Duvet users - how often do you wash yours?

thehappybutterfly

kezlou wrote: »

We still have the those felted -wool blankets
I bought them when we lived in the old house for about £2 each, they are amazingly warm. In the winter my children have bottom sheet, duvet and blankets on top. We have a king size duvet and two blankets on ours.

Okay washing duvets i have to wash the single ones constantly as ds2 wets the bed and everything needs to be washed. Think my neighbours think i'm mad .

So single duvets once a week in the washing machine.
King size just gets aired out, can't fit it in the washing machine. I don't bother to scrub it unless it really needs it.

sounds bad eh?:o

That's a lot of beddage kezlou - sheets, duvets AND blankets?

Maybe I should get the singles washed while the weather's decent. And it would lessen my shame at my slovenliness

thehappybutterfly

Valli wrote: »

I usually take mine down the launderette in the summer (I washed one once, in a bath - never again...) because they have huge machines. I used to have an 8kg machine so washed the single duvets in there.

DD and I use topsheets. But duvet covers still get washed at least once a fortnight. DS, however, no longer uses a top sheet - he was kicking it down the bed so I stopped giving him one.

I also wash their pillows, on sunny days;)

My pillows, on the other hand, I have had for 29 years and I got them when the old lady who lived next door to my first MiL died.

In my defence I have had the filling (feathers) taken out and cleaned and they have had new ticking (before you're all grossed out) a few times!

I was away to say! :rotfl:

I honestly don't know where our nearest launderette is - I think there may be one in the nearest city but that's miles away. We have a drycleaner in town but they wanted something like £25 for cleaning the kingsize - no bloody chance! Although it must be a popular service as you're stepping over bagged duvets in the shop.

Valli

Our launderette is actually in walking distance. The lady who runs it had a sort of hardware/bargains shop at the end of our little precinct, in and the launderette closed so she bought it. She does ironing and service washes and has now bought the empty shop next door so the launderette is double sized. I use it for dry cleaning and when the WM breaks and the big jobs - duvet and I take the sleeping bags down there too. They still have the bargains shop, too - quite a little empire!

thehappybutterfly

RazWaz wrote: »

I'm the same, I drive my OH nuts making him get up and fix it cause "the weight feels wrong". Put my duvet over me and I can tell you which side the opening is! I think it's insomnia that's made me 'learn' it.

I once put on the reversible cover on the flip side but didn't like it. My hubby was astonished when I stripped it back off the duvet to turn it over the other side - "can't you just flip the whole thing over?" Hmmm, you would think. That's when he learned of my aversion to 'wrong-sidedness'

thehappybutterfly

Valli wrote: »

Our launderette is actually in walking distance. The lady who runs it had a sort of hardware/bargains shop at the end of our little precinct, in and the launderette closed so she bought it. She does ironing and service washes and has now bought the empty shop next door so the launderette is double sized. I use it for dry cleaning and when the WM breaks and the big jobs - duvet and I take the sleeping bags down there too. They still have the bargains shop, too - quite a little empire!

It sounds it! Hmmm, maybe a gap in the market in my neck of the woods. Not for me - cleaning other peoples' dirty smalls? No thanks!

joedenise

thehappybutterfly wrote: »

I once put on the reversible cover on the flip side but didn't like it. My hubby was astonished when I stripped it back off the duvet to turn it over the other side - "can't you just flip the whole thing over?" Hmmm, you would think. That's when he learned of my aversion to 'wrong-sidedness'

Sounds like me! We always have the same side facing up (I've got plain covers coffee & cream coloured) always the coffee coloured side. When I bought it I'd planned on coffee in winter and cream in summer but I just couldn't do it, LOL - the opening has to be at the bottom.

Denise

Dunroamin

We have winter and summer duvets and they each get washed once a year, just before I put them away for the season.

ERICS_MUM

I'm a "throw duvet & pillows away and buy new cheap ones once a year" brigade.

When I strip the bed for laundry I drape the duvet over the banister to air.

I also put an old pillowcase on top of my pillow when I go to sleep so I don't dribble etc on my nice clean "proper" pillowcase.

thehappybutterfly

Ugh, pillowcases. Or to be more accurate, other peoples' pillowcases. My hubby's always develops a big dark greasy looking mark in the centre which I'm sure is just hair wax but I keep thinking is dirty hair residue

jools27_2

I am also a flinger, can buy them cheaper than the launderette charges! I have been known to wash pillows, but they don't always go back into shape very well, so if that happens they are replaced.