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[The Dogmother]

I wish I could do that with my vacuum.

 

Both the cats sleep on the bottom of my bed, so I'm always careful to keep it clean and aired. Every npw and then, I take the mattresses off the beds and prop them up by the open windows, but then both the beds have slatted bases, so they keep pretty fresh.

 

On a not unconnected note, did you know that it's good to hoover, turn and rotate the cushions on your living room suite/chairs? Makes them last a lot longer if you do that. My sofa and chair have loose covers in velvet, which is washable.

[Blackrocksrock]

Once a month or thereabouts I also turn the mattress and hoover it when I do so - again like the other poster I watch with horror the stuff which comes out of it each time in the dyson cylinder!!! - my cats also love the bed so I like to change it weekly

[chick wiggle]

I steam my bed every so often but try and change the bedding weekly, i would change it every day if it was do-able cos i love a clean bed. Its just part of getting up on a saturday morning. I also leave my duvet pulled back and always have done as it was something my mother used to do. Something about airing the bed However my OH always gets into bed before me and lays on my side before i get in so its lovely and warm when i do Spoilt? yeah i know

[The Dogmother]

Phil's not in the habit of turning the bedding back, so when he stays, he's always last up and I have to go back to do it.

[Yorkshire Pudding]

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

 

 

 

Which means a fair few of the people in the survey must leave them even longer.

 

 

 

 

 

Weekly here, as the cats tend to get onto the bed. I have 3 sets of white cotton bedding and if I don't iron it, it feels all wrong. I LOATHE ironing but am a bit OCD about ironed sheets.

 

I can't manage to turn the mattress myself - too heavy - but OH and I do it together every couple of months.

[Gem_Seb]

Once a fortnight here as well! we have 2 cats that sleep on the bottom of the bed so def cant leave it any longer than 2 weeks! They are strange though, if we pull the duvet back they will not walk on the bottom sheet! the other day i found them both sunggled on the tiny bit of remaining duvet at the bottom!! weird!

[chickencam]

I vacuum our mattress when I change the sheets. I also love smooth ironed cotton sheets. I hate the ironing of them but the satisfaction of getting into a bed you have worked for is lovely.

[Olly]

I've got a mattress that doesn't need turning! specially bought with that in view, as hefting a double mattress over is rather hard to do on your own.

 

I always iron pillowcases, but never sheets/duvet covers, they'd be lovely if they were ironed but life's too short!

[Old Speckled Hen]

I've got a mattress that doesn't need turning! specially bought with that in view

 

I wonder if that's what mine is

It's got a memory foam top built in so while you can turn it 180º you can't turn it over.

Never vacuumed it perhaps I should but then I have a waterproof cover over it then a fleecy mattress protector so I shouldn't think much dust would get in.

[Chickendoodle]

Every week here and definitely no ironing. We've got a sprung mattress with a built in memory foam top (bliss) so that gets turned end to end monthly.

 

And.....we have separate single duvets rather than a double. Scandanavian countries seem to do this as the norm and it is so much more comfy as you can have your side of the bed at the temperature you want. It does make for a rather lumpy bed during the day though so we have a bedspread that covers up the worst lumps! The Scandanavian duvets were much thinner than ours and so looked better.

[jlo]

Crikey - I am feeling really lazy having read some of these posts.

 

The Omlet Effect will be at work again as I will have a go at vacuuming the mattress next time I change it.

[MedusA]

I tend to do mine weekly in summer when it's nicer to hang them outside and therefore easier to get dry. I love a clean sheet which smells of sunshine!

 

In the winter months, it's nearer fortnightly. I work on the principle that we get less hot and sticky in the winter. Not sure how accurate that is.

 

I am ashamed to say that I rarely turn the mattress, unless I'm stripping the bed when OH is around. I'm not able to do it alone. That's my excuse.

[cathybc]

every Sunday; clean sheets, clean PJs and freshly washed hair all at once. Heaven!

[AJuff]

Main bedroom sheets every Saturday, all kids sheets on a Sunday, guest bed changed every visit. I like to vacuum the mattress once in a while too . . makes me feel better.

[Valkyrie]

Usually fortnightly but weekly in the summer. Or if anybody has been ill and all that sweat pouring out bleh, not good for lying on damp sheets if you aren't well. I do hoover the mattress both sides if I'm turning it, and when I do I move the bottom of the bed so I can get underneath at the dust bunnies because of the weight (the wheels have dug into the carpet and it's murder to shift).

[A chickychickychick-ENN!!]

People CHANGE their bedsheets?

[Blackrocksrock]

People CHANGE their bedsheets?

 

 

 

LOL I did mine this morning and must remember to go and make it up - nothing worse as going into the bedroom and then finding you have forgotton to make up the bed - nice fresh sheets and pillowcases and duvet cover tonight for me - I love fresh sheets - bed been airing all day - hoorah

[Valkyrie]

MIL washes the bottom sheet, puts the top sheet on the bottom and then puts a clean sheet on top. I'd rather have all clean sheets on at the same time.

[chickencam]

My Gran used to do that too, I don't get it while you are going to the bother you may as well have all clean.

[henriette]

I do clean sheets once a week. Also always iron them. I would love to have clean sheets and clean towels every day but would rather spend my time doing other things -Vacuuming the bed doesn't get done on a regular basis - just from time to time. I turn the mattress fairly regularly, but only from top to bottom as it mustn't but turned over.

A lot of the french people hang their bedding out of the window - couldn't bear to do that incase it came back in with insecst, spiders and dirt

[Lesley]

My Gran used to do that too, I don't get it while you are going to the bother you may as well have all clean.

 

It probably goes back to times before washing machines when even mangled washing would take a while to dry, especially during the winter. That way, they wouldn't have too much wet washing hanging around.

[Seagazer]

I do ours about every 10 days, YS tends to have his done weekly as he has rather a lot of nose bleeds I've left ES to do his occasionally but he could happily go for months without changing them and then I have to step in disgusting boy They all have to be ironed as well though.

 

My mum used to always give us clean bedding on Christmas Eve with clean pjs, it was lovely and snuggly. I tried to keep up that tradition but it really is such a lot of extra work at the wrong time of year.

 

My cats sleep on the end of my bed but Sophie also loves going under the duvet and wrapping up warm.

 

If I could be bothered I would love clean sheets every night.

[The Dogmother]

My Gran used to do that too, I don't get it while you are going to the bother you may as well have all clean.

 

It probably goes back to times before washing machines when even mangled washing would take a while to dry, especially during the winter. That way, they wouldn't have too much wet washing hanging around.

 

I was going to say the same; both my mother and grandmother used to do that - it was a relic from the days of hand-operated washing machines and mangles. I clearly remember both of them haveign old Hoover top loaders (the old, enormous enamelled sorts) with mangles a seperate copper for boiling up the whites. I remember my mother being really pleased when she got an electric spinner.

[Seagazer]

Oh I loved my mum's twintub with the wooden tongs to take the washing out and into the spinner My aunt had a mangle in her garden that we used to play with.

[Valkyrie]

My nan crushed her fingers in her mum's mangle - it split 2 fingers and the scars were still there - kind of peachy look to her fingers! My mum had one of those old enamel upright things with the mangle that could be attached - it had red rollers. She gave it to dad's mum and she got a twin tub instead. I loved playing with the tongs. I also got told off a few times for pinching mum's bottom with them. Er I still do that when she goes upstairs - well she squeals. Although my other nan (her mum) had a twin tub first (before that it was all hand washing - which I helped her do, and we both twisted the clothes to squeeze the water out). There certainly seems to be more washing nowadays - I have so many loads to do.