Changing the bedding

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

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

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.

Grrrr. Phone typing and predictive text!

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?

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

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.

I remember doing a bacteriology experiment at university in which we had to grow cultures on plates with and without Dettol added to the culture medium. You will not be surprised, Nelliemoser to hear that the cultures with Dettol grew much better than those without . I never buy the stuff, not antibacterial sprays, and I didn't even know we are supposed to put it in with the washing. How are we managing to survive, I wonder?

We changed the bed yesterday - aren't we great?! Just don't ask me to remember when we last did it!

Last year sometime, Luckygirl?

Mines as I've probably said every week, but I wish I could be more laid back about the house. I need lessons in laidbackness

Tell you what, whitewave, I'll swap you some of my laidbackness for some of your conscientiousness!

It may sound liberating to release your inner slut whitewave, but beware - it can take your life over...

Fine I'll swop say 20% to begin with and see if I cope.

Whitewave I'm with you, I wish I could be more laid back. Is it nature or nurture?
My mum did what I think was her best, but even as a child her standards weren't good enough for me, before I left school I asked her not to wash or iron my clothes anymore.
My sister, on the other hand never bothered about a thing in her own house. I think I must take after my Fathers side of the family because they all kept a lovely home.

Probably nature, but my mother was always fond of calling me lazy as a child (I used to sit reading for ever) and I think it has rubbed off a bit.

WhenIwas your age I wonder if dettols product are killing off some more beneficial bugs that keep other good bugs away. A dreadful scenario.

This thread is so reassuring. ???

My inner slut is very much outer! Yes it was definitely last year when we last changed the bed!

Strange, isn't it. My friend who's not the cleanest ( in her home) person I know has every cleaning product known to man, yet I, miss clean and tidy freak only has washing up liquid ( never on the sink top bleach, of course, polish and Brillo pads. Odd, isn't it.

And mine petra all in their proper place under the sink. I also have a little blue bucket that keeps my upstairs bathroom cleaning stuff together like clothes, dusters etc. OMG I'm feel so embarrassed. Mind you in my defence I whizz through everything at top speed and then please myself.

Whitewave That's nothing to be embarrassed about, your talking to someone who uses an electric toothbrush to get into the little crevices in the shower unit
People think we spend hours cleaning, but we don't, because it's kept clean all the time.

You can all have a laugh about my foibles with cleaning, it's ok, I do and so do friends and family
Even the grandchildren join in the laugh sometimes.

I love my surroundings to be nice and I have so many daft perfectionist tendencies - for example, try to decorate the tree and rooms at Christmas at your peril - I'll re-do it all - but I have always swerved making housework important or something that must be done regularly or on certain days because life is just too short and there is always something more interesting to do.

When first married and hanging out with neighbours/ mums at the school gates, there was so much bragging about who'd done what around the home, almost like it was some sort of cleaning competition. I remember at the time thinking "I am opting out of this" and I did. I have a nice home and go mad cleaning before entertaining or having people to stay. I am definitely an 11th hour type and need pressure in order to get my act together. I stressed myself out working and bringing up children alone. I felt no pressure to be a super housewife too. The bed is aired every day, and I love clean sheets, but if there is something more interesting to do, then stripping beds doesn't get a look in.

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