Changing the bedding

Day6 So I am not the only one with a personal campaign against Dettol and its never ending promotion of disinfectant products.
I hate them them with a vengeance. I am changing my sheet today though. Even a slob has to have some standards.

Now there is something I really need to do today. It is a new year?

BBevan I tried putting bedding inside pillowcase but couldn't fit king size duvet cover, bottom sheet and three pillowcases in! Is there a special method for doing it?

Grrrr. Phone typing and predictive text!

I am another who loathes routine. I could never be an "It's Wednesday so I must do the washing" woman. I do everything when the mood takes me. I like to wash bedding when I can dry it outdoors. I get great pleasure in seeing washing fluttering in the breeze. I do have a thing about Clean sinks and loos and have to have a scrupulously clean dishcloth, always, so I am always washing that. I think we are so preoccupied with germs today. Has anybody died or become I'll because we never added disinfectant to a wash? Buying laundry disinfectant is no more than a marketing gimmick...and a costly one. Aren't many of us from a generation where we wore clothes for several days a week as children? We learnt to wash necks, behind ears, bits and pits whilst standing at the sink. We bathed once a week, sometimes sharing bathwater. No one died because we had to use the same towel all week.

Like the sound of 'lively' bedroom, mine is very dull

Just "as and when" really
It used to be weekly without fail, but I'm far more laid back (lazy) these days.

Towels daily, sheets and cases weekly.

I like to air the bed by pulling the covers back but they don't often get pulled back up until bedtime.
Surely no healthy person needs a bed chaning more than once a week? I don't count weeks very well.

I do have a special "garden towel" and flannel in the cloak room for when I have been gardening.

Every six months whether it needs changing or not.

Hand towels - how can anyone do without them?

One in the utility room for when Jalimus comes in from the garden - needs changing frequently as he makes them filthy! One in the downstairs loo, needs changing frequently as it is used by all and sundry, one each upstairs changed twice a week, another in the bathroom ......

Sorry, skip that - I've just realised that my brain's gone! I was thinking you meant twice-weekly...

Why do you change your bedding fortnightly in winter, Desdemona?

Bedding is changed about once a week in summer, and fortnightly in winter.

Bath towels after about 2 baths or showers.

Kitchen towels, a clean one most days.

I have never owned hand towels, can't see the point unless you have an extra downstairs loo or something, which I don't. I dry my hands on the kitchen teatowel if I wash them, or the bathtowel if I am upstairs.

I like clean towels too - but I do not need to change them daily...

I like clean pillow cases, and even iron them ... ;) .. and change them weekly, bottom sheet every fortnight and duvet every 3ish weeks.

All I asked was where is the line ...

That's odd Jalima as we have sometimes wanted the bath mat changed( in hotels) and find that they change the towels but leave a damp bath mat.

OCD..... to like clean towels, really?
On the matching pillowcase thing, when changing them mid week, my answer is that I don't worry about them matching, any clean ones will do.

Not all hotels change the towels unless you put them into the bath although many do - however they all seem to change the bathmat! We hang it on the side of the bath after use and it always gets changed daily, although it doesn't need it.

granjura, I am seriously thinking of making a sign saying "Please do not change the towels" in several languages and laminating it so that I can stick it on our neatly hung-up towels in hotels! I'll report back if it works

All my bedding and towels are white. So I do not have the problem of matching anything. Each set of bedding, four pillow cases, one bottom sheet and a duvet cover are folded into one of the pillowcases. Easy to take out of the airing cupboard when needed.

grannyquennie a good question about matching pillow cases when changing midweek. I have extra white pillow cases or plain coloured pillowcases in the range of colours my bedding is in.

I prefer not to clash but as someone else said, better clean and clashing.

I also have anti allergy covers on under the pillowcases, but they get washed less frequently.

Thanks for sorting that one out for me! It never occurred to me that other people have 4 pillows on the bed, 2 being for purely decorative purposes!

Yes put your matching pillowcases on the pillow you don't sleep on! But if it came down to matching ones or clean ones I'd have clean unmatching ones!

I use plain white pillowcases to sleep on , the duvet matching ones get. slung out at night

Now, I'm puzzled about those who change pillowcases in between changing duvet covers. I've a selection of different duvet covers for our bed, each with a set of 2 matching pillowcases. If I changed pillowcases in between changing the duvet cover I'd not have matching pillowcases to put back on and that would irritate me! Unless, of course, I got them washed and dried the same day. I can't believe I'm even asking this question, surely I'm not bowing to peer group pressure !