How often do you change & wash your bed linen?

A weekly changer here so that whenever I can't do it one week it hopefully means that it is no longer than a fortnight since it was last done. I've wondered about doing the pillows at least during the weeks when I can't manage the whole lot but haven't as I think of it like washing my face but leaving my armpits! In the hot months definately like to do it once a week but would not feel so bad in the winter months when we don't sweat as much.

Changing my bedding fortnightly is the only routine I've got left, thank goodness!
Everything else gets washed when necessary. I don't shower every day ( I do wash) but I change my nighties every couple of days.

Is there a need to wash towels,hand and bath every day you should be drying a clean body.
Bed linen I was brought up on the once a week belief, Tea towels get used for so many other things than drying clean china etc so yes once a use I can see.Washing up cloth I often leave soaking overnight in a basin of bleach water and just rinse the next morning.

Like others in 'sluts corner' I wash linen as and when needed. Half thinking of the environment, but mostly thinking, if it doesn't need it, why give myself the aggravation?!

I'd still change the bed weekly Leonora47 ; I love getting into clean (preferably dried outside), ironed bed linen.

I use eco friendly washing products so don't think I'm responsible for wrecking the planet or anything else!

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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!

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!

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

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.

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

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.

More often than daily????

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.

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?

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!

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

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.

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 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.

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