How often do people change sheets and have a fresh towel

sweetilemon

I don't have a set routine, handtowels I change when it doesn't smell/look/feel very fresh. Bath towels I use a fresh one for me and a small fresh one for my hair. DH will reuse towels, so I usually use any towel hes used for the floor and wash the lot. Bed sheets, again when they aren't looking/smelling or feeling fresh. TBH its usually on my to-do list for a while before I do them! Just because I try to get all the normal washing done first before I do the sheets.

maman

MrsE wrote: »

With towels it depends how many are using them.
I live alone & change mine weekly, per usage, thats more frequently than a family of 4 changing them every other day.
I change my sheets weekly too.
I only have white sheets & towels, I like to see they are clean.

There are two of us and I do much the same and I have white towels and sheets too.

I have noticed a change in the last week or so. Through the summer, towels tend to dry off after use quite easily and the same is true when the heating's on. Recently I haven't liked the smell of used towels and flannels as they don't dry so easily when it's cooler but not cold enough for heating so they get changed as needed.

penelopedee_2

Hand and tea towels are changed daily.

Bedding once a week.

Bath towels 2 or 3 times a week - I've just bought us thinner bath towels rather than bath sheets, so that they dry quicker. The old set were taking 2 hours in the tumbler. We each have our own towel and have a radiator each allocated to dry them on!

Bath mat is done 1 or 2 times a week, depending on how messy the boys have been.

Sequeena

My OH sweats terrible in bed so I change sheets two, sometimes 3 times a week. Towels for us usually last for 2 uses (unless it's a certain time of month ). My toddler's towel usually lasts for 3 uses.

Tea towels are every day, hand towels normally every 2 days, bath mats usually once a week.

Funky_Bold_Ribena

Sequeena wrote: »

Towels for us usually last for 2 uses (unless it's a certain time of month ).

I don't think they mean that sort of towel.

Sequeena

Funky_Bold_Ribena wrote: »

I don't think they mean that sort of towel.

:rotfl: :T

No, I don't think so either!

lostinrates

maman wrote: »

There are two of us and I do much the same and I have white towels and sheets too.

I have noticed a change in the last week or so. Through the summer, towels tend to dry off after use quite easily and the same is true when the heating's on. Recently I haven't liked the smell of used towels and flannels as they don't dry so easily when it's cooler but not cold enough for heating so they get changed as needed.

i change face clothes every day, simply because after washing I use them for a quick wipe down of the bathroom. I then save them up and d them in big bulk washes.

(I do the same with my cleaning clothes and kitchen 'fabric' of all sorts ...use them for a day, and then chuck then in a bucket at the end of the day. When the bucket is full they go on a hot wash which I consider to have the dual purpose of cleaning them and my washing machine. That happens something between weekly and fortnightly. )

Funky_Bold_Ribena

maman wrote: »

There are two of us and I do much the same and I have white towels and sheets too.

I have noticed a change in the last week or so. Through the summer, towels tend to dry off after use quite easily and the same is true when the heating's on. Recently I haven't liked the smell of used towels and flannels as they don't dry so easily when it's cooler but not cold enough for heating so they get changed as needed.

Walk me through this again.

You don't like your towels to be damp, after absorbing a small amount of water after a bath/shower, so you completely immerse the towel in water thus making it incredibly wet and then you spend more time and money getting it dry in order for it to then be used once more to dry your clean body off.

Right?

bluebag

So many different answers, it would seem we all have our preferences and dislikes and of course some of us sleep nakkked and some wit de PJ's.

I am knocking on a bit in years and remember having to do laundry in a copper which involved lighting a fire under it, and bashing the very divil out of it. It then went out to the backyard and got mangled and finally on the line or round the fire to steam the place up on the maiden.
Then it was all ironed.

Took two flippin days. My mum changed the beds monthly, I really don't blame her.

kboss2010

Bedding every two weeks, towel once a week