Changing the bedding

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OCD is nothing to do with cleanliness , it is a mental illness which manifests itself sometimes in being `over clean` but usually by adopting a set of rituals / behaviours which the sufferer uses to fend off overwhelming anxiety and fear . I am also guilty of misusing the phrase but do know what it really means . Changing the bed too often is not a mental illness just personal choice , lots of people like the feel and smell of clean sheets and dislike the feel and smell of stale ones .

I'm saying nothing, on the grounds that I may incriminate myself as being a lazy slut!

I'm with luckygirl and the other environmental campaigners. Sheets every 3 weeks, towels every week apart from bath towels which are not shared and are every 2 weeks. The dirt goes down the plughole in the bath or the shower, and the water dries off the towel. People don't seem to be avoiding us as if we are unsavoury, or if they are, we haven't noticed.

The spare bed is made up only when visitors are due and the sheets are washed when they leave (unless the same visitors are coming back next) and the spare bed is regularly hoovered to keep it dust-free.

I get very irate when hotels claim to be environmentally friendly and ask you to hang your towels back on the rail if you want to keep them and put them on the floor if you want them changed, and then when you hang them up neatly CHANGE THEM ANYWAY

I'm with Luckygirl, not saying as I hate changing the beds so tend to put it off and off and off!!

Wheniwasyourage - we were in Cape Town for past 3 weeks and there is a severe dought at the moment, and it is only Spring- when all reservoirs should be full. It's going to get worse and worse as Summer begins to bite.

So we did exactly that, and kept our towels for the next day neatly on the rack - and they were changed in 3 of the places we stayed. Each time I complained to Senior Management that I was NOT happy about the waste. They put the signs to pay lip service to environmental measures - but change still change them ... GRRRRRR.

f77ms - am aware of the proper meaning of OCD - and think the question is still valid. How would those who change towels daily and change beds every other day, etc- feel if a draught of energy crisis stopped them from doing so? For some it would be OK, for others, a very uncomfortable disaster (OCD)

Maybe changing the bedding often might not mean the washer on every day . I don't put on a wash unless the machine is full , I put on clean PJs oftener that changing the linen , but I do like a clean pillowcase . I do remember Mum making the top sheet do another week as a bottom sheet

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 !

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

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!

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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

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

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 ......

Every six months whether it needs changing or not.

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.

Towels daily, sheets and cases weekly.