Changing the bedding

My DH uses the en suite and I use the bathroom, I change the towels about every 4 - 5 days, I could never use the same towel as my DH in the bathroom, perish the thought! Bed linen once a week.

The towels are sometimes a bit inadequate too Nelliemoser so, unless there is a heated towel rail there's no option except to ask for clean ones each day otherwise you'd be trying to dry yourself on a slightly damp towel.

A lot of hotels have notices about "do you need to wash your towels every day." I really try to avoid that but in most hotels there is never enough space to hang your towels up so they will dry.
CBA to worry if the pillow cases match. I am not running a B & B. I have far more interesting things to do. Usually involving plants.

During the war, we were glad to have one or two handed-down towels in our family.

My step daughter has 4 children and told me that everyone has a clean towel every day
All she ever doesis wash towels
I change our bed linen weekly and have top and bottom. Sheets - puppy insists in climbing in as soon as I get out! And there lies husband and puppy waiting for a cuppa
I change his bath towels practically daily as he is so hairy (gorilla comes to mind) that the towels are unusable by anyone else after him
Tea towels and downstairs loo prov depending on how I feel
Isn't it lovely that it's most people's to dream of winning the lottery and having really good clean bed linen every day - me too - my idea of bliss

Because we have three dogs and a cat I am always cleaning and washing their bedding to ensure there are no animal smells in the house. I vacuum thoroughly at least once a day upstairs and down. My life would be so much easier without pets but they give us lots of love and pleasure.

I do sheets and towels when it occurs to me that it's about time. Which could be rather more than a week. I don't have set days for anything.

Spare bed gets changed when guests are due, though if it's the same guest as last time, and it was only a night or two, I won't waste the water or electricity.

Someone on mumsnet once said she washed all her towels after every single use, and couldn't possibly ever use the same one as her husband, since it would have his dead skin cells on it.
You do wonder how such clean freaks ever manage to have sex - maybe they go over him with Dettol and a Brillo pad first.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

This thread is so reassuring. ???

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Last year sometime, Luckygirl?

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

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?