How often do you change & wash your bed linen?

Another slut saving the planet here.

I change bedding and towels when I think it needs doing - and it's definitely not on a weekly or fortnightly schedule! We both wear pjs and change them every week, but not on any schedule as such, again just when they need changing.

I don't have a schedule for any housework, although the laundry is usually done overnight on weekends because my DH needs clean shirts for work during the week.

Surely none of us believe we're so dirty or grubby that we need a schedule for laundry? I love the feel of fresh bed linen, but not enough to create extra washing. And what about the cost of all this laundry?

It's interesting that we're cleaner than ever, yet so many of us still have habits from the days when we had a bath once a week and antiperspirant hadn't been invented!

I change the beds every couple of weeks - we're in separate rooms so twice the amount of washing (and ironing!). I'd love to do them weekly as it's really nice to get into clean bedding but I just don't have the time. I don't wear pj's in bed as I get too hot. I have a dishwasher but still use tea towels so they get washed 2 or 3 times a week (the washer is full of them at the moment after Christmas day so needs to go on this morning) and towels the same. I wish someone had some tips on keeping towels fresh - no matter how often they're washed in a hot wash a couple of the bath towels still have that horrid damp odour. I've actually thrown one particular one out as I just couldn't get rid of the smell - they're hung over the radiator after use so not hanging around damp all day. I soak the dishcloths in bleach for a couple of hours but wouldn't recommend that with children around - my son once dipped a cup in the water and drank it while my back was turned. A race to the hospital (on foot) and his stomach pumped was the result! That was 42 years ago and neither of us has forgotten it!

I'm with Wilma in the "when they need it" club. Towels and other linens go in the washer whenever I put a load in. However I always put clean bed linen on the bed when we go away just so I can come back to lovely fresh sheets. Always clean the bathrooms too for similar reasons.

I don't know how often I wash tea towels either. If I'm doing a hot wash and one seems to have been used a fair bit, I'll bung it in.

Moving on from washing... I can't remember when I last vacuumed the front room other than that it's within the last fortnight. I think ?

How often do I clean the fridge? Dunno.

How often do I swab the kitchen floor? Dunno. I do it (or part of it) if it gets sticky. Otherwise, shrug.

I did wash outside windows this year... at least I think I did ?

Shove over in the sluts' corner. I'm joining yous.

thatbags I'm with you on the fridge thing and the windows - also kitchen cupboards! I do sweep and wash the kitchen, utility and passage floors almost daily as we have two cats so hair and litter have to be cleared up. Vacuuming upstairs ............... well probably when I change the beds - my mother would have been appalled

Oh my! I don't think I could muster enough energy to change a bed and vacuum a bedroom floor on the same day!! ??

I am with thatbags but have been keeping quiet about it .

My response to the question is when I have nothing better to do or when I think about it which isn't very often. A wet tea towel just gets thrown into the washing machine to await the next wash.

I have a slightly pongy towel problem too, willow500, even though they blow about in the hot sun for hours. I think it may be DH's fault.
soaking them in napisan helps a bit.

I don't have any routines at all when it comes to housework. The washing machine is probably on 3-4 times a week (2 adults only in the house), we have pets so floors swept most days, vacuuming when DH gets around to it/I point out that it needs done, whichever comes first.
Bedding is changed when I think about it or, as is more likely, the second or third time I think about it.
Dusting/polishing gets done when the sun shines on wood surfaces & I realise it's been a few days.
I'm fairly tidy though & kitchen & bathroom are always clean.

Duvet cover fortnightly; bottom sheet, pillowcases and towels weekly (or as appropriate!); tea towels at least three times a week.

I'm with looplou on this one. I change bed sheets and mattress covers, pillow cases & pillow covers weekly. Hand towels every couple of days, and tea towels. Bath towels weekly. Dish cloths I buy the disposable ones and change them every other day. Duvet covers weekly and I iron them too!

Weekly for us. Bottom sheet, duvet cover, and top pillow cases .
All towels once a week except hand towels twice.
Remember when we used to do "top to bottom" anyone?

Bed linen, fort nightly in the winter and weekly in the summer. Shower Towels, weekly. Hand and tea towels at least daily. More often if we have visitors.

More often than daily????

Most things weekly, including cat bedding and door mats. Teatowels more often, even with the dishwasher. I turn the duvet so the cover lasts a fortnight. J cloths daily, or every two days at most.

I am a fully signed up member of slut corner, except I wash my teatowels every day because the dogs brush against them.

Pongy towels - do at least one wash per week at 60C, might as well do the towels. That's to kill the pong bugs in the washing machine.

How on earth do towels get pongy, unless they've been left, wet, on the floor for days?

I rarely do! DH does it mostly! I sling my towels in the wash whenever I think I would like a fresh one! Dishcloths???? Oh!

Ah, memories. We got home from a fortnight away once and the pong of towels knocked us back as we opened the front door. As Ana says, left on the floor, wet, for days, by student son. The sofa was still damp following a bathroom overflow incident and the goldfish was floating dead in his bowl (from old age, but he didn't know what to do with the poor thing). Welcome home, Mum and Dad!

Ah, yes, the student son - I remember mine bringing home a duvet that was in too advanced a state of decomposition to be saved. At least my housekeeping had endowed him with a strong immune system.

Can't help wondering how often all our GN weekly/ daily washers would
consider it to be absoutlely necessary to launder their bed linen and towells;
If they had to wash in an old-fashioned copper,and wring it dry using an
enormous cast-iron mangle in the outhouse?
I don't remember being particularly grubby as a child, but remember,with horror,
my mother's weekly wash day.
The wet washing seemed to hang around the house for days if the
weather was not windy enough to dry it on the clothes line.

Thank god for the inventor of the automatic washing machine!9

I'd probably stretch it to once a year, Leonora, whether it needed it or not.

I bought a lovely red teddy bear blanket from Dunelm and am using it instead of a bottom sheet, it is really warm and snuggly and I haven't washed it yet. And I got a new Christmas duvet set so my bed was wonderful to climb into. But it is more than fortnightly that I do my bedding but towels get done more regularly and with anti bac because they end up on my DS's bedroom floor!

We moved house often due to dad's work. We moved just after Christmas and the birth of a baby from a lovely village to a grim small town. The washing line broke, leaving the sheets and baby's nappies lying in the mud. I remember mum weeping quietly as we gathered them all together to be washed in the boiler again. One of the grandfather's bought her a twin tub as soon as those wonderful domestic appliances were invented.
Another washday memory is helping to bring in the washing that had frozen on the line. There were sheets that day as well and we only lived there for about a year so mum must have been a regular bed sheet changer even then.