Hoarding - Springing Ahead

IrishRose12

I've a question. Do you wash your duvets and pillows?? Saw a thread about it somewhere on here a few days ago and didn't dare post in it :eek::o

whitewing

We have a launderette that will collect, launder and bring them back. It's costly so I only do it occasionally. To be honest I can nearly buy a new duvet cheaper than laundering it.

Single duvets I can fit in my washing machine.

silvasava

My local cleaners will do them for £15.00 but it costs me about £3.50 at the local launderette to do my king size one in their big washing machines - and I can pre-treat any coffee or tea spills and the ends that get mucky where you pull the quilt up in bed. I wait for a blowy dry day & get there early & use an old clean sheet to put it in to bring home. I must admit when it goes back on the bed smelling of fresh air & my washing liquid - heaven!

thriftwizard

Pillows - only if they are lightweight feather ones, and very much in need of a wash - cheap polyfibre-filled ones I'll chuck, as it really tangles up on spinning and often starts to "pill" through the covering anyway, at which point the pillow is definitely an ex-pillow. Thick feather ones are murder to get dry again & may well go mildewy; those I might re-cover, rather than wash, provided I had or could find some ticking. Duvets etc., yes, I will wash. But again, not the ones with non-woven covers - i.e. the cheapest ones - as the covers just shred.

Mind you, because of having had a bigger family, we have a 10.5Kg washing machine, which to be honest has now become one of the mainstays of my business. Even though several offspring have now (technically, at least) left home, if it died I would replace it, like for like; it's worth its weight in gold to me. I do wash duvets, sleeping bags & eiderdowns for friends & neighbours, too; if your kids have been throwing up all night, the last thing you need is to have to go to the launderette with them (though it's a wonderful break if you can leave them behind!) so it's a small, practical way I can help.

pigpen

IrishRose12 wrote: »

I've a question. Do you wash your duvets and pillows?? Saw a thread about it somewhere on here a few days ago and didn't dare post in it :eek::o

My pillow have a zipped protector on and a slip my girl dirt does not penetrate those!

When OH's get gross.. dirty man dirt! .. I bin his pillows and give him mine and I get new. Using layers means you don't need to wash them often.. I do chuck them in a quick 15 minute wash when they get stale smelling.. not dirt smell just, like me I guess.. usually when I have nothing else to wash.


duvets and the childrens pillows get done once every 4-6 weeks..


in the washer, on the line or over a door to dry

greenbee

silvasava wrote: »

My local cleaners will do them for £15.00 but it costs me about £3.50 at the local launderette to do my king size one in their big washing machines - and I can pre-treat any coffee or tea spills and the ends that get mucky where you pull the quilt up in bed. I wait for a blowy dry day & get there early & use an old clean sheet to put it in to bring home. I must admit when it goes back on the bed smelling of fresh air & my washing liquid - heaven!

Which laundrette do you use? Last time I went it was £7 for the big machine (still much cheaper and Eco friendly than buying new). I think you're fairly close to me, and I have a mattress topper that needs doing soon....

IrishRose12

I've never washed a pillow or duvet in my life I don't buy new ones either. And I have never known anyone who does wash their pillows or duvets.
Only time duvets have been washed is if DC had an accident, but again, that was never often.
And I don't renew my duvets often either, only when I really need a new one. Have duvets that do us all year round so don't swap for seasons etc. Pillows are replaced once a year, and that's only because I'm fussy about how I sleep and need soft fluffy pillows.

Even growing up my mum never washed a duvet or pillow, nor did any of my family or friends. And still don't!
Where we live you would know too as we all have tiny terraced houses (date back to the 1910's) so all drying like that would have to be done outside.
And no launderettes near us either. I wouldn't even know where to look for one here TBH.

I now feel bad lol. However they don't smell, no stains, never had bed bugs of any sort and we're all alive and kicking - family and all so it won't kill us yet lol

GreyQueen

IrishRose12 wrote: »

I've never washed a pillow or duvet in my life I don't buy new ones either. And I have never known anyone who does wash their pillows or duvets.
Only time duvets have been washed is if DC had an accident, but again, that was never often.
And I don't renew my duvets often either, only when I really need a new one. Have duvets that do us all year round so don't swap for seasons etc. Pillows are replaced once a year, and that's only because I'm fussy about how I sleep and need soft fluffy pillows.

