...there is a top sheet between me and the duvet and its cover.....

The sheets get washed frequently...

"rumpy-pumpy" - whats that?:D okay....I know...I know.....and there aint any of that chez ceridwen........second thoughts......"am I bovvered?" - well....not really...

My OH must be carp . I've never once even got slightly hot during nookie

Kadeeae

When I say 'make the bed' what I suppose I mean is what I used to do before, which was to plump pillows, straighten bottom sheet, re-tuck top sheet if using and straighten, shake the duvet out and replace neatly (full and flat on the bed) and I also had a bedspread with matching pillows which would then go on over everything else.

It did look extremely nice when done, but like the way I do it now much better. Not only less work but for whatever reason, to me, it just feels cleaner.

I also hoover the mattress about once a month, just put the furniture attachment on my Sebo and away I go :rotfl: Have seen a special vacuum thingy just for beds - in Lakeland I think and it was very expensive so still use my Sebo but I'm very thorough! Sheets are changed weekly as a rule, more often if needed. I too am currently suffering from "being of an age and tend to either spend my nights boiling or freezing . . .

zippychick

I have never washed duvets or pillows. Hmm. All new in the past year, and all Norhtern lights - so not ones that can just be thrown in the washer. They are all crisp white clean. Dunno, ill look up my Kim and Aggie book and see what they say!