Geoid Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 I will clean ovens, change sheets, anything, but revision....(and if you pay me too ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Webmuppet Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 Beds are changed at least once a week, I love the feel of fresh sheets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docsquid Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 Yes, once a week here too, although occasionally stretches to 10 days. Change everything at that time. We leave the duvet folded back during the day, but the cats think this is fab, so we have to pay a lot of attention to ensuring they don't have fleas! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted February 17, 2010 Author Share Posted February 17, 2010 We leave the duvet folded back during the day, but the cats think this is fab, so we have to pay a lot of attention to ensuring they don't have fleas! Or muddy paws, our lovely white bedlinen often has paw print decoration if we don't close the door. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 (edited) Once a week here for sheets and pillowcases - fortnightly for duvet covers and the memory foam topper cover. I don't mind duvet covers as we have a Superking bed but we have a single duvet each - they fit a Superking perfectly I'd rather change two single duvets than one superking! I dread to think of the beds that are bringing the average to 3 times a year - some of them must be left for a lot longer than that Edited February 17, 2010 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miffy Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 weekly in the summmer and fortnightly in the winter. I only have one set of linen toeach bed so wash & dry in a day. Duvets folded back all day here, and mattresses aired on change day. I do wash pillows but they are never the same after they are washed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 Well you're all very honest! Two of my friends were once talking about some household chore, and H said 'yes, I do it every time I change the bed' to which M replied 'What - every week?' Cue very red face from H who certainly DIDN'T change her sheets every week! And it made the rest of us laugh, because none of us did either. Left to my own devices, it would probably be fortnightly or possibly slightly longer, but there is only me sleeping in the bed. I love the feel of clean sheets, but loathe changing them. I have a cleaner and I twigged a couple of years ago that if I stripped the bed and left clean sheets, she would put them on. So it's every Thursday for me, and oh do I look forward to getting into a lovely clean bed on Thursday night! And I daren't leave the duvet turned back ... the cat has bed access 24/7, and muddy paws on the duvet cover are one thing, but if he'd been sleeping on the sheet I would definitely have to change it. That's why I've never owned white bed-linen! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Speckled Hen Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 We leave the duvet folded back during the day, but the cats think this is fab Mine has a heat pad that is PERMANENTLY on inside a snuggle bed so she doesn't venture upstairs at all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Looney Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 We change ours about once a week. The pillow slips and bottom sheets every week and duvets either weekly or fortnightly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmmaJC Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 At least weekly. The best day of the week is clean bedding day. Ideally it's a day when my partner is home late at night so I get the clean sheet pleasure all to myself Agree with everyone else though - I loathe doing duvet covers. I'm 5"2 and I feel like I've done a round with Tyson once I've finished bashing myself against the door frame/furniture/bedframe getting the damn thing on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 I dread to think of the beds that are bringing the average to 3 times a year - some of them must be left for a lot longer than that Shades of Tracey Emin I should imagine! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickenNutter Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 Weekly in the ChickenNutter household, and ironed too - hate wrinkly bedding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlottechicken Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 Interesting thread! I thought I was lazy changing the bedding once a fortnight in Winter (less in Summer, as I switch from flannelette to poly cotton depending on the weather) but 3 times a year I have loads of bedding as I have a sheet and one of those fleecy topper things over the memory foam topper, followed by the fitted sheet, then the top sheet and at the moment a fleece blanket then the duvet, and on top of that a throw, as I don't use duvet covers, then an old eiderdown. I also roll the bedding down to the bottom of the bed in the morning and leave it there till I put the electric blanket on in the evening. I have so much bedding it takes two loads to do it all so it's an all day job, or it feels like it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abwsco Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 Weekly here as well although I don't iron them as if I get them out of my tumble dryer quickly enough they don't need ironing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Chick Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 Tends to be weekly here, although sometimes goes to a fortnight if I have a busy weekend. I wear clean PJ's every night though, do I have OCD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickvic Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 Slightly slobbier here, 2 to 3 weeks and I don't wear pyjamas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 Mother strips mine every couple of weeks ... I do have to put them back on though, and their superking size I read something horrible about pillows and dead skin + bugs last year so got new duvet + pillows ... I do have 3 (or 4) pillows though so hopefully the nastyness is spread between them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackrocksrock Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 Interesting thread! I thought I was lazy changing the bedding once a fortnight in Winter (less in Summer, as I switch from flannelette to poly cotton depending on the weather) but 3 times a year I have loads of bedding as I have a sheet and one of those fleecy topper things over the memory foam topper, followed by the fitted sheet, then the top sheet and at the moment a fleece blanket then the duvet, and on top of that a throw, as I don't use duvet covers, then an old eiderdown. I also roll the bedding down to the bottom of the bed in the morning and leave it there till I put the electric blanket on in the evening. I have so much bedding it takes two loads to do it all so it's an all day job, or it feels like it! Goodness me what a lot of blankets/bedding you have on that bed - we live in the frozen north it seems and even when it was minus 15 we have window open and only have a mattress topper and then a bottom poly cotton sheet percale and a wool duvet with a poly cotton/egyptian cotton and always ironed cover and we are cosy and warm - I remember going from blankets to duvets when they first came in and they said if you use blankets etc with a duvet it defeats the purpose of a duvet - don't know if that is true or not. I love changing sheet night and change mine every week. Not a lot with one sheet, one duvet cover and 4 pillow cases! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 Weekly in the ChickenNutter household, and ironed too - hate wrinkly bedding. I hate ironing too so I never iron my sheets/duvet covers or pillowcases, I put mine back on the bed as soon as they come out the tumble drier. Still warm.....lovely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alis girls Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 There is so much written about house dust mites and their pooh I do mine weekly - and the cats tend to lollall over the beds so thats another factor too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groovychook Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 There was a discussion about this on the radio last night quoting a survey done that said that in Britain we only change our sheet on average 3 times a year Eugh ... surely not!! I try to do them once a week because the cats sleep on the bed and one of them is rather partial to getting under the duvet in the winter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ali-s Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 I do a weekly change of bedding- duvet covers, fitted sheets and pillowcases. Once a month I wash the mattress protectors and pillow protectors, the mattresses gets a turn once a month as well. Natalie and Jack change their own bedding. I leave a clean set of bedding just inside their bedrooms so that they trip over them getting into their rooms otherwise they would not notice them I remind them if they need to take off the mattress and pillow protectors and give their mattress a turn. I changed the bedding this afternoon and I can't wait to go to bed as I love clean bedding Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 Does anyone else hoover their mattress when they turn it? I read a similar article about dust mites, and as any dust makes me sneeze a lot, I always hoover the mattress when I turn it every two months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlottechicken Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 I hoover the mattress if changing the sheets coincides with me vacuuming upstairs sometimes I use the big brush if I'm feeling too idle to put the little tool on, it's quicker I also air the mattress when I strip the bedding off too, shut the radiator off and open the windows for an hour (and shut the door behind me!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Looney Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 I do vacuum the mattress, although probably only once every two or three months. Dare I admit that I watch with a gleeful horror at the dust that collects in the dyson cylinder! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