Even growing up my mum never washed a duvet or pillow, nor did any of my family or friends. And still don't!

I was worried about all this laundering as I, also, have never washed a duvet in my life, surely that's what the covers are for? Plus I have down&feather duvets and they don't much care for being laundered.

Have been decluttering money this afternoon to the utility company and have spent 6p a day on gas for my cooker and 44p a day for elastic-trickery, which I consider to be very modest. My last quarter was 12p a day for the cooker and 42p a day for the electricity so I have somehow halved the amount of gas used.

Dunno how as I boil the kettle on that stove and run the oven inc baking bread, but I am pleased. £3.50 saved is the best part of a fish supper or 3.5 big bars of chocolate.

In fact, I think I need to be elected Chancellor of the Exchequor so that I can apply a new economic theory to the finances of the nation. It shall be called Chocolate-o-nomics and is surely no sillier than Keynesian economics or monetarism.

One of my first acts as Chancellor will be to summon Mr D Camermoron Esq to my new HQ (low rent lock up on an industrial estate on the edge of town, in keeping with the times we live in).

GQ Mr Camermoron, it has come to my attention that several generations of your family have been stockbrokers, that you have lots of filthy rich friends and that your Fragrant Missus is a baronet's daughter, related to the Astors and not short of a bob or two, correct?

Mr C Errr, Errr (said poshly).

GQ It seems to me that it is past time to apply the Means Test to you and to all other claimants on the government's funds. Congratulations, you have failed and I hereby end your salary, perks, pension-for-life, tenure at Number 10 and you can bring back the keys to Chequors by the end of the week. If you need a gaff to entertain, there's always a Little Chef nearby. Oh, and don't go looking for the limo, we've had that away into a shipping container over to the Chinese for a nice little earner but I'm sure you still remember how to ride a pushbike, awright?

Mr C But....but (poshly).

GQ Now, now, Mr C, there's no good taking it to heart. We're all in this together and we all have to make sacrifices to bring down the national debt. You don't need the money, do you? You're loaded.

You have the right to ask for a statement of reasons, review or appeal. Your appeal must be in writing, on Basildon Bond in lavender ink. We will carefully bury it in peat for at least five years whilst fobbing off your increasingly desperate phone calls. We will keep you hanging on our lines until you have lost all your hair, most of your sanity and have rung up a phone bill greater than Argentina's national debt.

Please be assured that your call is important to us and that we have installed a bit of computer software to tell you so every 15 seconds whilst you are on hold. This may cause a coronary infarction in the susceptible but we can but hope, hey?

We undetake to respond to all your correspondence within 30 working days, although we will run it right up to the wire and there will be a mysterious gap of at least 5 days between the date on our letter and its receipt by yourself. This is ensure that you generate a letter to us in the gap which makes our letter irrelevent.

We always undertake to ask you for more information, despite how much or how many times you have provided the same information already. On receipt of the correctly completedly and signed forms (please don't be tempted to skimp on this, Mr C, or we will just post them back to you) we will also bury them in peat. Or slurry, depending on how far we are through the financial year, of course, and how the budgets are holding up.

Regretfully, at some point you will get to speak to An Advisor who may or may not speak the language very well and ask in exasperation if you can Come in and See Someone about this. We are afraid we cannot accede to this request because we have been outsourced to Pluto (hence the delay in the post) and cannot breathe Earthian air on the grounds of not actually being human. This is due to Government Cutbacks and you only have yourself to blame.

At some point you will have to give up attempting to scrounge off the State and either rely on your previously earned income, family wealth or ask the Fragrant Missus for some beer money.

GQ for Chancellor - you know it makes sense.

pigpen

My sweet GQ... you need a hobby .. I could hear you cackling

GreyQueen

pigpen wrote: »

My sweet GQ... you need a hobby .. I could hear you cackling

How true! But it bears more than a slight resemblence to RL - I do work in a call centre you know. Me and my fellow inmates are all over-educated and under-employed and if you think that was funny, you should hear what the rest of us come up with.

One of my (very funny) colleagues decided I should have 'a show' on the grounds that he'd pay good money to hear me run on, but I have explained that I am an introvert so this wouldn't be possible.

I could start cooking the tea and do the ironing, but that'd just be boring, wouldn't it?