Changing the bedding

Elegran, I stayed with my Son and DIL last week in Barcelona and my DIL changed the bedding every day.

They're coming to stay with me in February and I've got a doze of the 'frights'. The idea of changing my bedding every day isn't one I'm looking forward to.

On the same sort of subject - a relative of mine complains if she books into a hotel and the pillows are not brand new (not just clean but in their wrapping). She couldn't believe that it had never occurred to me. Am I alone?

Many years ago before showers and constant hot water one had a weekly bath and a daily wash - bed linen needed changing weekly. Nowadays with showers every morning and baths nightly maybe aweekly change of sheets not totally necessary?? Of course it depends on what you get up to in your bed!!
Ideally i would live clean bed linen every day -it's one of the joys of cruising!

Once I saw a tv program showing us how much skin we shed in a week. A lot, it really ' grossed me out' , so I change weekly , towels the same.

Leave a pile of clean sheets in their bedroom and let them do it themselves?

What horrifies me in such frequent sheet-changing is the amount of fuel used to heat the water to wash all that bedding and then power the tumbledryer to get them dry in our cold damp winters. When we should be using less power wherever we can, it really is ridiculous to waste it on unnecessary luxuries - and that is what it is. Surely no healthy person is sweaty and dirty enough to need fresh bed-linen daily?

That was to Juney64

Greenfinch -i have slept naked from about 20 years old. Sometimes i have to wear bed socks tho!

Oh My, keeping quiet here! Shower every day so feel bedding is kept fairy clean, times runs away and one forgets! Not in a routine about changing the bed- once every 2-3 weeks I think, towels more regularly.

You wouldn't in my house Lilylilo

I spend one day a week washing every thing I have used that week that is ok to be washed and not dry cleaned.
My pets bedding gets washed every day.Does that count?

Not telling!
But I do have a bath every night.

I'd just like to point out that DD rarely stays more than 2/3 days and it is usually the same daughter so the bed doesn't need changing every time.

Another daughter and I decided that, if we could afford have our beds changed daily, we wouldn't. We'd have it done on alternate days just so it was noticeable - more enjoyment that way!

Lilylilo I'm with you, slept nude since my late teens (apart from in Hospital)

I change my bedding about every 2 weeks & shower at night so I'm clean when I get into bed (no night sweats)

Towels when needed, kitchen towel when a wash goes on, tea towel same as I rarely dry up

I have no washing line at the moment & have to rely on washer/dryer so use only when I have a load (watching the "smart meter" showing how much electricity I'm using !!!!!) - I'm concerned at use of resources & cost to me.

I live on my own now & have no spare room so my habits have changed from when DH was alive & we had larger properties

Bedding fortnightly unless one of us is ill and sweaty. Towels twice weekly but in the kitchen every other day.

I am due a family influx for Christmas which means stripping and laundering 8 lots of bedding. ? I only remake them when someone is coming to stay.

The dog likes to help with bedding laundry!

Reading Gransnet often makes me feel freaky and weird but I call it doing anthropology as I slink away into a darkened corner. I did wonder about the environment with all this incredible washing. Imagine how much electricity we could save if you only did half as much.

Bottom sheet and pillowcases weekly, duvet cover every 3 weeks, towels at least once a week.

Always towels twice a week. Bedding once a week in winter, twice a week in summer.

When I was working full time I somehow managed to wash sheets every two weeks now I'm retired I don't have time for all that and it can go a month or five weeks!!!

onneker My thoughts too. It wouldn't surprise me if we collectively have used more power than the last year than in any century of the past. We just can't go on snowballing our use of non-renewable energy, and even renewables cost a lot to run. Our great-great-grandchildren will look back on the 21st Century as the era that squandered the earth's resources on frivolities.

And so many people in the world have no access at all to easy hot water or any other amenities, yet so many others feel they can't be happy unless they use them non-stop "because I'm worth it".

Typo - should be "more power IN the last year"

I have top & bottom sheets on the bed these get changed twice a week with the pillowcases. Don't iron them if they've been in the dryer straight back on the bed. Quilt cover fortnightly.I love clean sheets on the bed.

Hand Towels every day. Bath towels every 2 days.
Change guest rooms after each visit.Find that's easier, if they arrive last minute I'm then not rushing to change the bed as well anything else that needs doing.

Elegran, they're neither smelly or dirty - it's a personal preference thing by my DIL - not my choice.

I'll do as you suggested - leave a pile of sheets in their room. They can decide what to do.

If I could afford it and had someone to do it for me I'd have clean bedding every day.
My DM used to say that often vq!

As it was, our sheets got 'topped to bottomed' each week ie, the top sheet went on the bottom and a clean sheet on top although I think that was just for the DC, DP's sheets were both changed each week.

Ah Diddy1 - a lady after my own heart!

Bedding once a fortnight,more often in summer.towels every couple of days.